Wednesday, September 2j, 1903
THE SUMPTER MINER
LIMESTONE LEDGE
SHOWS HIGH VALUES.
Bear Gulch Vein Crosscut And is Sixteen
Feet Wide, Carrying Remarkably
Good Ore.
The Limestone ledgo nt the Bear
Gulch proporty, owned by Wade &
Camp, near the Sumpter cemetery,
where a rich strike was recently made,
was crosscut late last week, showing
a width of sixteen feet in the lime
formation. Besides this, there were
two feet of gold bearing quartz frozen
to the ledge on the hanging wall,
and four feet of overflow matter
from the vein alongside the foot
wall. The entire distance carries
the same uniformly high values
which were shown some time ago
when the rich strike attracted such
widespread attention.
Free gold appears abundantly
throughout the lime, and tbo quartz
frozen to the ledge is especially rich.
The overflow which consists of
broken and decomposed quartz and
lime also carries good values. Seven
tons of this matter wero recently
treated at the Sumpter Sampling
aud Testing works, and notted $50
to the ton.
Tho presont crosscut 2s a continua
tion of an old crosscut which was
carried in a distauco of 180 feet
during a former ownership. It was
driven about thirty feet further by
the presont owners before encounter
ing the lodgo. It gives a depth of
about fifty feet on tho Jodgo, aud is
some twenty-tlvo feet below tho old
shaft.
The owneis state that it has been
demonstrated beyond any questiou
that whllo it is porhups true that
the frozen quartz and tho quartz
seams carry tho highest values, the
llmo formation is also rich in freo
gold. So far this is tho only iustauco
in the district where any gold do
posits to spoak of havo occuirod in
lime.
DEAL PENDING.
Negotiations on for Sale of
Climax Group.
G. V. Grayson, of Snu Francisco,
accompanied by bis son-in-law, V.
C. Ralston arrived here last week to
look nftor his mluiug interests. Mr.
Grayson owns tbo Climax group in
tho Cracker Creek district near the
Columbia. This is an old aud
valuable proporty, but It has not beeu
worked auy to speak of within
recent years. Mr. Grayson states
that negotiations uro pending for
the sale of tho group. If tbo deal Is
uot consummated, ho says ho will
start work on tho proporty hlmsolf
in a short time. Tho present work i
on the Climax represents over 1,000
leei in uruiH mm erutwcuiH.
Mr. Grayson is one of tho pionor
minors of Eastern Oiwgou, havlug
been ouo of tho owuerH and operators
of tho Virtue in I no in 1809. Ho
also hiiH cxtonslvo mineral holdings
in Iduho aud Nevada. Ho visited
the latter stato before coming horo
to look after his properties. Both
Mr. Grayson aud Mr. Ralston loft
Monday, tho latter going to Seuttlo
where ho is interested with his
father-in-law In West Seuttlo real
estate, and Mr. Grayson returning to
California.
is being oncountorod which is n suro
indication that tho ledgo is being
neared. Thoro is mineralized matter
present which shows freo gold iu
tho pannings.
This will mako tho second lodgo
cut on tbo proporty. Tho ouo
previously cut showed a width of
twelve feet with uniformly high
values.
BLUE BIRD MILL.
Machinery Now Being Hauled
To Property.
NEARING LEDGE.
Thought That Second Vein is Bring Ap
proached at Buekhora.
O.C.Wright, general manager of the
Buckhorn, a sister property to the
Blue Bird and operated by the same
people, states that from the
appearanco of the formation he is led
to believe that another ledge is being
approached in the crosscut. Wuter
President Wright, of the Blue
Bird, roports satisfactory progross
toward tho erection of tho 100 ton
concentrator on tho proporty. Tho
grading for the buildings uro well
under way, aud much of tho framing
has boon douo. The machinery is
boiug transported to tho mine, and
Mr. Wright states that practically
all tho material is now on tho ground.
All olforts are being turned toward
tho spoody erection of the plant. Tho
Uluo Bird mill which has boon fully
doscrlbod hitherto, when completed
will bo ono of the most modern and
extouslvo concentrating plants iu
tho district.
PHILBRICK Sr FENNER
MINING 4 CIVIL CNCINECRS
U. 8. DEPUTY MINERALSURVCYORS
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