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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1932)
The Jacksonville Miner Laying Foundation for Huge Operation at Opp PIONEER FILM HERE SUNDAY (Continued from page one) Developers of more recent yea’8 evidently were after rich pockets and not interested in milling ore According to official geology of the mine, the Opp property con gists of a series of parallel quartz fissure veins varying in width from three to 30 feet. Secondary veins cross these fissures at several points. Development has been car ried on three veins and three more w i Nh« have been exposed by surface work. t* SSL d Country rock in the property is diorite, with slate formation on thr É -J V.. x ? foot wall and argillite on the hang ing wall. Surface deposits of o-e are oxidized and produce free gold —whence such huge pockets camt- —while at lower depths values run to base and become associated w’th iron pyrite. Present exploration would Indicate there is no denre- elation of values with depth. Retter ore is found in swells of quart; Reminiscent “Barnum’s Special,” early-day seams than in pinched fissures. railroad, are scenes in “The Conquerors,” a film of pioneer America Ore chutes uncovered have never which comes to the Craterian theater Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. been bottomed and values appear Pictured above are Ann Harding and Richard Dlx, who fill the leading consistent from the surface down. roles in this early-day epic. Pockets officiallv listed as val ued at 114.000. $18,000, $’0 0*10 $20.000 and $.12,000, respectively, pneumatic drill is being kept busy the cror/icut development. have been uncovered in the Op~> on mine up to this point, and milling I Present workings include about 600 costs for low grade ore have been feet of vertical exploration. Officers of the Pacific States estimated at about $2 a ton. Tonography of Opp’s 360 acres Vines, Inc., w’hich holds other of patented ground lends itself to properties in western states, are Three Jacksonville high school an economical and nracticable John M. Price, superintendent: scholars, attracted by appearance handling of ore. and Clifford Hig William It. Price, president, and of a sex picture "for men and wo gins. foreman of the company, has , 'Ifi'ed Wolff, secretary. Clifford men only” in a Medford theater been busy for several months drill Higgins. John Sutherland, Axel late last week, decided the ends ing a crosscut tunnel in No. 11 to Lundgren and Arthur Curry are education would best be served by a point about 200 feet below an other employes of the company and their absence in the local institu upper level, tunnel No. 2, where a several others are working on the tion of learning for an afternoon quantity of telluride ore has been property under individual sub and their presence in the afore uncovered. It is planned to stope leases. mentioned flicker palace. this ore chute to the low’er level, i Wolff, who recently cam here Somehow or other, it seems, Prin where track has been laid, and from Idaho, stated that Wl them cipal M. E. Coe of the local schoo. move ore to a tramway at the open- j Oregon to date has produced more didn’t concur in the idea. Either ing which will conduct milling ore, gold than all of Alaska, and that the three truants plead a poor case down a thousand-foot incline to only surface outcroppings have or Head Man Coe had very def been washed off here so far. crushing bins. inite convictions in the matter of Present plans include reopening Although development has been attendance and absence without of No. 13 tunnel, lowest level of gradual, of necessity because of just cause. the property, and repetition of the scarcity of money for financing, Anyway, after spending a wor- process of stoping when all ore the company leasing the Opp prop ried week-end filled with dread at above the tramway has been re erty has gained the reputation of moved. The latter opening is sit I paying its way and is not given to returning to the little red brick uated on a level with, and tribu glowing promises and exaggerated building on the hill, the trio was closeted with Principal Coe for a tary to. ore bins and mill site. ; claims. Already a 400-ton daily capacity Successful completion of the rather one-way conversation. Al gyratory crusher is in place, and I present plans, as expressed by John though the three boys may have another jaw crusher is on the way , Price, would indicate one of the emerged from the Medford theater w’hich will aid in reducing ore for i coast’s largest gold mine operations ¡a bit enlightened as to the pitfalls the first mill unit, now partly in would eventually be inaugurated of youth in the big city, it is re place, which will reduce about 100 here. Underlying scheme of the en ported they left the cramped stiff tons of ore daily for a combination tire project, as observed after sev ' ness of a very forma! interview flotation, amalgamation and con eral days’ inspection of the with the educational head much centrating table system which will ¡grounds, is based on the principle wiser as to the pitfalls of youth be worked out to suit characteris of quantity production and milling j j right here at home. Red of face and neck, with heads tics of the ore, which resemble of comparatively low-grade ore closely those of ore produced in which, it is believed, can be made nodding thoughtfully, a bystander Juneau, Alaska, and Grass Valley. to show a consistent margin over reports that the three young men Calif., gold fields. operating expense when proper re left confines of Principal Coe’s sanctum in search of fresh air, Mill shed large enough to house covery methods are employed. where they might cogitate their several hundred-ton mill units has been completed and construction • The forest service road crew, misdeeds and lay foundation for a has been started on the surface building a road from Beaver creek complete set of New Year’s reso- tramway which will connect pres through the Silver Fork vicinity, iutions. ent ore bodies being developed with has been discharged until warmer mill bins. About tw’o miles of tun weather prevails. However, Truman nel. 10.560 fbet, honeycomb the Lewis and William Jones are con Opp property at present, and a tinuing with survey work. Shows and Studies Don’t Mix, Avers School Principal Programs Being Sent For Diamond Jubilee Something NE W for Christmas! 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Committees to prepare for the big celebration already have been appointed by the Medford chamber, and will begin at once to prepare plans for the big event, which has been announced at this time in order to insure the priority of southern Oregon in staging the of ficial diamond jubilee celebration for the state of Oregon. Medford, and its neighboring city, Jacksonville—second ever to be founded in the state—are ad mirably situated for the proposed jubilee, the former being a mod ern, well-equipped city, and the latter one of Oregon’s oldest and most historic communities, The combination of the old and the new will enable the thousands of visitors expected to attend the event to compare the advancement of southern Oregon over a period of nearly a century. In addition to the celebration it self, the city of Medford is plan ning to extend invitations to a large number of organizations to hold their 1934 conventions in that city, in the hope of making the entire year of 1934 a jubilee year in southern Oregon. The attractive Invitation re ceived by The Miner yesterday reads as follows: "Greetings: You are cordially In vited to Oregon’s diamond anni-j versary celebration, to be held in tho city of Medford during the week of June 6, 19 !4. “The citizens of Medford, a mod ern western metropolis, and Jack sonville, an old and historic town typifying tho days of old, nro now laying anniversary plans which will mark 75 years of state progress, including tho development of south ern Oregon, and the advancement of tho far west from the old pio neer days to its present important position in world commerce.” • The O. 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