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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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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 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’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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