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. I. DUCKWORTH Office, Water St. H. VERNON . HUNKER Telephone No. 101 THE HIGH GRADE MINING DISTRICT Tho Mines, The Men Who Discovered Them And Tho Millions of Dollars They Will Add To Their Present Wealth of The World Lakcvicw Ice, Transfer and Storage Co J. 1". IsUCKWOKTll, MANAflKB Tranfer and Drnyage Ice Delivered BAGGAGE AM) HOUSEHOLD GOODS STOItED RATKS FVKMSHKD O DEM AM It "OUK CUSTOMERS AKE OUK ADVEKT1SEKS" City Transfer R. M. BOLLER PROPRIETOR HAVING: AN UP-1 0-DATE OUTFIT I AM ABLE TO HANDLE ALL WORK PROMPTLY AND SATISFACTORILY. OFFICE AT KEENE & BARNES CIQAR STORE. PHONE No. 39m Piano & Safe Moving a Specialty LAKE COUNTY ABSTRACT COMPANY Incorporared. A Complete Record We have made an entire transcript of all Record a In Lake County which In any way, affect Ileal Property In the county. We have a complete Record of every Mortgage and trantrfer ever made In Lake County, and ever Deed given. Errors Found in Titles In transcribing the record we have found nnmeronn mort gage recorded la the Deed record and indexed; and many deeds are recorded In the Mortgage record and other book. Hundreds of mortgages and deeds are not Indexed at all, and most difficult to trace up from the records. We have notations of all these Errors. - Others annot floo them We have pat nundreds of dollars banting up thette errors, and we can fully guarantee onr work. J. D. VENATOR, fianager. WALLACE & SON (Witt. Wallace, Coroner for Lako County) UNDERTAKERS PROMPT ATTENTION AND SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Parlors, next door to Telephone Office WATSON BUILDING LOW ROUND TRIPS EAST Throughout the summer season, on dates given below, rono.l trip tickets will be Bold to the points In the east shown below, and many others, at greatly reduced fares quoted. ii CENTRAL DREGDH LIHC Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railways Atlantic City fill 00 Baltimore 107 50 Boston 1)0 00 Buffalo 91 50 Chicago 72 50 Colorado Springs 55 00 Denver 55 00 Detroit $ 82 50 Omaha f CO 00 Dulutb 60 00 Philadelphia 108 50 nanHust iiy tiu UU nttHDurg 91 50 Milwaukee 72 50 St. Louis 70 00 Minneapolis 60 00 Bt. Paul.. 60 00 Montreal 105 00 Toronto 91 50 New York 108 60 Washington 107 50 DATES OK SALE May 2, 3, 4, 9. 10, 11, 17. 18. 24, 29, 1912 June 1. 6, 7, 8, 13. 14, 15, 17. 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 2. 29, 1912 July 2, 3, 6, 7. 11. 12, 15. 16. 20, 22, 23. 2i, 29. 30, 31, 1912 August 1. 2, 3, 6, 7, 12, 15. 16. 22. 23. 29. 30, 31, 1912 September 4. 5, 6, 7. 8, 11, 12, 30, 1912 Ktopovera and choice of routes allowed In each direction. Final return limit, October 31, 1912. Train leaving Bend 6:30 A. M connects directly at Fallbridge with FAST THROUGH TRAIN EAST Details of cchedules, fares, etc., will be furnished on request. W. E. COM AN, Cen'l Freight & Pa. Agt., PORTLAND, ORE. J. H.. CORBETT, Agt., BEND, ORE. (High tirade New) peculiarities and characteristic!!, a all In the discovery of camp High Grade. J "! do. No two are alike. Hign and the efforts that have been made Grade present more of the geological, to rifvelon It. there is nothinir of the topographical and contingent featurea THE BEST LAGER BEER AND WHISKIES IN TOWN AT THE KENTUCKY SALOON POST. A KING. PROPRIETORS Let The Examiner Figure on Your Next Job Work phonominal or sentsational. Isolated from the busy marts, remote from transportation facilities, most of it in acceesable, untrodden by the foot of Caucasian, and covered with anow dur ing six months of the year, Its contigu ous county peopled by stock men and farmers for whom the glitter of virgin gold possesses neither lure nor .charm, the vast and fabulously rich treasure vaults of the Warner range remained unpierced by pick of drill for a genera tion after Goose Lake valley, on the west, and Surprise Valley on the cast, had made hundreds of men wealthy from the ranch and range. But in the story of Napoleon E. Guyot.of the bonansa ledges and incon ceivable riches which he observed in the district, there wss a thrill that encir cled the globe and caotivated masters of finance and veteran mining men everywhere, and Guyot's- story has teen completely authenticated. No orospec'or ot ability or mining engi neer of reDUtation has turned the camp down. Tbey sealed the district with a universal verdict of approval. Nearly half a century after Goose Lake and Surprise Valleys had been yielding thei wealth of erain, veg etables, bay, fruit, cattle, sheen, horses and bogs, Daniel Hoeg, an In dian scout, guide and prospector, eta tiored at Fort Bidwell made the hrst real discovery of gold in camp High Grade, uneducated, unsophisticated, unlettered in "the story of th rocks," Hoag prospected in his primitive way and brought into Fort Bidwell samoles of ore be hjd discovered somewhere in the Warner range. Soon after he was killed in a battle with the Indians leav ing the locations of his (finds a mys tery. After his death bis friends had the samples tested and some of them ran into the thousands: but they could never find the ledges from which they were taken. In the summer nf 1905 an excitement and small stampede to the district was occasioned by the discovery f a rich gold on the summit ot the ranee be tween East Pine Creek and Fort Bid well by Peter Lorenzen and son, sheep berers. The samples were analyzed by Thoe. Price and Son, of Oakland, re turning $2552.40 per ton in gold. The claim was named the Oregon-California Lode, now owned by the Bidwell .Gold Mining Company, Shortly thereatfer the Big Bonanza, Bonanza King, Golden Knight and Golden Treasure claims were located by Alf Reid, George Plummer and Bert Wade. They now comprise the Big Four Group. The Huckleberry group, adjoining the Big Four was located by Wm. Burgen, George Hammeraley and Jack Devilbliss. Then came the loca tion of the Mountain Sheep, Sunshine, Consolidated Group, Seven Thirty, Modoc, Seven Lakes, Tamarack, Yel low Jacket, Sunset, North Star, Altur as, Last Dollar and'others. All of these claims have been developed to the ex tent of disclosing paying ore. The Sun chine now owned oy W. A. Schauers and Charles Laughlin, who are, more than any others entitled to credit for opening the pay streaks of different properties and 'placing High Grade properly on the map, is considered the banner property of the district by re a son of the large amount of High Grade it baB produced from grass roots down to the bottom of the 40 foot shaft. Ore from this property has assayed over $20,000 per ton. Mr. Laughlin came into the district from Breckinridge, Colorado in the stampede of 1905, and Mr. Scbauera came from Georgetown, Colorado In toe spring of 1906. to get awsy from mining and engage in the real estate business. But the call of the hills was to strong for him, and he soon found himself once more tracing the float up to its mother ledge. Forming a part ner ship with Mr. Laughlin, who has no superiors and but few peers as a prospector. He discovered the Sun shine mine in 1907, in partnership with L. B. Jemmerson. No one, can at this time place a logi cal estimate on the area of this miner alized area of the district, or the amount and value of the ores it will produce. The well known mining le gend, "You cannot see beyond the point of your pick,'' hold as good in High Grade as elsewhere. But it is now generally conceded that pay mineral exists in different places for a distance of thirty or forty miles South of the developed district, and sixty miles North. The Lost Cabin, or Windy Hollow District at Plush, Oregon has already given to the world the great Jubmo and several other mines, and prospectors are now busy in that section. High Grade of a Colorado camp than it does the ditsric'a of the Coast, Nevada or Utah. Every symptom and vestige of the desert is eliminated. Forests of fine timber cover the mountains, and purl ing springs, roaring cataracts, rock walled lakes and rushing streams are In evidence everywhere. The general geological structure ef the Warner Range has not been suffi ciently investigated to present a synop sis of it. as a whole, to the public. In this district, experts and practical mining men form different conclusions, as mankind doea everywhere upon all sublect. Some insist upon the exis tence of metamorphosed granite in the near future by an electric line now under consideration. , Prices ofp rovislons and supplies of all kinds are as cheap in High Grade as In any of the camps of Colorado or other favorably located districts, and very much cheaper than In the camps of the desert. With Goose Lske and Surprise Valleys as never failing and never ending sources of supply for feed and other products of the larm, garden snd orchsrd, and with splendid trans portalion facilities High Grade tenders to the world Ideal conditiona unheard of before in the history of new mining districts. (loose Lske ami Surprise Valleys are properly classed among the wonders of the Great West. Here, by a strange combination of toMgraphy, occasioned, possibly ty the titanio eruption which different sections of the range, while divided a great prehistoric Inland sea, others deny this theory. But there is r arm of the ocean, into Goose Lake a universal concensus of opinion as to Rm Surprise Valleys, bv the upbeval the different eprutive areas that have 0f the Warner Range, w behold the placed this geological wonder in a class ard west transformed into dual realms distinctively of its own, in msny par-' 0f grain field and fruitful orchards, tirulara. ! of meadows and garden and happy Metamorphose basalt Is the chsrac- homes; the flocks and herds upon a teristerlc, preponderant country rock thousand hills, the sound of peaceful of the range. This vast aggregation ' and productive industry borne upon of eruptive matter baa been intruded breeze that come down from the rock by dykes ot trachite, rhoylite, baslte , ribbed, pine clad mountains, relatn g and porphry and these again have been legends of golden wealth untold hid- interesected by the networks ot anile-; den away in the aubterranean reeeuvs site, phonolite and quarts contact and of the bills, awaiting the skill and en fissure veins. Gold is the predominating mineral. It is found free in extensive deposits from the eurfsco down to the lowest workings in the distrist, and in tellur ium combination. Silver also exists in paying quantities, and cooper and cinnabar are largely in evidence. The many distinct eruptive dikes and thermal springs of the range, par ticularly in the vicinity of the develop ed properties and the presence of brec ciated matter in many of the veins furnish unimpeachable evidence of guy- ser action in mineral deposition of the terprise of man to bring them forth to contribute to the happiness snd useful ness of the rare. There is no other place under the sun like this geological, geographical, meterologlcal freak of tht, northwest. A little empire of unconiecturat oa sibtiities snd limitless wealth? Goose Lake, thirty miles long, and seven miles wide, swarming with fish and wild water fowl: a fresh water inter mountain wonder, fed by streams from along the entire length ot ita eastern shore, with an average width of four miles, perfectly level, with black soil possesses distinctive camp. I his one iaet, considered in connection with the presence of high grade mineral at and near the surface presents the experienced mining man llurements beyond the possibilities of any other new camp in mining history. A Isrge thermal spring near Cave Lake in the heart of High Grade is now depositing bog iron which runs well in gold. There are many of these hot springs scattered along the Warner Range and in both Goose Lake and Surprise Valleys. The process of mln ral precipitation in the seismie rent fissure ofthe district is now going on in Camp High Grsde, as it has been for millions of centuries. The entire range is a vast expanse of country fur nishing most extensive and conclusive evidence of internal heat and chemical agencies responsible for its construc tion. The highest peaks of the Warner Range attain an altitude of 8,000 feet. In places they are bold, rugged, and the mineral outcroppinga are plainly discernable. But as a rule the moun tains are covered with "wash" and proHoecting must be carried on system atically, practically and intcligentlv to Insure results. Rich float is found for 100 miles along the range. All of this float' came from mineral deposits, and the source of much of it will be uncovered ty the army of proHpectors now coming into the district. The nearest railroad point Hign Grade is New Pine Creek, Ore gon, on the California line, 15 miles South of Lakeview, the countv seat of Lake Countv, Oregon, and location of the nearest government land office. New Pine Creek is but six miles from the principal mines, which are reached more easily and cheaply from this place. While the principal developed properties are In Modoc County, Cali fornia, and located but a short distance from the Oregon line, it is generally conceded that the richest float has been found on th Oregon side. On the eeaternside of Warner Ranse, and at the northern end of Surprise Valley, is located the old town of Fort Bidwell, for many years the principal town in Northeastern California, and a government fort before and after the Modoc war, which wss waged 100 miles weBt in the Lave ;Beds. Fort Bidwell is the local distributing point for the northern end of Surprise Valley, and is an Ideal western town. A railroad has recently been surveyed through the town and Surprise Valley which will oe completed as as it has human energy can do so. When this is accom plished camp High Grada will enioy competitive transportation facilities on different sides of the mountains, and both New Pine Creek andF ort Bidwell will become metropolis cities of the valevs in which they are located. The distance between the two towna is only about 15 miles '.by good wagon road through the center of the developed district. They will be connected in J composed of volcanic ash. decomposed eruptive rock and lake marl, reaching down to unknown depths, immensely fertile and producing all of the pro ducts of the temerste zone, with and without irrigation. Surprise Vallev on the other side of the range, equally fertile, surrounding Cow head, Upper, Middle and Lower Lakes, and these two beauty sKts divided by a rangt ot mountains rising three thousand feet above the level of the agricultural phenomenona, seamed with gold, ribb ed with ailver and copper, lead, cinna bar and the baser metal1', as yet un known, unexplored, unin,,stigsted, ex cepting in circumscribed areas; a land of promise, a realm nf riches, where men now unknown in tre wizard haunts of finance will be tmrnformed from the pale of penury to the pie counters of plenty. And this upheaval of the Warne Range, out of water, leaving these lane lined valleys on either side, ac counta for the presence of metamor phosed basalt in Immense areas, as well aa the unusual precipitation of mois ture, makea of the two vallevs the agricultural surprises they have teen for half a century, and the heavy and long continued snowfall on Warner Range, which has kept a multitude of prospectors and investors, in all parts of the country anxiously and impatient ly awaiting ita disappearance for weary weeks. Moisture attracts moisture to emp The only known outlet of the lakes of either of these valleys is evaporation, which must be precipitated, and most of it manifests itself again in the snows of Warner range and the rains of the valleya. High Grade makes no appeal to the public as "A summer land of song, It is, always has been, and always will be "The anow robed wonder of the northwest." It is a geological sur- pries. It presents to the world miner al deposits that have captivated the most skeptical. No man who has in vestigated its merits has used his hammer. The old timer and recent ar rival unite in soundidng its praises. Its few developed mines are here to speak for themselves. They are an open book for the world to read. There are mines here for those who have the enterprise to come and locate them. How many there are nobody knows. There la a limit to every thing; and this includes the pay propositions of High Grade. This camp will record its disappoint ments as all other districts have done. Not all who come will depart million airs, but no camp on earth ever present- j . eu greater possibilities. No camp on record has disclosed so much rich ore in large quantities in proportion to the development. The deepest workings in the district is the shaft on the properties of the Fort Bidwell Consolidated Mines Co., com posed principally ot Minneapolis and Los Angeles capitalists. Tho Sugsr Pine tunnel of this propertvlhas reach ed a denth of 200 foot below the aur. fare disclosing three ore bodies In well denned vein. The ore averages about $-'10 per ton. Two eleam cut veins have been opened in the Mountain View, also belonging to the Consolidated Company disclos ing ore that runs several hundred dol lar per ton. The company I complet ing arrangements to Install a aaw mill and cynnie plant, which will Insure regular and profitable shipment. The Sunshine has thus fsr outclassed all other properties in the camp In matter of high grade ore In quantity. Two ear loads of ore thst will run $1. 000 er ton, or better Is now sacked ready for shipment. This ore waa taken only 40 feet from the surface from a contact between basalt ami mrphry. The ore has Increased in quantity and ouality with every shot. Exrta pro nounce the Sunshine one of the great coming mine of the world. The Big Four consists of 100 acres of ground in the core of the ramp. It is developed by a 100- foot aha ft and drift, and from this meager develop ment much ore ha been taken, all free milling. The property Is owned by the Hig Four Mining Company, consisting of Geroge. W. Crouder, Ed Keller, Charles Welkins, Jeff Mulkey and It. F. I.ynt p It Is cspitalixed at -$1,000,-000 par value $1.00. 700,000 aharea Issued to stok holders, 300,000 shares in the treasury. It lies three-forths of a mile south of the Oretron line in Modoc County, California, 7 miles eaat of New Pine Creek, and 14 miles north west from Fort Bidwell. Two engi neer's reports on Ihes rtalm state that $150,000 worth of free nulling ore lays on top of theg round on this prop erty. From the surface to .'10 feet In dcolh, and In the tunnel 90 feet deep the general average of the ore hae been $:)9.00 per ton. At the CO foot level an 8-innh vein of quarts waa en countered crossing -the tunnel at the bottom of an Intersecting shaft, the ore from which assays $230.00 per ton. This N on the Golden Knight claim. The other three claims are atill undevelop ed, hut present wonderfully rich sur- fsce showing. There is a new five stsmp mill on the property ready to run : but by reason of the fact that It is now generally conceded thst cynlde i to be the proper treatment for the ores of the district, the mill is now Id e. However, it will be started on the three hundred tons of ore on the dump as soon ss the weather will permit. J. O. Basseler has a lease on the Big i Four until May 1, 1913. He has 0ened up the largest body of ore In evidence In the district. The iiig Four promises to develop Into a great property." Adjoining the Iiig Four on the west. ami an extension or the nig f our vein Is the Huckleberry group, now held under bond snd Ichsb by the Con niemae Mining and Realty Company of Colorado, consisting of Geo. C. Weber, Dennis Sheedy and It. W. Reid. The company Is capitalized at $100,000, with 60,000 shares in the treasury. The company has plenty of cash capi tal to prospecute vigorous development work which will begin early with a force of six men. Ore from the sur face of some of the veins of the Huck leberry group runs up into the thou- ssnds. The Conniemae Company also owns five other claims in the district which they will st once begin to de velop. The Alturs properties consist of a large group occupying the summit and both slopes of an extensive ridge north of Gold Peak mines. These wealldefin-( ed veina of gold bearing quartz are in ) porphry dyko which traversea the country for miles, and adjoins Yellow Mountain on the eaat. Ita Assures show much of the yellow oxidems which gsve to Yellow Mountsin its oolor, as well as its name. The group is owned by the Alturas Gold Mining Company. Both free gold and iron sulphides have been found in this property, running from $50 to $200 per ton. East of the Big Four is the Moun tain Sheep, believed to be the eastern extension of the Big Four. Immense outcrops of rich mineral in this prop erty entitle It to a prominent place among the promising mines of the camp. It has already produced ore of surprising value. It la owned by Schauer, Jameson and McCIeary. una or the properties of the camo that stands out in bold relief upon its own merits is the Modoo group owned by the Modoo Mining Company of which J. F. Cutler, a prominent mine operator well known in Oregon, Wash ington and British Columbia, Is mana ger, and of which N. E. Guyot is one of the eontroling spirits. The property comprises 259 acres of patented ground on the school section, which Includes the recently patented townnlte of High Grade as filed with the county recorder of Modoc county by the company. A number of large veins have been open ed on this property and from the im. 'Cuiilfuuud ou liixrpVigi.y