Show STRIKE I THE TOM BOY I The Rothschilds Ow a Control of This Great Mine Denver Col June 16The new tunnel tun-nel in the Tom Boy mine near Telluride Tel-luride Colo has cut the great ore chute in that property at a depth of 450 feet below the old workings The upper workings have shown a continuous contin-uous body of free milling o over 2000 feet long and 9 to 1 feet wide A controlling interest In the mine was recently sold to the Rothschilds Governor Adams one of the owners says the new development makes the ho mine not only I thq greatest in Colorado I but the greatest in North America At the Alice Mine The Alice company at Walkervllle is preparing to increase its output of bullion I bul-lion by increasing Its workings says the Standard of Anaconda Mont With this end in view a large hoist a just I been erected at the Valdemere mine which I has been Idle I for the past 21 ears s years Te hoisting machinery has already al-ready been placed in position and the work of taking out ore will be commenced j com-menced in a few days The mine is developed with a threecompartment shaft down 300 feet and by a series of seres I slopes levels and winzes I Is connected I con-nected by a 700foot level with the i I Magna Charta one of the companys j I principal mines and the lead Is a continuation i l con-tinuation of the Alice and Magna Charta veins The company has fully complied with the new law requiring enclosed cages but the first model l adopted and m now In use at the Alice mine la be discarded for the Hewitt pattern now in use in the mines of the Colorado company This device consists of steel I lattice work with folding doors and is I I in successful working order on the i orer cages at the Blue Wing The Alice I company Is now equipping its other cagasjin similar manner and the device I de-vice lalso i being adopted by several of the other companies Ir complying I I with the new law the Alice has made an outlay of nearly 1200 It will COt I I the big companies many thousands of j dollars to equip their cages a required j by the legislative enactment The encasing j en-casing I of the cages involves the cutting = I cut-ting down of the cars and some of j the companies have enSrely new gages and cars built Assistant Mining Inspector In-spector Hunter has about completed I his tour of all the mines of the district dis-trict and finds thai several of the companies have not yet complied with the law They are preparing to do so however and Mr Hunter does not an ticipate I that there will be any trouble on this score I Mammoth Record Jottings A carload of hijrhgrade Sioux ore was shirked yesterday Superintendent J B Fleming Is expect ex-pect d to return tothe camp from Austin Aus-tin Nev on about July 1 P J Farnsworth jr is In camp look log after his fathers interests In the Mammoth mine and mill Fifteen or 20 men and six learns are at work on the ditch for the new pipe line to Cherry Creek 1 NIc Treloar has gone to Baker City I Ore to spend a month In Inspecting the mines of that district i lnspeCtngj i Hayes Burke have ready for ship ment two more cars of Ajax ore which will run about 40 to the ton Charles Brown returned Monday J from a ten days trip to West Tlntlc where he sd been looking after several i I rich mining properties Engineers Irish and Campbell are busy putting In new flues In the boilers at the Mammoth mill and overhauling the entire power machinery Surveyor Brooks of Brooks Wier was In the camp last week making a survey of the Napoleon claim for which made application for patent will be Early Tuesday morning the vanner engine at the Sioux mill broke down I and the mill is once more closed It will perhaps be a week before the damage I dam-age can be repaired and the mill started uo uoSince Since the new East Tinlic road has I been ted up the stulls and other sup plies for the Mammoth mine are being hauled up by team W J Harris has I I secured the contract for freighting the material I G H Robinson and Captain Stearns were out Sunday inspecting the SIoux Ajax tunnel The new air compressor I is working in firstclass shape and i three shifts are now being run in the tunnel I Sinking on the main shaft of the Boss I Tweed Is still being continued and a depth fl 200 feet from the tunnel level making In all 300 feet from en surface I has been attained Indications are very I promising at the bottom of the shaft i and the stockholders are considerably encouraged Good ore has been encountered I en-countered and it is expected that a trial shipment will b made in a few weeks The New Sensation A A Brim and S S Phippen have returned from a visit to the New Sensation mine In Honeycomb gulch Big Cottonwood canyon which is owned by these gentlemen and Messrs Lawrence and Dinwoody The object of the visit was to get samples of the ore for the purpose of having the mineral tested with the El lis concentrator now making experimental experi-mental runs at Eight South between beween Main and State This ore carries quite high In zinc and If the concentrator can separate the lead from the zinc as successfully as it handled ore from the Anchor mine at Park City one of the plants will be installed at the mine as i Is estimated that mineral to the value of 3000000 is blocked out in this property I Is the intention to resume development develop-ment work on the New Sensation at an early date Stocks on the Curb Mining stocks were quite active on the curb yesterday afternoon and sales were reported a follows 500 Little Pits burg at W cents 1000 Hercules at 5 cents 1000 Sunbeam at 4J cents lOOOBucUeye at 10 cents moo South Swansea at 160 The sale of SCO GeyserMarion was also chronicled hut the figure at which it changed hands was rot stated state Northern Light was also very firm at near the SO cent mark There has 1 been considerable call for Chloride Point but there is but Jttle on the market and the stock 1 firmly held Silver and Lead The silver and lead Quotations yesterday yester-day wee as follows Bar sliver W4 ccnts 11 r J315 Lead exchange 332Ji1ff340 brokers Copper exchange J1090fflJll1252 brokers J110SU121A casting 1012 = Ore and Bullion Tha ore and bullion receipts yesterday were as follows folows McCornlck C > bullion t2925 T H Jones uo bullion S Z ores 12500 National Bank Republic Dexter cyanides J3000 s Commercial National bank ores J1COOO |