Myrtle Creek — DOUGLAS County

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Myrtle Creek — DOUGLAS County

Gold Mining Site OR • DOUGLAS County County
Description
If you go east and northeast of Myrtle Creek, in the drainage basins of North and South Myrtle Creeks you will find some extensive placer ground. On Lee Creek and Buck Fork there was over 50,000 ounces of placer gold recovered. On Letitia Creek, a tributary of South Myrtle Creek, in the NW 1/4 section 20 township 29S range 3W is the Chieftrain and Continental mines which recovered over 100,000 ounces of lode gold.
Historical Notes
Source: Tom Ashworth's Prospectors Cache (tomashworth.com / Tom Ashworth). Author: Tom Ashworth. Original page: douglas_or.shtml. Area: Myrtle Creek. Map coordinates refined from text (area: "Myrtle Creek, DOUGLAS County, Oregon, USA"). Still approximate — verify on the ground. If you go east and northeast of Myrtle Creek, in the drainage basins of North and South Myrtle Creeks you will find some extensive placer ground. On Lee Creek and Buck Fork there was over 50,000 ounces of placer gold recovered. On Letitia Creek, a tributary of South Myrtle Creek, in the NW 1/4 section 20 township 29S range 3W is the Chieftrain and Continental mines which recovered over 100,000 ounces of lode gold.
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