Show HOW OLD OL MINE COME COMES BACK BACKI t I Discover Discovery in colorado 52 Years Now Ago Opens 6 Feet Rich Ore Another ratler dramatic and car certainly taint a concrete te example of oC how o 0 on mines come back bach Is given In a story from Georgetown Colo Cob where an nn old mine discovered In 1866 or about about ff- ff ty-two ty years ears ago today bobs up with witha a strike of ot six lx Ix feet fet of ot excellent cop- cop silver per pcr ore oro Such repetitions ma macome may come In Utah Uth mines an any day In fn th the tha week Th The account Is I as follows A. A Astrike of ot unusual Importance has been made in the mine Hall Hal valley vaHey Samples of ot the ore brought to and on exhibition at Theo Kings ICings show it to be made up of ot galena ga ga lena and a great creat amount of ot gray copper copper cop cop- cp- cp per carrying a n high percentage of sil 81 ver var It I is I said alI that a a. vein of ot almost solid sold ore ore from five to six feet foet In width has has' been leen found foun In the tunnel some 1300 feet teet from the entrance A Mr h Kellog- Kellog took hold of this property a. a 2 year year or more ago aro under bond nn and lease leas stud and but recently completed com corn the erection of ot concentrating works On account of ot the difficulty In getting supplies tho the property was property a was closed cosed down for the winter The first lodes bodes were discovered In Hall Uil Gulch In 1866 1566 by W. W B. B Jacobs Jacobs Al Ai Fellows and Jack Jacobs JacobI On account of these discoveries Cot Cob J. J W. W Hall then a a. t resident of Georgetown sent a s. colored pros prospector Ell Eli El Courtney to tho the gulch In 1867 who discovered the II Whale hale lode The Interests Interest of Fellows and Jack Jacobs finally fell fel to William Willlam Will Will- WJ- WJ lam iam B. B Jacobs acobs who sold Bold the Leftwick and three thre other lodes bodes to Colonel Hall Hal for Hll Hall went to England where he organized a a rich company compan and commenced op operations early In Inthe Inthe Inthe the seventies An n immense sum eum ium of ot money said to have been In excess of ot ofa ofa a n halt dollars was Wa In building roads a a mile five five mie tramway erecting reduction works and In developing developing devel devel- the tbs mines Tho The smelter did not nott get t on a a producing producing basil beuls until George G. G Vivian tool tool hold of ot It i In 1367 when It began benn tur turning ing out lea lead riches at tt the rate of or about five tons ton a a day But the le lead d product did not contain the amount of ot silver siver that the ore promIsed promIsed promised prom prom- and things began began to go from bail bad to worse until tho the money w was waa exhausted ex cx ex haust hausted and tho the whole business went ent to seed aced It I was vas subsequently learned learned that the tho the mines had been pro producing agrade a a agrade grade of or ore that ought to have made the smelting pa pay but all al the rich ore found Its way vay down the opposite side of ot the mountain and only the low bow grade material went to the smelter Tho The miners ha had been high grading to beat the band an band and and the English stockholders stockholders stock stock- holders who It i Is 18 said eald never got a a. penny In return for Cor their Investment In and creditors creditor eventually took the property |