| Show CAPITAL FOR LA SAL MINES Colorado Talent Recognizes Merits of Rich Region One of th most encouraging features Is the Interest being In Inthis this country by Colorado men and MW e canti says a Basin cur respondent of a paper There hea been prejudice shOwn in this Colorado capital and from Colerado but a material change to have coma during the past It begins to look as though eastern wan going to be ax Import in making a greater This was made very noticeable In the theLa La Sal country lat fall wheat Colorado men stepped in here and after two mining at once took hold Dow interested The be said of the county where none but Colorno spirit Is l in the of that Being and ox i en they thing when they see ft and the is that every pat of Is being benefited by tact and enterprise building or the railway into the of Utah means a great toward this section in lit and the sUite of Utah In general A gentleman recently suction and that of the country said that in order lii get thing in title section Colorado spirit La one of the necessary capital always Col prida judgment and once established then prosperity will come lis Invest meats in as well an bets are nut evIdence that liti has faith in this to lii successes in Colorado mining This reference Is to Colonti J M who ip at the heat of the Wilson Mining company wh baa heed in the of nil aa well as In Creek Another of achieve Incus iii La Sti mining is the of mining and mill men hi hithe the Bahn Mr I r Long an ox man itt lold King fame in inthe the San Miguel Caine here late this fail and started up the Basin stamp milL A trial run on two different properties was his object to him himself self aed the mine owners that the values Were hare if given a test in both the results won satisfactory and the mill would be running today had time to make the necessAry Improvements and provisions winter set to tIoW ever tr Long returned to Welt pleased and Will be back horn early net spring to go with the its as have Interested capital to develop a bonded property on Mineral mountain Basin Mills Test Run The first test run of the Basin mill was made an a lot of Tee lull ore in tanking this run It was discovered that Tornado or al although though panning gold freely was not a milling proposition as there was coins thing contained in the ore that had not coins under observation hi all bis cx plates The seemed greasy and carried a dragging heavier than gold The mill wan closed down slid when the battery was cleaned p he was somewhat to that the ore contained platinum some of which wan found in AR large as a and others pounded flat to the of a dime anti nickel Fire and tests have been made anti so far as the is beyond doubt platinum The Indiana and Iowa ores have a value ci from W to per ton Ip gold and at attile tile rate platinum hii shoWn up In these Gold Hill contact veins it value must tun up into the hundreds About sight ounces of this metal were from the battery in large and not counting what had been carried away in the and taken up on the p ate of the ore have been soot to Va elena chemists and so far all pronounce It platinum Properties of Platinum platinum to a report Is a metal with a gravity of 21 It Is the etal occurring lit nature wits the exception of it Is almost Be hard as Iron and very malleable Plat bmw does not amalgamate with quick diver is not dissolved by c nude when cold is attracted by acids except the mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid as aqua regla it i more to melt than gold Native platinum has bech found most In sands On no count of its It remains in the sluices with gold and other heavy ma tangle Platinum is moat readily an follows First y Its great panning It even sold In the pan second Its white Is whiter than lead and In die amalgam by It smooth surface whereas the surface of amalgam an seen with a good gins Ia rough third Its resistance to nitric acid an compared with native sliver or lead Native platinum Is usualLy very Impure occasionally it contains so iron and other impurities as to be dark In color and not easily trout grains of with which It ItIs Is frequently associated It often eon t izi which occurs as flat angular White platinum are lika gold dust Gen platinum grains are smaller than gold grains Large nuggets are very rare I every particular the Cold Hill mum ore conforms with the government description of the if such Is the cage the contact veins of Gold hill are far richer than This mineral occurs In a quartz through which Is tf herni iron and considerably contact veins are traceable through the Gold Coin Tornado Basin Belie Iowa and Gold Hill groups of mines covering a distance of about two miles on lip mountain The quartz in every pass gold quIte freely and It has always been a mystery as to what this peculiar metal was until now Wilson Means Activity The now o actively operating on mesa will net be prepared before spring to begin operations it is in In dIgging a ditch three front hUll creek which will furnish if fully inches of water with which to up the two cannon giants now In ready for action it has secured an entire motion of land on the nies all of which Is pronounced by expert miners as valuable in placer geM In to this it will gave all the float that cover the fur over a tulle These at trout O to i per ton in gold and for which a stamp mill I to be erect ad for their reduction This enterprise Is backed wholly by men and capital J ft Emmett of being the nd Colonel 1 M others 1 CrIpple Creek the lets thy hay a bonanza 1 he nil r from whence all this flost reek came that baa made mes famous Ii be seen to Out of I Ithe the said principal mining enterprises iii this ure purely r ara iti lW promotions and die and the tic 1 i The third eater is flint of the company in Gold where It Ii c mill 01 5 t tOnS With pro 5 l cyanIde ore it itI I x I lu tle irson of J Ii Clark ClarkI I of tle i of the com comIt It u and best pill Il The Is 1 1 ot steady it I Ic the pert of tbt of I iI ilal region Is 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