OREGON COPPER GETS ITS OWN POSTOFFICE
The new post office established at the Mother Lode camp of the Oregon Copper Company, near Baker, Oregon has been named Arthur, in honor of John Arthur, founder and first president of the organization. George B. McQuaid has been named postmaster.
There are 116 mine employees in the Oregon Copper camp, which has a population of 189, and several ranches in the vicinity will be served by the post office in addition to the mine camp.
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OREGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 3 30 1929
THE MINING JOURNAL
OREGON
A recent strike made in the Continental mine, near Myrtle Creek, Oregon, is said to show values as high as $327 per ton in gold and silver. By weight, these two metals exist in about the same amounts, but this high grade will not prevail throughout the mine. It is understood that a shipment is being prepared for consignment to the Tacoma smelter.
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P. B. Wickham of Grants Pass, Oregon, has taken a lease with option to purchase the Ashland and Shorty Hope mines, near Ashland, Oregon, from E. D. Briggs, owner. A general survey is to be made at once and the property placed in shape for systematic development and mining. The principal problem will be draining the main shaft, which holds about 500 feet of water.
The Edwards Mining Company, near Grants Pass, Oregon, has been remodeling its flotation mill and plans putting in an additional flotation unit, according to General Manager D. Potter. New stopes have been opened up and a shaft is to be sunk to provide a new haulage way.
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The Whited Mining Company, W. C. Fellows, manager, Baker, Oregon, plans the early construction of a 100-ton mill at its property, near Unity. The management has set up a new camp and in mine development is running a 1,200-foot crosscut. A 500-horsepower air compressor has been installed. B. O. Kempfer has succeeded J. A. Willson as superintendent at the mine.
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Work has been resumed at the property of the Crown Mining and Milling Company at Scio, Oregon, where it was suspended in January, due to severe weather, according to General Manager -B. E. Peery. Some good showings of gold, silver and copper have been opened in drifting on a southeast-northwest vein. Eighty feet to the south another vein has been opened and drifted on a distance of about 165 feet. It is probable that these veins will intersect, about 60 to 70 feet farther on. Drifting is to be done on both showings.
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James P. Noonan and S. E. Heberling of Central Point, Oregon, will start about April 1 to complete the tunnel in the Red Ribbon group of gold claims, near Gold Hill, to intersect an oreshoot at greater depth. This tunnel has already been driven 345 feet. A 25-foot tunnel has been driven in the Union claim and a 45-foot tunnel has been made in the Eureka property. Some time ago the operators built a trail to the mine about one and one-half miles, installed a Fairbanks-Morse compressor and a building to cover the same.
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K. Dean Butler of the Robertson Gold Mine, Inc, has placed 18 men at work at his property in the Galice district in Oregon. A road is to be built to the mine so that heavy machinery can be taken in next spring. Some of the recent finds in the mine have carried particularly high values and have attracted considerable attention. Mr. Butler makes his headquarters at Grants Pass, Oregon.
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The Rialto Mining Company at Blue River, Oregon, expects to spend about $50,000 in mine development and in building a mill at its property, according to C. H. Gruning, Sr., general manager of the company. The No. 1 tunnel has been driven 700 feet to ore located in the No. 2 tunnel and which assays $7, $46 and $187 to the ton. The ore in the No. 1 tunnel is manganese and assays from $164 to $400 per ton. F. W. Gruning is secretary and treasurer and A. L. Gruning is mill superintendent.
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The Cornucopia Mines Company at Cornucopia, Oregon, intends to drive a lower tunnel to cut unexplored veins, according to Robert W. Betts, general manager for the organization.
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It is proposed to drive the lower tunnel in the property of the Twin Lodes Mining Company at Clatskanie, Oregon, to cut the ore body at a depth of 400 feet according to Manager C. R. Evenson. This body of ore has already been opened to a depth of 160 feet. The directors of the organization are C. B. Ferris, B. Austin, P. Bee-son, P. Bunts and Mr. Evenson.
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Zane Grey, noted western author, is said to be planning the development of the mining claim on his property on the Rogue River in Oregon, according to B. B. Irving, United States mineral surveyor, Roseburg. The property was worked several years ago and can be reached from West Fork, Douglas County. A domestic water system is to be put in and about 20 cabins built.
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The Patterson Exploration Company of Toronto, Canada, has taken over La Bellevue mine on the Greenhorn Mountains and is placing the mine in condition for early spring operation, according to It. B. McGinnis, western manager for the Patterson people. The old mill at the mine is considered out of date and it is said that a new mill and machinery will be installed. Canadian capital is financing the work.
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ASBESTOS IN SOUTHWESTERN OREGON
By A. E. Kellogg.
Following the war requests of the manufacturers addressed to the Oregon bureau of mines for asbestos properties aroused holders of asbestos deposits in the Gold Hill district to activity in renewing work at abandoned deposits in which, before the war, they saw possibilities. The Gold Hill deposits are said to be the most important in the region.
Asbestos is found on Upper Evans Creek in the Umpqua Mountains in the Gold Hill district and other points in Jackson county, also in the Galice district in Josephine County. It occurs in serpentine areas in close proximity to diabase. Amphibole asbestos in the Gold Hill region has been exploited, while the chrysotile exists, but has been lightly reported.
Notwithstanding these known occurrences, the state bureau of mines, during its existence, now defunct, was not aware that a single asbestos property in the Gold Hill district had been sufficiently developed that the bureau could recommend for examination by a prospective operator. It is now believed that the increasing uses for asbestos, together with favorable prices, which prevail at the present time, warrant development of some of the southwestern Oregon deposits.
Samples of the local deposits have been submitted and stood the usual test as to fire-proof-ness, ample in length of textile, but the staple lacks the elasticity and flexibility when it comes to spinning qualities, which the Canadian and other foreign deposits possess.
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OREGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 4 15 1929
THE MINING JOURNAL for APRIL 15, 1929
OREGON
Arrangements are being made to continue the 60-foot crosscut tunnel in the Alta Vista claims, near Galice, Oregon, according to L. S. Hansen, who is the sole owner of the property. This tunnel will cut several ledges of ore, which have been traced on the surface. Mr. Hansen is financing the work himself and during the last 23 months he has built a two-room house, woodshed, blacksmith shop, etc., and has graded 2,000 feet of trail.
Any machinery that is taken to the property will have to be packed in on mule-back, as the mine is about 10 miles from any road. Three other claims will probably be added to the property this summer.
The Bonanza Quicksilver Mining Company plans the early erection of a 5 x 72-foot rotary furnace, according to Manager J. W. Wenzel of Sutherlin, Oregon. Tunnel No. 9 has recently encountered the vein at a distance of 25 feet from its portal. This is the main working tunnel for the south end of the property. An electric transmission line crosses the property about 500 feet south of the No. 6 tunnel, but it is said that the power company prefers extending a line from the Sutherlin substation instead of tapping the line near the property.
The new line will cost approximately $3,500. Water is available at the mine nine months out of the year and during the remaining three months will have to be pumped into tanks at an elevation of 100 feet to insure a gravity flow. Fuel oil for the furnace can be delivered at the mine at not more than 5½ cents a gallon.
It is understood that the entire assets of the Cornucopia Mines Company in Baker County, Oregon, have been taken over by American and Canadian mining men, headed by B. B. McGinnis. Mr. McGinnis’ home is at Berkeley, California, but at present he is on a business trip to British Columbia. This is a gold proposition, the property being located about 10 miles north of Halfway, and although idle for some time was formerly under the management of Robert. M. Betts. The new owners formerly operated mines in Ontario, Canada, and it is said that a development program involving in the neighborhood of $300,000 will be carried out.
It is understood that the Record Mining Company has contracted with the Southwestern Engineering Corporation for the design and equipment of a 100-ton flotation plant to be constructed at Unity in Baker County, Oregon. Work will be started immediately and it is planned to have the mill ready for operation by May 15.
The mine run is a partially oxidized sulphide with values in gold and copper and a considerable tonnage of mill feed is on the dump awaiting treatment.
The Monarch Mining and Milling Company at Oregon City, Oregon, has been made defendant in a suit for foreclosure of a mortgage for $6,859.80.
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OREGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 6 30 1929
THE MINING JOURNAL for JUNE 30, 1929
OREGON
The Oregon Copper Company, P. W. Racey, general manager, Baker, Oregon, is sinking the Balm Creek shaft from the 600 to the 1,000-foot level, and is drifting from its 500 level to the Poorman shaft, 1,920 feet farther east. The drift has been completed more than 1,500 feet. The Poorman shaft, also being sunk deeper, has been opened rather extensively on the 150 and 300 levels. A force averaging 125 men is provided with regular employment.
Some of the most recent improvements made by the Oregon Copper include: the installation of a series of model camp buildings to accommodate 100 men and a 1,400-foot electrically operated compressor. Power is supplied by a new line from Baker.
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The Columbia Mine on Grave Creek, near Grants Pass, Oregon, has been taken over by a new company, known as the Bullion Mountain, Inc. Twenty men are putting in a ditch and dam to give ample water with a 650-foot fall. The Bullion people have also taken over 70 per cent
of the holdings of the Oregon Metals Corporation, A. W. Yount, manager, Grants Pass, and George Bouton of Victoria, is president of the Bullion company.
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Through the persistent efforts of D. H. Ferry manager of the Rogue River Gold Company, there will be no more mud deposited into the Rogue River from the dredge, which is being operated by the company on Foote Creek. From October to December 10, last year, the river was kept clean by means of settling basins, but these have filled and other means were necessary. Several devices are combined in the new system, including the disposition of the mud and clay from the dredge, back into the tailings, instead of running it into the pond, and the building of a large basin below the dredge, which will any overflow and filter the mud.
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0REGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 9 30 1929
THE MINING JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 30 1929
OREGON
The Oregon Copper Company, John Arthur, manager, Baker, Oregon, has purchased a second pump, which is being installed at the Poorman Shaft. It has a capacity of 600 gallons daily and will be used to un-water this shaft, which is now 800 feet deep and is encountering considerable water. The other pump is operating at the fifth level of the Balm Creek shaft.
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Pat Jennings and his son, George, have purchased the Crystal Mine in the Bohemia District, Lane County, Oregon, from George McQueen, and have organized the Lead Crystal Mining Company. A crew has been engaged to begin development on a 2,000-foot tunnel and the work is expected to start soon.
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The Millionaire Gold Mine, four miles east of Gold Hill, Oregon, which has been closed down due to litigation for a number of years, and sold last year by the court to the lienholders, with M. S. Johnson of Gold Hill at the head, has been sold to Alexander Moe and associates of Los Angeles, California. Engineer Knotts, R. F. D., Central Point, Oregon, is in charge, and is un-watering the 400-foot working shaft to the 200-foot level. This property is equipped with electrically driven machinery, including two 1,500-pound stamp mills. A new type mill will be installed when the mine is in readiness. It will be manufactured by Moe, featuring a stamp mill and oil flotation. The ore bodies are large and of low-grade. The new owner announced that he will spend a large sum in developing the mine.
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The county and the Diversified Mines, Inc., Cottage Grove, Oregon, Howard W. Squires, chief engineer, are making arrangements for building three-quarters of a mile, of road in the Bohemia District, in Oregon, which will save a 34-mile travel. The cost of construction will be met on a 50-50 basis. The road is to connect the Brice Creek Road and the Sharps Creek Road. P. M. Morse, county engineer, is making a survey and estimating the cost.
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Thomas A. Sweeney of Portland, Oregon, hydraulic contractor, has been awarded the contract for the construction and installation of a 600-horsepower power plant, dams, and canals, at the Blue Ledge Copper Mine, near Copper, California. The cost is said to be approximately $100,000. The Consolidated Copper Company is operating the mine, and maintains headquarters at Medford, Oregon. George F. Hughes is local manager.
The road from the mine to Medford, the shipping point, and which is 45 miles distant, is being repaired at an expense of $9,000, to resume shipping copper ore to the Tacoma smelter. Plans are to build a 100-ton reduction plant at the mine, and a power plant for its operation. Initial shipments will be from ore mined, and placed on the dump that runs less than 15 per cent copper. A crew of 12 men has been employed for some time.
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It is understood that a new ledge of ore has been cut in the Randall Group mining claims in the Mormon Basin in Oregon, operated under lease by G. F. Bodfish of Rogue River. Development work on this and other properties is progressing favorably and indicates that the Mormon Basin is coming back into prominence.
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BLUE LEDGE MINE, MEDFORD, OREGON TMJ 10 15 1929
CONSOLIDATED COPPER HAS ACQUIRED BLUE LEDGE MINE
Consummation of the sale of the Blue Ledge copper mine, 45 miles from Medford, Oregon, has resulted in the organization of the Consolidated Copper Company, which will reopen and operate the property. The new concern is made up of Eastern, and middle Western investors, with George F. Hughes, local manager, Liberty Building, Medford, Oregon. While the Blue Ledge is four miles south of the Oregon-California state line, in Siskiyou County, California, the outlet to shipping is through the Oregon country.
The property was formerly owned by the American Smelting and Refining Company, which acquired the property late in 1928, from the Mexican Smelting and Refining Company, a subsidiary of the Compañia Metalúrgica Mexicana. Dr. J. F. Reddy of Medford, representing a syndicate who made the recent deal involving nearly $750,000, took an option on the property from the late owners about the first of the year.
A Los Angeles group headed by J. B. Roof and B. F. Miller, Jr., were bidding on the property for several months and it had been reported that they had exercised their option, but recent developments indicate that they have pooled their interests with the eastern and middle western investors. The Blue Ledge was a heavy shipper of copper ore to the American Smelting and Refining Company’s smelter at Tacoma during the war period, and continued until the total suspension of the copper industry in 1920. It has been closed ever since.
The new owners have incorporated a subsidiary Oregon company, the Consolidated Light and Power Company, to supply the mine with electric lights and power. Waters of Elliott Creek and the middle fork of the Applegate River, in California, and Carberry Creek, in Oregon, will be utilized to develop the power. Siskiyou county in California, Jackson County in Oregon, and the national forest service are spending approximately $30,000 in rebuilding the road from the mine to the shipping point at Medford.
Many new hotels and office buildings are being equipped not only with brass piping, but copper radiators as well.
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DIVERSIFIED MINES TMJ 10 15 1929
DIVERSIFIED MINES ACQUIRES ITS FIFTH PROPERTY
The most recent acquisition of the Diversified Mines Company, Inc., headed by E. Walter Mitchell, 74 Trinity Place, New York City, is the Bohemia Consolidated Mining Company’s property in the Bohemia District in Oregon; Howard W. Squires, treasurer and general manager for the Bohemia Consolidated is consulting engineer for the Diversified organization and is establishing his office in the First National Bank Building at Cottage Grove, Oregon.
Attention will be centered on the Champion mine during this fall and winter. Immediately after perfecting the organization, a sawmill was built on Champion Creek and timber is being sawn for use in the tunnels and in buildings. A new building is being erected to house blacksmith equipment, a compressor and Diesel engine. The compressor will furnish air to continue the No. 12 tunnel, which is the lowest in the property and, according to Mr. Squires, drills will be working shortly after October 1. The No. 12 crosscut is in 500 feet and in another 450 feet is expected to tap the Champion vein at a vertical depth of 350 feet below the Champion vein in the No. 9 tunnel.
In the spring, the management plans to install electric power and to build a selective flotation plant. Some development will be made of the Musick, the Helena and Sunset groups, which are among the recent acquisitions in the Bohemia district.
Diversified Mines has taken over other properties in the United States and in Mexico. They are the Otero Mining Company at Alamogordo, New Mexico; the American group of mines at Hachita, New Mexico; the New Dominion Copper Company at Globe, Arizona, and the Alamo Silver Mining Company in the Alamo district, Sonora, Mexico.
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All the blasting caps used in America until 1877 were imported from Europe.
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OREGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 10 15 1929
THE MINING JOURNAL OCTOBER 15 1929
OREGON
Ernest Stoddard, of Baker, has already started work, under contract, for the Crown Mining and Milling Company at Scio, Oregon, in constructing a bunkhouse, that can accommodate 30 men, a cook house and a mine office. Other structures, including a blacksmith shop, compressor room, and central station, for heating all of the buildings with steam, will be built later, according to J. A. Naud of Montreal, Canada, vice-president and managing director of the company. A contract has been entered into with the Eastern Oregon Light and Power Company for 150 horsepower of electric energy with the privilege of increasing to 500-horsepower when necessary. The light and power company will soon start the construction of 200 feet of line, necessary to connect its main line with the portal of the main tunnel in the mine.
R. E. Peery is mine manager.
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It is understood that the War Eagle Mine in the Meadows District, near Gold Hill, Oregon, is being cleaned up, under the direction of George Schmacher of Medford, Oregon. The Chicago Trust Company recently acquired the property by mortgage foreclosure proceedings.
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The Oregon Exploration Company, William Cavanagh, president, 531 Railway Exchange Building, Portland, Oregon, has appointed a committee to estimate the money needed to develop its property, near Riddle, to the point where the work can be financed through the shipments of ore. F. Reed McBride of Portland is one of the shareholders. He recently visited the mine accompanied by a Spokane engineer.
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The Hydraulic Dredging and Construction Company, Harry Y. Anderson, president and general manager, Walla Walla, Washington, has shipped an air shovel to its property, near Sumpter, Oregon, for dredging purposes. It can dig about 3,600 cubic yards of gravel a day. The boat on which it will be installed is finished and a 200-horsepower Diesel engine has been installed to generate power to operate the shovel. Hydraulic Dredge and Construction owns 520 acres at Sumpter, and has an option on 400 acres in the vicinity.
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The Preston Peak Copper Mine, lying just over the California line and accessible only through Waldo, Oregon, 20 miles from the mine, has been sold to Mark Kilhiam of Santa Barbara, William H. Thompson of Pasadena, and Edgar Wallace of Los Angeles, all California mine operators. Twenty years ago the mine was a heavy producer, but has been idle since, and owned by a New York estate. Sixty miles to shipping has proved prohibitive, but the recent completion of the Redwood Highway within 20 miles of the property, and modern trucking facilities, have made reopening possible. The new owners will reopen the mine at once and ship ore to the Tacoma smelter. Waters Creek, 15 miles out from Grants Pass, Oregon, is the nearest shipping point.
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Four suits have been filed against the Wearea Mining Corporation and C. M. Huddle, one of the largest stockholders and former manager of the Almeda Mine, near Grants Pass, Oregon, to restrain operations on the Riverside Placer Extension Claim, and the Fraser Placer Claim. The Wearea Company recently announced the reopening of the Almeda Mine, which has been closed since 1916.
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RECORD MINING CO.’S MILL MACHINERY IS BEING ADJUSTED
The 100-ton mill at Unity, Oregon, has been turned over to the Record Mining Company for adjustment and a crew under the management of W. C. Fellows is checking over the machinery.
In milling practice, the ore is dumped into a hopper, which sends it into a crusher, where the ore is crushed to one-inch pieces. It is then conveyed to a second crusher, where its size is reduced by half and passes over a rubber belt to the ball mill and to the flotation tanks. The concentrates are taken to a dryer and sacking room for shipment.
Power for milling is furnished by a Diesel engine. New bunkhouses and a cook house have been erected and all buildings, including the mill, have been placed in reinforced concrete, which is set on a solid rock foundation.
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OREGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 10 30 1929
THE MINING JOURNAL FOR OCTOBER 30 1929
OREGON
A permit has been granted to the Lucky Boy Mining Company to sell 25,000 shares of its stock at $1 par value. Funds will be used in equipping the mine and bringing it into production. The officers of the company are: W. N. Long, president; J. S. Miller, vice-president and engineer in charge; C. G. Larsen, secretary and treasurer. Headquarters are in the Tiffany Building, Eugene, Oregon.
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Two carloads of machinery, including a 120-horsepower Diesel engine and an air compressor, have arrived at the Reeves Mine, in the Silver Peak district, near Riddle, Oregon. Lotz and Larson own the mine and have made several shipments of ore, carrying silver and gold values.
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H. C. Wilmot and associates of Vancouver, British Columbia, have purchased the Bonanza quicksilver mine, east of Sutherlin, Oregon. The sum of $200,000, is said to have changed hands in the deal. The same interests are said to have taken an option on the Shirley Ranch of 117 acres, adjoining the Bonanza property on the north. Tentative plans are to install a furnace of about 100 tons capacity and some other equipment.
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Col. Frank M. Leland has been purchasing machinery in San Francisco for the Lone Star Mine in Star Gulch, about five miles from Grants Pass, Oregon, where tests have been made of the gravel during the last six months and average $1.25 per yard. Richard M. Reeves is in charge at the mine and as soon as there is enough water, mining will be started.
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The Oregon Gold Mines, Ltd., W. C. Fellows, manager, Baker, Oregon, has recovered two gold bricks, worth $950. Ore is being concentrated in the mill to a value of $200 per ton. The third vein opened in the Banner Mine, is about five feet wide, and carries around $5 per ton. A 35-ton test mill is being set up at the Snow Creek Mine and a camp is being built to accommodate 25 men. Other mines under the management of Oregon Gold Mines, Ltd., are the Windsor, Psyche, and The Big Johnnie.
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OREGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 11 30 1929
for NOVEMBER 30, 1929
OREGON
The Discon Gold Mining Company, A. D. Coulter, president, American Bank Building, Seattle, Washington, has opened rich ore, 420 feet below the surface of the Sylvanite Mine, near Gold Hill, Oregon. The strike was made in sinking a winze on a payshoot from the Cox and Lyman tunnel. Three shifts are employed: one in taking out high-grade ore, and the other two in driving the tunnel. George L. Halt is superintendent at Gold Hill. Water is available for milling from the Rouge River, there is sufficient power and good transportation facilities.
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Important surface discoveries are said to have been made by the Conner Creek Extension Mining Company at Rome, Oregon. Development is directed by B. Van Zeipel of Portland.
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John Sawbridge, 116 East A Street, Yakima, Washington, is said to have purchased the Gold Hill Mine, three miles southwest of Durkee, Oregon. Modern equipment is to be installed at an early date.
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The Empire Gold Dredging and Mining Company, A. D. Coulter, president, 611 American Bank Building, Seattle, Washington, is operating its dredge, three eight-hour shifts daily, and is handling about 8,000 yards of gravel daily at a cost of 5 ½ cents a yard. The dredge was rebuilt on the John Day River in Grant County, Oregon, at a cost of approximately $32,000, and is of the Bucyrus type, electrically equipped. It has 77 buckets of six-cubic foot capacity, and can excavate to a depth of 80 feet. The construction was effected through the efforts of R. C. Reese, superintendent, and Horace Johnson, dredgemaster, both heavy owners in the corporation.
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OREGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 8 15 1931
OREGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL AUGUST 15 1931
Shipment No. 70 made by the Buffalo Gold Mining Company at Granite, Oregon, assayed 6.955 ounces gold and 73.1 ounces silver at the Bunker Hill smelter at Kellogg, Idaho, according to R. G. Amidon, president of the company, 402 North 110th Street, Seattle, Washington. The shipment was concentrates recovered by flotation from ores in the new stope on the No. 3 vein on the 300-foot level. On the 400-foot level a crosscut has been driven to the No. 8 vein, and production is expected shortly from this source. It is planned to open the No. 1 vein on the 400-foot level by sublease contract with Seattle capital.
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The Independent Quicksilver Company is developing a group of cinnabar claims on Lookout Mountain, near Prineville, Oregon, under the supervision of F. G. Johnson. At almost grassroots, Mr. Johnson has mined some ore that carries eight pounds of quicksilver a ton, and has good faith in the property. He has had 28 years’ experience in mining, mostly in the state of Colorado.
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Six men are unwatering the Red Bird mine in the Greenhorn district, west of Baker, Oregon, according to George Skelton of Portland, interested in the property. Within a week the task should be finished, and the ground ready for mining. It is planned to replace the three-stamp mill at the property with one of 10 stamps. Eastern people have become interested in the property and are expected to visit it within a few days. E. E. Petty of Whitney, Oregon, is manager of the Red Bird.
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E. E. Ward of Roseburg, Oregon, is negotiating for the Chieftain mine, on South Myrtle Creek, in Oregon, the consideration reported to be $53,000. Since May, 1930, this mine has been operated by Chieftain Mines, Inc., of which Edward Law of Myrtle Creek is president and general manager and Mr. Ward, treasurer. Several years ago it was a rich producer, but the vein ran into a fault.
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Judge H. P. Norton of the circuit court at Medford, Oregon, has issued injunctions to prevent several groups of miners from salvaging gold from a portion of the Rogue River, above Gold Hill. The suit was filed by a California sportsman, who controls the ground on both sides of the river for three and one-half miles in the vicinity of the Gold Ray dam. The injunction forbids fishing in the stream also. The defendants have started action to prove that they are by law entitled to carry on fishing.
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The Cracker Creek Placer., Inc., has been sampling its placers near Sumpter, Oregon, and expects to begin work within 30 days. Returns have averaged ‘75 cents a cubic yard and the company has 154 acres to work. The official roster carries the names: J. A. Sweet of Seattle, president; Luke Tinker, vice-president; and Richard Bushell, secretary-treasurer.
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At a recent directors’ meeting, the Midas Gold Mines, Inc., sold its property to H. 0. Myers of Boise, Idaho, one of the company s large stockholders for $90,000. The Midas company has headquarters at Medford, Oregon, and was incorporated last November to take over the Town gold mine out from Jacksonville, Oregon. The new owner binds himself to reopen the mine at once, to begin ore development, to install a new mill at the mine of not less than 25-ton capacity within 60 days, and to continue mill operations until final payment is made within three years. The Town mine was a heavy producer in the early ‘60s and was the site of the third stamp mill installed in the southwestern part of the state. It had been closed for a number of years until last fall, when a large body of high-grade ore was uncovered at the 240-foot level. The immediate ore development will be both the sinking of a winze and a raise on the payshoot about 100 feet in length.
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TILLER DISTRICT, OREGON WORD POST TMJ 4 15 1931
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OREGON CHROME MINES WORD POST TMJ 2 15 1940
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OREGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 1 15 1930
JANUARY 15, 1930
OREGON
Seven platinum and gold mines, on the south fork of Cow Creek, near Roseburg, Oregon, which are owned by the Platinum Mining Company, are being developed by George C. Richards, and B. D. Austin, who have recently been backed by a New York firm. A ledge, one mile long and 30 feet wide, has been traced. The ore averages $90 per ton in gold and platinum, with platinum predominating.
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The Crown Mining and Milling Company, B. E. Peery, general manager, Scio, Oregon, has retimbered the main crosscut damaged by swelling ground. The compressor has been overhauled and set at a higher speed, and other improvements have been made. The heading of the drift is in ore, showing values in copper, gold and silver, and the mineralization seems to extend beyond the present width of the drift.
Crews have been working both day and night, in the laying of pipes, to place the giants in operation at the Sterling Mine, in the Applegate District, near Medford, Oregon, according to Fred Blakeley, 349 East Glisan Street, Portland. It is understood that actual mining will begin in a few days.
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Articles of incorporation for the Macy Mine, have been filed by Henry Morgan, C. T. Goodwin and F. L. Hubbard. The capital stock is divided into 250,000 shares at $1 each. Baker, Oregon, is the principal place of business.
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The Rowena Mine, Inc., George A. Cox, president and manager, Springfield, Oregon, cut 300 feet of tunnels during 1929, in its property in the Blue River District, making a total of about 3,000 feet. Between 50 and 60 tons of quartz ore are ready for shipment next spring. Ore, which was assayed recently, returned $48.80 per ton, values being in silver, copper, zinc and gold. The property consists of eight claims.
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C. C. Clarke, 31 South Orange Street, Medford, Oregon, has a force of 10 men employed at a copper mine in the Squaw Creek District, under the supervision of John M. Price, formerly an Idaho operator. The mineralized vein has been opened at intervals of 100 feet, over a distance of 3,000 feet. A 200-foot tunnel has been completed, and indications are that a copper vein will be reached by the first of the year.
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The Cinnabar Mine Corporation of Prineville, Oregon, represented by A. N. Whealdon, has taken over the Staley-Champion-Barney Mine, in the Ochoe District, in Crook County. It is planned to put on a small force to develop the low-grade ore, although a small amount of the ore may be retorted.
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OREGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 1 30 1930
THE MINING JOURNAL
OREGON
In addition to its power plant and flotation mill, the Consolidated ‘Copper Company, J. F. Reddy, 202 Liberty Building, Medford, Oregon, president, is planning to construct a 45-mile railroad, from its Blue Ledge Mine, to Medford, the present shipping point. Early in January, Harry Hooper of Crescent City, California, was given a contract to move 200 tons of ore daily to Medford, from where it will be shipped to the Tacoma Smelter. His fleet consists of 10 trucks, a tractor, and a snow plow. The company is also planning to build bunkers at Medford, as the present method of dumping the ore on the Southern Pacific auto unloading platform, requires that it be shoveled three times, and is costly. Diamond drills are ready for operation, and waterpipe has been laid into the tunnels. Peter Miller is operating engineer and mine superintendent.
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Operations have been discontinued at the Sterling Mine, on account of a severe snowstorm, according to Fred J. Blakeley, part-owner of the property, 849 East Glisan Street, Portland, Oregon. There are two and one-half feet of snow at the mine, and three and one-half, at Squaw Lake.
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A strike has been made at a depth of 200 feet, in the Queen of Bronze Mine, E. H. Messenger, superintendent, Takilma, Oregon. The ore has a net value of from $8 to $9 a ton, and it is estimated that the deposit will swell the reserves an additional 8,000 to 10,000 tons. The crosscut in which the strike was made, was driven upon recommendation of F. Cushing Moore, mining engineer, 804 Standard Stock Exchange Building, Spokane, and disclosed the ore following 10 feet of work.
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The Discon Gold Mining Company, George L. Haff, superintendent, F. 0. Box 105, Gold Hill, Oregon, intends to install cyanide machinery in its 10-stamp mill, at the Sylvanite Mine. The mine force has been increased. A. D. Coulter, American Bank Building, Seattle, Washington, is president of the company.
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The Medford Water, Power and Development Company, Medford, Oregon, has discontinued work for the winter, on its 85-mile ditch project. On completion, this ditch will deliver water for hydraulicking, at the Sterling Mine, and other gravel properties in Poorman’s Gulch. Squaw Lake is the source of water. Fred J. Blakeley, 349 East Glisan Street, Portland, is interested in the project.
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The Pacific Mines, Inc., has been organized by California and Idaho capital, to develop 25 mining claims in the Squaw Creek District, of Jackson County, Oregon. A 200-foot tunnel has been driven in the Great Eastern Claim, of the Buck Group, on a ledge 50 feet wide, which assays from .5 to 1 percent copper. 6 percent copper, and $5 in gold, were returned from samples from a 16-foot vein. According to Charles M. Price, consulting engineer, the vein will be reached within 50 feet. A crew of 10 men, working on two shifts, is advancing the tunnel eight feet a day. A complete camp has been constructed. The officers of the company are: William B. Price, Yuba City, California, president; C. W. Martin, Gold Hill, Oregon, vice-president; L. C. Clark, Medford, secretary and treasurer; H. G. Myers, Boise, Idaho, and Charles Moore, Yuba City, additional directors. The company office is in Medford, Oregon.
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The Inman Mines Company, Sixes, Oregon, is in receivership, but it is hoped that development will be resumed after financing. The indebtedness is about $114,000.
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REVIVAL OF COPPER MINING PREDICTED IN SOUTHWESTERN OREGON
The coming season will see a resumption of copper mining in southwestern Oregon, on a par with war-period production. This is evidenced by the recent reopening of five properties, which were formerly old-time producers, either by shipping to the Tacoma Smelter, or by reduction with mine smelters.
The resumption of the copper industry in this region, follows the recent reopening of the gold mining industry, in which three placer and dredging properties will probably produce a million in gold, during the coming season. The copper ores of the southwestern country, yield from $2 to $5 per ton in gold, and will boost gold production through their operation.
The first of the copper mines to resume work was the Queen of Bronze Mine, in the Waldo District, which began shipping to the Tacoma Smelter, more than a year ago, and has been a steady shipper since. The monthly smelter returns are about 10,000 pounds of copper, 75 ounces gold, and 1,700 ounces silver. This rate of production is accomplished with 25 men employed in mining and development work. A flotation plant is under construction at the mine. The property is owned and operated by the Queen of Bronze Mining Company, with headquarters at Grants Pass, Oregon, and John Hampshire, president and general manager.
The Alameda Copper Mine, on Rogue River, at Galice, has been reopened by the Wearea Mining Corporation, with Harry Sordy of Merlin, as mine manager. This property has been idle for the past 18 years, due to litigation, and is equipped with a 100-ton matting furnace. Its last production was in 1918, when six carloads of matte, netted approximately $40,000. According to Philip J. Lonegran, with headquarters at Grants Pass, a large sum of money will be available to bring the mine into production again.
The Blue Ledge Copper Mine, in the Upper Applegate District, 85 miles from Medford, Oregon, its shipping point, was reopened in October, by the Consolidated Copper Company, with headquarters at that town. This mine was formerly owned by the American Smelting and Refining Company, who took it over from the Mexican Smelting and Refining Company, in 1922, to supply the Tacoma Smelter. During the war period, approximately 10,000 tons of ore were shipped to the Tacoma Smelter, and yielded 18.8 percent copper, $5 gold, and 2 ounces silver, to the ton. Shipments of ore were resumed recently to the same smelter.
Early this month, Harry looper of Crescent City, California, arrived at the Blue Ledge Mine, with a fleet of 10 auto trucks, a tractor, and a snow plow, ready to carry out his contract to move 200 tons of ore daily, to Medford, for shipment to the Tacoma Smelter. Peter Miller, an experienced mine operator in the Coeur d’Alenes, is operating engineer and superintendent of the mine. Extensive improvements and facilities have been planned, including a power plant, flotation mill and a railroad from the mine, to Medford, costing approximately $1,500,000.
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OREGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 6 15 1930
THE MINING JOURNAL
OREGON
An air compressor and a pump have been installed at the Humdinger Mine, A. W. Constance, manager, Williams, Oregon. A crew of 10 to 12 men are working on two shifts.
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Operations are now under way at the Sterling Mine, Fred J. Blakeley, part owner, 349 East Glisan Street, Portland, Oregon. Since the recent heavy snow in the vicinity of the mine, water has been more plentiful. The night crew has been put to work again.
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The Peter-Andrews Mining Company, John E. Peter, general manager, P. O Box 898, Medford, Oregon, is planning an aerial tramway,to lower its ore and lime rock to the mill, and to the railroad, about a mile distant. The upper tunnel is now in 850 feet on the vein, and the lower tunnel, now in 450 feet, has entered the lime rock dike, and is expected to cut the vein in a short distance.
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Chieftain Mines, Inc., recently organized to operate the Chieftain Mine, at Myrtle Creek, Oregon, is considering the installation of a concentrator, using flotation and a ball mill as a grinding unit, rather than a stamp mill. A 115-foot crosscut has rediscovered the vein, a faulted segment of which was lost. Highgrade ore is now being mined, and shipments will soon be sent out. The officers of the new company are: Edward Law, president; Mrs. Edward Law, vice-president; R. L. Whipple, attorney and secretary, and E. E. Ward, treasurer.
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The Hydraulic Dredging and Construction Company, Harry Y. Anderson, president and general manager, Walla Walla, Washington, will have its dredge, near Sumpter, Oregon, ready for operation shortly. The capacity of the dredge is 6,000 cubic yards daily. The amount of gravel in this property is estimated at 50,000,000 yards, the gold content of which averages 25 cents per yard. The gold values are not entirely contained in bedrock, but are distributed throughout the gravel.
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P. B. Wickham of Ashland, Oregon, has purchased the Ashland Mine, from E. D. Briggs, attorney of the same city. Although the purchase price is not known, it is said that more than $50,000 is involved. The property consists of about 480 acres, four miles from Ashland. The mine has produced over one million dollars from $15 to $50 ore.
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The Oregon Copper Company, William W. Elmer, Arthur, Oregon, managing director, announces that its crew will be reduced to about 20 men, 15 of whom will work in the mine, above the connection between the Poorman, and Balm Creek shafts. Exploration is also to be continued at the Goose Creek Shaft. Last February, about 60 men were employed by this company.
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The Thompson Mining Company, E. H. Thompson, Chehalis, Washington, president, has contracted with Frank Holt of Yakima, to drive its main crosscut on to cut the third vein. After the vein is opened, raising and drifting will be done. The mine is near Susanville, Oregon.
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The Sutherlin Cinnabar Company has been incorporated to operate the Nonpariel Quicksilver Properties, development of which is to begin at once. Title to this mine, near Sutherlin, Oregon, has been cleared, and is now held by Seattle capitalists. A considerable amount of machinery and equipment has been taken to the property.
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ORE, IN JOSEPHINE COUNTY, ORE TMJ 6 30 1930
THE MINING JOURNAL
MINERALOGISTS STUDY ORE IN JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON
Under the United States geological survey and in cooperation with the State of Oregon, three groups of mineralogists are to spend this summer in Josephine County, searching for mineral deposits, principally those of gold, copper, and quicksilver. The investigation will be under the supervision of J. T. Pardee of Washington, D. C., and headquarters will be maintained at Grants Pass.
The object of this survey is to further development, and increase interest in mining, through ascertaining facts about the mineral deposits. A preliminary examination was begun last year.
Each party will work in a different part of the country, one group beginning on the copper deposits, near Waldo and Takilma. Another group will search for quicksilver at Black Butte, while the third party will go north as far as Bohemia, near Cottage Grove, where base metals, such as zinc and lead are said to be found.
A complete announcement of the personnel of the investigation has not yet been announced, although, according to Mr. Pardee, the three parties are to be at work by the first of July.
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OREGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 6 30 1930
OREGON
The Mines Development Corporation, G. F. Skelton, general manager, Richmond, Oregon, is rushing work on the 40-ton mill being installed, on the Macy Mine, near town. A 100-foot shaft, and a 100-foot drift, total development work to date, although a vein of free gold ore, valued at $145 per ton, has been opened. One carload of shipping ore has been sent out, but only concentrates are to be shipped in the future. Officers of the organization are: Walter E. Marsh, president; Charles M. Huddle, vice-president; N. C. Jameson, secretary-treasurer; O. F. Braeger, F. F. Pittock, M. Skelton, and Mr. Hastings, directors. The company maintains offices at 610 Spalding Building, Portland, Washington.
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The Consolidated Oregon Gold Mines, Inc., W. C. Fellows, Baker, Oregon, manager, has started operation of its 60-ton flotation and amalgamation plant, at the Snow Creek Mine, near Granite. About 20 tons are being treated daily, and both bullion and concentrate are being produced. The payroll consists of 15 men, who work on one shift. As soon as the boarding house and assay office are completed, operations will be on a three-shift basis. S. A. Knowles is superintendent at the mine.
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OREGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 7 15 1930
for JULY 15, 1930
OREGON
The Quartzburg Gold Mines Corporation has recently been organized by a group of Utah men, to operate six patented claims, about seven miles from Prairie City, Oregon, and plans are being made to install a compressor. The main workings consist of five tunnels, on what is known as the Colorado Claim, and two on the Oregon. Within 75 feet, the No. 5 Tunnel is expected to open the largest oreshoot, said to be 300 feet long. The average value of the ore is 2.08 ounces gold, 4.2 ounces silver, 8.7 percent lead, and 8.83 percent copper, per ton, and the engineer’s report says the veins average from two to five feet in width. Lessees, who formerly operated the property, are said to have produced $150,000 in gold ore.
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After being in full operation, with three shifts working since early last fall, the Oregon King Mine, W. S. Thomas, manager. Ashwood, Oregon, has been closed down. No reason for this action has been given by Jack Edwards, owner of the property. Several men have been left at the shaft, to keep the pumps working. Luring the past winter, the shaft was retimbered, unwatered, and sunk an additional 100 feet.
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The Durkee Development Company has recently elected C. L. Deardorff president, H. flux, vice-president, and W. B. Roberts, secretary, of the organization. A crew is developing the property, which is located near Durkee, Oregon. It is said that most of the stockholders are local employees of a railroad company.
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C. J. Dumbolton, 2007 Twenty-eighth Street West, president and general manager of the West Coast Metals Company, reports that the company has started production from its property in Southern Oregon, near Althouse Creek. A five-mile road has been built to the property, supplies and equipment hauled in, hydraulic plant, consisting of a four, and a six-inch plant, installed, and the ditch lines have been repaired. There is enough water available to operate until the middle of July, when the plant is to be closed, ditches extended, and two more giants installed. Work is to be resumed in the fall, when a water supply will be developed, and it is believed that no further shut-downs on that account, will be necessary. The streambed of the Althouse is to be mined out first, then bench ground, and the old Blue Channel, which parallels the upper Althouse.
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The International Mercury, Inc., at Prineville, Oregon, has purchased a retort, designed by the Peoples Fuel Company and Carbon, Inc., at Bellingham, Washington. This retort was built by the Reid Brothers Boiler Works, at Bellingham, and is claimed to recover between 95 and 98 percent of the quicksilver in the ore. This is the first plant of this design to be installed, and tentative arrangements to put in similar plants have been made on four cinnabar mines in Washington, and Oregon, and one in British Columbia. International Mercury was organized June 14, 1930, with a capital of $100,000. Ivan Saylor is president of the company, H. C. Diers, c/o Peoples Fuel Company, Bellingham, is research engineer, and H. E. Hobson, vice-president of Carbon, Inc., is in charge of construction and field work, and makes his present headquarters at the Ocheco Hotel in Prineville. The principal office of the company is at Olympia, Washington.
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Frank Meyers, and a Mr. Farr, new operators of the Argo Mine, near Galice, Oregon, have reported that operations are to begin within a few days. This property has produced gold, profitably, in the past, and it is equipped with a 16-ton rotary ball and tube mill.
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Lester S. Harrison of Kellogg, Idaho, is planning to sink a shaft in the property of The Dalles, Oregon, country club, the mineral rights of which he is leasing. Electrical tests of the property, conducted by Jaques Brunchwize of Paris, France, indicate an ore body between the 276, and 820 levels. The property has also been tested by churn and diamond drills. Mr. Harrison is leasing 700 acres of farming land west of town, as well as the mineral rights on the country club property. Part of the ore is said to be of the direct smelter type, being composed of silver, antimony, copper, lead, and gold, with silver predominating. Indications of ore were first discovered on this property when the country club well was drilled.
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The Wearea Mining Corporation, Harry Sordy, mine manager, Merlin, Oregon, has started operations at the Almeda Mine, with a crew of 10 men. It is said that a larger crew will he necessary later. A considerable amount of machinery for the mine has been received at Merlin.
D. L. JONES DIRECTS OPERATIONS AT SINEDA MINE IN OREGON
Located on the Little Applegate River, 12 miles south of Jacksonville, Oregon, is the Sineda Placer Mine, of which D. L. Jones is general manager. This property, consisting of 158 acres, appears to be on a continuation of mineralization, of the famous old Sterling Mine, which has been worked continuously for the past 10 years.
With a head of 250 feet, three giants are being operated, day and night, by a crew of seven men. Two giants, with four-foot streams, are used to put the gravel through the flume, and one, with a three-foot stream, is for stacking tailings. When the mine is in full operation, 2,000 miners inches of water are used daily, and the output for two shifts is about 2,000 yards. Six miles of ditches, have been built for conveying water to the property. A small saw mill is used to provide lumber for mine use.
Mr. Jones is well qualified for the management of this property, as he had spent the greater part of his life in mining on the Pacific Coast. He was employed by the Sterling Mining Company for 12 years, part of which time he was in charge of one of its hydraulic mines. Later he worked for two years as ore sampler, for the Oro Grande Mining Company at Callahan, California.
Sampling mines for other people, is said by Mr. Jones to be one of his hobbies, and he has been quite successful in this work. He is also interested in making a machine which will save fine gold.
A native of the state in which he now resides, he was born on November 11, 1879, at Uniontown. On November 28, 1898, he was married to Cecil Copple of McPaul, Iowa.
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OREGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 8 15 1930
THE MINING JOURNAL
OREGON
Anton Moravee, Jr., and his brother, Frank, found a showing of gold, in the Quartzville Region, near Mill City, Oregon, while on their vacation. A claim has been staked out, about two miles from “Red” Oakley’s stamp mill, and papers filed. Quartsville is an old mining location, but on account of poor transportation facilities, mining there has not been very profitable. Recently, however, a road has been built within 12 miles of the mines, and more work is being done.
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A 100-ton flotation plant is to be constructed at the Queen of Bronze Mine, near Takilma, Oregon. The property contains values in copper and gold, and 185,000 tons of milling ore have recently been developed. John Hampshire of Grants Pass, is president and general manager, and E. H. Messenger is in charge of the crew of four men.
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The Peter Andrews Mining Company, John E. Peter, general manager, P. O. Box 893, Medford, Oregon, is installing air compressors in order to facilitate driving of the lower tunnel, now in, 450 feet, to cut the ore body at an estimated distance of 75 feet, and the lime deposit, at a distance of about 150 feet. The upper tunnel, about 200 feet above the lower, is in 850 feet. Values are present in gold, silver, lime, and iron. From two to five men are employed.
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A crew of 10 men is working at the Llano de Oro Mines, near Waldo, Oregon, under the direction of G. M. Esterly, of that town. One-half of the drainage cut, 50 feet deep and two miles long, is now completed. Regular operations consist of open-cut hydraulic placer mining work, to recover values in gold and platinum, and 1,500 tons are handled daily. The property consists of 4,300 acres, owned by the operators.
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According to V. E. Ryan, P. O. Box 192, Prairie City, Oregon, general manager of the Copper Mountain Mining Company, certain parties with whom he is in contact, are considering the construction of a smelter at Baker, which will be designed especially for the base ores of Eastern Oregon. Mr. Ryan, backed by Montana capital, has put a small test mill on the Sherbondy Group of claims, near Prairie City, and is planning to spend about $200,000 in development of an ore zone, 100 feet wide.
The Thompson Mining Company, E. H. Thompson, president, Chehalis, Washington, has opened an ore body, six feet wide, containing more than $125 per ton in gold, as well as values in silver. The vein was opened 800 feet from the portal, at a depth of 600 feet.
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The Elkhorn Consolidated Mining Company, F. W. Hastert, president, Aberdeen, Washington, is working on both the east, and west sides, of the mountain, 16 miles northwest of Baker. On the west side, are the Maxwell and Highland Properties, where the low level is 400 feet above the low level on the east side, with 4,000 feet of virgin ground between the two workings. On the east side, is the new 50-ton mill. Values run from $10 to $12 per ton in gold, and the property consists of 900 acres of mining land, and 1,600 acres of patented timber land. Fourteen men are employed.
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The Amalgamated Mining Corporation has let a contract to King and Pederson, of Bandon, to transport ore from its property, near Mehama, to Lyons, Oregon, from which point it will be shipped to a Utah smelter. Trucks will operate on a 24-hour basis, making three trips a day. During the past year, this company has constructed a five-mile road, and now has a crew of 35 to 40 men on roadwork, and in the mine. It is said that more than 35,000 tons of ore have been proven, and bunkers are now being filled in preparation for shipping. The ore contains values in gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc.
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Columbia Gorge Mining Company, a 750,000 syndicate, has been formed by Idaho mining and business men, to develop leases held by Lester S. Harrison, on The Dalles, Oregon, Country Club Golf Course, and surrounding property. It.is said that work will begin in about 80 days. Indications of ore were first discovered when the country club well was drilled, and since then, electrical tests of the property have been made by a Paris concern. Silver, antimony, copper, lead, and gold, are said to be present in the ore. Officers and directors of the company are: W. T. Simons of The Dalles, president; A. C. Beal, Hawthorne Apartments, Spokane, Washington, vice-president and manager; Lester S. Harrison, secretary-treasurer and counsel; C. W. Simmons, and F. L. Phipps, Oregon, representatives.
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The MaybelIe Mining Company has been organized by Salem capitalists, to operate the Wedge Mine, on Birdseye Creek, near Gold Hill, Oregon, which was purchased from Phil Robinson. Preparations are being made to build a 1,900-foot tramway. Five truckloads of machinery have been received, and work is being forwarded by 10 men.
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G. L. Howland, and Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Schumacher of Grants Pass, Oregon, have organized the Silver Creek Mint, Inc., situated at the head of Silver Creek, four miles south of the Bunker Hill Mine. The first shipment, the result of an eight-day run of a 12-ton mill, returned $1,445.17 for the gold, and $2.65 for the silver content. Six tunnels have been driven short distances into the property, and all are said to be on veins. Only one, running from one to three feet in width, is to be developed. The property consists of 220 acres of land, and is reached via Galice.
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Construction of the flotation plant, plans for which were drawn up last May, is to begin at once, according to word received by Dr. J. F. Reddy, 202 Liberty Building, Medford, Oregon, president of the Consolidated Copper Mining Company. Colonel Frank M. Leland of San Francisco, California, is to have charge of mill construction, and will be general manager of the mine. It is said that the plant will not be ready for operation for several months.
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OREGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 8 30 1930
THE MINING JOURNAL
OREGON
The Oregon Copper Company, William W. Elmer, managing Director, Arthur, Oregon, is cutting a station on the Fifth Level, of the Balm Creek Shaft, preparatory to installing a pump. While the entire station seems to be in a mineralized zone, an 18-inch streak assays about $3 in gold, in addition to the copper content. On the Balm Creek Level, a drift is being driven toward a point under the winze, from the 500 Level. The 550 Level of the Poorman Shaft, is being developed by drifts and crosscuts.
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The Cinnabar Mines Corporation, represented by A. N. Whealdon, has shipped eight flasks of quicksilver, from its property, near Prineville, Oregon. The company is said to be considering installation of equipment for a larger plant.
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Explorers, Inc., has taken over 51 percent of the stock of the Buffalo Gold Mining Company, B. G. Amidon, President and General manager, Route 2, Box 62, Seattle, Washington. A mill is in operation on the property, near Granite, Oregon, but it has been placed in the prospecting subsidiary of Explorers, Inc., to be known as Explorers Prospecting Company, since the new work will be principally of a prospecting nature. The prospecting division has recently been incorporated under the laws of Idaho, with capital of $1,250,000, and its organizers are John L. Dirks, A. W. Foster, Rowland King and A. O. Bauman of Spokane. The first work is to be in the Boyer Mine, near Sandpoint, Idaho, and the Caribou Syndicate Placer Property, near Quesnel, British Columbia.
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The Sheehan Mercury Company, organized last fall by a group of Seattle, Washington, men, has acquired five cinnabar claims on the Oregon-Nevada State Line, about 20 miles from McDermitt, Nevada, for the price of $30,000. A five-ton retort, and a mine car and track, are to be acquired soon. An option was taken last October, and considerable work was done, including 300 feet of tunneling, open cuts, and a 30-foot winze from the upper tunnel. Assays from five feet of ore, encountered in the upper tunnel crosscut, show from $103 to $256 per ton, and about 1,200 tons of this type ore, are now on the dump. Charles D. Snyder, of Twin Falls, and Buhl, Idaho, is managing the property. The company maintains an office at Room 406, 1411 Fourth Avenue Building, Seattle.
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International Mercury, Inc., Ivan Sayler, President, Olympia, Washington, is completing the installation of the first 15-ton unit of a milling plant, which is to be put into operation August 10. Three additional units are to be installed this fall. The property is located on Johnson Creek, Crook County, Oregon, and is 35 miles northeast of Prineville. Frank F. Hobson, c/o Heathman Hotel, Portland, is general manager of the company. Thirty-five men are working.
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The Discon Gold Mining Company, A. D. Coulter, President, 611-12 American Bank Building, Seattle, Washington, is planning to drive two tunnels, extend about 600 feet of raises, continue the present winze, and sink a new winze. During 1929 and 1930, about 1,200 feet of tunnel, 350 feet of winze, and 200 feet of raise, were completed. Sixteen men are employed.
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George W. Billings, of Gold Beach, Oregon, has purchased a 10-ton Straub Mill, and will use it in testing the ore from the Keystone mining claim, located on the south bank of the Rogue River. Joe Anderson brought the machinery from Oakland, on a truck, and it was carried to its final destination on motorboats. Billings has located ore across a width of 30 feet, and the samples assayed carried $14 and $15 in gold and silver, to the ton.
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The Western Metal Mines Company, J. J. Seidel, secretary and general manager. Box 481, Grants Pass, Oregon, is planning a program of development for its property. It controls the Sugar Pine, Black Jack, and Golden Cycle, all gold-producing mines, and the Seven Thirty, and Copper Eagle, which produce copper, in addition to their gold content. A crosscut will be run from the Mill Level, to the Sugar Pine Vein, and caves cleared, and some re-timbering done on the Copper Eagle Vein. Two more stamps are to be added to the stamp mill, which will bring its capacity up to between 20, and 25 tons, of ore daily. The principal development is 3,300 feet of tunnel in the Sugar Pine, and 1,100 feet of development in the Black Jack. Louis Lynn Walls, 672 Rush Street, Chicago, is President of the organization.
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OREGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 10 30 1930
THE MINING JOURNAL
OREGON
Operations are to be resumed on the Mankin-Bell Goldmine on Poorman’s Creek, five miles from Jacksonville, Oregon, by W. C., and Henry Mankin, brothers, and their brother-in-law, T. N. Bell, owners of the ground. The mine has been idle for three years, but it is equipped with mine equipment, and a 10-stamp Straub Mill, operated by a 10-horsepower semi-Diesel engine. The Mankin-Bell ground comprises 160 acres of patented land, and, during its last months of opeation, 140 tons of ore run through the mill yielded $20 a ton in gold, copper, and silver. Their program of development has not been announced yet.
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Pending the completion of the underground work in progress, at the Revenue Pocket Mine on Kanes Creek, near Gold Hill, Oregon, the management will equip the ground for the concentration of the ore. During the past year, the mine has been operated by W. D. Reynolds, and the Christy brothers, all of Bellingham, Washington, and H. A. Ray, of Medford. Under the management of Reynolds, mining engineer, they have spent considerable money in driving tunnels, and one of them, about 500 feet long, opened a deposit of gold ore on the 200-foot level.
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The Columbia Gorge Mining Company has selected a site for a shaft, at The Dalles Country Club, and sinking will be started soon, under the direction of A. C. Beal, Hawthorne Apartments, Spokane. The objective is to develop a deposit of silver located while drilling a well on the golf course. Their work is well off the commonly used portion of the course, and the buildings, which they intend to erect at the collar of the shaft, will be practically out of sight of the course proper. The buildings planned include a timber house, dry house, assay office, mine office, blacksmith shop, compressor house, etc. An executive office for the mining company has been opened at 18 Vogt Block, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Earl L. Blake and associates, of Tacoma, Washington, have purchased the property at Gold Hill, Oregon, operated since 1925, by L. H. Van Horn and associates, as the Kel-Mar-Pet Mining Company. Under the last management, $20,000 was spent in driving a 600-foot tunnel into the mountain, back of Gold Hill, to cut the Big Sylvanite Vein. While the objective was never reached, considerable gold ore of low grade was located. This ground was located several years ago by A. K Kellogg, of Medford.
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About $400 worth of gold has been mined from a depth of 20 feet, in the Big Six Mine, three miles west of Jacksonville, Oregon, according to H. B. Nye of Talent. The gold was reduced from about two and a half tons, and is in the possession of Mr. Nye. A tunnel has been started 60 feet below the surface, in search of the vein that yielded the gold.
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An important deal in eastern Oregon mining circles, in the lease and bond acquired on the Rabbit Mine, in the Greenhorn District, by W. M. Spencer of Salt Lake City, Utah, and associates. The Rabbit Mine is only about two years old, and is owned by L. A. Woodward, William Hay, and Frank Littlefield, of Baker. Active development will be carried on immediately, including the further sinking of the shaft, some lateral development, and milling the ore mined during development.
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C. C. Hayes and associates, of Seattle, and Portland, who have recently taken over the Madden Mine, at Sixes, Oregon, are renovating the hydraulic equipment, and installing some special machinery for extracting the gold and platinum from the black sands, by a process which they have worked out. A new penstock is being installed.
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OREGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 11 15 1930
for NOVEMBER 15, 1930
OREGON
A contract has been let for 100 feet of shaft sinking in the Rabbit Mine, in the Greenhorn District, near Baker, Oregon, and to do some drifting on the ledge. Preparations have been made so that work can be carried on all winter. W. M. Spencer, 612 South Twelfth Street East, Salt Lake City, Utah, is operating the mine under option, and has given H. F. Foster, charge at the mine.
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Capt. W. Harry Hembree, Portland steamboat man, formerly of Rogue River Valley, has reclaimed the old Tip Top Mine, on the apex of the mountain between Applegate and Rogue River, and has acquired an old-time producer adjoining. With his Portland associates, he plans to operate the two properties together. Ore will be developed, and if enough can be mined to justify the expenditure, a reduction plant will be built
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J. A. Pringle, C. E. Dove and A. H. McKay; all of Kelso, Washington, are organizing the C. S. & K. Gold Mining and Milling Company, under the laws of Nevada, to operate a group of gold-silver claims, in the vicinity of Sumpter, Oregon. The property is seven and one-half miles from the railroad at Sumpter, and a half mile from the wagon road. Assays on the ore average $20 a ton. The principal development of the ground is an 800-foot tunnel, and the new operators will sink a 50-foot shaft on the vein. McKay is an experienced miner and will have charge of the work.
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Eastern capital has been invested in the properties of the Oregon Copper Company, near Baker, Oregon, and the Balm Creek, and Poorman Mines have been transferred to the new group. The new capital will take care of the entire indebtedness of the copper company, and as its major developments drift 700 feet to the Lindgren leached vein, and crosscut 200 feet to the South Vein, the drift is expected to tap several commercial ore bodies in its course.
The South Vein has, from its upper levels, yielded some of the highest grade copper taken from the mine. The Oregon Copper Company has, however, retained the major portion of its original holdings, including the area west of Balm Creek, and the Goose Creek area, on the East. W. W. Elmer, consulting engineer for the company, has been in charge of developments at Arthur.
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P. B. Wickham of Ashland, Oregon, mine operator, has purchased the Shorty Hope Mine, on Wagner Creek, near Talent, Oregon, formerly owned by E. P. Briggs, local attorney. This mine was an important producer during earlier development, and comprises 100 acres of patent mining land, with valuable timber and water rights, electric power on the ground, and reached by a gravel surface road. The zone of enrichment has been traced more than 1,000 feet, and the ore, valuable for its gold, is readily treated by amalgamation-concentration. Wickham also owns the Ashland Mine in Jackson County, and the Standard Metal Mine in Josephine County.
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OREGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 12 15 1930
THE MINING JOURNAL
OREGON
The Amalgamated Mining Corporation, J. Cleveland Haas, Engineer in charge, Mehama, Oregon, has completed a four-mile road to its mines. This is a comparatively new company, organized October, 1929, and is developing 18 claims on the North Fork of the Santiam. The country is rugged, but a depth of 2,500 feet can be gained on the surface ore, by tunneling from the river level. The main office is 320 Postal Building, Portland, Oregon.
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Ore, running as high as $25 per ton, is being mined from the shaft and drift, in the North Powder Gold Mine, in the northern Baker District, in Oregon. No shipments have been made yet, except 200 pounds of samples to the Bunker Hill Smelter, and to the Tacoma Smelter. These have returned 1.38, and 1.62 ounces gold, respectively. The North Powder is being operated under lease by J. I. Zigler and W. L. Merritt, 316 Standard Stock Exchange Building, Spokane, Washington.
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The Columbia Gorge Mining Company, A. C. Beal, Manager, The Dalles, Oregon, has ordered a compressor and hoist, and has made arrangements for electrical power, to sink a shaft on the discovery made at The Dalles golf course. A sample of ore from the discovery made while sinking a well, assayed 3,000 ounces of silver, to the ton, and the core from a drill used through four feet and two inches of the ground, assayed 20.70 percent antimony, 30.66 percent copper, .53 ounces gold, and 2,085.37 ounces silver, to the ton. Columbia Gorge has secured mineral rights to 700 acres.
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TOWN MINE TAKES ON ACTIVITY AFTER THIRTY-YEAR REST
The Town Gold Mine, on the outskirts of Jacksonville, Oregon, has passed to John M. Price, of Nampa, Idaho, and C. C. Clark of Medford, Oregon. New equipment, including a Gardner-Denver compressor, drills, new steel for trackage, shop tools, and complete and extensive laboratory equipment, is being installed. The new owners announce that they will erect a 100-ton reduction plant at Jacksonville, and do custom business, along with the concentration of their own ores.
The Town Mine has been closed for the past 30 years, since a general decline in the gold industry of the region. Its former production approximates $250,000, which was milled at the Opp Mine, adjoining. Its history dates back to 1852, when a pioneer placer miner of Jacksonville located and operated the diggings.
In the late 50s, when gold was discovered in the quartz veins of the region, and on the exhaustion of placer gold, the owners of the property looked to the quartz veins for the source of gold, which had fed the gulch. Soon after, a prospector named Johnson recovered a pocket, on the veins near the surface, which yielded $30,000. Later, another prospector named Bowden, struck another pocket, higher on the ridge which yielded $60,000.
There are about 3,000 tons of ore on the dumps, and 25,000 tons are blocked out in the mine, while considerable ground awaits development. The ore in former millings averaged $20 a ton.
The new owners have acquired the ground from George Schrump, local miner, and are incorporating as the Midas Gold Mines, Inc., with a capitalization of $1,000,000, under the laws of Oregon. Those financing the project are the Andrews Implement Company at Portland; H. G. Myers of Boise, Idaho; Charles Moore of Yuba City, California; W. R. Price of Nevada City, California; and Messrs. Clark and Price. Price is Engineer in Charge, and H. E. Ellsworth, formerly of Alaska Mines, but recently with the Sylvanite Mine at Gold Hill, will be Chief Metallurgist.
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HYDRAULIC CONCENTRATION OF CINNABAR TMJ 12 30 30
DECEMBER 30, 1930
Hydraulic Concentration of Cinnabar Ore
By A. E. KELLOGG, Medford, Oregon. Many methods of ore recovery have been employed at the Big Boy Mine, since the discovery of quicksilver there, in the early fifties. Hydraulic recovery is now being practiced.
One of the distinctive quicksilver properties of the Northern California-Southern Oregon region, is the Big Boy Mine, situated just over the state line in California, between Del Norte County, California, and Curry County, Oregon. These diggings were discovered in the early ‘50s, following the discovery of gold in the famous Sailor Diggings, Althouse, Browntown, and other rich gold placers, in Josephine County, Oregon. The distinctive feature of the Big Boy Mine lies in the fact that it is the only hydraulic concentrating quicksilver property among the long list of producing mines of this region.
The pioneer miners of the district, to secure quicksilver for their sluices, took the rich surface cinnabar ore from the Big Boy Mine, and reduced it in a very crude manner. They sank shafts on the deposit, 8 to 10 feet deep, filled the shaft with wood fuel, and burned it, charcoal pit fashion, by smoldering the fire with a dirt covering. The shaft was left covered until thoroughly cooled, then the walls were scraped down, and the quicksilver panned from the bottom of the pit.
Later, cinnabar ore from these diggings was reduced by the miners, with crude furnaces from which the escaping fumes caused the deadly mercurial poisoning to the operator. In later years, when modern furnaces came into use, these rich diggings lay idle, and well-nigh forgotten. While many other rich quicksilver properties of the region were heavy producers during the war period, it was not until several years ago, that this old-time producer was re-established.
The Big Boy is still owned by the original locators and associates. It consists of five mining claims, locations made by John J. Hoogstraat, H. W. Laipple, O. H. Hogberg, and George A. Davis, Grants Pass, Oregon, and R. E. Stayner, of Spokane, Washington. The property is at present, under lease to the J. Q. L. Dredging Company, Spokane, Washington, which is operating it, and has installed the present equipment.
According to John J. Hoogstraat, the mine is a stock-work deposit, in a highly altered zone of peridotite, and hornblende. The enrichment is believed to have emanated from a series of three extinct hot springs, the remains of which, are clearly apparent along the westerly side of the group, and which extend beyond, both north and south, on other claims owned by this same group of miners.
Numerous shafts, open cuts, and a distinct and deep slide, indicate a highly decomposed sub-series condition that extends to undetermined depths, in which occurs an enrichment of cinnabar, metal cinnabarite, and other quicksilver carrying minerals, along all fracture lines and minute seams, as well as a general dissemination throughout the mass. This decomposed formation is an alteration from hornblende, from which it appears a large amount of iron has leached out, leaving a gouge material in place, consisting of magnesium, amorphous silica, and a slight amount of hydrous iron oxide.
This highly altered condition permits a ready concentration of a large percentage of heavier quicksilver minerals, which oft-times occur as cinnabar crystals, measuring as large as a quarter of an inch across. Present preliminary workings have shown quicksilver values as high as $86.85 a ton, based on quicksilver at $121 per flask. Other samples have ranged from $36 to $48 per ton.
Estimates, based on conservative samples taken from all five claims, reveal values ranging from three to five pounds of quicksilver to the ton, through an estimated yardage of material suitable for hydraulic concentration, of 25,000,000 yards. Water is available from McGee Creek, a branch of Diamond Creek, in sufficient quantity to move 500 yards of material per shift, for at least eight months of the year. This supply has been augmented by a dam and diversion works, which extend the water season an additional 30 days.
The property is equipped with 200 feet of 11-inch pipe, and a No. 1 Hendy giant, with a two-inch nozzle, operating under a head of 175 feet. This equipment has proved adequate to move all the tailings that can be handled in the 20-inch flume, leading to the riffles and undercurrents. By sluicing the decomposed formation down a steep rock-strewn cut, for 150 feet, it is found that but little material is left coarse enough to go over the preliminary grizzly. A series of slotted screens further sizes the tailings, before they are finally concentrated over 20 feet of angle iron riffles, which make the final concentration, carrying the heavier ore by means of an undercurrent into a storage bin. No attempt has been made to secure a concentrate higher in value than 20 percent, as the waste matter carried with the concentrates, is believed to be needed for efficient roasting.
A small capacity Gould rotary furnace is now on the ground, and as soon as installed, the accumulated concentrates will be reduced. Tests are planned to determine the advisability of retorting richer grade ore without concentration. Should the clinkers from the concentrates after roasting show any appreciable gold values, additional reduction installations will be made.
The property, located high in the mountains, at an elevation of 4,000 feet, is accessible only from the Oregon side of the Siskiyou Mountains, with Grants Pass as the nearest shipping point. It is reached by a good dirt mountain road. The road is known as the Wimer Road and in pioneer days, was the only outlet from Jackson, Josephine, and Curry Counties in Oregon, to the Crescent City, California, harbor. There is some effort being made to reopen the road from the mine, to Crescent City, in which event it would be only 30 miles to shipping, while it is 60 miles to Grants Pass. The present road is within the Siskiyou National Forest, and is maintained by the Forest Service.
Most of the slopes of the Siskiyous are well watered and heavily timbered, with various species of conifers, the most valuable of which, are the Port Orford cedar, and the redwood. The oldest geologic record left in the region is found in the Colebrooke schist, probably originally an argillaceous and sand sediment, laid down under the seas. The petrology of the region is very interesting, since representatives of each of the three great groups of rocks, sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic, are to be found, and numerous varieties of each occur.
PIC Beginning of hydraulic work on decomposed ore at the Big Boy.
PIC Concentrates being emptied into a storage bin at the Big Boy Mine.
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OREGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 12 30 1930
OREGON
C. W. Curl, Box 465, Baker, Oregon, and associates, intend to develop a talc and soapstone deposit, next spring, near Weatherby, Baker County, Oregon. Machinery will be installed to saw the soapstone into blocks and slabs, and to grind the waste materials. The ground was acquired by option and location. Baker will be the principal headquarters. Soapstone is used in furnaces, laundry tub linings, receptacles for acids, as a non-conductor in electrical work, and in paper, paint, and rubber manufacture.
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Larson and associates, of Seattle, Washington, and Baker, Oregon, have completed a ditch in the Salmon Creek Placer Ground, near Baker, to divert the waters of the creek over new ground. They hold a lease and bond on the ground from H. M. Evitt and are equipped with pipeline and giant. The stream bed has been worked profitably in earlier years, and there are about 60 acres of virgin ground above the present stream bed, to receive attention. The snowfall is especially heavy at this time of the year.
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Frank Dotson and sons, are building a mill at the old Banzette Mine, and have some good ore ready to run as soon as the plant is finished. This mine has produced some very rich ore.
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The Basin Mine, near Medical Springs, Oregon, is said to be under new management, and a campaign of development is in progress. Some rich ore has been mined, and in the bottom of a 50-foot shaft, there are two feet of ore, said to average $100 a ton.
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The Mines Development Corporation, Walter E. Marsh, President, 610 Spaulding Building, Portland, Oregon, is mining some rich ore from the Macy Mine, near Richland. Seventeen men are working, and the concentrator and mill are making a good recovery. Present development is confined to driving a long crosscut ,and sinking a shaft on the vein. G. F. Skelton is General Manager of the mine.
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The mill of White Swan Mines, Inc., George T. Cullen, Superintendent, 1762 Broadway, Baker, Oregon, has been placed in operation recently on good ore. Power is furnished by a Diesel engine, installed last summer at heavy expense. Development is confined to sinking the shaft another 100 feet, and driving a long crosscut, to tap the famed red ledge of early operation. About 20 men are employed. Jess Edwards of the Edwards Drug Company at Baker deserves credit for the manner in which he has looked after the company’s interests.
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It is understood that Pacific States Mines, Inc., is negotiating for the Norling Mine, on upper Jackson Creek, near Jacksonville, Oregon, which adjoins its property. C. C. Clarke, 31 South Orange Street, Medford, Oregon, is Superintendent of the Pacific Mines.
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George W. Billings of Gold Beach, Oregon, is placing the finishing touches on his 10-ton Straub mill, on the Keystone property, on the south bank of the Rogue River. It is to be placed in commission within a few days, and sufficient free milling ore is available to operate at capacity. Eleven men are employed at the mine.
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OREGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 1 15 1931
THE MINING JOURNAL for JANUARY 15, 1931
OREGON MINING NEWS
C. M. Everitt, of Seattle,Washington, President of the Sutherlin Cinnabar Company, is at Sutherlin, Oregon, giving his personal attention to the development of the Nonpareil Mines, East of that town. The foundations have been prepared, and construction started on the buildings to house the furnace, and other equipment, for handling the ore. They aim to put in a furnace that can handle about 100 tons of cinnabar ore a day, and to add a second unit, next year. During his stay, Everitt is making his headquarters at Hotel Sutherlin.
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Plans are said to be in the making for the operation of the Elkhead Mines, near Yoncalla, Oregon. These mines were acquired some time ago, by C. O. White, Stimson Park, Seattle, Washington.
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Foundations will soon be started for a reduction plant at the Humdinger Mine, in Horsehead Gulch, near Williams, Oregon. A. W. Constance, formerly a British Columbia mine operator, has been working this mine, the last two years, and has a crew of between 10 and 12 men.
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Coming as a Christmas gift to the stockholders of the Lead Crystal Mining Company, a new ore body has been reached through the No. 2 tunnel. The deposit is approximately 20 feet wide, and 150 feet high, and has been located in a cave, 400 feet from the portal of the tunnel. Four miners are developing the strike, and the work is slow and dangerous, requiring heavy timbering. Lead, silver, zinc, copper, and gold, are found in the ore. Last summer, government engineers surveyed the Lead Crystal property, and found a 20-foot vein of ore in the No. 1 Tunnel above, but the No. 2 Tunnel was closed, and they were not able to do much work there. P. J. Jennings, of Cottage Grove, Oregon, is President of the company, and George H. Jennings is Manager.
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As a part of its reward for the development and exploration carried on through the past year, the Pacific States Mines, Inc., has opened three copper ledges in Jackson County, Oregon, according to President William R. Price, of Yuba City, California. All of these ledges have been traced several thousand feet, and vary in width from six, to 100 feet. The outcroppings carry gold and silver values. A compressor and modern mining equipment have been installed, and a 320-foot tunnel has been started, to gain a depth of about 200 feet below the old workings, where the ore ran about 4 percent copper, and $2 in gold. About 200 feet of development have been done on the Great Eastern Vein, and the Iron Hand Vein has been opened in surface cuts, along 1,000 feet of its strike. The Iron Hand is from 10 to 20 feet wide, and a drift is to be run to open it at a depth of 100 feet. Development is to be started on the Gold Knob Vein later. C. C. Clarke, 31 South Orange Street, Medford, Oregon, is Superintendent.
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The Oregon Copper Company, at Baker, Oregon, has sped up development in a number of its headings. The drift from the 550-foot Level of the Poorman Shaft is being pushed, with a crew of 25 men. A drift is being extended to the Lindgren oreshoot of the big leached vein, and lacks less than 400 feet of its objective. A drift has been started on the South Vein. William W. Elmer, Consulting Engineer for the company, is now at 84 West Park Street, Portland, Oregon.
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Under the supervision of William Cooper, the Union Mining Company is operating a 25-ton mill at the Twin Baby mining claims, near Medical Springs, Oregon. Development is progressing nicely, too. Fourteen men are on the payroll.
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P. B. Wickham has spent more than $15,000 in rehabilitating the Ashland Mine, since he took it over early last Spring. The main tunnel has been reopened, and re—tracked, from the portal to the South shaft, 2,000 feet; and 5,000 feet of dried mine timber, and about 20,000 feet of lumber for construction purposes, are on the ground. The machinery at the mine represents an outlay of about $10,000, and includes a compressor, hoist, mining equipment, and a 10-stamp mill. Early plans include the construction of a mill building, compressor house, and shop. It is estimated that 6,000 tons of $27 gold ore are on the ground, ready for milling.
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According to K. C. Harpham, the Crown Point Gold Mine, near Sumpter, Oregon, is being refinanced. Last spring, several men were operating the property under the management of W. H. Hamilton, but litigation arose, and the mine was closed. Now, no one is at the mine except Harpham, and his wife. The snowfall is unusually heavy at this time of the year.
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Andy Larson, old-time Greenhorn miner, is building a mill on his property, near Greenhorn, and expects to start with a full crew in the spring. Larson has spent most of his life in that district, and has probably found and sold more mines, than anyone in the state. His many friends wish him success.
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Frank Bowen, and associates, of Baker, Oregon, have been repairing the road to their placer deposits, near the North Fork of the John Day River, on Trail Creek, north of Granite. They are nearly ready to start work when the ground thaws in the Spring. Tests show that the gravel averages better than 40 cents a yard in gold, and the concentrates are worth as high as $150 a ton. Water is available in the creek at all times. The ground averages eight feet to bedrock, with gold from grass roots. Bowen is Manager of operations.
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OREGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 1 30 1931
THE MINING JOURNAL for JANUARY 30, 1931
OREGON
The Dorothea Gold Mine, five miles from Leland, Oregon, owned by Mrs. J. F. Reddy, of Medford, is being reopened after a long idleness, by Medford finances. It was formerly known as the Marshall Mine, when owned and operated by the Glendale Mining and Milling Company, and was a heavy producer. Considerable ore has been blocked out in a four-foot vein. The mine is equipped with a five-stamp mill, plates, and concentrators, formerly operated by steam. The new equipment will consist of flotation, and Diesel engines.
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The Deep Channel Gold Placers, better known as the Old Sailor Diggings, out from Waldo, Oregon, recently owned by A. E. Reames, of Medford, have passed to a Vancouver, British Columbia, trio. The new owners are Charles Oldfield, Edward Knowlton, and J. S. Patterson. They have reopened the property, and incorporated the Plateureke Mining Company, with head office at Seattle, Washington. James M. Logan, an old time placer operator in the Waldo District, has acquired an interest in the property, and will be Engineer in Charge.
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The Ludlum Engineering Corporation of New York, operating a gold dredge at Gold Hill, Oregon, as the Rogue River Gold Company, has taken over two old-time producing gold quartz properties in southwestern Oregon, and will equip them with flotation machinery. One of these mines, the Humdinger, near Williams, has been operated the last two years by A. W. Constance, of British Columbia.
The principal development is a double-compartment shaft, sunk 800 feet on the main vein, and from which considerable drifting has been done. The other property is the Continental Mine, at Nugget, which had been productive before the war, but has never been equipped with a mill. Grants Pass is the nearest shipping point for the Humdinger, and Myrtle Creek is the closest shipping point for the Continental Mine. Walter B. Robinson of Medford, Oregon, local representative for the American Smelting and Refining Company, is Engineer in Charge for the new properties.
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Seattle and Alaska men, organized as the Applegate Mines, Inc., are about ready to operate three hydraulic machines in the Buncom District, not far from Medford, Oregon. The old China Ditch, from the Little Applegate River has been reconditioned over its length of eight miles, and 30-inch pipe connects the ditch with the scene of operations. Although the work will be governed by the supply of water, a 24-hour schedule is anticipated, and an electric plant will be installed to provide light for work, and for the bunkhouses and cook house. R. M. Lewis, and James E. Bradford, both of Seattle, Washington, are President and Secretary-Treasurer, respectively. Floyd T. Steele is Vice-President and General Manager, and has had 30 years’ experience in the Alaska goldfields.
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Explorers, Inc., John L. Dirks, President, Rookery Building, Spokane, Washington, has two shifts working in the Buffalo Gold Mine, at Granite, Oregon, and the mill is working. Several carloads of concentrates have been shipped, and the ore blocked out for milling, is estimated to be worth $50,000. At Sandpoint, Idaho, the tunnel is being pushed and has cut five feet of commercial gold ore, at a depth less than 100 feet. Arrangements are being made to open an office in Buffalo, New York, and
in this capacity, L. L. Boyer, of Sandpoint, has left for the East.
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It is understood that the Gold Standard Mining Company, K. K. Kubli, President, 261 East Sixteenth Street, Portland Oregon, is giving some thought to installing flotation machinery, at Gold Hill, where a large tonnage of telluride ores have been left by former operators. The Kubli Mine has been idle a number of years, with the exception of some work carried on intermittently during the past four or five years, including the installation of a five-stamp mill, plates and concentrating table. Tests made with flotation, show a recovery of 95 percent of the gold in the ore. Strikes of importance have been in the news recently.
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OREGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 2 15 1931
THE MINING JOURNAL
For FEBRUARY 15, 1931
OREGON
The Oregon-Washington Mining Company has purchased a 150-rod mill, concentrators, crushers, and other equipment, costing approximately $26,000. Two men are doing preliminary work, and it is planned to build a camp that can accommodate 50 men. This organization was perfected recently, to operate the Overshot group of six claims in the Mormon Basin, in eastern Oregon, by E. B. Graves and Albert Eindman, both of Durkee, Oregon, C. L. Deardorff of Baker, and Charles McNamara of Mormon Basin, together the original owner of the ground, and Portland and Vancouver, Washington, men.
William A. Noon, 215 Porter Building, Portland, is one of the financial representatives of the new concern, and W. A. Marshbank of Vancouver will be the General Superintendent. A drift has followed the main vein more than 400 feet, and the dump contains several thousand tons of ore that will be milled as soon as the new machinery is installed.
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It is understood that the Rare Metals Mining Company is running 300 tons of gravel through its sluice boxes daily, on the Philip Farm, west of Forest Grove, Oregon. Walter Dyer, 1605 Denver Avenue, Portland, is manager of operation, and is using an invention of his own, in recovering the platinum and gold contained in the gravels. The sand is being pumped from a depth of 27 feet, and additional pumps will be installed. A cabin has been built on Gales Creek, and a small laboratory set up to test the concentrates.
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C. A. Hartley of Medford, Oregon, contractor, and J. W. Perdue, mining man, have recently opened valuable gold quartz property on Foots Creek, out from Gold Hill. Ore development is under way. This property is located over the hill from the famous Kubli Gold Mine, on Galls Creek, rich in highgrade telluride ore.
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A five-ton ball mill is being installed at the J. C. L. gold mine, near Glendale, Oregon, replacing a stamp mill, which operated before the war. The ground has been reopened and is being operated by Mrs. Clementine Lewis Smart, a scion of the Lewis family of Portland, who own valuable gold and copper mines in the Glendale, Galice and Grants Pass district, acquired 85 years ago. Considerable free-milling ore has been blocked out in the J. C. L.
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The Gold Eagle Mining Company, financed in Utah, is making preparations to sink the main shaft in the Rabbit Mine, in the Greenhorn Mining District, west of Baker, Oregon, another 100 feet. At a depth of 60 feet, the vein is from two to four inches of rose and black quartz, of which four inches along the footwall assay $833 in gold. A gasoline engine, compressor, hoist, and air drills, used by former operators, are ready to resume operations, and a milling plant is on the ground. W. K Spencer, 612 South Twelfth East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, is managing director.
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The Midas Gold Mines, Inc., which last fall, took over the Old Town, Opp and Norling mines, at Jacksonville, Oregon, is pushing development, and hopes to be building its 100-ton reduction plant within a few months. The organization has a capitalization of 2,000,000 shares at 50 cents par. Its directorate has recently been announced as: H. G. Myers of Boise, Idaho; W. H. Price of Nevada City, California; Dr. Robert C. VanValzah, E. A. Vaflier, and L. C. Clark of Medford, Oregon. Price is president of the company, VanValzah is vice-president, and Mrs. L. C. Clark is secretary-treasurer.
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The Lead-Crystal Mining Company is opening an office at 75 West Broadway, Eugene, Oregon. Its property is in the Bohemia District, and holds promise of repaying its stockholders well.
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Ed. Knowlton, G. Patterson, and Charles Oldfleld, of Vancouver, Washington, and associates in Vancouver and Seattle, Washington, have made the final payment on approximately 1,300 acres in the Waldo District in Oregon, known as the Osgood and Fry Gulch Placers. The ditch has been repaired over its length of 14 miles, a flume constructed, and 5,000 feet of hydraulic pipe laid that delivers water under a 400-foot head. J. E. O’Conner is in charge of the property, and has employed S. T. Logan of Grants Pass, former owner of the Osgood, to assist him.
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The famous Black Channel Gold Placers, on Foots Creek, seven miles from Gold Hill, Oregon, have been leased for three years to L. L. Smith, formerly chief chemist at the Gold Hill cement plant. This property adjoins the rich placers now being worked by the $580,000 electrically operated dredge of the Rogue River Gold Company.
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Claims, totaling more than $4,000, have been filed against Consolidated Oregon Gold Mines, Inc., which had been developing the Snowcreek, Banner, Windsor, Psyche, and other claims in the Greenhorn District, in eastern Oregon. These claims are alleged due for labor, merchandising,
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Paul Pierce, of Jacksonville, Oregon, mine operator, is reported to have leased the Sterling Mine in the Applegate District, from Fred J. Blakeley, of Portland. He is busy repairing and putting in pipelines and plans to start active mining soon.
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The Copper Mountain Mining Company, Inc., V. E. Ryan, Box 192, Prairie City, Oregon, has opened two veins of cobalt ore recently. One of them is 20 inches wide and assays 26 percent cobalt, 40 percent copper and $7 in gold, and the other is 12 inches wide and assays 20 percent cobalt along with the other mineral content. The veins were discovered in a tunnel that had reached a length of 700 feet, and some of the ore will be milled in an old plant that has been rebuilt. Earl Clinger, Box 1402, Missoula, Montana, is President of the Company.
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George Knight has crosscut 12-feet of ore in the Dixie Meadows Mine, near Prairie City, Oregon. The ore was opened in the lowest workings in the mine, and ranges from $12 to $80 a ton.
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OREGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 2 28 1931
THE MINING JOURNAL 2 28 1931
OREGON
Free milling ore, said to run as high as $500 a ton, in gold, has been opened on the West Fork of Mule Creek, not far from Gold Beach, Oregon, on property belonging to W. A. and M. A. Alexander. The discovery was made in a tunnel, just a few feet beneath the surface, but its extent has not been determined yet. The Alexander Brothers have placed a five-ton mill, which they installed last summer, in operation.
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Chieftain Mines, Inc., Edward Law, President and General Manager, Myrtle Creek, Oregon, has shipped its second carload of ore. The first carload was sent out last fall. Law is planning to install a reduction plant at the mines in the near future.
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E. L. Hutchin and associates, at Portland, Oregon, have taken an option to purchase the Shorty Hope Mine, on Wagner Creek, near Talent, owned by P. B. Wickham of Ashland. The contract calls for a payment within 30 days and for an operating fund to be available by April 1, and further stipulates that power, mine, and milling machinery, be installed. Wickham retains a large interest in the mine, and will continue as Engineer in Charge of Construction and Operation.
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OREGON MINING NEWS THE MINING JOURNAL 3 15 1931
OREGON MINING NEWS TMJ 3 15 1931
The Lead Crystal Mining Company, George H. Jennings, secretary and manager, 75 West Broadway, Eugene, Oregon, has taken a truckload of supplies and additional men, to its property in the Bohemia district. The new oreshoot in the No. 2 tunnel, is proving to be larger than was anticipated, and the tunnel will be continued another 500 feet west, to cut other known oreshoots. A halfmile of new road is being constructed to eliminate a heavy grade on the present road. By April 1, the management expects to be remodeling the mill and installing a flotation plant. P. J. Jennings is president of the organization, and George W. McQueen is vice-president.
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The White Swan Mining Company, George T Cullen, superintendent, 1762 Broadway, Baker, Oregon, entered production March 1. A Hardinge mill and other equipment have recently been installed at the property. David E. Sayre is president and general manager of the organization.
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Negotiations are in progress to finance the operation of the Crown Point Mines at Sumpter, Oregon, this spring. The ground is controlled by the Laval-Quebec Mines, Ltd., Montreal, Canada.
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The Senter Construction Company is shipping more than 20 flasks of quicksilver a month, from Ochoco, near Prineville, Oregon. The company is operating the property formerly operated by the Consolidated Quicksilver Company.
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The rich ore shoot in the North Powder mine, in the northern Baker district in Oregon, on which work was started last year, is getting wider with depth, according to William L. Merritt, engineer of mines, Standard Stock Exchange Building, Spokane, Washington. Recently a fault was reached, which took the ore out of the new winze, but the ore was again found in place within a few feet. Present prospects are that an extensive high-grade vein is being opened up. Assays taken across the ore where it is two feet wide ran from 1 to 5 ounces in gold.
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EMJ MAY 28 1921 OREGON GOLD
EMJ MAY 28 1921
Oregon’s Gold Bonanza
Romance, gold, blind luck, and a gambling chance are combined in the story of the Boswell mine, in Josephine County, Ore. The mine, an important discovery, is on the ancient stamping ground of the argonauts and prospectors. A man named Anderson, prospected the ground, near Holland, seven miles north of the California line. He found some gold, and traced it up the mountainside for quite a distance, but finally lost it. He staked out a claim, and took in as partner “Dry Wash” Wilson, and it is reported that they recovered about $300,000 from the claim.
Anderson wrote his old friend Boswell, in Montana, inviting him to come to Josephine County, as “it’s a nice looking country.” Boswell, arriving, asked him where he should stake a claim. “Anywhere,” said Anderson. Boswell staked out the claim adjoining Anderson’s. It was within twenty feet of Anderson’s line that Boswell made the strike. He and his boy did a little mining by hand. They were making up about $6,000 in gold one day, when two masked and armed men held them up, bound the pair and disappeared with the gold.
Later, the two took about $50,000 from the mine, when the son was drafted into the army. The father promised, that he would not work the property until the boy returned. Young Boswell went over seas, and lost his life on the front. The elder man, refusing to consider that death cancelled the promise, kept the mine closed. Recently, he let it be understood that, though he would not work the mine, he would sell it for $100,000.
The first nine days that the new owners operated the property, they recovered $30,000 in gold. At 20 ft. in depth, the vein showed 12 in. of high-grade, and 23 in. of quartz, running $125 per ton. At 30 ft., there was a 16-in, strip of high-grade, and four feet of quartz, running better than $125 per ton; or, so it is reported.
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