Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-07-11
OREGON GOLD.
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A Baker City (0regon) telegram
saws: The gold fever is breaking out
again in Idaho, Montana. and oregon
n is 1. the air, and must have run.
Men are NJ work along the Snake ri'er
for three hundred and fifty miles, ana
every day new fields are opened Last
week a deposit was found in clay
bank at the mouth Of Billingsley creek
that is turning out from forty dollars
to one hundred dollars per day per man.
with the most primitive form OF rocker
anparatus. While this is singuIariy
rich streak. the ground for some mics
back from the river prospects well. Al
Silver City, |. T., one OF the Oldest
camps on the Pacific coast, mines aoan-
doned years ago are being reopened
with good results. Out Of twenty-five
mines and prospects in that locality
there is not one but that Will pay
largely. The old Orc Elmo is being
put in shape for working, and 1t IS
estimated that the yield this sea-
son from the extension OF that
mine alone will be 100000. 1t
is worked by three men with picks
only. Large nuggets of free gold are
daily taken out Of the War Eagle and
Florida mountains from the pay streaks.
The lodges also average well in gold
and silver sulphurets, aside from the
free gold. In Wagontown, nine miles
from Silver City, there is a low-grade
quartz ledge, forty feet wide. running
from sl2 to 500 per ton. The building
of the Oregon Short Line has afforded a
means of reaching the Idaho and Oregon
mountains, and the development from
this time on will be rapid. The recent
find near Huntington is a legitimate
one. This field is called Pine Creek,
and is in the southeast portion of Union
county, Oregon. 1t was discovered
about thirty days ago by placer pros
pectorS, and is now camp of over 200
people. There is an extensive mineral
belt, 40 by $50 miles, stretching away
into Eastern Oregon, north and south
along the Snake river. and from this
belt $50, 900, 600 in gold has been taken
by placer miners alone in the past
twenty years. This fine gold is sup
posed to be washed from the lodges in
the mountains where the new quartz
fields have been located.
LIST OF PLACER CAMPS.
These placer camps are as follows:
Aburn, twelve miles west Of Baker
City, discovered in 1862, the srst camp
IN Eastern Oregon; output from 81, 000,-
0OO to 81, 100000.
Fort Sumter. twenty-five miles west.
on Powder river, opened in lS64-'5
output 100000.
Granite Creek, forty miles west,
opened in 1865; output about $1,000
Geo.
Robinsonville, thirty-siX miles north
west, opened in 1866; output $1,000
coo.
Clark's Creek, % miles south
opened in 1865 output $3,000,0O0.
Malheur. Eldorado, and Amelia dis
tricts, 80 miles south Of Baker City,
These camps are furnished with water
from a canal fed by Burnt river, lie
miles away, at cost of S4O0, 900
The output from the three has been
nearly $4,000.0O0.
Humboldt Basin, 3j miles southeast
opened in 1865 output about $500.
Geo.
Rye Valley, thirty miles southeast
opened in 1864, worked by Boston
company under the management o
John NJ. Drew, formerly Of the Bostor
Herald output from 100000 t.
$4.000,000.
Pocahontas. eight miles southeast
opened in 1864 output $4,000 an
nually.
Connor Creek, fifty miles east, quart
mines, with iorty-staInp mil outpu
5000, GOO year.
Virtue quartz-mine, eight miles cast
worked to a depth of 500 feet anC
lenth of 1000 feet, has twenty-stamT
mill, and since 1868 has yielded 81, 600,
/ 000.
Sparta. thirty miles east, quartz and
+ placer, opened in 1868; output 50, 500,
/ 600.
THE PINE-CREEK CAMP.
The record Of the above camps vii
show that the mining interests Of Ore
/ gOn are permanent. and that the new