Show COLORADO boulder miner on monday morning manager girand increased his force of men on the addison lode of the golden message mining company two shifts will be employed in drifting easterly and westerly in the foot level both of which show large bodies of good milling ore with seams of tile the very high grade tellurium for which this property is noted boulder miner A mcclelland of gold hill who is leasing on oil the 1000 foot level of the slide was in the city the latter part of the week looking after a shipment ot of high grade ore which was sold to the local saili sampling pling works the settlement was made on 14 ounces and indicates that the old slide though one of tile the first mines discovered in the county is not all in yet telluride examiner the little mary mining company composed of H lindsley lyndsley W 0 dark clark oscar bengtson carl anderson and george young are working about twenty five men on oil the little mary mine which lies between the sheridan and tile the top of tile the range on the north side of marshall marshal basin they are taking out some mighty good ore and milling it at the old pandora mill where they are leasing two batteries of five stamps each the returns are satisfactory pueblo chiefton Ch chief lefton ton the most important item of mining news learned about the camp bird in many months is that the third level cast heading in the mine is showing a we well 11 mineralized vein between five and six feet wide samples of which give returns of from 2 to 5 the heading is now being pushed forward into this vein matter which in appearance has all the characteristics ot of payable ore and the indications are favorable that a rich pay shoot is not very far ahead leadville democrat during the week the colorado central power company made connection from their plant at the mouth of the yak tunnel with the new monarch mine in big evans gulch electrical machinery has been installed in the new monarch and in the future the plant will be operated by this force this is expected to facilitate the work there and to increase the production without additional cost or to maintain the former output at less expense the ore that has been blocked out at the new monarch is sufficient to keep the mine in steady operation for several years steady shipments continue to the salida calida smelter eldora record fred darrel james fullerton and lon ward leasing on the cold spring made a rich strike on that property this week they struck a vein of tungsten over two feet wide that will run fully sixty per cent the cold spring is the property of the wolf tongue company and much good ore has been taken out of it the strike was made on a drift that was in about fifteen feet from the shaft it is thought that no great eff effort ort will be made at present to take out much ore but they will wait until the market for tungsten is better although ore of this grade and in this body can be handled at an immense profit even with the market as poor as it now is leadville democrat arrangements are being made it is reported by the international mining company to build a smelter near the shaft house of the international property at robinson work is to begin next month and is to be completed early in the summer it is stated at a depth of 1200 feet ore is being removed from the international shaft and about fifty tons per day are being shipped the ore vein is about fourteen feet wide and is better than the ordinary grade found in that part of the country the shaft is built in three compartments part ments which permits of an immense output it is probable that that production will be increased as soon as the smelter is completed which will also allow the removal of lower grade ores the freight rates combined with the smelter charges on ore shipped from robinson make mining there a close proposition the building of the smelter is expected to overcome at least a part of this difficulty |