Show TH THE E MINES OF TELLURIDE COLORADO FROM THE DENVER MINING REPORTER that part of the san juan mountains which constitutes the water shed for the upper tributaries tributa ries of the san miguel river is centralized at the town of telluride where there is a population of nearly 2000 the half tone accompanying this article is an unusually good picture of the little city surrounded with its towering q hills the view is taken lookin looking eastward and up stream name whose come out of ingram basin while to the right bridal veil creek umes comes in from the south forming where it breaks oft off over the cliff a cataract feet high unfortunately the picture does not show this beautiful waterfall water fall whose roar in june and july can be heard in town with ease the telluride district including ahi ophir is t K A A alt I 1 A 4 t 2 iw i w A ol 01 VP acx 4 fi F i TELLURIDE COLORADO about two miles above the valley ends abruptly in elevations that rise to teet feet and contain three alphi theatres theartres or basins basina as they are locally called in which lie a majority of the mines that support the town coming in at the left hand or north side of the picture is marshall creek at the head of which are marshall and savage 1 basins directly in the background is ingram ingra creek a and fid thib the falls of the same producing about in metallic values annually something more than half of which is gold and the balance silver lead and aid copper the noted producing mines are the smuggler union tomboy japan columbia menona and cimarron on marshall creek the mayflower may hower and waterloo in bridal veil the liberty bell and silver bell in cornet basin th the e butterfly san bernardo silver bell barribeau Car and suffolk around ophir the nellie champion contention and euclid avenue in bear creek and the gold king summit alta bessie and palmyra in turkey creek and adjacent regions besides these there are a larre large number of partially developed and small producers taht tha are slowly being carried forward to tb the condition of regular el shippers the topography of khz 1 region reg 16 n i 1 s S I 1 angly 11 rugged anil and precipitous the surface rock is an eruptive locally spoken ken of as aa which is from 1000 to feet thick under this are san sandstones band stones linic lime stones and aggregating at least feet in thickness which ie are i in their turn by t granite the ore channels are all fissure veins vein s standing nearly verti vertical cal and showing several different 4 systems stems but all b built ailt tipon upon the most substantial plan that is from three to twelve feet in width between walls and running through r the country for miles no signs of a bottom to any of them have ever been found at several places where they have been followed downward far enough to reach the bottom of the they are found to continue right on into the sediment aries without change of size and apparently without alteration in value naturally the district is one where most of the development is accomplished with adit levels and crosscut tunnels where shafts are almost unknown where aerial trams are more common by far than hoisting engines r and where concentrating mills a are r e strictly the proper thing in the majority of cases in fact there is but one hoist in the whole district and that is located underground and has been installed for a special and temporary purpose it will before long be abandoned the town is reached by a short spur of the rio grande southern railroad and has a daily train service all the year round with proper pullman attachments of course all the principal mines are connected with the town by telephone there is a fine public water plant and also a sewer system the telluride power transmission company is known all through the west it is one of those colorado enterprises that has expanded beyond its original limits and the ideas of its originators it is ia furD furnishing ishino 6 power and light at provo mercur and salt lake in utah and also preparing to do the same in butte montana in telluride it is taking 2000 horsepower horse power from the waters of the south fork near ophir and is selling it as power and light all over the camp and is now enlarging its capacity by extending its main pipe li line ne for six miles such installations indicate what the people of the town think of the resources of their own vicinity and will naturally have its effect in encouraging any one who contemplates a investment there |