Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-23
Activity Of Mines
Promised at Once

The Ashland district has prospects
of mining boom as well as a min
eral springs boom, Normal boom
and a railroad shop boom. People
who know the old Ashland mine
agree that If its stockholders were
to get busy it could be made an ex-
ceedingly profitable producer once
more. New evidence of this lies in
the fact that Allen Davis and Major
Carter-two well-known mining men
are now taking out ten to fifteen
dollar ore on the Wagner estate ad-
joining it.
They have capitalists interested in
their prospect and believe they can
revive the mining industry in the
hills at the west edge of Ashland on
large scale than in the palmiest
days of the old Ashland mine-if
they can get the stockholders in the
latter proposition to act in unison
with them. They have hopes of do
ing so. Efforts to this end have been
going on in a quiet way for months
An even brighter outlook for min
ing activity in this section is that of
the Casadaga Gold Mining Company
of which j. l.. Corbett of Ashland Is
the head. Mr.. Corbett has labored
for two years on a group of claims
on Bullion Mountain at the head of
Hungry Creek, little beyond Mount
Ashland. He has put his own money
| into them as well as a bunch of
| money from local capitalists. He
announces that he has now secured
bunch of eastern money and has
every prospect of making a paying
mine soon.
/ Mr.. Corbett leaves for San Fran
cisco in the near future to purchase
milling machinery. The first INSTALL
ment of machinery will cost about
$4,000. He has about $4,000 worth
of ore in sight in his various tunnels
and enough ON his dumps to more
than pay for the machinery. The
ore goes from seven to thirty dollars
per ton, with an average of about
fifteen dollars. There are seven diff
ferent lodes on the property, and so
far as they have been worked moth
ing has been taken out but what has
values sufficient to pay for milling.
Bullion Mountain lies southwest of
Ashland. Mr.. Corbett's company has
claims near the center Of a group of
properties that are of known merit
Among them are the Alta group
owned by San Francisco people, the
West Extension group owned in Reno
Nevada, the Bullion Mountain Gold
Mining group owned in Salem, the
Bailey-Silver group owned in Ash
land, and others. These properties
are in Section Two-in which there
is not foot of ground left that is
not filed upon.
The properties will all see much
development this season. The Alta
group has a 600-foot tunnel nearly
completed and is already equipped
with much machinery. On the Wesi
Extension property a 500-foot shaft
will be put down this summer The
A. B. Gavin Company of Salem has {
fine ore shoot and 500 feet of devel
opment. The Bailey-Silver propert.
, shows twenty-three dollars to thu
I ton, mill test. Taken all together
; Bullion Mountain has a bright out
{ look and will undoubtedly be th
= scene of great activity this season.
{ These and the Bula mine in tn
: south edge of Ashland should awak
/ en- the public to the fact that Their
are mining properties about Ashland
e much richer, and possibly no less ex
I tensive, than the Homestake in Soutl
Z Dakota and the Treadwell in Alask;
= which are turning out million
r from ore that is worth but from tw,
to four dollars per ton. DR.. Coach
$ man of Brazil, who is interested il
0 the Bula mine, is now in Sout
( America, where he expects to interes
: capital in Southern Oregon mining