Nevada Nugget Hunters

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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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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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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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for NOVEMBER 15, 1930

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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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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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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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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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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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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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