Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-07-16
Gold hill Notes
(By A. E. Kellogg.)

shipped. Since the war began thre
years ago many of the gold mines an
sawmills In this district have beel
laying Idle. Buyers have come int
the district, rendering fancy price
for machinery of every kind, and the,
have stripped many of the sawmill
and the mines, shipping the machin
cry north, much Of it going to Alaska
This has caused shortage in al
kinds Of equipment, when the timbe
and mining industries resumed re
Gently. Many of the operators wht
sold now see the error of their sna1
Judgment in selling, having in view
that 1t was the top price. and that Il
would give theme chance to procure
improved machinery when they were
ready to resume, probably at a less
price. Since general resumption OF
activities they are now needing the
machinery and some are unable tc
procure 1t even at double the price
they sold for a year or two ago.
o. NJ Raseau of Seattle, represent.
ing iron ore interests, after returning
from the new manganese find in Jo-
sephine county on Buck peak, west
of the Josephine Caves, inspected the
iron ore deposit at Colo Hill. He
found on the Fleming property, which
is held by Mike G. Womack of Med
ford, and others, sufficient mangan-
ese blended with the homatite-mag-
netite iron ore deposits to make a
good ferro-manganese base. The only
question now before beginning ship
ment of this ere Is, the extent OF the
dyke, which present works show a
dyke 100 feet wide, and extends on
over the mountain, by the indication
Of the groupings on other claims
crosscutted on the strike of the dyke.
This dyke parallels the property held
by William Piggott of Seattle, and Is
known as the Oswego plant holdings.
The Piggott holdings is an extensive
dyke Of ferruginous deposit consist
ing OF imonite-hemat;te magnetic
ore, occurring in lense shape in Pale
ozaic sediment. which includes some
limestone and abundant argellite.
The history of the Piggott holdings
dates back to 1870, when 1t was first
developed. All these iron ore depos-
its seem to run to copper Rassau
put small crew Of men to work last
Tuesday clearing the ground on the
Flemming property for camp, and
improving the road leading from the
Gold Hill Sans Valley highway to
the mine. He will next put crew of
miners to work crosscutting the dyke
a few hundred feet down the hill be-
low the present works The present
works on the mine would permit the
shipping Of ore at once but the ex-
tent of the ore will be determined
before such move will be made.
This mine is situated one mile north
of Gold Fill.
G. N. Shaver, the Gold Fill barber,
and family spent several days during
the roundup in Ashland their former
home. While there he sold his resi-
dence property on Fork street in Ash
land to Minnie Lane.
Friends of Alfred Lewis of Gold
Hill will be panied to learn that he
is quite sick at his home with an at
tack of Bright's disease. Lewis has
been a very important factor in min
ing circles in this district for num-
ber of years. He has had charge CT
the Mountain King quicksilver mine,
owned by ]. R. Hayes of Detroit,
Mich, since Hayes took over the prop
erty several years ago. This property
is located in Ramsey canyon north of
Gold Hill, and under Lewis manage
ment has developed the most promis-
ing cinnabar deposits in this district.
His first illness, occurring a few
months ago, has been attributed to
severe case of quicksilver poisoning
contracted in handling the native
quicksilver in the mine.
William A. Douglas, an expert min
ing mill man Cf the Gold Hill district,
has been in Josephine county the past
month installing a Huntington mill
on the Boswell mine near Holland.
Mr.. Douglas returned the first of the
week to look after his mining inter-
est on Calls creek. He predicts that
the Boswell property will prove to
be the richest ever known In southern
Oregon. The property was until re-
Gently in litigation for three years,
but the decision OF the courts gave
Boswell a clear title.
e. ", better known as Bert Kel-
logg. formerly of Gold Hill, also Of
the Cove ranch near Ashland, spent
.ho nost waax IN the valIev looking