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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1889)
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Ii wins occur (luring the winter months, IV "ImInt to K.'1-nury, and in all cases the wet season gives place -minify to Iry tuman during July and August. While a L-oniUrating amount of rainfall is during the winter, yet Lrin- tat 1 y Hiimiiier and late fall are marked by moderate riiim at not iii!n-Uent intervals. These climatic conditions fa vr to a m irked "tent, the growth of most cereals and other ini jrUnt HtapN. MisKiui. or Tut a da InusD.-Dr. Bredemeyer, l'h.I)., of Vnruuvr, ian inflayer and mining exrt whose opinion is held in high e-t.-em hy mining men. He says he has made over one hundred and twenty assays of ore from Texada island, four or five of which tire really first class, particularly the ore from the ioMen Hir, Vancouver, Blue Bell, Victoria und Kun-kn claim. The ores go from $12.00 to $000.00 per ton, ml c.miiiin nothing of value but gold, all in pyriteB. In the n.. iuienH examined tliere has been no free gold to be seen, though they say it has been found in very small specimens in the new district of the lako. The ores from Texada, Dr. Bred emeyer says, should lie reduced by either rousting or the Rus sell leaching process. By the first the cost would be from $11.00 to H'l.OO p.T ton, while by the leaching process the cost would li tH.OO to $7. ,0. By the Russell process the extraction of gold would Im! about five per cent, higher than by rousting. Ir. Bredemeyer is of the opinion that as the Texada prosect or get down from one hundred to one hundred and fifty feet, the find will turn out to lie a lead and silver ledge. All the in dications point in this direction, and u four foot vein of lead lut already been discovered. Surface cropping show thirty to forty r cent, in lead, and six to twenty ounces in silver to the t n. Younge's pay itreak contains thirty-four jter cent, in iron and about $12.01) gold to the ton, so it would seem that al mt every metal, both base and precious, can be found on the isUnd, and everything can be utilized. Gold, silver, lead and iron having leen shown to have an existence on the island, it nhoiild he the duty of home capital to take Texada in hand, and keep the profits arising from her mineral richness in the province, instead of allowing everything, like the iron, to lie liiled to the I'nited States and there made up. Culonitt. I'siom form Mines. The mines of Cornucopia, Union county, Oregon, are in a very promising condition this spring. Twenty two men were employed during the winter prospecting the Red Jacket mine. The adit started last fall is a little over five hundred feet, and will be extended about one hundred and twenty five M more In-fore it Is expected the main lodge will he struck. During the process of work on this tunnel, a rum Is r of small veins of ore were encountered, the most extensive ling about one foot in width. Three BhifU are kept at work, and the adit will le pushed forward to completion as rapidly as ihle. In the main workings of the mine, some fifteen hun dred feet of drift a,j tunnu j,ave jHH)n run jie 0M u.j v. ries in i,t, from nm to MVen t K proportion of which it fre milling, returning an average value of $'J00.0() er t-'ii. while that 0f all the ore is close to $100.00. Five raises have Uvn itarted on the ore body, and a low estimate of the amount of ore in sight places it at one thousand tons. The mill "I the company was started Monday, and the twenty sUm W k,,l'1 ruiwUntly at work for months to come, unless some unliiresnrn accident intervenes. At Sanger, in that county, tin-re were tidy ,,. employed during the winter, and work, Mh 11 lhe im,, and mill, has len vigorously pushed. The """0 41 UXT ' n a good paying basis, and the monthly re turn, must prove extremely satisfactory to the owners.