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HISTORIC NEWSPAPER REPORTS OF COARSE GOLD WIRE GOLD LEAF GOLD CRYSTALLINE GOLD AND MASSES OF GOLD AND SILVER, BAKER GRANT CLACKAMAS DOUGLAS COUNTIES OREGON HARDROCK MINES

Baker county, Baisley-Elkhorn mine, alive with wire gold and nuggets. 1900
Baker county, Baisley Elkhorn mine, 4 foot vein wire gold throughout. 1900
Baker county, Baisley-Elkhorn mine, 18 miles W Baker, head Elkhorn gulch, chunks wire gold. 1900
Baker county, Virture mine, Chicago and Little Pittsburn claims, 90lb chunk wire gold. 1905
Baker county, Virtue mine, Baker city, 30lb chunk with 3,000$ gold. 1893
Baker county, Virtue mine, Chicago & Little Pittsburg claim, 92 lb wire gold with 14,000$. 1901
Baker county, Pyx mine, Baker City, wire gold. 1897
Baker county, Pyx mine, Baker city, 10 sacks of wire gold ore 200$ each. 1897
Baker county, Don Juan mine, Baker city, ore half gold. 1903
Baker county, Don Juan mine, Baker City, 50$ a sack gold. 1897
Baker county, Carrol B. mine, Pleasant Valley district, Baker City, specimens ore 1/3 gold. 1901
Baker county, Monumental mine, Baker city, 1,000 oz/ton gold. 1890
Baker county, Gilkey-Kershaw mine, Baker City, 10,000$ of wire gold. 1905
Baker county, Petty-Ables mine, Greenhorn, 60 sacks hinged wire gold ore. 1916
Baker county, Petty-Ables property, Greenhorn, ore held together with wire gold. 1916
Baker county, Baker City mine, Pine creek, upper Burnt river, 15$ chunk wire gold. 1898
Baker county, Berry mine, Baker city, gold specimens by the handful. 1890
Baker county, McKinley claim, 30 miles NE Baker city, 2 miles S Sparta, wire gold. 1897
Baker county, McKinley claim, 2 miles S Sparta, wire gold. 1897
Baker county, Tabor fraction, Cracker creek, gold bugging out, quartz 1,000$/ton. 1903
Baker county, Cracker-Oregon mines, specimen ores glistening with gold. 1902
Baker county, Colombia mine, on Cracker creek, wire gold. 1900
Baker county, Columbia mine, wire gold encountered. 1900
Baker county, Red Boy mine, Sumpter, ore half gold. 1900
Baker county, Red Boy mine, Columbia, high-grading jewelry ore. 1903
Baker county, Physic mines, Columbia, high-grading jewelry ore. 1903
Baker county, Columbia North Pole Red Boy Golconda Bonanza and Physic mines, 10$/lb high graders. 1903
Baker county, X, between Rainbow and Humboldt mines, 1,500$ in leaf gold. 1909
Baker county, Griffin Bros. mine, 1 mile N Sumpter, glittering gold ore. 1900
Baker county, Belle Baker claim, Sumpter, sheets gold. 1900
Baker county, Ibex mine, Sumpter, ore half gold. 1899  
Baker county, Ibex mine, Baker, ore half gold. 1899
Baker county, Sheep Rock mine, wire gold. 1896
Baker county, Mammoth mine, Sumpter, wire gold. 1900
Baker county, Mammoth mine and Belle of Baker mine, high grade picture ore. 1918
Baker county, Conner Creek mine, 90,000$ pocket gold. 1894
Baker county, Conner Creek mine, specimen gold ore. 1890
Baker county, American claim, Marshall group mines, Greenhorns, coarse and wire gold. 1904
Baker county, American mine, Cracker creek, 20$ lb gold. 1900
Baker county, Marshall group of mines, Greenhorns, Sumpter district, wire gold.
Baker county, Marshall group claims, 4 miles from Tipton, Sumpter, wire gold nuggets. 1904
Baker county, Marshall group, American, sold bed wire gold. 1904
Baker county, Inter Mountain mine, Greenhorns, wire and leaf gold. 1901
Baker county, Belmont strike, Greenhorns, native gold. 1905
Baker county, Morning mine, much free gold lower levels.
Baker county, Red Bird mine, Olive creek, wire gold.
Baker county, George Washington mine, 3.5 miles N Prairie city, thumb sized leaf gold. 1900
Baker county, Discovery mine, native silver. 1879
Baker county, Bonanza mine, 7 miles W Whitney, jewelry rock coarse gold. 1921
Baker county, Tin Horn mine, 0.5 miles from Bonanza mine, masses wire gold. 1902
Baker county, Capital mine, some very rich specimens.
Baker county, Belmont mine, Tipton, wire gold. 1905
Baker county, Belmont group, Vincent creek, Sumpter, dollar sized wire gold. 1903-5
Baker county, Excelsior mine, ore sacked. 1889
Baker county, Interocean, Sparta district, thumb sized gold. 1901
Baker county, Interocean mine, Sparta, nuggets wire and leaf gold. 1901
Baker county, Gibraltar mine, Cracker creek district, studded with free gold 160,000$/ton. 1900
Baker county, Esmeralda group, Cracker creek district, more gold than quatrz. 1900
Baker county, Tabor fraction, Cracker creek, ore half gold. 1903 .
Baker county, Virginia mine, Robinsonville, rich gold ore exhibited. 1890
Baker county, Golconda mine, Baker City, 4,000lb of ore half gold. 1899
Baker county, Golconda mine, 30,000$/ton wire gold. 1900
Baker county, Golconda mine, Cracker, ore permeated with gold 20,000$/ton. 1905
Baker county, Golconda mine, 7 miles Sumpter, ore half gold. 1899
Baker county, Cracker creek mines: North Pole, E.& E., Columbia, Golconda, Amazon, Bunker Hill mines on Cracker Creek vein.
Baker county, Red Boy mine, Monarch vein, dazzling-ore half gold. 1900-2
Baker county, Red Boy mine, by Oregon Monarch mine, ore studded with coarse gold on display. 1902
Baker county, x, next to the Red Boy and May Queen mines, visible wire gold. 1900
Baker county, x, next to Red Boy mine, Baker City, Cornucopia district, wire gold. 1900
Baker county, x, Connor creek, ore kept in the safe and is to be melted into bullion.
Baker county, McKinley claim, 30 miles NE Baker City, wire gold, 100,000$ ton. 1897
Baker county, Yellow Jacket mine, Merlin, pretty wire gold. 1907
Baker county, Phoenix mine, Robinsonville, gold stands out in lumps, 7,000$/ton. 1889
Baker county, Old Ackerman mine, Audubon, picture rock hanging together with wire gold. 1935
Beaver county, Indian Creek mining co. Newton, ore full of wire gold. 1897
Clackamas county, Clackamas mine, Molalla, Ogle creek, wire gold to 3 inches.  
Clackamas county, Ogle Mountain M.C., Molalla river, scattered wire gold.
Clackamas county, Ogle Mountain mine, particles free gold and wire gold.  
Curry county, Harrison claim, Sixes river, wire gold.  
Douglas county, Helena mine, Bohemia district, Calapoola mountain, crystals gold to 30,000$ ton. 1898
Douglas county, E. Geiser mine, Tinhorn mining co. Bonanza district, 0.5 miles from Bonanza mine, wire gold everywhere. 1902
Granite county, Snowbird vein, rich in free gold.

GRANT COUNTY ABOUT 25 REPORTS OF COARSE GOLD AND OR SILVER

JACKSON COUNTY 30 REPORTS

JOSEPHINE COUNTY 30 REPORTS

LANE COUNTY 20

LINN COUNTY 10 REPORTS

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