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NUGGETS FROM
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Yollow gold uuggeta- -it Hack full
of ttiiuit ruiiKliiK in hIo from n pin
point to th hIo of rhu litlo Mngor of
a iiiiui'h IiiujcI - dull yollow hIiiIh of
gold, wMh quartz attached, mid wiry
specimens or Iho kingly nintiii, clean
Mini bright that. Ih wiinf. Ih being
displayed todny in tho widow or Hrig
iiiilliintyno. (ho Granite HtrooL
jowolor, and oruwda throng tho hIiIh
wiilk In front to roust thoir oyoH on
tho protty night. Tho gold camo from
ii poukot on tho Holiuout mi no, on tho
hoHd WMtorH of VIiihoii orook, seven
tullon from Tipton. Tho tiuggots woro
panned from a HiiliHtnitii of dooom
posed quartz, composing a volu of
gold-bearing oro, atiipped with a
hydraulic) wlant uoHr the hot torn of
tho oauyou. Wiiou tho ledge wai
exposed, two moil with gold pans
dug Into rook urevloeH with jaoknlvea
uud horns, phuuIuk ml tho creek,
which roars nearby, lu four (Imj-h
these two men douutt'd up Hiid
welghed-ln Olio thousand dollarH
In virgin gold was tho result of
thoir four days toil.
If thin Hurt of thing hHil happened
in Colorado, Utah, Montana, Cali
fornia or Nevada, a stampede wauld
follow as iuovitahly hh night fol
lows day. A thoiiHitud mon would
ba at tho aoeuo of tho find within
twenty-four hourH. Tho atampi'do
would do little good, for tho owners
of tho linluiout mluo mIho own Hixteou
full quart ami placer oIhIiiih on tho
headwaters of VIuhoii creek, and those
claims cover tbe ttutlro territory with
in a raditiM of a mile.
Ham (1. Kemtmw and T. E. Gllkey
own tho nuggets which are tho
center of looal attraction today.
Tbeaa am the two gautlemon who,
with gold pa ui and jackulves,
wreited from tbi exposed lodge thee
yollow thousand-dollars worth. These
revamp memoriaa of the time when
a pooket at Auburn, the pioueer
pi rniar mfnlutf camp of eastern Ore
otfii, yielded Its dlsoovereie a neat
five thoiiMNud dollars worth of saffron
uuggeta. Aud they recall to mem
ory the time wheu Ike Cluker
lucky old Dutchman discovered the
Great Northern mine, near Prairie
City, aud with horn aud gold pau,
atole from mother uature'a hoiiom
gains uouoealed in rutlooktug,
decomposed quaitz worth 120,000
per ton.
T. E, Gllkey came to Sumpter yea
terday from hie Vinson creek claims,
briuglug a vial of diiHt aud hurdeued
with a powder can tilled with nugget
mm aforesaid, lie told The Miner re
porter how ho came to II nd them.
Said he:
"My partner and 1 are old proa
pectora. Sam Kershaw is the bout in
the business on earth. We found a
ledge near the headwatera of Vinson
orook and mink a thirty-foot shaft iu
rich froo-gold oro. Wo ,iut up a
throo-stamp mill, mid miido money
until water from tho surface drovojis
out of our Hlmft. Thon'KorHhnw and
i Htartod to trace tho lodge. Wo
panned from our placer diggingH be
low tho Hlmft house clear up to tho
hoiiil of (ho gulch, digging hundreds
of IioIoh and punning day aftor day.
Everybody in (hh camp kuowH how
tho pocket-hunting trick Ih turuod.
We found that our main ledgo par
alleled the crook bod, aud that an in
tersecting lodge cut across, with a
juuctlon near tho bottom of the
canyon. We rigged up a giant aud
Hluicod off tho (surface of thla In
teracting ledge, exposing about
eight teet of decompoHed quartz aud
porphyry for a dlutauoe of about
twenty feet. When thla wan done we
found that nuggeta atuok up out of
the ruck, aud we plunged iu aud
began panning, lu four daya we bad
cleaned up thla little stack of gold,
worth, according to tho jewoler'a
scales, close to one thoutiand dollarH.
Water haa analu driven uh out, aH the
snow along the canyon's sides Ih
thawing at thla time of tho year, and
wo can't go doeper. At the point of
iuteraoctiou of the two ledges, we
found by Hlulciug that a half doen
stringers of (iiart cut across from
tho main lodge to tho Intersecting
ledge, aud where they converged with
the aluloed-oir ledge we found those
uuggeta. Of comae, it Ih a pooket,
but that simply goea to ahow that the
main lodge Ih rich iu free gold, aud
wbeu the thaw in ended aud we can
get down into the rock agalu, we
are going to tlud lota more of thla
yellowlituir."
HrlgUallantyno hat aualzyed the
gold and fluda it wortb about $18 an
ounce. In the lot of nam pie a brought
to town by Mr. Ullkey are cbuuka
of ruaty-looklug quartz, with gold
uugges, ofteu weighing 20, at
tached thereto.
The Helmout Is about two ml leu
souhtwest from the Marshall group,
owued jointly by F, O. Buokuutu aud
Frauk Muzzy, atfcwhiob property a
almilar experience waa euaouuutered.
aud where the lurface was sluiced
from a ledge, expoaiug decomposed
quartz atudded with wire gold.
Mr. Gllkey aaya be will aluk ou
the Belmont. "We now hare a man
ou the grouud who ia prepared to
finance the proposition for us."
The Belmont adjoiua the llalma
group, owued by John E. Mac
Menus aud Sou, stock brokers of
Seattle.
Asslstaut Manager Joe E. Heed, of
the Sumpter District Mineral Ex
hibit association, haa secured from
T. E. Gllkey the entire lot of gold
dust and uuggeta from the Ullkey
& Kershaw mine ou VIubou creek,
where a atartlingly rlob pocket was
discovered laat week, from which
82000 wm panned by two meu in
four days. Mr. Gllkuy inteuded
yesterday to take the gold to Baker
City to he placed lu the bauds of
Fred H. Mollis, superintendent of
tho Oregon state ore exhibit at the
Lewis and Clark fair, but was pre
vailed upon by Mr. Reed to let
the yollow stuff remain iu Sumpter,
aud occupy a place in the local ex
hibit, until some time iu May, when
it will bo sent to Portland to make
up a special display from the Sump-
, tor diHtict. Tho total value of Jtho
dust and nuggets, which are still ou
display iu tho hIiow window of Hrig
Uiillautvue. tho Granite street
I jowolor, is close to 82000. Manager
Hood, acting for tho association. Iiai
offored to advanco 8000 of associa
tion funds to Mr. (J II key and givo a
good and sufllcieut suroty boud to
guarantee tho safe roturu of tho uug
geta All day yesterday aud today crowds
Hiirouuded Mallautyno's window,
gazing at the beautiful gold speci
mens aud speculating upou their
value. Had this sort of pooket beeu
discovered iu auy other miuiujt camp
lu America it would have precipitated
a veritable Kloudlke rush. That a
itampedo baa uot been started from
Sumpter is due partly to the fact that
strikes of tula uature are but little
out of the ordinary, aud partly to
the fact that Ullke & Kershaw owu
almost all of the teritory surround
ing tho sieue of the strike, aud other
locators cover the balauce of oou
tigoiH grouud, so that little or uo
uulocated territory ia available.
The uuggeta will uot he Installed
iu the Sumpter permauent miueral
exhibit for three or four days, as the
exhibit building was only completed
and ready for. oncupeucy last night.
Considerable ore h already ou band.
aud theso specimens will be labelled
and placed ou display The various
members of the board of managers iu
outlying camps report mauy buudreds
of pouua of ore ou baud, but owiug
to the impassable coudltiou of roads
leading to Sumpter, they are unable
to seud lu their quota.
It ii probable that the formal
opeuiug of the local exhibit will
oocui next Mouday uigbt, on which
occasion it ia the plau of Assistant
Mauager iieed to bold a reception at
the exhibit building to the general
public.
The board baa uot yet settled ou a
man to take charge of the exhibit.
There are mauy applicauta for the
poaltiou, which will undoubtedly
carry a good -sized salary, but the
buard realizes the importauoe of ae
lectiug a good mau for the job oue
against whom there can be uo sua
plciou of graft -and consequently
actiou will be delayed uutil tbe
qualillcatluus of tbe various appli
cauta cau be thoroughly cauvassed.
Frank O. Huckuum, joint owuer
with M. F. Muzzy, of tbe Marshall
group of mines, near Tiptou, is
happy. All day long he stauds iu
frout of Hrig Hallautayue's wludow,
gaziug at Ullkey & Kershaw's gold
uuggeta. Tbe same sort of strike was
made last fall iu tbe Masrball group,
where tbe surface of tbe ledge waa
sluiced off, exposing a decomposed
quart', vein, studded with wire gold
aud nuggets. Snow covers tbe ground
at present, but i huu a thaw cornea,
operations at tbe Marshall will be re
sumed with vigor.
Joshua Hendy's New Catalogue.
The Joshua Hendy Maobiue Works,
San Francisco, hai just issued a new
catalogue of its gold milling mtichiu
eiy. Typograpuically. it is a work
of art : nothing gaudy, but everything
iu good taste and executed with
superb workmanship. What the
buyers of mining machinery will tip
proalate, bowovor, is the clear, con
cise, intelligent mauner iu which the
facts and information regarding tbe
various machines are present! d. All
aro illustrated with excellent half
tone cuts, made from photographs,
which comes as near neiug aa satis
factory as inspecting the machine it
self, as the work of the engraver aud
printer can approach. Of course, the
Joshua Ileudy people and tbe machin
ery they make need no oommoudalioti
from the press. They have long
since won their wy to fame, for
square dealing and the best manu
factured, respectively.
MINING NOTES.
M. Durkheimer, of Prairie City,
owuer of tbe Cronje group of claima
in Grant oouuty, haa let a 200-foot
tunnel contract to Al aud Jay Ferree.
J. F. Kliuk aud C. L. Roddick
are pippug night aud day ou their
placer mine iu Quartz gulch, uear
Canyon City, with a full bead of
water.
W. E. (Jilford, of Cauyou City,
hub secured tbe Present Need mine ou
Dixie creek, by lease aud boud from
tbe Morey estate, of Portland. Tbe
property is equipped with au arras
tra aud the new owuer auuonuces
hiH iuteution of stratiug operatioua
at ouce.
Fred Neidemark, of tiourue,
Cracker Creek representative ou tbe
board of managers ot tbe Sumpter
District Miueral Exhibit association,
will tbia week confer witb E. W.
Hack ue, owner ot tbe famous Colum
bia mlue. aud will request the gift of
a couple of tons of Columbia ore for
tbe extibit. Mauager Jobu Wyatt,
of the E. & E., and Mauager Emil
Melzer, of tbe Nortb Pole, have
already promised big displays.
ANNUAL MEETING BLACK
11UTTJ3 MINING COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given that tbe au
uual meetiug of tbe stockholders of
tbe Black Butte Miuiug oompauy
will be held at tbe office of William
son & Burlelgb, 242 Water Street,
Augusta, Malue, ou tbe sixteenth
day of May, 1000, at 2 o'clock iu
tbe afteruoou, for tbe tollowiug pur
poses :
First. To eleot a board of direct
ors for tho eusuing corporate year.
Secoud. To transact any other
busiuess which may come before said
meeting
Pendleton, Oregon, April 24th,
1905.
F. W. V1NCEN1, Secretary, Black
Butte Mlniug Company.
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