Show EASTERN OREGON'S BIG DEVELOP MENI I Isaac Guker Reports NewMill New Mill and Smelter Projects in ill Grand County i I I I I I Isaac Guker of eastern Oregon Is In Inthe inthe inthe the city on business connected connected with his mining interest near Quartzburg and Canyon City in Grand county Or Dr Mr 11 Guker has been in the Northwest about seventeen years and has prospected prospected prospected pros pros- In hi t l Montana tana Idaho ldah Oregon Washington and British Columbia He has also spent three years in Arizona New Mexico and Colorado and Is fa familiar familiar familiar fa- fa with n throughout the th West Vest He lie expresses the opinion that eastern Oregon Is the best mining section section section sec sec- sec sec- tion he has found In all his trav travels ls He lie hs been operating in eastern Ore Oregon on since 1896 and says he has some of the best mining properties In Grand county lie He is largely interested at present in the the Great Northern Mining and Milling Stilling comp company n having three claims near Canyon lanyon City He also owns o a group of three claims adjoining the Great Northern which shows tree free gold goldIn goldin In liberal quantities HOOSIER BOY IMPROVEMENTS Dealing In general with the mining Interests of Grand county he says the Hoosier Boy has recently constructed a twenty-five twenty stamp mill and six concentrators concentrators concentrators concen concen- and put in a complete electric light plant The Pomeroy Gold Dredging company I it is building a dredger on John Day river three miles below Canyon City This company owns about three miles along the river front containing gravel from eleven to eighteen feet deep which pans 30 cents to the yard on the bedrock At Quartzburg Isham Lawrence has a stamp five-stamp custom mill and conce concentrator tra- tra tor with a capacity for handling ten tons every twenty-four twenty h hours The Standard company I e same district has a forty t forty m copper matte smelter which has recently made very satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory tory runs The company one mile from the Standard Is making preparation tion to Install all an electric drilling plant and expect by next spring to have a a. ton smelter on the ground The Dixie Mining and Milling Millin company company com corn pany adjoining the Standard on oTt the east is driving a cut cross-cut to tap the main lead about feet below the surface sur sur- face They are now in about feet and have already tapped two very good veins and some stringers where they did not expect to find pay ore SHOWS GOOD ASSAYS YS The Grand Mining and Milling company com pany adjoining the Standard on the north has opened up a foot five-foot vein which shows good assays and the company company com corn pany is now preparing to put In let a stamp mill with a twenty-ton twenty capacity In the Susanville district In the same county the Badger Bader group is being worked by San Francisco capitalists This group has produced about per year during the past few y years rs The Stockton group in the same district district district dis dis- owned by Minneapolis l capitalists is making extensive development work and now have several thousand tons of very high-grade high ore on the dump Numerous other prospects in Jn this district dis are being worked with highly satIsfactory satisfactory sat sat- results In the old Harkell and Sloan diggings several million dollars were were taken out in the early by the hydraulic process process pro pro- cess case and the placers are still being beins worked with satisfactory results A large amount of oC new capital has recently come into eastern Oregon and altogether Mr Guker says the prospects for profitable mining in eastern Oregon were vere never better than they are at present |