The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-14
GOLD BY TIE BUcKETFUL.
Another Klondike IN Baker County,
Oregon.

Another Klondike IN Baker County,
Oregon.
Inasmuch as quite a number of Salt
Lakers are interested in mining in the
near neighborhood of Baker City, Ore,
the following communication from Can
yon City to the Baker City Democrat,
is worthy Of reproduction. The Demo-
crat says:
Gold. buckets of goldi And not only
buckets of gold, practically bushels of
gold is in sight at the Great Northern
claim on the mountain back of town.
The display, amounting TO $500 or $500,
which Mr.. Guker had on exhibition last
Sunday, could be duplicated by the
washing of q few pans of the decom-
posed quartz which he finds in q deeper
pocket, or extension of the same pocket
in his Great Northern ledge.
Mr.. Guker has three men employed
and for the last few days they have
been busy making secure the walls of
the shaft where the gold is found, in
order to guard against accidents. A
trip through the snow TO his claim af-
fords a pleasant sight not often beheld,
where apparently an exhaustless seam
of gold laws between walls of porphyry
the richness being beyond the widest
dreams of the KlOndike argonauts and
the extent of which is yet to be deter
mined. The claim proper, embraces
two parallel lodges running in a. north
easterly and southWesterly direction.
On top of the ridge above Pine creek is
a three-fOot ledge dipping to the north
west. Lower down the mountain is
what Mr.. Gul1er calls the mother lode,
a feet wide and dipping to the south
east, or in toward the heart of the
mountain, and directly toward the other
IL Il
leaves the narrower of the two lodges
and runs into the mountain southeast
erly and another spur bearing gold runs
in a northyesterly direction, crossing
the 14-fOOt ledge just above the place
where the rich pockets have been
found. ! great many seams or string
erS of quartz intersect the mother lode,
coming in almost due north. These
seams Mr.. Guker followed up last fall
before the snow fell, and where they
join the mother lode is where the rich
pockets have been located. These
pockets are merely depressions in tho
porphyry for walls, and the gold lies in
decomposed al artz and porphyry in
seams and creviceS, narrowing down
and again widening to conform to the
contour of their p0rphyry prison.
All the lodges and spurs on Mr..
Guker'S claims will prospect well, and
work to establish their pernanency. On
the mother lode he will run a cross-cut
60 feet below the surface at the upper
end, and has fully demonstrated by
tunnels and shafts that the lodges are
there. He. and all other miners, are of
the opinion that when the lodges unite,
as they must inevitably at no great
depth. there viii be the richest quartz
claim that the world has ever produced.
At the present time all the gold has
been washed out with water produced
from melting the snow in vessels. BY
this slow process Mr.. Gul1er says they
can take out ore and average 20 pans
q day. The best pan during the last
few days contained SS4 %. Unless it
grows better. as it has been in the
habit of doing. it will prabably not
average this much. However. should
the average be only s25 to the pan, four
men can take cut $500 a day. which is
pretty fair wages even now.