Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1905-05-12
TAKllMA SHELTER
SOON TO START UP
First Run VIII Be Made on Ore
From the Lytfle mine-Will
Do Custom Work.

in on June LIST, or so soon as the roads
dry up sufficiently to enable the teams
TO deliver coke and at the smelter and
to haul out matte to Grants Pass for
shipment to the refinery. The Com.
pany has stock of coke TO run the
smelter until sufficient matte is pro-
duced so that teams will have load
out when they 20 to Grants Pass for
coke. The matte and coke will be
hauled by Capt j. NJ. McIntire, Of
Grants Pass. who had the contract
for last year. As the Emelter has a
capacity of tous Of matte per day
and each team can haul an average Of
six tons to the load, il will require a
big string Of freight teams to do the
hauling. The distance between
Takilma and Grants Pass is 43 miles
and II will take four to five days for
team to make the round trip. Capt.
Mclntire has had his teams for the
past month hauling ore from the
Lyttlo mine to orc bins at the smelter.
AS the distance Is but 80 miles and
all down grade, the teams are able to
haul big loads and the mines are
rushed to keep the supply Of ore. So
soon as the smelter starts Capt. Nc
lntire will turn this hauling over to
another freighter aud put his teams
on the Grants Pass road hauling
matte and copper.
The Smelter Company having
bought the Lyttie property, they now
have four due copper lodges, the other
three being the Queen of Bronze,
Maybell and Cowboy. When the
smelter was completed last fall and
the six weeks trial run made, the ore
used was from the Queen of Bronze
mine but this season ore will probably
be taken from all the mines. A lalge
force Of men have been employed,
ever since the smelter shut down last
fall, In development work and large
quantity Of ore has been placed ON the
dump, or made accessible for rapid
stopping. At the Queen of Bronze,
Lyttle and Cowboy ore can be taken
out on cars through tunnels, bat on
the Maybell, it will have to be hoist.
ed and a hoist is shortly to he install.
cd at that mine.
In addition to handling their own
ores the Takilma smelter will do Gus.
tom work and expects to secure a
large amount Of both copper and gold
ore from the mines Of that district.
The ore from the Monumental mine
just across the line IN California has
been found to be especially valuable
as flux and large quantities of it
will bo used by the smelter. Capt.
Molntire made an examination of the
rond last week TO see what work
would 20 required to put II In con
dition for travel by ore teams. He
will probably do tho hauling and will
secure additional G.mule teams for
the purpose. Tho distance between
the Monumental mine and Takilma
Is 10 miles and the route is by the
Grants Pass and Crescent City stage
road except the short distance from
Waldo down to the smelter.
Ore will also bo brouhgt from the
Cohen ledge, located on the divide
between Sucker aud Althouse creeks
about II miles by wagon road north
east from Takilma, This ledge is
gold bearing, while the Monumental
IN both gold and copper, and was first
worked moro than 10 years ago. in
fact IL was ono Of the FIRST lodges
worked in Southern Oregon. big
money was first made with an ar.
rastre aud then for several years a
quartz mill pounded out gold in large
quantities, As is the case with near.
ly all gold lodges in this surface dc.
yelopmont In Southern Oregon ana
elsewhere, tho Oohon pinched Uut to
u small vein aud what was left be-.
came too base tor successful milling
The mill was moved away aud the
mino abandoned for years. Last fall
It was taken up by the Grimmott
hrothols, two practical miners of
Sucker Creek district. Thoy mado for
lower depths on thu ledge, aud as is
nearly always tho case whom lower
levels are reached, the vein hroadened
until they now have 20 inches of high
grade ore between the walls. And
what has also found to ho the rulo in
lther mines has pruvon to be the case
N this mino and the ore has been
gaining in values as wull as uuantit,
IS depth was roaohod While the
loul to the smelter will be- long one
'et Grimmctt Bros feel certain that
heir ore cAcarrios values sufficient To-
make the venture u profitable enc to
hum.