Show COLORADO ouray herald another strike in the red hed mountain I 1 district is reported this week in the mountain lion property A threefoot three foot body of shipping ore has been cut in the tunnel which has beer driven a distance of six or seven hundred feet the ore carries gold silver and copper though the copper values are said to be small the property is being operated by the gold lion company ouray herald the san pedro people packed fifty tons of their ore from the tenderfoot vein known also as the clara bell to the revenue mill to make a test of it it is understood that if the test proves satisfactory is three hundred tons more will be run through the mill the assays essays from this vein are said to be good and there is little doubt that the treatment will be sat satisfactory isfan la plata miner the bonnie girls 50 stamp mill is running steadily on good ore the daily cleanup clean up giving perfect satisfaction to those interested these good results insure extensive improvements in the near future one of them being an electric plant at hesperus so as to get cheap coal and another is likely to be the enlargement of jhb mill next season it is also probable that machine drills will be installed at the mines telluride examiner papers will probably be signed today transferring the G A R and belle view in the mount wilson district to joe king james mcwilliams and other parties represented by them by the terms of the bond and lease are to be paid within the next ten days to the owners P P Stein wandle and henry williams and before the first day of july next if the sale is consummated the new owners will at once begin active mining operations the property is most cousby situated and was written up at length in the examiner a few weeks ago telluride examiner A small force of men have been working steadily all the year on the marie antoinette a few miles above the town of ophir with encouraging results the vein recently encountered in the new tunnel shows a foot or more of ore and an extensive sample taken across the vein last week returned a value of to the ton the property was located by john E mulkey perry davis and dan martin a dozen years ago but passed to the control of the marie antoinette mining milling company this spring there are twelve claims in the heart of the iron springs mining district and also a 20 acre mill site with good water rights several veins cross the property including about feet of the famous silver tip vein leadville democrat one of the new shafts on rock hill which is fast coming into prominence is the rock and dome under lease to kanaugh and king the shaft was sunk from surface by the present operators and is down feet at which level a station was cut and lateral work carried on cleaning up old workings in this prelim preliminary work some 50 tons of ore were gath ered and now await shipment and the work has progressed so favorably that at present the lessees lessels are about at the point cherb old ore bodies in place will be exploited the ground opened by the shaft has not been touched in fifteen years the days when the cream of the ore was skimmed and large of low grade were left the ore is now a splendid marketable product and the lessees lessels expect to realize a profit on over a year of dead work |