The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-08-23
IDAHO MEN SEEK
NEW GOLD FIELDS
DISCOVERY OF RICH LEDGE SAID
TO HOLD MILLIONS REEVES
OLD CAMP OF MALHEUR.

Colonel T. Y. Patch and other wen
known Idaho citizens are playing a
leading part in staging real come
back for one Of Oregons richest gold
camps, supposed to have been worked
out and abandoned years ago ac-
cordng to Lloyd Riches editor of the
Malheur (Oregon) Enterprise
Writing the Miner following an
Investigation of the Malheur gold
discovery, James r.. Little well known
in this district. states 1.-THE field here
looks good. / think from investga-
tions just completed that this is the
discovery of the mother lode"
In telling Of the new gold find Edit
or Riches states that two months ago
he was asked to find a dead mining
camp for "a moving picture concern.
He told them to come 10 Malheur It
was then one of the ghost cities Of
the west. A store. postomce, black
smith shop. small hotel and a few
people constituted all that was left of
the thousands who swarmed over the
rich placer fields from 40 to go years
ago.
A rapid cnangc has taken place i'm
these two months. The discovery of
rich ledge of ore at Malheur and
new placer field on Willow creek, es-
timated to hold millions in gold. have
brought the old camp TO life again. n
the movie men want dead camp"
they must go elsewhere. But if they
want shots at a camp i'm the beginning
of what promises to be "a real mining
boom this is the place
The quartz find is causing much ex-
element and claim stalking. but the
real discovery. i'm point of probable
gold to be taken out. is the new VIII
low creek placer field It is on VIII
low creek bed. several miles above the
town of Malheur. 1t is estimated from
test holes. there is 100000 cubic |
yards of pay dirt running from S112
to So to the yard in this field
Several small operators have been |
testing this field for some time A |
few months ago Bernard Eastman |
backed by a group of Idaho mining (
men. leased four miles of the creek
bed and began an exhaustive system
of testing Twenty of the test holes.
4X6 feet in size have been sunk to
bedrock over this area. The pay from
these tests computing the yardage
from the surface of the ground to
bedrock. has run from Sip to IS the
yard and shows the pay streak to be
from $50 feet wide to one quarter mile
over this length of creek bed.
Company Is Organized
Mr.. Eastman and his associates. in
Guiding Colonel L. v Patch of Pay
cite as president and Mayor j. r..
Woodward of Payette as secretary
treasurer. have organized the Malheur
Gold Dredging company and they pro-
pose to put gold dredge i'm this field
within a short time The company is
Incorporated under the laws of Ore
gon.
So much for the coId dollars and
cents aspect for the new camp. There s
is little romance in mining to figure
with "a pencil and paper how much
gold can be taken out by dredge in
his field
The discovery, which is creating in
.erest an over the northwest is the
Itch ledge uncovered i'm the old Red
White and Blue mine of Jim Wor- Il
sham. pioneer prospector OF tins dis lt
riot This mine is in the town limits Sc
If Malheur 1t had been long anan- q
Toned Within few feet of shafts c
which brought out nothing the old ii
rospector uncovered "a ledge which d
ssays show runs from $50 TO $4,000 in
o the ton in gold and other metals A
The ledge is rs inches thick and has pc
cen blocked off for a length of 60 We
eet and a depth of the same distance al
$ preliminary test of it's size si
Further sinking and drifting only in
i'm show the true extent of this rich en-
ay streak Mr. Worsham worked for tn
ears in the Rainbow mine, which was TIA
100000 600 producer lie believes st
he new Red. White and Blue viii pc
reduce more
Four Ounces Worth ST. ON
As an example OF the richness of te'
ne ore I saw four ounces of ore trl
ounded in hand mortar. wash out en-
yer 81 in gold OF
The Red. White and Blue mine in sic
NNtS SIN NlallllH MfNAH W III cover an
IMMENSE quantity of the quartz if the
Elm continues as thick as it shows Ian
Dw. There lis a triple discharge six The
amp viii on the property already TO dia
IN. The mill has capacity of is be-
ms a day. 1t is i'm good condition de-
Id has been used but little Most ag
the machinery has the original bor
lint on it, ter
This mine was originally located to
I'd started by an eastern company
he mill was put up and several Ida
ats sunk. The oompanys capital Sid
n out before the rich ledge was To- thi
ted. George H. Bodfsh secured the cor
operty on a lien. He considered the use
me worthless and leased it to Mr. dri
orsham and r. S Glenn The old has