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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1901)
"?P' sWf" T "SJF 'ff1. """ THE MORNING' OKEGONIAN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1901. fy -mriir hmm FTER many years of expert-1 Ament, gold mining In Oregon has settled down to develop ment on a largo scale. Until three years ago progress was slow. A number or factors contributed to this condition. It was long contend ed, even by mining engineers of reputa that the ore bodies of Eastern Oregon lacked depth, that if they attained It they carried no profitable values, and that Southern Oregon had no ledges. Investi gation by engineers and the development work of the past few years have dem onstrated beyond question that In East ern Oregon are the largest and richest gold fields In the world. It has been proved that the ore bodies go down and that profitable mining can be done at great depths. Values Increase not de crease with sinking. In some of the big properties every 100 feet of Blnklng adds 80 per cent to the value of the rock. The permanency of Southern Oregon's ledges has likewise been proved and deep min ing Is proceeding at a paco that will soon put Quartz production above that of the placers. What Is deep mining? Two hundred years ago a shaft 100 feet In depth wa an object of wonder. At the present time the greatest depth at which In Great Britain mining operations are carried on his been reached In the Pendleton col liery, near Manchester, where the deep est workings are about 8500 feet below the surface. This enormous depth has, however, been exceeded in the Lake Su perior district In this country, where thr Red Jacket shaft of the Calumet and Hecla copper mine has attained a depth of about 5000 feet. Depths such as these show that the limit of depth of 4000 feet adopted by Professor Hull and the Royai Coal Commissioners of Great Britain In 1870, though ridiculed at the time, was well within the bounds of possibility. Four or five years ago only enthusiasts dreamed of deep mining In Oregon. A year ago the limit was placed at between 2000 and S000 feet. Now comes Professor Lindgren, of the United States Geological Survey, with the statement that values in Eastern Oregon will continue with depth to a point beyond which no modern me chanical appliances can operate mines a a profit. As the Calumet and Hecla Is still worked at a profit, having paid $5,00,. 000 In dividends In 1900, there Is no reason, If Professor Llndgren's position Is cor rect, why gold mining in Oregon should not be carried on at a depth of at least K)00 feet nearly a mile. Everywhere in Oregon the Importance of deep mining Is recognized. This Is why the Red Boy, the Columbia, the Bald Mountain and Monmouth and other mines In Eastern Oregon are Installing costly machinery; why the Muslck Company Is tunneling un der a high peak In Bohemia; why the Southern Oregon mines are sinking. As deep work Is what counts, real mining In Oregon may be said to have only begun. A man need not go out of Oregon It he wants to mine. There Is hardly a county In the state which has not some mineral. Time will prove Eastern Ore gon to be the world's richest mining dis trict. Bohemia will be greater than Crip ple Creek. A few more properties llko the Lucky Boy will raise Blue River In the estimation of the world. Men hav. rushed from Marlon County to Klondike and Nome, leaving behind them a format tion of blue and green copper carbonate, and copper pyrites Intermixed with ga lena, which offer profit for Intelligent' working. Good results have been proved In Clackamas County in porphyry ana gold-bearing pyrites, and oxidized Iron cropplngs rich in gold values. Crook County shows another formation a rea dlsh yellow clay, or partly sandstone, very rich at times, and Intermixed wltn porphyry; also quartz and serpentine, near Prlnevllle, sylvanlte, antemonlal sil ver. Near Prairie City the miner may grow his garden truck on the ground from which he takes his gold rock. So it is everywhere in Oregon. A smelter at Portland would do more than anything else to stimulate mining In Oregon. Thousands of tons of ore from Eastern and Western Oregon would be available for the enterprise. At presen mining men send their ores to the smelt ers on Puget Sound or those east of the Rocky Mountains. Bohemia a Bane Camp. Development work last year proved Bo hemia to be essentially a base camp. Enormous bodies of gold, sliver, copper and lead In combination are covered by a capping of free-milling gold rock. The principal needs of the district are railroad connection and access to a smelter. The gold output last year was about 5120,000, the greater part of which was contrlbutca by the Helena No. 1. It ran Its five stamp mill the greater part of the year, adding five extra stamps in the Fall. The closing down of the Muslck mill threw the production of the district far below what it should have been. Last Fall the company was reorganlzad ana plans were at once perfected for opera- 10-STAMP MILL, tions on a large scale. The company Is now running a long tunnel In Bohemia Mountain, to tap large bodies of ore at a great depth. The Champion Company put a force of men to work In the Fall and resumption of work In the mill is ex pected In the Spring. Many mlneowners are pushing work on their properties and planning to install machinery. The own ers of the Grizzly may put In a cyanide plant. Present machinery equipment In the district consists of 6S stamps, as follows. Noonday, 20; Helena, 10; Muslck, 10; Champion, 10; Star, 5; Stocks and Hai low. 5; Long, 2; Harland, 2; Brooks and MIchelson, 2; Hoyfs tremaln, 2. Bohemia district is In the Calapoola t v i Mountains, j 134 miles "south of Portland by rail, thence 33 miles by stage up Row River and Sharp Creek. The mineralized belt contains 225 square miles and has enormous bodies of base ore, carrying gold, sliver, copper, lead, ' zinc and ga lena, covered to a depth of S00 or 400 feet with a capping of free-milling gold. Bo hemia and Cripple Creek resemble each other In formation, though Bohemia is many times larger than Cripple Creek. It has been thoroughly prospected for about 15 miles square of its area. Sur rounding this square on all sides Is mineral-bearing ground. Taking in the Blue River country, which lies 60 miles to the north and east, the mineral belt In the Calapoola la figured at 60 miles north ana south and 25 miles east and west, an area of 1600 square miles. "While the principal work in the district to date has bee.n of a free-milling char acter, the camp is base. The nominal ns sures are base, carrying high vaues In gold, copper and lead. The coating of iron-stained free-milling ore Is of a late formation. Bohemia, all canyons and peaks. Is an exceptionally favorable coun try for deep mining. Everywhere tun neling gives depths varying from 750 to 1500 feet. In many of the mines it Is an easy matter to strike the line of cleav age between the free-milling and the base ores, and to upraise for the one and sink for the other. "Working tunnels can be driven, hand drilling, for $10 a foot. A 1500-foot tunnel on the Noonday would give a depth of 1000 feet. On the Henry Clay group In Monto Rico a 3000-foot tunnel would give 1500 feet of depth. Gen erally the top rock Is honeycomb quartz, mixed with solid quartz", but in the Cham pion the quartz is almost solid. The quartz hardens, the veins widen, and the values of the free-milling rock increase with depth "When the base rock is opened up it is believed that Its values and the veins carrying them will Increase with depth. "With very few exceptions, all the rocks of the Bohemia region might be included under the heading of andesltes, for the daclte-porphyries are only porphyrltlc HELENA No. 1. quartz-bearing andesltes. The tuffs, too, and most of the basalts are andeslte. In several of the andesltes hornblende Is the only characterizing ferromagnesian sili cate. Although widely distributed, the andesltes are much altered. The veins are usually well defined. Gen erally they are narrow, but irregular' min eralized belts, or zones, In which there has been much crushing of rock material. The crushed mass, as well -as the adja cent country rock, sometimes for a dis tance of 12 feet or more, may be Impreg nated with pyrlte. The veins are irregu lar and vary from a mere film to sheets 12 feet thick. A vein may be simple or It may be composed of several parallel veins only a few feet apart. "When simple, the veins attain a thickness at times of four feet, but when compound they are as much as 12 feet thick. The veins follow set3 of Joint planes, of which there are two one lying between north 30 degrees west and north 70 degrees west and the other nearly at right angles to this, a little west of south. The Joints of the first set are most abundant, and occur) generally in the neighborhood of the" veins. Those of the second set-are not common. It is evident from the relations of the Joints and veins that the Joints deter mined the position of the veins and aided In affording an opportunity for the circu lation of the mineral-bearing solutions by which the ores and gangue were deposited. FLACER MIXING The development of the veins, however, cannot be ascribed to the presence or simple Joints alone, but to a crushed and porous beltof rock in which there may be many irregular joints. The crushed condition of the rock Is well displayed in the faces of some of the drifts. Occa sionally the walls or Inclosed fragments show well-marked polish or striae or sllckensldes due to faulting. These ap pear more abundant about the Noonday mine than anywhere else In the district. The existence of faults of at least small extent cannot be doubted. It Is pooaiMe that the evidence of faulting was once more general, and that It has been to some extent obscured or obliterated by subsequent deposition of vein matter. The country rocks are wholly volcanic ana much alik;. Cottage Grove and. Bohemia. Cottace Grove Is 144 miles south of Portland, on the banks of the Coast Fork River, which Joins Row River 1 miles north, making the headwaters of the "Willamette River. The foothills come to. the edge of the town on the east and west sides, making the place the most picturesque of any town in the "Willam ette Valley. During the past two years the town and community have had unprecedented prosperity. One hundred and fifty dwell ings and a number of business buildings have been erected. One-half the streets were graded last Summer. Front and Wall streets, which cover 1G blocks, are being macadamized with heavy and light coats of crushed rock. The cost of these Improvements Is about $7000. Cottage Grove is surrounded with ad vantages which promise to make it a town of no little Importance. The hills are densely covered with fir timber, and lumbermen are scrambling for every foot of timber land. The Black Butte quick silver mines, 18 miles south, on the head wajers of the Coast Fork, are coming to the front as one of the principal quicksilver-producers of the Pacific Slope. Other companies are preparing .for de velopment of cinnabar deposits. , The Bohemia mining district, 35 miles east. Is tributary to Cottage Grove. Many efforts have been made to divert this trade to other channels, but as Cottage Grove Is the only direct and natural out let, It Is kept closely allied with the. camp. Nine-tenths of the district's busi ness is done at Cottage Grove, and it amounts to thousands of dollars annual ly. The district contains about 1000 loca tions of various mineral deposits. The farmlnc land tributary to Cottage Grove Is very rich and productive. Permanent Ledces In Southern. Oregon. Until afew years ago Southern Oregon was popularly supposed to be a placer or hydraulic gold mining country. Even ex perts said tnat the ledges were pockety and carried- no depth. This notion no longer obtains and quartz properties are being opened up at a rate which promises J large production in a few years, it Is now quite generally recognized by mining men that Jackson and Josephine Coun ties have the same formation as Califor nia barren greenstone. Intermixed with serpentine, pyrites and copper carbonate Josephine County has" several mines that are yielding large amounts of gold with vast quantities of rich ore In sight. A's In Eastern Oregon, Bohemia and Blue 1 River, -the ledges become richer wltn depth., Blae River Xtea-lonV Development of the Blue River country-ba's- been slow, the some as In Bo "hemla, -for the reason that the properties as a rule were in the hands of poor men, and it was difficult to interest outsldo capital. It took 12 years to get a 10-stamp mill' on the Lucky Boy, but when, work was begun the rock paid from the grass roots. Last year there was quite sC rush of prospectors to the region and a great many locations were made. The most Im portant' discovery of the year was the Mineralized Mountain four miles up Blue River. It is about 1S0O feet high and ap- IX BAKER COUXTT. pears to be all quartz. At the top sev eral cliffs of solid quartz project for 100 feet or, more above the surface, and ther are cropplngs In allt directions. The ore assays from $3f50 to $12 per ton. Considerable" work was done In the Sum mer on the Calapoola side and many claims showed up well in gold. Blazler's two-stamp mill, on the Sunset started up after the Fall rains set In. Dr. Can adian started up his Bryan mill late In October. Many Copper Deposits. "While the gold fields have practically monopolized attention in Eastern Oregon, there are copper deposits to which capital Is giving attention. In the -Fall of 1S99 a copper deposit sup posed to be 200 feet wide was uncovered 18" miles northeast of Baker City. Work done last year proved ' the ledge to be from 400 to 600 feet wide. The cropplngs show for over a mile and there is an unlimited amount of ore that Is believed to average 5 per cent copper. At a depth of 00 feet the copper ran 20 per cent and 'carried' gold and silver amounting to $10 per tons The copper Is in native form and Is uniformly distributed throughout the rock. 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An assay of rock from one or tha claims showed the following values: Gold. $148 50; copper. $72"60; silver, $1159r lead. $14 S3; total. $247 54. Tha averaco or tho ledge as shown by a smelter test made at Tacoma is between 17 and fi gold and 9 per cent copper. A Bmelter test of ore from the Elsie Dora claim, owned by the Consolidated Mines Corpora tion, limited-, aggregated $54, of which $23 was gold, $17 copper and $14 galena. Copper is found' In abundance In claims on Dixie and Strawberry Buttes, In the John Day Valley. Assays from the Cop per King claim, near Prairie City, shows from 1 to 30 per cent copper. Mine In. John. Day Valley. Many quartz locations have been made In the John Day Valley In the past two years, and If a fiftieth part of them amount to anything the Prairie City coun- Photo by George M. "Welster, Portland. try will be a large producer of gold, copper and cobalt. The mineralized belt, aside from the placer deposits, which are worked along every creek, comprises Dixie Spur of the Blue Mountains, eight miles north of Prairie City, and Straw berry Spur, nine miles south. Dixie Spur is. about 25 miles long and skirts the northern side of the John Day Valley. Its highest point is Dixie Butte, which has an elevation of 7000 feet. Strawberry Spur Is 40 miles long, extending rrom Canyon Creek, along the southern boundary of the valley, into Malheur County. Its highest point is Strawberry Butte, which has an elevation of 9000 feet. The prin cipal development has been on Dixie Spur. Here, along the forks of Dixie Creek, and In Quartzburg district, several properties have been opened. Principal among them are the Standard, the Lone Star, the Keystone, the Sherbondy, the Clayton and the'Present Need. The Straw berry country has hardly been touched. The Ceaver brothers think they have a Treadwell in the Oregon Wonder. Eight parallel edges run northeasterly and are said to be 600 feet wide. A shelf of rock rises perpendicularly 300 feet at discov ery point, which admits a great depth. A tunnel run In from Snow Creek would tap the ore body 1000 feet below the sur face. The rock Is o. sort of ribbon quartz and the contact is porphyry and slate. Thirty assays of surface rock gave re turns ranging from $3 68 to a shade over $T'in gold and 33 1-3 per cent copper td the ton. Dixie Spur Is unquestionably a copper region, though goldt predominates Jn the rock. The copper belt, so far" as known, extends four miles north from Johnson's! arastra along- both sides of the east Xorlc of Dixie Creek. There is cobalt In the rock, but considerable depth will be re quired to get atrthe Jarre deposits of this metal. .Copper la oxide and carbonate at the surface, but is found in the sulphide state with depth. On the surface the copper is streaky and' bunchy, but as depth is attained it solidifies and increases In quantity. Copper values average 12 per cent and the gold from $50 to $100 to the ton. Experienced mining men be lieve that when (the region is opened up the copper and gold valuer will run near ly even and that the cobalt will average with the copper. Harney County Borax. While Harney County has not as yet mads any considerable showing In gold production, it has borax deposits whloh are a source of considerable Income . to their owners. The output is over 1.000,000 pounds a year, valued at about $100,000. A white substance, locally known as alkali, cavers, the ground everywhere in Southeastern Oregon. In the vicinity of Warner Lake, in Lako County, this sub stance has been found to be pure borax. The principal deposits are 125 miles south of Burns, near the Nevada line, where Trout Creek and Wild Horse Valleys Join. The mines were discovered about seven years ago. In a section of the country three or four miles square several hot springs boll up from the earth. As the steaming waters run through the valley along their natural courses they leave as deposits along the way a whitish sub stance. In fact, this substance covers the entire section of country foe several miles. A borax expertpasalng through the country seven years ago saw at a glance that this white substance was not alkali, as generally supposed, and at once Interested men of means, and, after fully experimenting, a plant was put In, and they today have a very profitable property. Robert Doom, a homesteader, first took up) the mines as a home. The warm springs attracted his attention, and he selected the spot on this account. Not knowing the value of borax deposits, he was Induced to part with his possessions for $7000. Today his successors are mak ing a fortune yearly out of the property. It only costs 3 or 4 cents a pound to mine the borax, and with the Immense profit of 6 or 6 cents a pound on the product, and an output of 80,000 to 100. 000 pounds a month, it Is easy to esti mate the income. Development In Eastern Oregon. Mr. O. L. Miller, secretary of the Baker City Chamber -i of Commerce, sends The Oregonlan the. following summary of de velopment In Eastern Oregon In 1900: "One year "ago there were nine regular producing mines In the various camps, and 14 Irregular 'producers. At this time there are 15 producers, with about the same number of Irregular producers, 'or mines where machinery Is being" con structed for reducing ore. The new mills or mills having machinery put In for en larging their plants are: Gold Hill, 10 stamps; Empire, 10 stamps; Brazos, 10 stamps; Mammoth, 10 stamps; Bold Mountain, 10 stamps; Golconda, 10 stamps; Columbia, 10 stamps. The follow ing mines have mills or reduction plants: Capacity,! Capacity, Name. stamps. I Name. stamps. Bonanza 40Badger 20 Columbia 20Gold Hill 10 Golconda ...20Baisley-Blkhorn ...20 Connor Creek SSIFlaestnJT 10 Union Companion. 20.DhIo 10 Goia Ridge loraay yueen iu Rcbblns-Blkhorn .lOCoujrar. 100-ton cy- Llttle Giant ........201 anide plant, or.. .SO Magnolia 10 Mammouth .10 Hlnes & Helmer..l0 Empire .10 RedBoy , 201 North Pole 20j 3ald Mountain ....20 Jtarn & Starter 6 3fazos 10 Total ,...400 "This makes a total of 400 stamps that are supposed to be dropping In the vari ous camps around Baker City. Some of these stamps are temporarily Idle for various reasons mills are being enlarged, new machinery being put in, pending sale, or exploration for deeper work. There are about 100 more stamps In the district that are idle, not mentioned In the above list. These are In mills on old properties that have been worked out, or, if not exhausted, then ruined by bad manage ment and in bad shape. "There were 80 stamps added .to the active workers last year. There are also about the same number In process of con struction, and will be ready for next vear's work. "A lares amount of holstimr machinery has been put in place, and considerable deep sinking is gblrig on. The district east of the city lias taken a new start, and indications are that the old Virtue district and the country along the Burnt River east of the Virtue district will rival Cracker Creek, Bonanza and the Granite before the close of the coming season. "A most conservative estimate indicates that before the close of 1901 there will be 10 new dividend-producing mines added to thellst of -producers in the Eastern Oregon sold fields. The district pro duced about $2,500,000 In gold last year. The 'output of 1901' will approach $5,000, 000.". Santlam district was practically at a standstill last yearl Mr. Lawler Saavinsj gone to Nevada to take charge of his in terests there, his mill was not in opera tion. The Albany mill has been closed down, for three or four years. No machinery- was put up in the district last year. Present equipment consists of the Lawler Gold Mining Company's 20 stamps of GO tons capacity, and the Albany Gold Mining Company's 10 stamps of 40 tons capacity! Though a number of new loca tions were made, the principal work was of an assessment character. California capital has been Invested recently. Towards the close of the year a number of locations were made in the vicinity of Detroit. The assays were satisfactory. There was less activity in Coos and Curry Counties last year than for several years past The gold output aggregates about $20,000. No new machinery was set up, and, so far as is known, none 1 contemplated. The only machinery is tha five-stamp mill on the Divllblss mine. It lshnot in operation on account of litigation.' MINERAL PRODUCTION IN lOOO. Gold, $3,r 70,000 Silver, 15,O00j Coal, 82TO,OOOt Borax, 910O.OOO. According to estimates based upon the most trustworthy Information, the min eral output of Oregon in 1900 was $4,055,000, of wlch $3,770,000 was gold.- $15,000 silver, $100,000 borax, and $270,000 coal. These fig ures are conservative, and It Is believed that If objection Is raised to them it will be that they are under, rather than over, the actual output. In 1S99 the product of mines was $3,743,103. Tha estimate foe 1K follows: Eastern Oregon $2,600,000 Josephine County 600,000 Jackson County 400,000 Bohemia 120.000 Remainder of Oregon 150,000 Total gold $3,770,000 Silver . 15,000 Borax 100.000 Coalt 90,000 tons 270,000 Total mineral production $4,165,000 Oregon Coal Production. The coal mines of Oregon in 1S99 pro duced 88,888 short tons of coal, valued at $260,917. The output for 1900- Is estimated at 90,000 tons, valued at $270,000. The coal product of Oregon in 1899 was 23,704 short tons, or 43 per cent larger than In 1898, but did not attain the figures reported In 1S96 or 1897. It was, however, larger than in any year prior to 1S96. The Beaver Hill mine, about which much was promised and which helped to swell the tqtai for 1896 and 1897, did not produce in 1S97 and 1SSS. Of the 1899 product. 78,603 tons were loaded for shipment at the mines, 665S tans "were used In local trade, and 1834 tons were used at the mines for steams and heat. The greatest shipment of the state was made In 1S97, when 9221 tons were shipped direct from (he mines. Al though the total output of that year, 107, 2S9 tons, 'was the greatest yet known, the product of the year preceding, 101.721 tons, brought a higher figure, viz., $294,564. In 1895, when the output was but 73,685 tons, the largest number of men yet employed In those mines were at work. That year the miners numbered 414, and in 1897 they werer but 375, while in 1899 the -were re duced to 124. working on an average of 238 days for the year. The apparently large number of men employed In 1895 was due to the large force employed in de veloping the Beaver Hill mine, which produced coal for shipment during only 20 days of that year. The following' table shows the coal prqduct of Oregon from 1SS5 to 1900 inclusive: Short! i Bhort Tear. tons. Tear, tons. 18S5 50,000)1893 41.683 18SS 45.C00I1&94 47.621 1557 37,69611896 . 73,635 1558 .75,00011596 101.721 1559 64,35911897 107.2S0 1890 ...Ae -61,614 1898 68.1M 1891 6L826 IS99 86.8S3 1892 34,661190Q (est) ........ W.000 Bohemia ' Gold Mining; Company.. In August, 1899, Mr. George W. Lloyd, of Colorado Springs, visited the Bohemia Mining District Oregon. Set was im pressed -with its possibilities. He located several claims and bought three, making, over 160 acres of mineral ground, and with the assistance of M. V. Little, of Fort Wayne, Ind., and A. C. Burnett, of Boston, tha Bohemia Gold Mining Company was or ganized under the laws of the State of Maine. Mr. Little is president Mr. Bur nett is secretary and treasurer, and Mr. Lloyd is general manager. The capitali zation is 1,500,000 shares. Par value, $1 per share, fully paid and nonassessable; 500, 000 shares are used as treasury stock and aw being sold to obtain money for devel opment purposes. The company owns the Victor, situated on the easterly slope of Jackass Mount and the Fort Waynes, Boston, Portland, Pioneer, Black Bear, "L. M.," "P. J." and "G. W.," situated In the southwest ern part of the district, near the road leading up Hardscrabble ridge. The Victor has a fine quartz ledge, out cropping the entire lengtn of the claim, which averages five feet in width. The Portland group has several ledges, one of them being In places 40 feet wide, and extends along the length of five claims, & distance of 7000 feet This out crop assays from $5 to $25 per ton in gold. The company proposes to run a tunnel along this ledge. The surface of the ground is so precipitous that the tunnel driven in and along this ledge will be one-half a mile vertically under the sur face by the time that the upper end of the property is reached. Mr. Lloyd is now on the ground, superintending the work, and during the present year the tunnel will be driven at the rate of three fast a day. The company has the utmost faith in the district and propose to show their faith by their works.- Oreson-Colorado. M. M. & D. Co. The Oregon-Colorado M. M. & D. Com pany own seven claims in the Bohemia district formerly known as the Confi dence Copper property of about 140 acres', southeast of the Muslck and south of the Helena, mines. Have a well defined ledge extending the entire length of three claims, being 4500 feet On this ledge a sample for a distance of 800 feet on sur face was taken, which showed pay ore In copper gold ores, free from zinc or ar senic; a very desirable ore for treatment. The company have 500 feet of work done. A tunnel is now being run to gain great depth and as soon as surface indications are proven, which will be early spring, a plant for the matting of this ore will be installed at the mine. It is one of the properties that visitors to the camp- al ways wan; to se , .i&tA--. . . faM.fey .'ij&: .t