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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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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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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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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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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

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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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.
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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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