Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-05-05
MINES AND MINING NEWS
OUR NORTHWESTERN MINES.
MINING NOTES.

ed States Marshal Zoeth Hauser Of
Portland, who is at the head of strong
company of Pendleton ;eople. The
strike was made in No. tunnel, and
consisted of a two-foot vein Of rich
pyritic ore assaying an average Of
$33350 per ton in gold, with additional
copper and silver values.
rich strike has been made in the
300-foot tunnel on the Tip Top mine,
two and a half miles from Bonanza,
on the mpter-Prairie City, Ore, road
At a vertical depth of 80 feet 12-foot
ledge assays s25 across the face. Last
week an 1S-inch streak was encoun-
tered which assayed 5000 per ton in
free gold.
S. II. Hayes, an old-time mining man
from Camp Mckinney, B. c., has pur.
chased the Oregon and Colorado claims
near Quartzburg, from L. Lawrence, of
Sumpter, Ore.
The exceptionally fine weather of the
past week has done much to improve
the condition of roads leading out of
Sumpter, Ore, to the mines. The Gran
lite road is still impossible, though the
Geiser, Prairie City, Quartzburg, Can
yOn City and Rohinsville roads are
rapidly becoming good.
Three large deals are pending, two
on Palmer mountain and one on Mount
Capacca Details are not made public.
1t is known, however, that the three
deals will aggregate $150,000 and will
probably be consummated within 30
days. The capital comes from Indian
apolis, Milwaukee and New York.
The 21st vein in the Palmer Noun
tain tunnel has not been crossed. AS
says are running we'll and the vein
promises to be of good width and to
give good values.
Contracts will soon be let for the
longest mining ditch in the world 1t
will be SO miles long, beginning above
Rogue River Falls and terminating at
Gold Hill, southern Oregon. 1t will
drain 100000 acres of gold placer land,
and will cost 100000, considerable
portion of which amount is subscribed
by Portland capitalists.
A rich strike of chalcopyrite ore has
been made in the cross-cut at the 100
foot level in the Buckhorn mine in
Deadwood camp. The ore has an ex-
ceedingly rich appearance and the man
agement are we'll pleased It is ru-
mored that the Sunrise claim in Dead
wood camp has been purchased from
Frost and Hardy by the Mother Lode
Company. whose property it adjoins.
The claim for the oldest copper mine
in the United States is made for Santa
Rita del Cobre mine in Grant county,
New Mexico 1t was worked by the
Spaniards more than 100 years ago.
Governor Otero of New Mexico also
claims the first gold mining in the
United States was in that territory, on
the placers in the Taos valley, Taos
county.
The strike in the Park, near Wallace,
Idaho, continues to be the theme of
conversation among the stock invest
ors. The vein on which the Park is
located is large one, which has been
traced for miles, There are four in
eorporated companies owing claims on
it, the Park, Springfield, Comet and
Champion, with IL claims between
them, besides a number not stocked.
Parties who have been over the ground
say that they all present the same gen
eral surface showing
The latest reports from the Chloride
Queen, near Wallace, Idaho, are that
the amount of ore in the face of the
drift shows steady increase, and for
the first time since the tunnel cut the
vein, over 500 feet back, there are two
clean walls to the vein. There has al
ways been one good wall, sometimes
the foot and at others the hanging, but
never both at once before.
transfer of half interest in the
Big Buffalo mine of Buffalo Hump,
Idaho, by which Charles Sweeny of
Spokane becomes the sole owner, was
practically completed at Grangeville
last week.
Activity in Granite, Ore, camp has
received renewed impetus during the
past week through the starting I'D of
the May Queen mill, successful run
OF the chlorination plant just installed
at the Cougar mine and a big strike
al the Strasburg mine. The May Queen
mine, which is about hald mile north
Oh the Red Boy, and about four miles
from Granite, promises to become one
OF the large producers of the camp. It
begins operations with 10 stamps and
TOUR concentrators, crushing about 80
tons OF ore a day, but the mill is so
constructed that 90 more stamps and
eight more ooncentrators can easily be
ADDED, 1t is the intention of the man
agement to install this additional
equipment as the mill is running like
ciockwork and there are about 100. 900