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GRAN’TR FAHR FATLY COURIER
I Pass has provoked much comment uniformly rich. In the Illinois, the
from the passing tourist.
old channels are often found hun
For aona lime after the erection dreds of feet on the mountain slderf,
of the gruvel bunkers, the gold re but In the Rogue th» basins are so
covery was Incidental to the pro- narrow that the old channels are us
KzUtxul by MvuUbwestern Oregon Mining Bureau
, duction of gravel. The bed, after ually found crossing and rec rose I ng
: removal of the overburden, J roved, the present ono.
It may eventually
ns was expected, to be drregular In be said of Grants Pana, an it Is now
THE ANCIENT RIVER MINE
of a Sauermnn drag line, with a depth, running from eight to elgbt- of Jacksonvllla, that there Is more
llut a short distance east of the half yard bucket, und a 90-foot I «en feet. Further, a false bed rock money beneath the surface, than
towu ol Rogue Itlvcr, ia th« placer mast, a hopper with grlzzley, two , was encountered, a cemented grav- above It.
known «a the Ancient River, This Neill Jigs, a Hedn pan amalgamator "I. I peculiar to the Rogue, which
Both in the overburden and In the
mine la unique in that it la the inoat and a Wllfley tabla for the final . had to be blown In many cases be- gravel, relics are found of the Indian
conspicuous attempt to follow what separation.
From the grlzzley to fore it was possible to get down to Occupancy of the valley.
Bullets,
la generally regarded a* good prac- tho Jigs were Hungarian rltflss, In the real position of the heaviest household utensils, bits of weapons
tlce—Abe location of an anclsnt which the courser gold was caught, gold deposits. <A visitor Is struck and even bones preserved In the damp
river bed, and mining dowu to bod the jigs threw out some of th« light with I the fact that s great deal of sand are encountered. Agates, bits
rock therein. Hom» five years ago, er aanda, the pan amalgamator the excavation la even now covered of Jasper, calcite, rose quartz and
■Mr, J. H. Taylor on a trip from caught the fr«<> tinea and the Wil- with water, and that these water- many other unnamed and unuamaH»
Australia to thia side of the Pacific, fley saved what otherwise would covered cuts are doubtless very rich geologic curiosities are picked up
met on shipboard a miner from this have escaped. After n trial run of In concentrates.
It seems hardly possible that all this
district who so Interested him In some six or eight weeks, the Jigs
From four to seven carloads of Is witbin a half hours’ ride on a per-
the placers of Josephine and Jack- and the pan amalgamator were railroad ballast are produced dally, i feet road at any time of the year,
eon counties, that he made a «per- thrown out, and the recovery was and while the recovery varies ac from tho City of Grants Pass. The
lai trip hern to examine them. Cur mad» by the rtf Ilea, which had been cording to the Irregularities of the manager, Mr. Reed, the auperinten-
iosity led to Interest, that to de Increased to some two hundred feet old river bed, so far aS the writer dent, Mr. Dull, and the representa-
duction. and as a result Mr. Taylor In length, and partially equipped has been able to observe the values live o' the English interests, Mr. Al
upent one summer In running test with screens and burlap, and the were always satisfactory
At the astair Erskine, are always courteous
holes to determine the course of the table, Still later, the officials of time of his last visit about 300 and obliging to visitors, and the
Rogue below the mouth of Foots the Southern Pacific, on a search yards had been run over the grizz- mine, both in its history and Its pres-
creek, the records of which show for ballast to take the place of th« ley, and there appeared to be about ent development well repay!
nn unusually large gold recovery. granite theretofore used, were at- six ounces then In the riffle-, While time spent on a trip there.
Having determined the course of the traded by the piles <*f clean river this would be unusually hl go recov-
Note -The Little Journey to the
old channel, be next organized a gravel, the tailings pile, and solvod ery from an ordinary placer mlpe. Llano del Oro, at Waldo, has been
corporation composed of his British on« of tho trying problems of any where thousands of yards of gravel postponed by the request of Mr. Es-
friends who depended on his Judg placer, by offering to purchase the are moved doily by the use of gl- terly the proprietor, an there has
ment and of Amerlcuu friends moat gravel. If crushed to « sise which ants, here where every pound of been an installation of new machin
of whom lived in the vicinity of they could utillb«
This 'nccesM- gravel must be elevated, conveyed ery there since th<- writer had the
Mason City, Iowa
Funds were tated the Installation of still more and crushed, the yardage is so pleasure of enjoying his hospitality.
raised for the purchase outright of equipment, In the shape of a large small, that the recovery Is still sub It is hoped that we will be able to
the greater part of the old chan Telsmlth
crusher,
gravel
blns, ordinate to the ballast production. print it next week.
nel, the gravel of which was cov- Trommol screens and conveyors, to- With the large acreage, there ar»
■'red with an overburden of very gather with motors and various several decades of work ahead for MEETING OF .MINING BUREAU
good farming aoll. Another year smaller accessories
The first con- a plant like the one at present in
was apent In the working out of a veyor was an ore car, which has stalled.
The December meeting
system for recovery, which resulted been superseded by a conveyor belt,
Soma difficulty wus experienced in Mining Bureau held last Saturday,
In the Installation of electric pow In the interest of efficiency and disposing of the overburden, which was fairly well attended, by members
er, and high lift centrifugal pumps economy. The plant has been run- being light silt threatened during from Jackson and Josephine coun-
for washing off the overburden and nlng for some time In two and three low water to Interfere with the sport ties. The question of affiliating
However with the newly organized Pacific
exposing the gravel.
shifts, and the sight of two all night of fishing In the river,
The final installation consisted plants between Gold Hill and Grants that has been overcome, and the re- ¡Coast Chamber of Mines and .Miner-
moval of the tailings entirely as bal- ids, which Includes all territory along
last provides plenty of room for the ¡the coast from Alaska to Mexico, was
deposit of wasteage In the future 'discusHed and decision reached
Lately the gold bas run much coarser snch action was advisable.
though it wan never particularly
The matter of reconciliation
fine, and carries a considerable differences in assay reports of
amount of quartz. Justifying the the from this section between outside
ory of the original conclusion, that and local assayers was thoroughly
the deposits from flood waters in discussed, and Ira Foreman was ap-
Foots creek would be found In the pointed a committee of one to take
While ¡charge of the movement to attempt
old channel of the Rogue.
the Rogue valley is a narrow on», to solve the question by bringing Mr.
the course of the stream has changed Beverstock of Beverstock A Paine,
materially In the not too distant I of Los Angeles, to Southern Oregon
past, and there are doubtless many Ito work with E. Derwent of Gold
other stretches of the old channel Hill in connection with the matter.
mount picturization of Zcne Grey's
which will In the future lie mined to
immensely popular novel with An
the profit of those who are bold
tonio Moreno and Helen Chadwick
euough to take a chance. No man
W. H. Giles, of Greens creek, is in the principal roles, is the feature
can say what was the extent of the
at the Rivoli theater all this week.
primary erosions here, but what ver In town today.
phone 42
The story was adapted to the screen
Officials
of
the
Metals
Extraction
they were the deposit of metal was
large, and all virgin spots are almost Company, of Salt Lake City, Utah, by George Hull. William Howard
a concern manufacturing a machine
to save gold and other values from
the black sands and ores by the cen
trifugal process, are in the city this
week in the interes'. of their process.
Mr. Hegburg. of Idaho.
Southern' Oregon investigating
mining situation.
Mr. Hobson just returned from
Happy Camp District and reports
greater activity in that district than
there has been for years.
J. R.- Farleigh, of the Coyote
Creek District, visited Grants Pass
this week, and reported that Dean
Newton, with a body of students
from the O. A. C„ visited his prop
erty recently and sampled same.
Paul Wright is in town front the
Applegate district where he is de
‘‘Say, have you ever been out on a trip and had a jolly good
veloping a property.
Officials of the Silver King mine
time, and start home and get aliout half way there, and have the
near Riddle visited t?rants Pass this
week in connection with their mine.
old car go dead?” ‘‘Ain’t it fun though, especially if it is raining
Austin Wilson of the Layton pla
cer in the Applegate district was in
like the dickens anti cold, (Oh! Boy), and have two or three of
town the fore part of the week.
your friends along cussing you for not having her looked over by
With all the placer mines of South
ern Oregon in operation, and with
r first class mechanic liefore starting out.” ‘‘Then have to walk
several quartz mines now producing
with prospects of several others be
in four or five miles to phone in for a service car, and go back to
ing placed in commission after the
of th’e year, the mining situa-
the bunch where they arc trying to build a fire out of wet wood to
in this district is more active
than it has been for several years.
keep from freezing?” “Sure is fun, isn’t it?” ‘‘Of course if you
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don’t enjoy this kind of sport, we can prevent it for you bv giving
the old wagon the once over and doing whatever repairs are neces
sary, but we also have a service car, as we do night and day tow
MARKET QUOTATIONS
New York Market. December 6th,
1924, by the E. A M. J. Press.
Silver, ounce
................ $0.69
.1387
Copper, pound
.5452
Tin. pound
.0866
Lead, pound
.0705
Zinc, pound
»2.50 to $3.00
Cobalt, pound
$1.50 to $1.55
Bbmuth. pound
.17
Antimony, pound
$117.00
Platinum, ounce
Palladium, ounce .....
$79 to $83
Quicksilver, 75-lb. flask $68 to $70
ing.”
»
We suggest though, that it might be best to have your cylin-
ders rcbored or something of the sort.
Reboring cylinders, or
honiug to a gun barrel finish is also one of our many specialties.
Anyway just phone—Day 113-,T, night 252-R
Land of Cockaigne
Cockaigne was a fabled land In-
vented as a satire on Avalon. It was
a place of Joy and luxury. The houses
were bull: of things to eat, the rivers
ran wine, roasted geese paraded
streets.
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Ament’s Auto Repair Shop
Border Legion Is Show
Theater Tonight
1
"The
Border
I^eglon."
Rivoli
directed the production
for Paramount.
The story ia the second of Para
mount's widely-advertised "PamoM
40" by this author to reach the
screen. The other was the natural
color picture, “Watfderer of the
the Rivoli
Wasteland,
some time ago.
By taking “Wanderer" as a stand
ard of comr'-rtswn Owe would think
that "the Border legion” would
suffer. To the contrary, it's better,
if anything.