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FINE STRIKE AT
VALLEY QUEEN
On i) of tho moHt important Hlrikou
of thu early winter wiih made lust
wnuk tit tint Vnlloy Qiioon in I no, on
Lake Crook, u Hiih-dlHtriot of Cable
Oovo. A full face of two mid a
Jill f Tout nl' film shipping oro hIiowh
in tin drift on Nn. 1 voin. Samples
of oro woro linxilib to Sumpter
Saturday night by (louoral Manager
Tom (I my.
In general ii)ioiiriiii(!o thu oro vory
iniiuh resembles (ho product of tlio
Jjo Itol mliio at IIohhImiiiI, li. 0., and
barring (ho Columbia mliio, on
Cracker Clock, Ih (Iio only oro
this oharoloi ho fur ouoounloroil
of
In
any quantity in oitstini Oregon, foot. Tho vein Ih encased in
Tho Valloy Queen product carries iiiuhhivo granite, tho suroHt possible
high Valium iu gold and Hilvor, hikI indication of perniHiioiicy.
tho oh'tracter of tho oro Ih hucIi iih to TIiIh opening of tho main Valloy
load to a well grounded belief that j Queen vein In No. 4 worklngH ox
its depth Ih attaluod on tho volnaiploltH the lodu iu three plaoea lu
hoMvy por oontago of load will ontor. Tunnol No. 1 wild In a uhaft ou tho
Whou Noon hy a roportor for the) Pontatiioob caliui of tho turnip, git Ih
.Minor, (ionoral Manager Cray ox- I thorof oro an cany matter to calculate
plained that tho Htriko whh made lu a J the exact trend and dip of tho ledge,
nhort croHHcut from the drilt. on No. land on account of tho topography of
I vein, which wiih Htarted hy tho tho country other oponings can
management iu a belief that tho main ( economically bo made at varioiiH
Val ley Queen lodge, toward which a ( other pointH at once. The outlined
croHHCMt (of which No. I 'drift Ih an platiH of tho management have con
oil' shoot) is being driven, would bo 'st'ipioutly under gone radical changes,
caught ou Kh dip. Fdahniato HiirvoyH1 Manager dray iiiiuouiiooh that uiiIohh
and calciilatioiiH revealed tho fact 'HomothiiiK unforoHoon happens, No. I
that the main vein, which in opened
iu No. 1 tunnel, near tho top of
OuddosH mountain, and again iu a
shaft ou tho other aide of tho hill,
dipt) at an acute angle to the Houth-
oast and atrlkoH south-north. During
the ptouioHH of the crosscut tiiunel
toward thin main vein I ledges worn
iutoinootod, upon throe of which
drifting wan done with flu tor lug re
milts. No. I Vein Hhowod oHpecially
good, and It wan while following thin
lead that Manager Cray, who waa
keeping clone watch of the formation,
concluded that the Hat dip of the
maiu Valloy Queen vein whh bringing
that lode overhead, and that either
an opraiHo from No. I drift, or a
EASTERN OREGON ITALIAN
CLIMATE MAKES A HIT
O. I). Starr. W. I). Orompton, Dr.
Coorgo K. Drew and Dr. Justin
Hoyoe, the party of Providence, R.
1., stockholders in the Hluo Hird and
Huokhoru mines, near the Hod Hoy,
the Valloy Queen, ou Lake Creek,
and the Hlack Hutto, in Fox Valley,
crosscut to tlio iiorlh would oulor tlio
oro. Ah hii evidence of good jndg
iiiout und Hcioutlfln mining, it might
Iio uioiitionod tt'uit tlio Hliort croHHOut
from tlio drift, which MuuiiHor Cray
donidod wiih hottor than mi upraise,
ontorod (ho oro within it diHliuico oi
twonty-niuo foot. Whou (ho voin
was HihI ontorod it wiih characterized
by it hoiivy Htilphido oro, in which
limo hhowod in roimirkitlilo quantl
IIih, mi iudiciitiou which, according
to export opinion, Ih vory flattering
in roliiliou to tlio future richmm of
tho iiiuiu voin in loud. Ah the oroHH-
'cut moro fully ontorod tho voin, tho
'oro hody wldouod to two mid a half
drift will bo oxonrtcd to an inter
miction with ho main vlen, which
it wllljmoorjnu the dip, an upraise
will be put Inland Htoplug begin,
Tho ore Ih of such richnoHH and ox-
tout thata hwavy tonnage can be
mined with cane for shipment to the
Sumpter Htuoltor.
I TIiIh recent development of the
Valloy Queen waken absolutely im
poartlve a continuance of opeiatioua.
In the face of a great many difil
oultloH work haH heretofore laseu
carried ou hyMauagorOray, whose
persevorenoe, aw well an hie food
jugmeut are to be cotumeuded,? aud
the results of which tihow iu thoniew
Htrike.
la Grant county, who departed from
Sumpter yesterday en route home
from a trip of inspection of the prop
erties named, carry with them the
idea that tills is tho greatest coun
try on earth, both from a miuoral
and climatic point ol view. When
they loft Rhode Island on this trip,
thoy woro given to understand that
thoy woro about to ontor tho wild and
wooly west; a frontier mining camn,
a region of Htoep mouutaitiH, doop
buow, dizzy trailH, and all those
other thiugH which go toward making
up the popular eastern concoptiou of
a western mining state.
Particularly woro thoy improsed
by knowing Rbodo Island friends
that thoy would arrive iu Sumpter iu
tho dead of winter, when Hnowshno
iug was the mode of travel, and whou
the mercury In the therinomotur was
out of Hight, in tho bottom of the
tube.
Mr. Starr laughingly told The
Miner reporter of his conceived ideas
of thlt camp yesterday, and con
cluded by saying:
"We came iu a well appointed
railway train to Sumpter, put up at a
hotel which will compare favorably
with tho best in many eastern oitioH
of ten times Sumpler'a population.
The ground was bare of snow and only
far olf poaks showed a white covoring.
Tho temperature wiih higher than
in Providence when wo left. Wo
woro driven iu bright sunshiny
weather over a tine road 120 miles to
the Blue Hid. Tho trip wiih a per
fect picnic.
"On our return from the Hluo
Mini we went by rail to Tipton and
drove from that poiut to the Hlack
Hutto initio -a loug, but by no meaiiH
unpleasant journey. And now be
hold tho wonder of thin climate. Iu
tho John Day country tho roads
wore dusty thiH ou tho '7th day
December, iu tho heart of tho winter
HolHtico. It Ih true that up on Dixie
Hutto wo ran agalint au iucipiout
blizzard, but it lasted less than ten
minutes, and was hardly more than a
snow Hurry.
"Of course, when we got home and
toll our Khodo IhIhikI friends about
our trip, they will vote iih prevari
cators of considerable note. Hot in
our memories will ever remain recol
lections of a mighty enjoyable jour-
uey in tho Hluo MouutahiB of Ore
gon."
i NOTES OF THE MINES.
Hobsleds hauling ore from the
upper camps to the Sumpter smelter,
are arriving daily.
Tipton now has plenty of water, a
heavy tlow having beeu struck iu a
well uear the depot.
John McCluskey, tho Weatherby
placer miner, last week cleaned up
11:100 iu a .'( 7-day run with oue
giaut.
W. J. Patterson, of linker City,
ouo of tho owuers of the North Fork
placers, has gone to California for
his health.
L. J. Simu, of (ireeuhoru, has
started a new stage line between
that place and Tipton, making daily
tripe over snow roads.
Word comes from (ireeuhoru that
sufficient snow has fallen in that
region to warrant a change in stages
aud freight wagons from wheel
to ruuuers.
Repa'irs aud improvements are
beiug made by the Ladd Metals com-
puny on tho Mineral, Idaho, smelter,
preparatory to a resumption of
operations iu the spring.
During tho coming week the
Uuitod-i'jlkhorn mines will commence
regular shipmouts of concentrates and
crude ore to the Sumpter smeltet.
The output will bo 15 tons per day.
Al Geiser. who wiih iu StiuiDter
Tuesday from the (Jem mine at
Sparta, says that the mill 1b running
only eight hours por day, owing to a
water shortage. Arrangements are
beiug made to remedy this defect.
Prof. II. 11. Nicholson, consulting
engineer for the Killeu, Warner,
Sotwart cumpauy, who accompanied
Superintendent Tom Molt it to the
Oregon Monarch Saturday, returned
yesterday. They also I no pooled tho
black Jack, where a crow of men are
driving a crosscut, now iu ' WOO feet.
C. J. Allen, of the Monumental,
passed through tow.u yoalord.iy,
navigating on crutches. . Some days
since he received a bad axe inflicted
wouud iu one of his feot. Ho will
bo unable to give operations at the
mine his personal attention for some
weeks and will put in tho time at his
homo iu Portland.
N. K. InihauB, of Hakor City,
ropresoutative of the Paris syndicate
which owob the Flagstaff mine uear
Hakor and the Flick Bar placeri
ou Snako river, ia advertiaug the
latter property for sale to the highest
bidder ou aud after December 14.
Tho ground consists of .'105 acres
patented and 500 acres of farm land,
iuoluding all buildiugs, flumoa and
ditches.
A telephone message from Foreman
Cusick. at the 1. X. L. mine, to
Manager Fred T. Kelly, at Hakor
City, yesterday, told of the Htrikiug
of an outiroly new formation, iu
tho main adit, coming in from the
oast. Tho belief is expressed that it
Is the mother lode. Manager Kelly
passed through Sumpter this forenoon
on'hia way to tho mine to look into
the geological question.
Word comes from the Standard
that Superintendent Heath has uot
yet completed the upraise from the
Staudard drift, but that the country -rock
through which progress ia being
made ia highly mineralized. The race
of the Staudard drift shows the
prettiest body of ore iu Oraut county
-'28 iuches of the cobalt shoot, iu
which gold values appear aa high as
ten ounces.
W. II. (Hilly) Reeves, the well
kuowu miuiug superintendent, who
recently had charge of the Midway
for the Gesier-llendryx compauy, re
turned last evening from tho Red
Hoy mine. The rumor ha gained
ouirouoy that Mr. Heovefi will be the
next superiuteudeut of the Red Hoy.
The reorganized compauy has made a
most excellent choice. Mr. Reeves
began his miuiug career lu Moutaua
when a boy, aud has followed the
profession ever since with flattering
success.
Dr. Ogle arrived yesterday after
noou from Cauyon City, transacted
some btiBiuesa here, gathered together
some of hh persoual belougiuga aud
returned ou the moruiug train.