E/MJ : engineering and mining journal . sphineCounty. A pit ft. below the level of the formerworkings has been piped, and operations have openedup a bed of gravel that shows a different characterfrom the clay banks which have proved so profitableduring the last fifty years of active operation of themine. The extent of the new deposit has not yet beendetermined, as no exploration has been done at this The Easterly property, combining the old Logan, Sim-mons and Cameron placers, has been a profitableproducer for more than fifty years. It now consists of4200 acres, practically all of which is
E/MJ : engineering and mining journal . sphineCounty. A pit ft. below the level of the formerworkings has been piped, and operations have openedup a bed of gravel that shows a different characterfrom the clay banks which have proved so profitableduring the last fifty years of active operation of themine. The extent of the new deposit has not yet beendetermined, as no exploration has been done at this The Easterly property, combining the old Logan, Sim-mons and Cameron placers, has been a profitableproducer for more than fifty years. It now consists of4200 acres, practically all of which is payable water rights attached to the property consist of aflow of 14,000 miners inches, water being supplied by asystem of ditches that total twenty-five miles in property was purchased for $140,000 in 1916, fromJames Logan, who successfully operated it for manyyears, by the Waldo Corporation, of Seattle, Wash.,deorge M. Esterly is manager and superintendent. Ac-cording to mint shipments, the annual output of the. ^v ; ., .lUtfEllllMJ Ilil NTV, pit, liydraulic giant in operation, elevators, and tailing flumes particular place, although many prospect shafts weresunk during a preliminary investigation. No clean-uphas yet been made on which it is possible to base anestimate of the gold contained in the ground, but suf-ficient panning has beei done to demonstrate the pres-ence of much coarse gold. Heretofore the gold securedfrom the ground covering ths deposit has been fine, andflour gold was found to be evenly distributed throughthe eay banks, which range from 15 to 35 ft. in deposits, according to Kay, have averaged about12ic. in god per , and contain some platinum. Oregon Bureau of Mines 191ii Handbook. p. 113. mine for the last three years has averaged $45,000 ingold dust and $10,000 in platinum. Hydraulic Elevators To Be Replaced byWater ClassifiersA hydraulic elevator system has been erected to pr
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