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OPENING A NEW PLACER MINE
FREIGHTING HEAVY MACHINERY OVER MOUNTAIN TRAIL TO NEW AND RICH G0LD4
QUARTZ FIELD OF THE BOHEMIA MINING DISTRICT, EAST OF
EUGENE AND COTTAGE GROVE. OR.
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Oregon is destined to become one of the .great mining states of the Union Already its
(annual production of gold approximates $4,000,000 and this total will steadiiy increase from!
Rnow on.
The rich placer deposits of Southern Oregon. These mines have been successfully worked!
for nearly half a century,- and they still ranH among the greatest producers of placer gold inj
ic united aiaies.
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nrSaHORNMINING DISTRICT. THE MINES OF THIS DISTRICT ARE AMONG j
iTHE GREATEST GOLD-PRODUCERS Or int wukluj
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Entire Hills Are Washed Away in the Search for Goldj
In Western Oregon the pnnefpal gold fields are the Santiam district in Linn county, the
Bohemia district in Lane and Douglas, and the placers and quartz districts 01 Douglas, JacKson,
Josephine, Coos and Curry Vast capital has been invested in Oregon mines during the past
two years. American, English and trench investors arc reaching out lor every gooa mine in
Eastern Oregon gold belt. Outside capital is also Imdmg its way into Western uregon mines.
It is the producing mine or the one which tests have shown to be rich that attracts capital mis
fact explains recent heavy investments in Oregon mines by Portland, Spokane. New York, Butte.
Salt Lake, Wyoming and foreign capitalists. Experience having proved that Oregon's mines are
rich and permanent, an era of extensive development is dose at hand. It will not be many
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A WELL-DEVELOPED PLACER CLAIMl
CONSTRUCTING RUME IN GOLD-FIELD OF A RICHPLACER D1STRK
A FAMOL5 GOLDQLARTZ MINE AT GRANITE j
fERN OREGON MINti, IN VICINITY OF BAKER CITY
By far the greatest development has taken place in the Eastern Oregon gold be t. coma-is
ing Baker, Grant and Union counties. They are not the only mineral counties in the Eastern!
section. Crook has mines from which good reports are received and there seems to be nol
doubt that they will make a fine showing in the near future Umatilla. Malheur, Hanwy andi
other counties also yield more or less tjotd.