COVERS
THOROUGHLY
THE
GOLD FIELDS
of the
INLAND EMPIRE
EASTERN
INVESTORS
IN
OREGON MINES
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AUBURN
PLACERS
Work will ho started by tint An
liurti i)uup .Ml n Ink company, lit Mh
Aiiliurn placers Wednesday, in ac
cordance tn tilt iiIiiiih proposed liy
Superintendent J toed, mid accepted
liy (ho hoard of directors at 11 recent
meeting, mention of which wan made
In Tim Miner. Some irnlliiiiiiury
work In the wny of getting thiiiKH In
shape for Htendy operations, Iiuh lieen
(Imihi iilrendy, hut the machinery will
lai coupled up Wednesday, and steam
turned on.
Ah Htuted previously, it Ih the
iiituiitinu to put in it titiitioii find
pump at aliout 1 10 foot level iind
ntart it tunnel for the pay channel.
This (thiiuuel wiih encountered in the
shaft at a depth of eighty feet It
wiih dipping at mi angle of twenty
live decrees, and It Ih thought liy
going lower ami driving for it, It
may hit encountered at the point it
IuihIiih anil where the big viiIuch may
ho expected. Of course just tint din
tauoo it will taku to roach the chan
nel Ih Homiiwliat problematical, since
the angle observed In the shaft may
vary. Mr. Itiuwl thinks, however, he
has allowed enough to go under the
"hamuli at IIh point of ImihIii ami can
raise to It, which Ih the preferable
ariatigoiucut.
TWEN1Y STAMP MILL
FOR THE UNCLE SAM
Tin, i. null. .1 ikf lint rli.li ITtit.l.t Si,,ti
gcotip of claims on First cieek. four
miles friiiii .Malheur City, has passed I
Into the hands of wealthy Michigan I
lumbermen, who will at. nnco arrange'
to install a twenty stamp mill ou tliel
property and uo in for development
mi it huge scale. 'I'll I h iuformiitiou :
is given to the Herald today by (!. I
S. Stanley, of the llrm of Vosherg,
Stanley A- Cortiwoll, laud and lumber
iiicrchimtH uf Cadillac, Michigan,
who is iu the city today, nccnmpaulcil
by T. At. Anileison, of .Miilheui- City,
who Is the locator of the Uncle Sam
gioup, and who still tetiiliiH mi in
teres). Ihetein. j
The Uncle Sum Kroup is on the!
hlKh divide between Uyo Valley and
Mormon llasiu, iu the heart of the
rcKlnu which In the past has supplied
thn latter camp with its millions of
placer Kold. The Kroup Is equipped
at picseut with a two stamp pros
pector's mill.
The Uncle Sam is a true llssiiie
vein between porphyry and granite
walls. Four shafts, rmiKliiK iu depth
from 10 to I Til I feet, have proven a
vein with an avcriiKc width of live
feet of IiIkIi grade free iiiIIIIiik Kohl
ore. Assays from the Keueial sain
pies, made iu this citv by I). W. C.
Nelson, shown value of 81 III. OH.
Concentrates assayed gave leluins of
Stanley and Anderson will depart
for Stiinpter iu the moruiuK, to re
turn III a few days. Herald.
FIRE AT THE
UMPQUA.
The hunk house and kitchen at the
(Jinp(ua group, in the Ibex dlntrlct,
were destroyed yesterday by lire,
with a loss of about .'.00. M. T.
Kane, one of the owners of the prop
erty, who Iiiih charge of the develop
meiit woik, came In to-lay ou his way "J,,,ine"t' u,,d
lo Maker City, to confer with hlH,4tbulhItthe "' "
I.-..H. vt....i ..i - i.. to ship it. Thin
men
t
brother Morris, also an owner, in
regard to replacing the InllltlltiKHl
He hh)-h he docs not kuow how the ,
lire orlttluiited. lie and IiIh men left j
early yesterday morning to go to
work, and when they returned at
noon the buildings were iu ashes.
Of course nothing wiih saved, ljedides
the supplies on hand, the niluers lost
all their clothing and personal
elfeots, which they had ill tho bunk
house. Mr. Kane thinks it will take
IiU0 to make goo I the loss. It Ih
probable, be states, that the build
ings will be replaced at once and
work proceeded with.
DEVELOPMENT WORK
AT THE STORM KING
SpeaktiiK of the development pro
Kress at the Sturm King, Malinger
Costello savs"
"The Honest Dollar adit is now iu
about 1!I5 feet, showing a It'dKe
seven and a half feet wide. Of this
there is about four feet of good look
liiK ore, which will probably k 8-5
per ton. Wo are now Ki'tthiK Into
depth; as the mountain rises very
rapidly above the present face of the
adit.
"It is the Intention of the man
iiKcmcul to shortly place the entire
fTcc to work iu the Strom King
crosscut, iu order to thoroiiKhly open
up the IciU'c both ways from the
point at which It is struck. This
will bo done duriiiK the early part of
uct mouth.
" l'he opcuiiiK of this IciIkc will
undoubtedly place an Immense Humi
lity of high Kraile ore ou the dump.
When this is lU'coiuiilisheil, the Forest
company will have two lino ledges
opened, tewit: The Kureka IciIkc
throiiKh the Honest Dollar adit, mid
the Storm KIuk IciIkc throiiKh the
deep cmst-cilt now beillK driven.
"As the Storm KiliK Kroup Is lo
cated within a mile and a half of the
site of the proposed custom mills, to
be erected by the llaby McKce peo
ple, It is easy to see the Forest Mill
liiK company has everythliiK in its
favor to pioilocc a dividend paying
Kroup of mines. This, aided by the
continuation of Intelligent develop
ment work, will fuither the interests
of the company."
Don Juan Owner Will go East
I. Duiiiette, one of the owners of
the Don Juan, came In from the
property yesterday. Mr. Duquette
will leave tomorrow for the east ou
business connected with this mine.
ORE IS TOO
RICH TO MILL
A report from tho I. X. L. states
that the mill for the past week has
not been running more than half the
I time owing to the faut of the richness
J of the ore being taken out This
' ore is hoi uk sacked preparatory to
shipment, and will not be run
as it will pay better
hip it. This necessarily curtails
,the ore for .operating the stamps.
It is understood to be from the
rich shoot iu the drift from the '200
foot level where a pheuomeual strike
was recently made. According to
reliaole statements assays have been
made which go as high us $8,000
and 89.000 to the too.
CONCENTRATOR
AT DIXIE MEADOWS
At the Dixie Medows the new con
centrator is ruiiuiiiK night aud day
with n forco of seven mon, four on
the day aud threo ou tho night shift.
Tho plant is giving complete satisfac
tion, as it Is just the kind that was
needed for the treatment of their
i ores, which again proves tho excol-
I lency of the management of this com
pany which has, so far, not mado a
single mistake, from the time tho
claims wero first located, therefore
1 the stockholders have implicit faith
' iu them.
The averago value of the ores now
being run through the concentrator
is not accurately ascertained, but iu
estimated to bo somewhere between
j? 15 and HO, as everything iu which
there Ih paying values is put through
the process.
The saving of tho values is esti
mated tit about ninety per cent. The
concentrates are assorted in two
grades, of which the first grade assays
I from 8500 to 8750 aud the second
1 grade from 870 to 800. The free
.gold averages about twenty-live per
(cent of the values of tho ores, which
i more than pays nil expenses of mill
j iug aud concentrating tho ores.
"We will commence to ship con
centrates in four ur live days," said
Dr. V, U. llelkuap, to a Miner repre
sentative when interviewed ou Thurs
'day, who also gave the other Infor
' mat Ion from the mine. "Wo have
ore enough blocked out already to
keep the mill running for at least
four years. The good rich ore re
ported iu a late issue of The Miner
lis still holding out both iu the lower
and intermediate workings. (
"About thirty men are now at
I work at the mine, which will bo the
'average coutuiuoiis working force.
"The lack of water Is bothering us'
no more, as we have it arranged so
there is plenty for all purpose. "
The cyanide plant will be installed
as early as possible iu the spring.
The cost of putting it iu now would
be too expensive ou accouut of the
largo amount of snow. Prairie City
Miner.
NO GOLD
IN VAULTS
A Washington Press dispatch of
Saturday says that for the first time
in many years tho treasury llnds it
self without any gold coin In its
vaults. It in explained that this
condition is the result of an unprece
dented demand for gold certificates
duriug time when the the mints have
been fully employed in coining Phil
ippine silver and subsidiary silver
for the United States.
The Increased demand fot gold cer
tificates, which could only be issued
fot gold coin In tho treasury, came
about through the needs of the large
banking institutions iu the great
commercial centers, which had large
amounts of notes of small denomina
tions on hand which they wished to
exchango for gold certificates of
largor denominations.
The secretary has given Instruc
tions for the mints at Philadelphia
aud San Francisco to begin the coin
age of double eagles ou February 1,
and to work overtime until a suffi
cient supply has been coined to meet
ull demands.
AT LAST WALL STREET
TAKES A TUMBLE TO MINING
Evou uow peoplo do not yet appre
ciate tho significance of the fact that
the world's greatest production of
gold was iu 19011, aud that there is
every prospect for au even greater
production this year. When it is
recalled what was the elfect of the
Immense production which followed
tho gold discoveries iu California
and Australia, and how the recent
movement in American trade aud
commecro was the result, iu part, at
least, of a notable increase iu our
gold production, tho fact that fur
ther great additions to tho world's,
stock of tho yellow metal aie prac
tically assured fur several years to
come, becomes of iniiiieiite signifi
cance. It is one of I bote facts which
partake of the nature of miracles.
There is another fact of larger in
terest iu this connection, as it hears;
upon the continuance of gold produc
tion. This is tho factor the "cya
nide process," by which low grade
ores become profitable. The cyanide
process was first introduced iu South
Africa, being there applied to tail
lugs, but its practicability iu appli
cation to ores was first demonstrated
iu this country. This process cau be
used with profit iu all low grades
ores where there is no copper pre&eut.
Thero is even a large prollt iu ores
containing only 8- of gold to the
ton. This fact is working a great
change iu gold mining. It is, for oue
thing, putting the business ou tho
basis of a manufacturing Industry.
1 is moreover making mauy aban
doned mines profitable, aud is, of
course, iu that way, increasing the
output of the yellow metal.
For this reasou it seems probable
that gold mining will be more prom
inent than ever aud Investments in
milling companies more common.
Wall Street News.
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