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THE SUNDAY OREQONIAN, PORTE&ND-
1900.
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5 AND PLACERS
OF MIXING PROGRESS IN
5"1C HOBTHWEST STATES.
Dvertes and Development In the
Marions .Districts Great Increase
ot Eastern Oregon Mine.
CITT March 80. The time Is
k-.r In the past when the old settler
jera of this place could name every
Eastern Oregon and tell now
Lrk bad been dons and how much
ren from each. Experiment and
bent had centered around half a
d mines for nearly as many years.
Ilr history came within the knowl-
If alL But to this as to everything
ae has broucht great changes, and
e test or tne pioneers nnas nis
ration circumscribed. Rapid prog-
been made In the last half-year
Istlng properties. These tests have
fraught with far-reaching results.
i have not only proved the value of
fcrtles on which they were made, but
r.y other claims known to be on the
Tcaa ledges have been riven a market
value. It may not be unwise for pros
pector as" "well as purchaser to hear a
word of caution at this point: Don't take
too much for granted; too much contl
dence Is as bad as too little neither gets
the" best results.
Perhaps along no one line has the past
opened up greater possibilities than in cop
per in Eastern Oregon. Gold being the
-. money metal, and the one that can bi
, sold everywhere, at any time, and In
- any quantity, great or small. Is the one
.aought by all people: but copper Is Just
as sure sale when found In quantities
thai Justify handling. Recent Investiga
tions show clearly that copper does exist
In such quantities over a large area In
Oregon, and Idaho. Recent discoveries of
copper north of Baker City and near
Sumpter has established a chain of cop
per locations extending IS miles. By
reference to any recent mining map one
'can get a good Idea of this copper zone
by drawing a line from Seven Devils past
Cornucopia, Sanger, Haines, Sumpter,
Comer, Prairie City and Canyon City. Re
cent discoveries north of Baker City and
near Eumpter forged the last links in this
jcbaln.
-, As yet but very little definite Informa
tion about the last discoveries Is obtain
able, but the percentage Is good In cop
per, with some gold.
The opinion has not yet become current,
but it nevertheless seems probable, that
the copper zone runs .from southwest to
to northeast, and the gold zone from
northwest to southeast, crossing each
other near Sumpter, where the gold comes
to the surface.
The frequent bonding of mining proper
ties by Canadian. New England and
Portland capital Indicates the widespread
Interest of the people In the mineral re
sources of this state. The following Is a
partial list of properties prominently men
tioned the last week:
A group of six claims in Cable Cove
bonded to Mitchell & War-
nded some months ago
!ond and $10,000 was
of temporary with
pltal when the Boer
to be developed this
"'ssMbbP.' Preparations are be
ttor made fot deep' r Iking.
The bonding of'fankee Boy. In the
Quartzberg district, near Prairie City, 'for
$200,000, emphasizes the, good reports com-
. ing from that section this spring. This
property Is under bond to J. W. Helsner,
of .Baker City, who expresses himself as
favorably Impressed with the entire dis
custnet JM2.
ren, k
QMmmWmWm. Baker City, refused a
laHulaskl group claims
in-B .trlct, for which It is
V on Clear Creek Is re-
poaB rry rich copper ore on
.iiUgB The report Is that
m9Xm9Xm9f per cent copper and
trict In which this property is located.
It is reported that the Mastiff Mining
Company will begin shipping soon from
the Mastiff mine, which Is producing somo
very rich ore and is on a large vein.
Seattle people are not all going to Nome,
as' it seems, from the fact that some of
them have Invested In a group of claims
)n Sumpter district lately. It Is given
jvX 'as their Intention to develop their
, new property Immediately and thorough
. ly. having become convinced by Investi
gation that this district is safer than the
far north for Investment.
-Pocahontas Gulch, called by some Poor-
man's Gulch, because no capitalists are
yet interested there. Is attracting much
attention. Machinery has been ordered
'" for a ten-stamp custom mill, which Is to
be placed at the head of the gulch. This
gulch Is Just across the hills from Sump
ter, and Is the natural connecting link
between the Sumpter and the Balsley-Elk-horn
districts. This gulch has been work-
fc ed'for thirty years for placer gold, and
' some.of the mines have been gophered out
by pocket hunters till they are now In bad
shape. This Is to be overcome this year,
and much sxstematlc work will be ac-
-compllshed.
ONE YEAR AT BUFFALO HUMP.
Unit a Million Dollars Said to Have
Been Expended There.
"It Is not unreasonable to say that at
least $300,000 has been expended In the
Buffalo Hump district within the first
year of Its dIsco'ery, says a correspond
ent of the Spokane Spokesman-Review.
Some of this money has been furnished
by leading Spokane operators and some of
It by Chicago. New York and Boston peo
ple, and recently a rong Minneapolis
crowd has got hold of a number of proper
ties. The district proper Is not over a
r mile In length and half a mile wide, and
within that area not less than seven well
denned leads have already been opened
.rp-
One great drawback In the district has
been the Immense amount of water en
countered within a few feet of the surface,
and development work has been compara
tively slow and will c-ontlnue to be slow
until a number of pumping and hoisting
plants now being negotiated for are erect
ed and In working order.
The Eoston-Buffalo-Idaho Company has
recently added half a million shares to Its
treasury stock. It was formerly Incorpo
rated for 1.000.000 shares. It is now In a
position to say that It has at least one
fully developed mine which could ship ore
tomorrow if desirable. The property re
ferred to is thet. Louis, which was re
cently acquired by the company at a cost
of about J30.000, and today Is actually
"worth double that sum In cash. The ore
body has been followed and thoroughly
exploited to such an extent that there Is
now In sight a pay chute at least 200 feet
long. 3H to 5 feet wide, of an average
value of P3 or ISO per ton In gold and ac
cording to the most careful tests is a most
excellent concentrating ore and can be
reduced to about 10 tons In one. which
makes It an excellent shipping ore even
at the present remarkanly high freight
tariff.
The Mother Lode No. 2. also owned by
this corrpany. Is developed by a 70-foot
shaft or. the lead and discloses a solid
- vein the full width of the bottom of the
- shaft, which will average S90 to 1100 per
ton In gold. Superintendent James P.
Turner and Wayland H. Young, consult
ing engineer, are now m Boston In con-
euniiion wun me airectors. ana it is nro-
jo set asiae in the treasury 1100,000
.purpose or erecting Hoisting works
rouEniy aeveioping me property
iv. j iie hiuck si mis corporation
l 30 cents per share, cash, with
Lmarket In Boston. Some of the
Br mn in !Yt tt. i.n..
... .... w.rf . l04tC
Bers. This company has had about
x worn in w inter, ana win in-
ce immediately upon the re-
urner. 4
ny hava a full force of
men at work on the Vesuvius group, and
three shafts sunk on the ore body; one
12 foot, one 29 foot ond the third 30 foot,
and all of them in ore. A crosscut from
the bottom of the last one disclosed a vein
264 feet wide, which averaged $35 per
ton in gold, and It is claimed to be al
most free milling. This firm has been hav
ing a number of surveys made for pat
cnt; In fact. Is applying for patents for
all Its properties in the Buffalo Hump
district. These surveys have disclosed
the fact of a large amount of vacant
ground, and 18 new claims have been lo
cated by them since January 1 last.
The Big Buffalo tunnel, now In over
100 feet. Is keeping up Its lick and ad
vancing at the rate of about two feet
per day, notwithstanding the fact that
the rock Is hard. In the face of the
tunnel the formation seems to be getting
softer, and better progress will probably
be made In future. Three shifts are) at
work, and the machine drills and air
compressor, which ore In a warehouse In
Spokane, will be shipped Into the district
at once. It Is confidently believed that
within the next 35 or 40 feet at the out
side the first lead will be cut at a depth
of nearly 1200 feet below the apex. This
Is the Cliff vein, from which a number
of fine assays have been had on the sur
facean average of probably Jlfl per ton
In gold. This Is said to be the nearest to
free-milling ore In the district, ncno In
tho camp being literally free milling.
The Cliff ore will concentrate about 11
tons to L
Negotiations are again pending for the
Big Buffalo group by Chicago people, and
It Is currently reported that Charles
Sweeny has been offered 3150,000 for his
grub-stake Interest, which he purchase
from Rice, Sherman and others. Frank
McGrane, one of the owners of the Big
Buffalo group, has a power of attorney
from all of the Interested parties except
the Sweeny crowd, and as Mr. McGrane
Is a very active man. It Is probable that
some kind of a deal will be entered Into
before long. "When the property was ex
amined several months since and after
the last work was done by experts from
the De Lamar Mines Company. It wns
reported that the main working shaft had
attained a depth of 90 feet, with drifts
run each way from the bottom, north
and south, the latter C3 feet and the for
mer TO feet long, and the ore body had
been crosscut from the face of each. It
was said that average samples taken from
all the workings showed $15 90 per ton
In gold, with five or six feet on the fcot
waU. which would average nearly $101 per
ton In gold. Frank Reed, a Grangevllla
assaycT, took 250 samples from the sur
face from claims all over the district and
got an average return of $26 70 per ton
In gold.
FOB. PYRITIC SMELTI5G.
Opinion of a German Scientist In
Eastern Oregon.
BAKER CITY. Or.. March 30. A good
A.l .rnt.Mit ! fejtfnf. thnwn hv the min
ing men of Eastern Oregon regarding the
smelting of the ores of this country. Many
miners look upon the building of a smel
ter In Portland as being of immense ad
vantage to this district. Tons of low
grade ore can thus be shipped to the Port
land smelter and treated at a profit, which
would otherwise He on the dump value
less. Dr. Maxim Schumann, a German
scientist, who has been here for seveal
months testing the pyrltlc ores of Eastern
Oregon. In an Interview on the subject
today, said:
There Is no doubt In my mind that
only hot blast can do good work on these
ores, as the amount of sulphur In some
Is over 40 per cent and even more, even
If It Increases the cost of the smelting
plant. A similar establishment Is gen
erally spoken of In every new mlnirc
district, and the lack of activity of older
regions Is often out to the account of the
absence of n reduction plant. The causes
were that In the first case the develcp
ment work does not warrant a smelter as
jet. and, secondarily, mt smelting ores
are not m sufficient quantity. Supply Is
the soill of the smelter, fuel Its stlmu'a
tlve nutrition and cheap transportation
and favorable topographical location H
ultimate, vitality.
"The running of a pyrltlc smelter re
quires a good, practical metallurgist, as
the determination of the amounts ot fuel.
1 ..-i.- nn ..lac nf fluxes needed
for the best results and the blowing In of
the furnace are very skillful matters. In
operating a Loder blast furnace, for In
stance, the first work to do Is the laylrg
of a gradually sloping coat of clay from
the metal towards the slag discharges,
opening In the bottom of said furnace. This
clay coating will be allowed to dry thor
oughly. Having, then, everything stalled
with such fluxes, fuel and ores at hand as
are desired to use, a fire Is built on the
clay bottom with chips of wood, and a
slight blast turned on, gradually Ailing to
half Its capacity the furnace with char
coal or coke. When white heat Is reached,
the ore, fluxes and coal are put in In reg
ular alternate order and by layers. After
an hour's run the slag discharge may be
tapped. It Is to be recommended to tap
often for slag or matte. In case of freez
ing Indications, tho blast, fluxes and fuel
should be Increased, with much discern
ment, however. A greater heating sur
face at the tuyeres and a slight down
ward Inclination of the blast holes In the
Jacket will obviate partly tho freezing
danger. It Is advantageous to mix dif
ferent ores at "hand, in regular propor
tions, so as to obtain an easy fusing slag.
"Smelting mill concentrates requires a
higher blast than smelting lump ore. also
coarser charcoal and coarser fluxes should
be used. Unclean slag should be used
over again, acting In the second smelting
as a flux and giving a higher grade of
product.
"Great care should be taken In the mat
ter of the water Jacket, as serious acci
dents by explosion are on record. The
water should never be permitted to run
low.
"Charcoal Is hardly to be recommended
for pyrltlc smelting. It will not stand
the weight of overlying "ore and fluxes.
Fine coke Is also to be rejected. But the
main success of a Loder hot blast lies
especially in the correct composition In
the smelting charge, and no other but a
competent man can determine that com
position." MIXES OF BOISE BASIS.
Much Activity Manifest and Results
Satisfactory.
Two placer claims. John Leary's at
Placervllle. and Ashby Turner's at Idaho
City, are piping, writes a correspondent
of the Boise Statesman. All the others
are getting ready, and. as there is now.
sufficient water, many giants will be at
work within the next week. One of the
War Eagle Company's ditches Is carry
ing the water and a large crew of men
ara at work cleaning out the other. These
ditches carry over 4000 Inches of water.
-The Buffalo mill Is hearing completion
and will "be ready to commence crushing
In about two weeks. Several miners are
at work and a large amount of high-
grade gold ore is out. There Is no doubt
that the property will return handsome
dividends from the start.
Two men from Miller Mountain, the
first to come from that, district since the
early part of the Winter, say that ev
ery day's work done during the Winter
has Increased the value of the property.
The JefTerson has proved a very large
mine of good grade ore. So far not a
barren spot has been found In it.
The crosscut from the Illinois shaft has
cut the ledge, which Is 30 feet wide. As
the contractor. William GIbbs, Is under
lnsiructlones. "I am unaole at present to
give the grade of ore.
Major Fred B, Reed's company has 900
acres of placer ground on Gold Hill, n. few
miles south of Banner, on which work will
commence as soon as supplies can be
taken over the road. The gravel Is from
40 to SO feel deep, and contains a great
deal of black sand that is rich In gold.
The company will enlarge the Invincible
ditch, which takes water from Crooked
River, and prepare for saving the black
sand as well as the free gold.
It now seems pretty well assured that
a dredging company will take hold ot 1000
acres of placer ground on Crooked River,
owned by Hons. James H. Hawley and
Womans Three Dags ot Destiny.
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A Maiden's Suffering.
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Charles S. KIngsley, M. H. Kempner arid
others. The ground Is good and very
favorably situated for dredges.
John McCarty Is extracting ore from
the Columbia, a mile above Idaho City,
on Blk Creek, which he will have re
duced In the Buffalo mill
The Pheasant group of quartz claims
above Pioneer, under bond to the Wat
Eaglo Company, are showing up splen
didly.
IX THE LAWTOX DISTIUCT.
Termanent Rather Than Fabulous
Values I'roKress on the Claim.
LAWTON, Or., March 29. Wra. DeLapp,
who has been for several months running
& crosscut tunnel on his property on Spo
kane Mountain, cut the vein a few days
ago. The ledge shows up well, and though
the assays arc low, Mr. DeLapp has no
fears as to the value of hid property.
Values expressed In big figures are not the
rule in this district, but permanency Is
characteristic and more Important. Own
era of property refuse sanction to state
ments of fabulous values. Mr. Godfrey,
of the Red Boy, speaks very plainly on
this subject. He says no reports can In
jure the Red Boy. because It 1a an estab
lished fact. But there are other proper
ties that may como to the front by eluw
and sure processes which will suffer from
the effects of unscrupulous statements.
The Wall Street, on Spokane Mountain,
which Is under bond to Spokane people. Is
making a good showing, a strike of much
Importance having been made recently.
Scott & Wagner are owners of another
promising property on Spokane Mountain,
on which development work la progressing,
with all Indications promising.
A three-foot ledge has been uncovered
on the Julius Caesar, adjoining the town
site of Lawton. The character of ore ap
pears to be the same as in the Cougar.
Every Indication points to this becoming
a. mine.
The Concord has proved to be a surprise.
A report was published two weeks ago
giving the width of the ledg as 12 feet. At
the time the report was made the miners
had broken Into what seemed one of the
walls. This, however, proved erroneous,
and the tunnel was driven through 30 feet
of fine appearing ore, ey are now drift
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Address.- DR. R. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y.
ing on tho vein, and values show hgh
enough to Justify the erection of ore bins.
Four feet of the face ot the drift Is suffi
ciently rich to pay to sack and ship, which
they are preparing to do. This is a good
milling ore.
At the May Queen, all machinery is now
In place, but on account of delay In arrival
of piping and connections, the mill will
not be running before about April 10.
IDUIO S1ICA 3IIXCS.
Force of 3Ien at Work In Valuable
Troperty Near Moscow.
Thirty men nre employed In the Musco
vite mica mine, located on Mica mountain.
3 miles cast of Moscow. Five carloads of
block mica are out ready to dress, and
several carloads have been shipped out
this season. Two hundred pounds of cut
mica was shipped from tho Vollmer depot
a few days ago. The Muscovite people
have started on a SOVfoot tunnel. They
have five already, ranging In depth from
K to E0 feet. The product of this mine,
tho principal one In tho Mica Mountain
camp. Is considered valuable, as the mica
cuts Into squares of large size and ot
good quality. Tho waste Is ground up
and shipped to the manufacturers of nxle
grease. The quality owned by the Gold
Creek Consolidated Improves In tho mine
ns depth Is gained, nnd the supply In this
mica district seems Inexhaustible.
Development work Is also being done on
the Silver White property.
The Idaho Mica Mining Company Is nlso
doing work.
MOUNT BAKER MIXES.
Improvements Golnjr Steadily For
Trarfl Light Snowfall.
Whatcom Reveille.
English & Co. will have 230 men at work
on the Post-Lambert ledges. In the Mount
Baker country, by July 1, according to
R. S. Lambert, of Bumas. A saw mill,
quartz mill and tramway will be put In.
The quartz mill will be located on Slllc'a
Creek, lelow the mine, and. will receive
tho quartz over the tramway. Mr. Lam
bert says W. J. Conner, superintendent
of the work. Is much Interested in see
ing the Shuksan road built, and has
written to Mm Inquiring about the out-
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Change of Life
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COMMON SENSE MEDICAL ADVISER Is sent FREE on
pay expense of mailing ONLY It contains 1008
invaluable council to women
look. Mr. Conner would prefer to bring
In his supplies from the American side, In
stead of by way of Chllllwack.
Andrew Ecklur.d. who Is down from tho
mine, says the tunnel In the Lone Jack
Is In SO feet, and will cut the lead about
SO feet further In. The tunnel Is on a
30-foot level.
A queer Incident Is reported about one
of the workmen. Some days ago a man
named Haley went out to shovel the snow
off one of the cabin roofs, and a slide
came down the mountain and carried htm
off. The other workmen supposed, of
course. Haley was dead, but two days
later he came tolling up the mountain
side, unhurt. He had been carried down
tho mountain nearly a mile, and had a
j difficult time getting back over the slides
1 to the camp.
The snow Is about 10 feet deep at tho
ieage, wnicn is unusually light for this
time of year. An open eeason Is prom
ised. . Gold Near Falrhnven.
Falrhaven Herald.
A ripple of excitement passed over Fair
haven Wcdnefday. W. H. Matson, an ex
perienced prospector, came into town with
ore rpcclmens, and the news of a gold
and copper discovery within eight miles
of Falrhaven. After talking the matter
up he returned tho same day and Is now
staking off claims. Mr. Matson has pros
pected In Colorado, Nevada and Idaho
three of the best mining countries, and
says he knows what he Is doing, and that
there Is not any reason why Washington
should not develop Into as good a mining
country as any of the three. The speci
mens have not been assayed yet, and
when they are mora definite news will
bo given the public
Gold on Falouae River.
Colfax Gazette.
On the headwaters of the North Pa
louse John H. Taylor and C G. Taylor, of
Farmlngton, three years ago discovered
a ledge of gold, the feeder of the famous
Hoodoo placer mines, which for over 4)
years have been producing the yellow
metal. The And was named the Mother
Lode, and the quartz-bearing district In
which It Ilea the Mascot. Quietly the two
Send 21 one-cent
brothers worked their property, and It was
not until last year that others were at
tracted to the region. Late In the season
the great richness of the Taylors' dis
covery was realized, and a rush which
plastered the country for miles around re
sulted. Late last season the Taylor boys set up
a Knall two-stamp prospecting mill and
worked It for a short time. Though with
this only the free gold about one-fourth
of the actual value of the rock could b
saved, the results were wonderful. The
owners would not give out actual results,
but that they consider It a great bonanza
Is shown In the fact that not one lota
of the mine has ever been for sale. The
free gold studs the rock, plainly visible In
lumps to the naked eye.
Ten Tliorouxhliretl Rams.
Mora Leader.
E. H. Dean passed through town Mon
day with 10 thoroughbred rams, the prop
erty of J. G. Edwards and Charles Cart
wright, the present representatives of tho
Baldwin Sheep & Land Company, cf Hay
Creek. Tho sheep are on their way home
from the woolgrowers' convention, at
Boise. Idaho, where they claimed such
attention from woolmen that Mr. Dean
was compelled to remove them for rest
from tho exhibition grounds to a private
stable. Amongst this fine lot of sheep
arc Bismarck, a splendid 2-year-old Im
ported ramboulct. weight, 203 'pounds,
sheared last year 33 pounds. Klondike,
another fine upstanding ram of the same
breed, weighs 233 pounds, and sheared !t
pounds. Block is also a very nice sheep,
of the Spanish Merino variety, and a
heavy shearer. SUvercup, which for
weight of fleece and pedigree, cannot b
surpassed in the United States, is also
a Spanish Merino, valued at S1000. This
Is a magnificent sheep, and as for wool,
there Is no going beyond his fleece for
staple quality or weight, which was 45
pounds' of clean wool taken off last year.
Next come three yearlings, which are
very promising young sheep, with an av
erage weight of ISO pounds. An extensive
sheep-shearing plant (the first in the
country) Is being put In place on Trout
Creek by C. M. Cartwrlght nnd his partner.
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