5 , Vv Htf f" TT 'fTC EASTERN INVESTORS IN COVERS THOROUGHLY THE GOLD FIELDS of the INLAND EMPIRE OREGON MINES Pay for AND READ IT F- J A' w) f (I NUGGETS FROM VINSON GREEK I 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. '-s-w a." - - n " iw r flwftaiiTr,Ma"r r " " rai wrciimtrr htt r