Round-Up | 1897-10-16 | Page 2 | Oregon Quicksilver

oregon port townsend wash oct 13 12 jacob behrman who held an option on vi i hat bat is azio known it as the alack lack butte group of quicksilver minds located in lane county oregon 10 16 miles from cottage 01 glove ove lias has ducet eded in getting some capitalists interested in it tile scheme and tile money ILY for tile first payment has been advanced and the deal closed that the mines arc immensely 1111 rich in ill quicksilver has been fully proven essays assays taken show from f rolli n a 20 to 10 40 per cent pure mercury while I 1 4 iome went ns as high ns as 70 per cent are so Beh asserts no less than tons of oro ore in sight DeNel opulent on an ex teu sive scale will bo be started at once