East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-09-22

NJ. Allpin and Pat Davis started ou'
to reach the Deschutcs on foot. After
incredible suffering the first two sue
,eeded in reaching their destination.
The party had not made more thai
four miles from the John Day Whel
Mr.. Alphin gave out and lay down by
the side of the trail Mr.. Davis pro
cceded probably a mile further when
he became exhausted and turned
back. Neither of these men have
since been heard from, and the prob
abilities are that they died that night
On wednesday, January Is, Messrs
~. Mulky, r. S. Jeffrics, II. yelling
ton, William Riddle, Dousal McDon-
aid, J. e. Glover C. Nichols, II. 5,
Niles and l. e. Jaeger left John Days
for the Deschutes. They were out
two days and two nights. Jaeger was
the first one of his party that gave
cut He was left on the road, about
Is miles from the Deschutes, and al.
though not frozen, was utterly cX-
haustcd. Mr.. wellington, the last
man, left him at daybrcak on the 10th
that ecapcd uninjured. Messrs. Rid
die and Jeffries are frozen all over,
and the balance suffered greatly in
their hands, feet and ears. Jaeger,
without doubt, has perished
New Process Discovered
The foregoing is the history of
primitive placer mining in Oregon
| After the shallow placers were work
| ed out by pans, rockers and sluices,
then came the larger operators with
I hydraulic pipes, giants, reservoirs and
long canals to bring in water to wash
down vast deposits of gold bearing
gravel in hills and bench deposits.
| And after that came the most perfect
work of mans inventive ability To
find the reclaim the grains of gold
from mother earth, the power dredge.
This aggregation of steam power
dredges, elevators, rockers and
screens floating boatlille in chan
rel eXcavated by the great machine
iself is now at work, not only in Ore
gon bat all over the world wherever
1 placer gold is found in quantities
which iustifies the expenditure of
building a dredge that may cost $50
600 to 100000.
After the shallow placers were eX-
hausted the miners turned their at
tention to the discovery of the sources
from which the placers were fed, the
veins of gold bearing quarts in the
hills Much money has been spent IN
| oregon in sinking shafts, running tun-
reIs and building mills to crush the
gold bearing rock that has been losl
because the vein deposits would fail
the ore prove refractory, or too poor
to work at "A profit. The greatest dis
coverv. and one which has enabled
miners to work over at profit pile:
Of. tailinEs from abandoned mines
and quarts mills. and work low grade
and refractory ores, is what it called
the cyanide process.
This was simply the use Of tbs
chemical known as the cyanide OF
potassium to recover fine particles o.
gold and gold allied with various
minerals that would not give up e
any other re-agent. The cynaide pro
cess Of saving fine gold in quartz mil
treatment was invented, discovered
and proved at Glasgow, Scotland, il
lSSS: and was practically proved an'
developed at the Crown Mines at Ia
rangahake in Australia in the yea
1889. Thomas Melville. an old Auck
land Australian resident. floated IN,
4 Crown Mines co. in Glasgow. an'
after doing so. in company with SOM
Of his shareholders they tested tEl
new cyanide process discovery in
small way and found IL 50 successfu
that il was then adopted in m
Crown mines in Australia. and from
that beginning is spread an over ih
world wherever there we're gol
Il mines.
Besides the Southern and Faster
oregon mines noted above. gold ha
been found in the state in many othe
places. the largest and most pr0mis
ing deposits being al the Bohemia
mines In lane county. Here Is "a larg
amount Of money has been expended
rot only on fhe mines. but OF wasOI
roads and a railroad 20 cheapc
transportation.
Gold has also been found ~ th
head of the Clarkau-as river ir CIarl,