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Mineral Wealth of Southern Oregon Vast
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1914 Metal Output
In announcing th fallowing fig
uron 11 In well lo nny that like nil
nlmllar HtntlRtlcn It can nerve only
an nn Indication of tlm actual proiltii:.
Hon of tlm mine. Thorn In nlwnyn
n corlnln amount of tlu precious
nitnn which Ir soqnotitorod, hoarded
or timiii as ornaments which limy
never come lulu the world marketa,
there Ir nUo lo bo taken Into cntiHld
oration tlm ore which l proilucoil
nml not marketed during tho eiiriont
yehr but which inny later Im Immic
rlclnted or niilil tliuii nwullliiit Hie re
turns for hoiiio future year. -Mnler-Inl
of this kind which tuny tin of a
lower grade In constantly roIiir Into
tlm dump of producing mlno. Home
producers undoubtedly withhold In
formation tR to their output either
through RoorctlvenoRR or for noil ml
limine reason. It nmy l cltl
Imrn thnt there Ir a largo acreage In
Jackson county tho title to "bleb
tti litigation. Any consldomblo pro.
ihlctlon of gold from such IniuU
would prohnhly ho concealed. It I
well to hear In mind thnt tlm flKro
upon which an estimate for a New
Yohr million are btiRPd nro of neccs
pty gotten Up very quickly nnd oven
Ixjforo tlm end of tlm year IIiiir pre'
venting tlin nicurnry of of flctnl re
turiiR. Thorn Ir iiIro u perrentitRs
of Imlllon thnt In not marketed In or
fioni tho county of production.
After a careful consideration of
the data at hnnd wo mnko tho enll.
mate of tho production of sold nt
170,000.00, Rllver $1,000.00. The
IarI official figure nt hand IrriioiI by
the Oregon HtireMt of .Minn am for
tho year 1913, Rold 162,085, and Rll
ver SO 1.00.
In 1P1S there wcro credited to
Jackson county olRht quart mine
tlm total production of which wrr
3l,n03 IIiiir RluiwInR one-half of the
total to Im trom thin nourro, tlm bal
ance lelnR from placer. Tlm ear
1014 show 12 linown deep mine
lth a produrllnn. still without fuller
rrlurna It would ho liiipracllcabln to
estlmnto the cIibiirii If any In the per.
rentage produced refipecllvely by
dee nilnen n compared with placer.
Of the nrlou dlntrlct In tlm
county, that of Cold llllt han pio
ilticed about B0 per cent of the total
for Jackaon county It contalna the
"rndtn mine, tlm premier mln of
JackHon county and so far bh Ir
known of southern OrfRon. Aside
from the Urnden the Hold 1 1 til ills
trlct produred more of tho precious
tnetRla than any other single dlntrlct
In tlm county A prominent oper
ator there Rtato that when the power
cost am reduced there will he a
heavy tonnage of low grndn ore
inlltrd which hat hitherto been un
productive. Substantially nil of the
count)" production Ir In tho Hhupo
of bullion, High Rrndo oro Ir
shipped from tlm llutznrd mine. No
attempt han been madu to list the
producers of placer Rold. Tho fol
lowlnr. IR n lint of deep mine that
have produced during tho current
)car. TIiIr lint In probably Incom Incem
plete: Hill Nye. Ilrnden, Buzzard, drub
alnkei Hidden Tienniiro, Lucky Hart,
Nelllo WrlKht, iNuern, Palmer Crook,
NorrlR, Htnr.
Bo far AM known there linn leen no
production of other mutnlB In tho
county. OwlnR to tlm Importance of
tho Ilrnden Rtrlko tho probability that
tho HterllnR placer will bo a producer
In tho coming year together with
anch favorahlo fnctora iih tlm reduc
tion In power cost and tlm excellent
ayRtom of rosds that ftro buliiR con
Rtructed It In doomed hlRhly probable
that HiIr county will show nn In
creuio In production ror tho year
1010.
Aa an Indlcndon of tlm lo of tho
Rold produclnR liolt In thlM county
wo may eay that It IiicIuiIon ono-hulf
or tho county and thnt tho lliizznrd
mliio Ir located r6 mllon north of the
OruliMtalie. Thoro nro over 1000
Biytafojinlloa In tlm county ivor which
tlicljoiroduatlvo nilnen nro ncuttcrod.
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Klamath Valley
Ilow fo.w nuipiiK, our mndora know
nnythliiR of tlm ruul Klumnth valloy.
Mont of iih hnvo croHHOd thlH vnlloy
on tlm way In Ran PrnriclHCo nnd fro
ittiontly without knowlnR it. At tho
point where tho railroad .ciobiioh tho
rlvor Iirr nn olovatlon In oxcoH of
8000 foot above sua lovol and for n
conHldorablo pnit or tho year It la not
npt to ho OHpoclully pvoporrorhIiir nt
thin point yet thlH Htreiun followa lt
rapid coiuho for more than 100 mllon
beforo IobIiih Itnolf In tlm I'nolflc.
TlirollROtit tills dlHtanco there la Uo
hIrii of rallrbnd Mid' for half tho din
tnncd IrallH form tho only iivoihioh of
cdiiimunlcntlott,
KUtnntli river, orto of the principal
rlvern br tbo Pacific fkmnt, hnn ItH
fuurcv In a elutln of luhow in Kontheru
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centrnf OroRon nnd flown Rlnoimly
tliroiiRh KlRlilyou, Humboldt and Del
Norte countlcR, California, to tho
1'aclflc ocenn. Thin river nnd Itn
trlhutarleH trnvcrne n Rrent region of
undeveloped iiiluernl, nnrlrulturnl,
nnd rotnmerclnl reVourceH! erentur
than nny like nun, without rnllrond
lacl'lllen, wllliln the I'nlled SUKoh.
Itn rllmnte, In the foot-htlln. U ty
pically (.'nllforulnn, twilulirloiiH
throiiRhoiit the your, whl'p Ita lower-
Iiik moiintnliiR, Riiow-mppod for ninny
iiinntlin, nre n Riinrnntee of ever
tlonliiR wnter for power, mining nml
Initiation nurponm. Itn wnter nhed
of ninny hundred nqunto mllen Ih for-
ented with n heavy prowtli of matured
timber, eHtlmatod by the I'ulted
Siiiten forerter nt more thnn twenty
bllllnn luct of romnierrlnl lumber,
tin atirlfertitiR KinuiK of Rrent extent,
linve bii'ii contlnotiRly and profltnlily
worked uliice the dlneuvory of Rold In
CnlUornlu. Itn fool-tillltt nnd bottom
IiiiuIn prolKlrnlly Rrow frullH, iiuih
and veRetnblen, unexruiivd In flavor,
while the vnlloyn of Itn IrlhtitnrloK,
coiitnlnliiR more thnn 4 000 noiva nr
nilnited to ci'reflU nod buy. rtouk
rnUliiR nnd dairy pitrporofl. It
cropn never fnll. Itn ntmophorlc
purity, Iti hot and cold medlclnnl
wutern nre an liuurnnro nunluit the
IIIh that "flenh In holr to"; Its topo
Krnphlcal wonder. dufliiR portrai
ture by brtiHli or pen, hold the mlud
enthralled In coiitemplatlon of the
myfltery of ltd creation.
Open thin unexplolted region by
Ihe couatructlon of tho wnRon rond
now contemplated and It bveomen tho
ImiiicHoekorH pnrndle; the poor mnn'fl
opportunity. Thin Rrent artery of
drnluaKe. carryliiR the torrential flow
of Itn moiiululn Interuln will ovout-
ually, by the act of man, Irrigate Itn
ndjiiceiit tllllublo noil nnd fiirnlnh
power for Rrent coniuiorclnl Indus
trie. The orohlon power of thin Rrent
flow han oxpohod largo nron of inln
ernl heliiR foriuntloiiM, prnctlcnlly
uudovoloped. Hnllioiul construction
throuRh tho Klamnth Hindu would
make theso mineral nruna nccesalbli.
nnd their initio product marketable.
Predominating In thin territory nro
outcrop of vnoriimiitt copper bodies,
easily tracenblu by their Iron nnd
goMiuiii cnpplngu. ThlH copper heur
Iiir urea covers not lctm than 10
mile cutit and went mid !I0 mllon
north iiuil Routh In tlm north central
portion or SlsUlyou county. Within
thlH mineral region two dlntrlctH nro
locally prominent nml will bo briefly
doHcrlbod-vlx-llnppy Camp nnd the
lllmi U'dRu dlntrlct. Kxplorutlou of
tho latter district una oHtubllnhed Itn
proHont men to bo fourteuii
iiiIIoh In length and nix iiiUoh In width,
Hltunted In tho nmln Siskiyou niqiin
lain ruimo uboiit 10 inlloa soutliwon,t
or Medford, OiOgon, n thrlvliiR city
on the lino or tho Southom Pacific
rnllrond and 00 mile north or Yrokn,
tho county Heat or Siskiyou county,
California. The north halt or this
district Ilea on tho north alopo of tho
Hlnlclymt mountalna within tho stuto
or Orogoh, Mid tho drnlnaRO Is Into
Applognto rlvor, n tributary or Uoruo
rlvor. Tho south hnir of the district
Ih In Cnlirornrt, it ml tho drnlnngo l
lu Kliuniklli rlvor. The predominating-
formation lu which oro occura
lu Rchlst. Oosfnn outcrops front 10
foot to :i0s root lb width ImUcnto 10
or inoro parallel volna strlklnR north
and Bouth nml tracoahlu from a point
throo mllen nbrlh of tlm Oregon-Call-rornla
line whom tho Hchlst nbuttn
Rruiilto, ucronH the Stxtclynit iiunin
Hi Ilia (nt mi vluviUlon uf 0000 foot)
ncllvo tho pant year, with no mo cx
contlonn. of which tho Ilraden mine
at Cold 11111 Rtnnd n evidence, tlintl
well directed management nml exploi
tation can bo llbornlly rownrded with
micenfw In thl roKlon. About ono
year n?o the Hradon mnnngoment do
cldod on croM cutting Into tho toot
wall, which proved up a third paral
lel vein fiO foot west of'tho old Urnden
voln. Tho new strike hns no evl-
Mlcncc of coming to the nurfnee n far
shit proRent development rIiowr, but
I hns a good nverago width nnd ore
.values, nnd rosorvc tonnage Iisr ma
terially gained on tlio ten stamp mill,
which ha been making a splendid
record.
What han been done at the Drndcn
mlno is possible nt many other places
In thin mineral belt. It Ir n posltlvo
I fact that large bodies of high grade
, oro are often found In depth that
1 docs not come to the surface lu full
alio and values. For Instance, tho
' DcLnmar mine, Idaho, wag worked
I from the surface down to a depth of
! abont 200 rcot ror ml ling gold
j quartz that ran trom S to $15 per
ton. Tho quartz was displaced to a
large extent by n blue talc contain
lng what the miners called blackjack
I izlnc). The property wa aband-
I oned and flnnlly bought for n small
ntim by Captain Dol.aninr. Ill ex
, ports round by assaying the so
! railed blackjack to bo stcphanlto
I (brittle or black silver), Rome or It
J running C8 per cent silver, and avcr
agcd about 12000.00 per ton.
' Another Instance, the LcRo'l mlno
nnd uvernged ctoso to $100 per ton.
1 It nny wonder this lltllo plot of
ground GOO by iG00 feet went to n
valuation or $70,500,000 on tho
London marled? No uoiiht many
mining men can site ctmllar attrac
tions or ore In depth that did tlot oc
cur on the surf nee.
Hero Is tho Huxzanl mlno' In tho
Klk creek district now promiclnn
$400 gold and sliver oro that 1 am
Informed had less than $20 cropping,
H the reader will look back and
revlow tho last few Induntrlnl and
financial depressions, It will be not
iced that they have been followed
by a decided mining activity. It
shows virgin treasure I necessary
for Industrial expansion.
, , KM. LIWKCJUN.
ModfOrd, Or, Hec. 27, WH.
Mining Resources
mid Into the foothills of Klamath
rlvor (olovntlon ir.Oo feet) a dis
tnnco of eight mllen, while 11 number
of proportleR hnvo surface shovMng
equally ax good.
West of the Pacific highway there
I no wagon road ncros tho Slaklou
moiintiilns. Tlm rond from Cresront
City to Kequa punnua along tho fnco
of the rnngu as It plunge Into tho
Pacific. This river I credited with n
production of more than ono hun
dred million dollar In placer gold.
It In exempt from the debrl regula
tions of tho Rtnto of California. TIiIh
rlvor bnalu within 11 dtstnnro or 100
by rond from .Medford produces inoro
gold niinunlly than JaeliDou county.
It contains ono Inrgo doveloped cop
per mlno na well aa very valuable
timber,
Iteallzlng tho value of a Biiltnblo
connection between tlm Klamnth val
ley nnd tho lloguo river valley u pas
through tho SUUIyou mountnliiB wna
Belected having an elevation of about
1 000 feet abovo sen lovol. Lying
within night of tho Hluo Unlgo mlno
It offered tho shortest possible con
nection between tho Jackson county
road Hyfi'umi in tho uppor Applognto
with tho roads In tho Klamnth .val
ley, requiring about 22 miles to bo
constructed,
Quarts. Mill nt the (irtiMilmck, One of (he lv .Mine Which Have Keen Pug to ny lJc;th llelou- the Grass Hoots.
Officer of tho National forest In
Oregon nnd Cnllfornla agreed to co
operate lu the construction ot a trail
through the pasa along tho route or
sv wagon road. Twenty mlloa or this
trail ha been completed nml Is now
lu 11R0 leaving less than two miles uu
fliilRhod. lu order to go now by the
shortest routo to Hamburg liar nnd
Happy Camp ono would proceed
from .MecUord by unto to tho Califor
nia btato lino at Seattle Placer ro
quiring two hours of uninterrupted
driving. At Hint point saddle ani
mals would tako tho trail up Middle
Fork n distance of three miles to the
pot where tho trail leave on its
nscont up Cook nnd Cre'en creek. This
latter stroma Is crossed after follow
ing Its banks ror flvo miles and from
this crossing the summit Is reached
in about three miles. From the
summit in tho pass tho trail leads
down Selud creek a dlolanco of about
seven mile where It connects with a
wognn rond, nnd flvo inllc-3 further
with, tho Klamnth rlvor stngo road.
Not less than six hours should ho al
lotted to this horseback trip, lunch
being taken nt n spring near the
pass. This trip will reward nny 01m
who will undertake it us it pulses
through soiiio of the most wildly In
teresting nnd virgin recesses of the
untrodden Slsl.Iyous. Not far from In llrltlalr Columbia started ns a
the pass nro th. meadows with the! prospect with a cropping of three
lake on the top or a mountain for
merly frequented by tho elk. A
rhododendron field of hundreds of
acres greets tho eye of a June vis
itor. The pass Itsolf has n rare
beauty being depressed moro than
1000 feet below tho general level or
tho rldgo on elthor side while the
observer can look allko upon the bluo
hills or southern Oregon nnd tho
mountain ranges of northern Cnllfor
nla. It is the intention now to go about
widening this trail which h: n maxi
mum grado of S.7 per cent and fin
ishing same as a highway for general
traffic. It Is believed thnt substan
tial nsslstnnco to Hits plan will ho
accorded by tho present congress fol
lowing the rorommondntloiit) ot the
i-ocrotnry or agriculture.
Reward of Effort
Well directed and persistent eN
rort Is Invariably rewarded with suc
cess p all lines ot Industry, mlulug
included,
Whllo loile'iiitolm: In Eouthorn Oro
Ron liua as i P I jle bcon -ratUor In-
reet by 15 feet of $20 gold and cop
tier ore, with n shipping limit of
27.50. It required pluck to sink
on $20 oro in an unproved region,
but it opened tit n dopth ot 30 feet
to C feet wide and $37.50, and again
pinched at n depth ot GO feet to two
foot and loss than $20 at depth ot
200 feet. A drift was pushed oast In
rock that contrnctors quit nt $20 per
foot, but the management reasoned
thoro ought to bo a body of pay ore
at "no groat distance ahead. At 53
feet from tho shaft a body ot oro
opened out to nine feet wide and
$52 values, but It only continued 23
foot along the level and tho same dis
tance up, but It proved there was un
attractive future in depth. Tho shaft
was continued dpwn an additional 50
feet and a drltt shoved oast. The
oro body was cut and found to bo 15
feet wide and $C0 values. Develop
ment now began to demonstrate n
great oro producer. At tho 300
toot level oro was encountered In tho
west side ot shaft. It wna followed
west lu continuous oro 01 feet that
was flvo feet wide nnd $50 in gold
and copper. This oro only extended
flvo feot abovo tho drift but on tho
1Q0 foot level It was 80 feet wldo
lll.VK l-KIKSK MINK IlK.inor.VUTKIlS OXK OK TIIK (lltKATKST COPP KP. .MINK'S () THK COAST OVER A MILLION DOLLAUS PKVKI.OP
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Tho mineral resources nt Jackson
county Include gold, silver, copper,
iron, lead, zinc, quicksilver, tungsten,
tin, mangannso, nbscstos, coal, gran
ite, marble. Ilmestono and cay. Hold
has been almost continuously mined
i.i Jackson county since Its first dis
covery In 1851. Tho earliest large
town In Jncskon county Jackson
ville was a mining town, nnd the
mining era did much toward attract
ing settler to the Rogue Hlvcr val
ley and affording to them a market
for farm nnd range products. Tho
gold fields ot southern Oregon liavo
a total area of 6000 square miles.
Mining Operations
It Is variously estimated that tho
placor gold fields of southern Ore
gon hnvo yielded $100,000,000 slnco
their discovery. Placer mining Is to
day returning good dividends on u
number of properties In tho vicinity
or Jacksonville and Gold Hill, and
thoro are Inrgo areas of gold-bearing
gravel in Jackson county awaiting
capital to develop. Just across tho
county lino, In Josephine county, Is
being operated, near Oallce. what is
called ono of the model hydraulic
mines on tho Pacific coast. A large
modern dredger employing from
twclvo to fourteen men Is In opera
tion a few miles up the Ilogile river
trom Gold Hill. Placer mining I
also being conducted Intermittently
a'ong the Little Applegate river,
Sterling creek. Foots creek nnd
0 raves creek. Quartz mining Is also
active at several point, there being
a quartz mill at Jacksonville, and
others In operation near Gold Hill,
and others on the Umpqua divide.
Just across tho Jackson county Una
to tho south, la California, Is locat
ed tho tamous lllue L'edgft copper
mine. This mine is prospectively
among the richest copper mines of
tho west. Hut little deep mining has
been done in Jackson county, and the
district has not been systematically
prospected. There aro a large num
ber ot seemingly most promising
mineral deposits awaiting capital for
development.
Coal Possibilities
Tho largo coal deposits are also
among the mineral resources of Jack
son county that have not been thor
oughly tested. Iteports ot the geo
logical survoy Indicate that there
passes through tho Rogue ltlvcr val
ley a long narrow coal bod that
reaches from Evans creek south
through the Siskiyou mountain di
vide Into California. The coal belt
passes a few miles east of Medford
and Ashland, and a number of sniull
developments have been made Thosu
coal veins, as far as prospecting ha
gono, rango from eight to twelve feet
lu thickness, broken by layers ot
shale. This coal has been used lo
cally both In Medford and Ashland.
Though showing a fairly high per
centage of ash and broken by ahale,
tho veins havo uniformly grown bet
ter In being followed deoper, toward
tho northwest. This has given much
encouragement, uud with such a
large area of coal deposits It seqma
probablo that good paying vclna
should bo found with systematic de
velopment. Tho last report ot tho
geological survey consorvatlvoty sums
up their coal Investigation ot the
Jackson county district as follews:
"For tho prcsont tho coal beds trom
Agor (California) to Kvanu crcok are
only ot local lntorost as a source ot
tuol, but detailed examination in thu
future may show theso coal beds to
bo more oxtenstvo than nro now sup
posed. If so, thoy may become, with
tho improvement of gas producers,
Important sources of power." Soma
good peat deposits are also known.
Granite anil Marble
llulldlng stone seems to offer Im;
portant development possibilities for
tho future Those include granite,
marblo and a variety of sundstoniw.
All of thoso stonos have been usfd
moro or less in somo important
buildings' in Ashland and Medfsrt
and other population center. At?,
somo or these material have Uwp
shipped Jo .ether cltlei..
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