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' -y , 1 1 t f m m iw bhIjii " w". j t ihi niiiuuuiub kiuuu tai uuui uuncu .w . t w 1 - 7 e 9 to ft, ta. 4 JT S 14 JS i SO if X? SO Z it) f 9A S 3 . 39 M St $9 Written for The Journal , Br Fred R, MelUt. I ASTERN ORSOON mining U com. ing into ue own. For yeare the mining- industry of this district waa hampered by Illegitimate ntenlpulatlona. during which tlm it waa the football of mining aharki and Irresponsible atock brokers,' whose only object waa to get the money ay promotion, and epend aa Dttle of It ns - they possibly eould In actual mining de velopment ' In spM of these adverse conditions, the legitimate miner retained Ms belief In the merits of eastern Or gon mines, and it is largely due to his unbounded faith and patient toll that, on by one, properties that hav bees 1 He for years and have been very often eisrredlted, have finally reached a stag t f Jevelopment where all doubt as te j iflit has been dispelled. A'dded to thW, n, introduction of modern methods ut c.ming and .extraction of precious tnrU l has, wonderfully enhenced the vol. ui o( low grade or bodies that cover i mense areas in this, district From 1 rr eent te per cent waa formerly ,i.sidered returnable saving, and only high grade ores could bo treated profit ably. The adoption of improved ecien uric principles and Installation of mod era machinery makes It now possible to effect a saving 6f from 15 per cent to T per cent of the values, assuring big returns, where formerly failure was the Many capitalists are beooming Inter estea in this district, but are only mak. Ing Investments after approved exami nations by oompetent mining engineers. The best, obtainable mining talent is men piaoea in charge of the property, Among the important producers and promising mining properties are the fol lowing: Bainbow. In the class of Oregon's big mines, the Rainbow Is entitled to rank among the largest The Rainbow group consists of twelve patented claims in the Mormon Basin district. Baker countv. 1 mll.i thw,"t Durttee, the nearest railroad tniih in geoiogy is a contact deposit ef limestone, and lvins? on hm tnntmrau of a Urge basalt dike, which intrudes between the granite and Jlme. ne nine opened up by-few levels able auaotltle of arsenical pyrltesare iuuiiu ui urpms. j. ne ore noaies con talned In. this mine are. abnormally large, and In the first level the pay ore averages seven feet in thickness, saying 116.76 feet per ton. In the aame level another ore body has been devel oped for a distance of 195 feet, that av erages id rest Z Inches in width, assay ing 138.10 per ton In free gold. ' According to Howard 8. Lee. aupertn. tendent, the ore that is being muted ha an average value of from $10 to tlS per ton, and an extraction of 97 per cent of the values Is made. Between 75 and 90 tons are being mille4 daily. The mill Is Of the latest type,, and the process consists of grinding the ore after it Is crushed by the stamps, until 90 per cent of It will pass a 200 mesh screen. , The estimated production of the Rain bow la between 130,000 and 140,000 per month. The property la oneratad m th. electrto power, AP, Anderson la gen- operates the Columbia mine, located six miles north from Sumpter on the Cracker Creek Vein. Its holdings consist of atx patented claims, water power and about ouu acres or timber land. The develop tnent includes 48.000 lineal feet of work. Which, has produced about 100,000 tons or ore mined and 100,000 tons blooked. The property is Improved with a 10 stamp mill, cyanide plant, hoisting plant and otherwise fully equipped to produce 100 tons per 34 hours. It Is operated by eleotric and water power. The Colum bia has been operated continuously since 1896, and has roduoed 18.500,000." Its annual estimated production la $850,000. The property waa purchased in 1904 from Fred Cabell, the original discov erer, for ths" sum of $40,000. and has ever since been in the personal charge of Frank 8. BalUle, general manager. -Coraoeopls,- r , The CornuooDla nronertv consist ht II patented claims and 10 mora that art about to be patented. Zt baa the record, Wagon Roads, Stage Routes, Lines for, the Transmission of Electric Power, Etc. session of Benjamin Lawrence and as sociates, of New Tork. Considerable improvements have been made since this syndicate took charge, and the property now enjoys the very best modern facilities for treating its product and extracting the goldbn the ground. The estimated monthly produc tion la $23,000. There are about (0 men employed all the year round, and Robert M, Betts Is general manager. The ore reserves con sist of about 80.000 tons averaalna- 116 per ton. -.. The, cost of the recently installed im provements waa la the neighborhood of tiVU.UUV. ' " w4ef lUver Dredging Company. - Mn January 7 of this vear. th Tuba Construction company turned over to the Powder River Oold Dredrinr com pany the large Powder River Dfedge No, I, and the dredge has been In con tlnuous operation since that date. The digging; capacity- of the boat la 00J In nlaee of a head Hn ; tn hnA hn coat up to the banw when digging, two "spuda" are used at the etern of the boat. ' These are made of steel and weign 11, ego pounds each. everything on the boat ia operated by electrlo power, the current being furn ished by the Eastern Oregon Light & Power company. Power la transmittal to th boat through a heavy armored cable. O-W. Derby; la general manager vi uie rowoer itivar . uoia Dredging company.. 1 . . - . The production la Variously aatimatiM irvw mv.uuv w 60,ooo per month, ana me oompany expeots to operate eeveral dredges In the dtatrlot and from e v a men are regularly employed, " ' l ea -Vanlaon... : . . ., There are 10 quarts claims in the Bert Harrison group, located four miles southwest of Granite, Grant county. The owners are Lima, Ohio, capitalists, headed by Arthur I White, president of the Lima, Ohio, Locomotive -works. I r X I- V v p., 1 1 ijAnWu . inches In Width, assaying 817 nr ton. The values are ' mainlv in said, but a rtn antlmonlal silver ore body, containing aa high bb ivvu ounces 01 stiver per ton, has also been anmonmraiea, . ' i:ne property Is equipped with .a 20 stamp mill, large air compressors, Leynr drills, tube mills. II concentrating tables, a cyanide pmm, tour reugning tables, revolving screen and Dorr olasslflers, four Callow tanks, ate. Over 66,000 tons of ore are blocked out, and uie property is operated witn electric power. The Ben Harrison was purchased about two years ago from James A. Howard and asaA' elates for the sum of $45,000, and a fund of vu,vvu was placed at the dispoeal of W.-O. Fellows, , present manager, and he atlll feaA eeuuv on ' nana wnen Droduetlon. eommeneeil. The present output ia estimated at $34,900 per month. - . J,'-- ' ; Xtunboldt. ? '",,, The Humboldt nroDertv is loratiM In tha aormon Eaatn, Malheur county, 20 mile southwest from Purkee, Or., tue nearett rail road paint s The Mormnn naaln. In Itm r) hlatory, was the laraeet nlaonr eoid nrndnnar in tlii state, but not until -within tha. laat-f&w Ijuajtk oUlms, and the. company owns S00 aeres of timber la-nd. ' About one-fourth of the-We sone la developed to a depth of 400 fetfi,'.In the vein, which Is 60 feet wide, the ore Scours in a normal contact fissure be eween trachyte'and dlorlte, and is composed of clean quarts and eulflde. Practically one C90tj)iueua ore body runs through the vain, ouUthla'ia divided into ore lenses that at ttfrfis attain A width of 6J feet of commer cial ore. The milling ore ranges In value rem $7 to ISO per ton. ' The work In the Humboldt Is done through ' double complement shaft and the mill is -equipped with 10 Blsdon Iron Works stamps end. six Johnston oncontreting taDies. There la enough ore developed for several years' mtllins;, and tha oompany la now ordering ad ditional machinery ao as to largely increase the output which last month was about $10. 000., c. P. Loomla la superintendent, and John Arthur general manager. ' 77 , ' l SI-hlaa.. At the Highland mine, ia' the Rook Creek ttlntriot, n mlleg from Balnea, a (0 .ton dally plant was put in commission 1 of last year, by John Arthur, mining engineer. The plant consists of rolls. Jlfs. Dels- ter tables, Callow screens and a Hard Inge mill toe regrlndlng the tailings. An average of 10 tona of concentrates are made dally. The mill is operated entirely by electricity, and the extrac tion is ideal, from 90 per cent to 94 per cent of the valuea being saved. ' Tha ore la a massive sulfide, assay ing from $10 to $18 per ton, and con-, oentrates from four to six into one. Sixty thousand tons of ore are blocked out and available for the mill. The mine can be worked by tunnels to a depth of 2000 feet The product Is shipped to the sampling work at Baker, Or. - ' ' John Thomas la the mine superintend ent and Robert R, McCaughey general manager. About 60 men are on the pay roll, and the estimated output Is from $10,000 to $18,000 per month. , . Paelfio tdme aiuj Qypaom Oompany. 1 This organisation le a subsidiary cor poration of the well known "Acme" Plaster , company, and its holdings of gypsum beds are located flva mile northwest of Huntington In Baker coun ty. The plant has only been completed recently, but la now In full operation. Pour hundred and fifty horsepower is furnished by the Idaho-Oregon Light dt Power company. There are 75 men em ployed, and from three to four cara of lime and plaster are shipped dally over the Northwestern railroad by the way of Huntington. , . - -' .W,A, Baker and James McNutt.are Is charge of the plant - It la claimed that thla oompany manufactures the purest lime in the United States, 1 . , -. 1 'The Ibex property, consisting of six patented claims, la situated in the Ibex mining district Baker county, about 10 miles from Sumpter, the nearest rail road point Much development work he been accomplished In thla group, , and the tunnel in the third level, known a the Pyrltea tunnel, 4s now 3849 tee t long, with ore bodies averaging six feet in width. - One of these ore lenses is 19 feet Wide. The work, including cross cuts, drifts ' and 1 raises, in the three levels, aggregates over 18,000 feet and over 100.000 tons of commercial or has been blocked out Tha mine is equipped with a Urge number of buildings, including bunk and boarding houses, assay office, power house, boiler and compressor building, air compressor, air drills, pumps, boil ers, etc Cyanldatlon will probably be the treatment of the ores, although con siderable picture ore, showing native Jold. was encountered in -the oourse of evelopment - Tha Ibex la owned by the Arthur Hill estate. 1 David Rosa is tha general manager. ' r - . Boulder Creek Plaoera, . The Boulder' creek property, better known as the Underwood placers, is lo cated on Pine creek, near Cornucopia, Baker county. It has recently gone into tha hands of a Portland and Walla Walla syndicate, and a large quantity of hydraullo pipe and electrto machinery has been conveyed to the mines. " The cold recovered is of a very coarse quality, and from, two to three fruit Jars filled to the brtm with It arc brought to Baker during the season, - With the new equipment, it la ex pected to increase the production ma terially. When taken from tha bedrock a "single panfull of the dirt will yield all the way from $1 to $180 per pan. The Mammoth. The Mammoth . la one of the oldeat gold producera In eastern Oregon. It is located about three miles northeast of the Ibex mine, and la equipped with a ten ton capacity mllL which is how being enlarged. ' Considerable specimen gold is found in this mine, and when this is siloed and polished, tha face presents the ap pearance of Egyptian hieroglyphics. A. Bodelson is in charge. . ; ZTOrta. Fork Placers. The North Fork mines are located nine, miles from Granite, Grant county, and the controlling Interest is owned by C D. Snyder A Sons - of Pomona, Idaho, and it Is operated with hydraullo power. The oompany owns" about 800 aoree of .placer grounds, and the face of the bank that is now being worked Is ' 80 feet high. , They ..employ over 1000 feet of 1$ - inch" pipe, and two giants that throw 4H inoh streams under pressure of 800 feet The water for the pipe; Una Is taken from the North Fork and Lake ereek through what is known en the B. F, Grant ditch. The results for this sea son have been very satisfactory. , J Mayflower. 1 ( im ,t a Vigorous deevlopment work la being done on the three quarts claims owned by the Mayflower company. The prop erty ia located a little south of the Ool conda. six miles from 'Sumpter, The work la done through two tunnels, the upper tunnel being In $60 feet and tunnel No. $ having reached" a distance of 460 feet : In the course of cross-cutting. 1 two ledges were opened . up, both ehowlng good width of pay ore, but about 100 feet more of cross-cutting will have to be done to cut the objective ledge, which Is indicated by an Im mense outcrop of good ore on the sur face. Over $10,000 has been expended on this1 prospect The Mayflower group Is owned by 10 McMinnvllle farmers, and the work la In charge of Isaao Lambrlght tbejmanaglng owner. Ofr,i. , - xhe Virtue. -The Virtue mine, eight miles east of Baker, has been undergoing develop ment for the past three years. This mine ' was closed down several ; years ago on account of the fact that a heavy flow of water wag encountered, and the property being situated in the desert country, it waa impossible to mine it at a profit under the high prices for wood or coal for fuel. Tha Virtue mines company, the own er, is now building en electric transmis sion line from Eagle river to the prop erty, a diatanoe of about 2S miles. Will its own power, the Virtue should b able to produce very profitably for a great many year., f' h flem. Tho Oem mine, located 39 miles nt of Baker, near the old town of flr-nri-i. Is opened to a depth of 600 feet. Th ; Is six feet of commercial ore in th t, - of the 600 level. At this time dnu -Is being done In the north drfi't t 1 600 level, aleo on the blue led, a 1 vein 16 fet wide running at r, t t to the Oem. A company ia InM-. electrto power at this time, wm i v will be completed about f 0 1 "t September. Among othr lmpnrtfitt r . of : district ere the-'ltonan.-v, ., ..! 1 1 Red, White & Vii, 1 1 i conda, Ualslev I .Ji.ior". ' Mud, Intr-Wmnx'n. I and many others.