VOL. 111.
RELATIVE TO
THE RED BOY
VAST IMPROVEMENTS PLANNED
FOR THAT GREAT PRODUCER.
Olive Lake Will Generate 2000-Horse
Power Mine. Itself Will Utilize One
Half of This, the Other to be Sold
Tunnel Will be Extended, Cutting Five
More Veins Will Sink Shaft Another
1000 Feet That Rich Strike on the
Monarch Ledge.
For two or three yeurx paxt ho much
liiiN been written about tho lied Hoy
mine, that to thoxo who have Immiii eon
xtant readerx of literutiiru relative to
eaHtem Oregon gold flcldx, that great
producer as a text on which to hung u
xtory has become a tritlo Htule. The re
cent move of the company, in offering
conic of itH Htock for xalo Iiuh, however,
renewed public interest m the mine that
mnde eaxtem Oregon fainoux ax a gold
producing region, mid uguin tho com
)iiny hax taken a position in the center
of the xtugu and in the leading attrac
tion lit the northwestern mining world
today.
One feature which contribute much
to tliin renewal of interext in Ited Hoy
affaire ix the fact that the management
huii revealed Home fautH about the prop
erty, regarding which mining men have
long entertained an unsatisfied curiosity.
The most iniMrtant of thexo ix that dur
ing the three yearn that the 20 Htunip
mill hnx lieen in operation the mini) Iiuh
produced, in round figures, three quar
tern of a million dollarx in gohl.
The Ited Hoy Ih one of the old milieHof
the district. ItH ore wan first worked
with an araxtra. Thiit crude metluHl of
reduction wax xuerscdcd by two old
fashioned stamp millH, neither of which
proved to be a hucccxk. Afterwardx
Mesxrx. Talwr and Godfrey, the owners,
iiiKtalled a Crawford mill, xincu which
time tho mine hax been a Miyiug prop
oxitiou. Without receiving the aid of a
dollar of outxide money it hax been
tiilpH'i with the bcxt mining macliiu
ery and buildings ever erected at any
mine in the l'acillc Northwest. Itx xur
face equipments have lieen couxtructed
and inxtalliHl at an exenxe of over a
quarter of a million dollarx, every dol
lar of which hax !ceu paid in full ax de
velopment hax progrexxed, leaving the
company entirely without indebtedness
and with couxtuiitly increuxiug produc
tion of the mine accumulating in the
treaxury of the company. Itx hoixt and
air comprexxor will hoixt and handle the
couxtantly increuxing ore productions to
a depth of 2500 feet, and ax xtated by the
tlrin of manufacturerx of thix machinery,
in a letter under dutu of March 2", 1002:
"We never equipped a plant with better
machinery thuu wax told to the Ited!
SUMPTER, OREGON, AUGUST 27, 1902
Hoy." Thix hoixt alone eoxt 1150,000.
For the purposo of economising in the
oeration of the Ked Hoy and the Con
cord mine, which lie adjacent to each
other, in February, 11)02, the two prop
ertiex were consolidated under the cor
porate name of the Hed Hoy Consollda
ted Gold Mlnex company. The Hed Hoy
group conxixtx of xix full claimx, all of
which were patented prior to the organ
isation of the company, and the Con
cord group conxixtx of eight claimx, upon
which npplicatioux for patentx are now
endliig, giving to the company fourteen
full claimx lying in a group anil thereby
uniting the greatext free gold producing
proertiex on the l'acillc coaxt. Tho
wonderful ore hodiex in the lied Hoy,
Monarch, Hlulne, Helen and Concord
veiux, all running parallel with each
other, now have over ten thousand feet
of development work, and at u depth of
700 feet givex to the company a practi
cally inexhaustible xupply of ore.
The shaft ix now down 'MO feot below
the working tunnel. Two levelx have
been run. the lower one of which hax
demonstrated that tho Concord and Hed
Hoy veinx come together at that depth,
with hii oro shoot 800 feet In length
doubtlcxx ax xplendid an oro liody ax hax
over been blocked out in any mint on
earth.
The working tunnel now eutx four
veinx and will Im extended through the
Concord group, cutting live more. From
the drift in thix tunnel on the Monarch
ledge, north, hax been taken the richest
oro found in the district. Several weekx
since Tiik Minkh told of a xenxatioiial
xtriku made there. In a winxe the
values grow xttadlly, until at the present
depth, ninety feet, the rock carries 1000
in gold.
It ix stated on apparently reliable
authority that the Hed Hoy puyx a large
dividend on itx capitalization of H,000,
000, with twenty stain x and a milling
capacity of only xixty-llve tons a day,
which ix entirely Inadequate- to bundle
the ore output of tho mine. In order to
increase the production it ix proxsed to
add an additional forty stamps to the
mill, which will give to the company
three times itx present bullion output.
Stock now offered for sale ix for the
purioHo of securing money to develop
the Olive lake water power, more of
which ix needed, and also to substitute
electric, for steam energy for the hoixt
and air coniprexxorx, thereby effecting a
great economy in oeration.
A basin containing sixty square miles
ix tributary to Olive lake, which ix u nat
ural reservoir. It ix but one of the res
ervoirs available. A xtoruge capacity
estimated at 18:1,000,000 cubic feet may
be secured. Thix volume will be given u
head of 770 leet by construction of dams,
gates and lliiniex. Two thousand liorxo
power will bo generated by thix arrange
ment, 1,000 of which will be reserved for
the mine, and 1,000 placed Uon tho
market. The engineer'x extimatex of tho
cost for making thix power available ix
about 150,000.
Shoes of all kinds at Nelll Mercantile
compaiiy'x.
THIS THE MOST
IMPORTANT STRIKE
Three Feet of Marvelouslyj
Rich Ore in the Cracker
Oregon. Week before last when l.ee S. Ovitt
wax here, while out at the Cracker-Oregon
with u party of gentlemen who are
interested with him in that pnqierty, he
xaid to Superintendent Warren Cable:
"When you llnd free gold in thix tun
nel," referring to the lower workings,
"I will buy you u bruxxelx carHt for
your olllce." One of the party remark
ed that he would raixe that offer a til lie;
that he would give the xuK'rintendeiit a
xiiit of clothes and a xilk hat. Kverett
Hrowu, the managing director of the
company, xaw something humoroux in
the mental vision of thix typical mining
man under a shining tile, and ehlpcd
hi with: "Well, Warren, if you will
wear tho xtovepiKi hat, I will contribute
ii Mir of patent leather xlioeM. and wo
will make a regulation dude out of
you."
Last Thursday morning Superintend
ent Cablu telephoned Mr. Hrown to
comu out to the mine and bring the
hIiock along with him.
He went, returning some hours later
in a most cheerful frame of mind, bring
ing with him some samples of ore ax
rich in free uold ax wax ever taken from
the Golcouda or North Pole, ueighlxirx
of the Cracker-Oregon and that means
ax rich ax wax ever found under ground.
The ore ix practically identical with
that found in the Golcuudu, literally full
of the yell'iw metal. One of these sum
plex weighx ab int ten Nuudx and the
other over a hundred. The latter wax
Ht once expressed to Mr. Ovitt, at Mil
waukee. It contains several hundred
dollarx In gold. From the rough cor
ners of thix piece of rock, where no gold
wax visible, either to the nuked eye or
witli the aid of a glass, three or four
piecex were broken off. They assayed
l OHO.
Tho Wednesday night shift in the
main working tunnel had broken into
the main ledge, at a distance, of ato feet
from the ortal and at a vertical depth
of eighty-live feet. There ix three feet
of ore at that Miiut. In drifting depth
will bo gullied rapidly. The extent of
the ore txxly ix not yet known, but in
that district there are no xcketx, the
chimneys go down, gaining in breadth
and length with depth. It ix under
xUxxl that there ix no more Cracker
Oregon xtK!k for sale.
Thix ix unquestionably the most Im
xirtuut xtriku ever made in eastern Ore
gon, xo fur ax the district at large ix con
cerned. Itx iintortnucu ix based on the
fact that it disproves the long enter
tained theory that the ledges parallel
with what hax been considered to be the
great mother lode, on which are the four)
NO. 51.
big mines doubtless the richest on tho
continent do not carry values. Tho
old timers have had an idea that thexe
parallels were barren, that the proven
vein "milked" the others, ax they ex
pressed it, and for thix reason compara
tively little development work hax Iteeu
done on tlieiu.
Elkhorn Consolidated Gold Mining Co.
The eastern enplo who recently
bought the Maxwell mine have incor
porated it ax the F.lkhorn Consolidated
Gold Mining eoniniiiy. The general of
fice ix in Minneapolis. The olllcerx are:
A. K. Huntington, president; W. F.
Johnson, vice president; G. I,. Hunting
ton, secretary; W..l..Iohnson, treasurer;
C. I. Herkey, consulting ucologist ; these
and W. A. Patten and .1. A. Ward, di
rectors. Neil .1. Soreuxeu in general
manager of the mine ami the Firxt Hank
of Sumpter the local dormitory. Mr.
Herkey, who ix xtate geologixt and pro
fessor of geology In the University ol
Minnesota, hax Ihmui in consultation
with General Manager Sorenxcn rnoxt. of
the time for a week paxt. When not
cluctcd together, Mr. Sorenwm hax U'en
In the hlllx, xo it hax been impoxxihle to
get from him any information regurdlng
tlie.company'H plunx for tho Immedlut
future.
Extensive Work on Gold Bug-Grissly.
.1. .1. Hennessey returned yesterday
from Spokane. He consummated tho
deal mentioned in the lust issue of Tiik
Minkii, involving the Gold Ilug-Grir.xly.
A MiiiueaMilix syndicate, represented by
Judge l.eyburn, Ismght enough of tho
stock, combined with Mr. Ilcnucssey'n
holdings, to control the company. Tho
latter will be general manager, and will
resume work on the property at an early
dav. The xhalt, now down 100 feet, will
Ixi sunk 200 feel further and then HMO
feet of drifts will lie run. The treasury
of the company ix now well supplied
with funds and .luck Hennessey can U
relied upon to make a mine of the prop
erty. Fiscal Agent of the Gotconda.
l.ee S. Ovitt hax lx-en npolntcd llxcal
agent for the Golcouda Mining company
mid will have exclusive sale of the lim
ited amount of tieasury stock that will
Ixt offered for sale. Thix arrangement
wax consummated when the gentleman
wax in Sumpter week U-foro last. Mr.
Ovitt'x customers are playing in big
luck. Those who Ixiught Cracker-Oregon
from him were in on the big win
ning made in mining here thix year, ami
those who play Golcouda fur a favorite
will go against a sure tiling on tho
rigid side.
Control All of Gold Hill.
J. It. Cunningham and Tom Coxtollo
returiied a few days since from Malheur
county, where they went last week to
examine a mining proxrty. They wero
pleased with tho showing made and
Ixinded eight clnimx on Gold Hill, Mor
mon Haxin district, and located others.
They now own practically the entire
hill. A company will Ixt incorxruted
to develop these claimx, which are rids
in free gold.