Show COLORADO telluride examiner long cross cuts are being run on the delta up deep creek the silver pick on mount wilson and the columbia in savage basin each of these are to be 1000 feet or longer and entail an immense expense but the management in each case feels that the expense is justified by what is sure to result once the veins are cut boulder M miner iner howard carpenter of the swarthmore Sw athmore company at eldora was in the city yesterday on his way fro from m denver to eldora the athmore swarthmore Sw compa company ny tunnel is now approaching the enterprise vein which should be encountered within the next hundred feet the cutting of this vein althis at this point will undoubtedly prove a prime factor in a renewal of old time prosperity to the camp and the character of the ore encountered when the bore reaches the enterprise ter prise vein is a matter of great interest to all the mining men of the district ouray herald four feet of lead ore assaying 60 per cent and eight feet of quartz heavily mineralized with gold silver and copper has been exposed in the breast of a thirty foot tunnel on the lucky jack on engineer mountain this claim is owned by fred herzinger and he has been working above timberline for se iveral weeks samples which he brought down saturday evening show both parts of the vein to be of fine values mr herzinger will not attempt to develop it this year owing to the lateness of the season but he and his friends certainly expect great things from the lucky jack denver record during the present month a total of 20 tons of lead concentrates 50 tons of zinc and 40 tons of iron was shipped from the mendota mill at georgetown being operated by stephens bros old this is the heaviest output for one month during the past year and the net proceeds realized will exceed 2500 this mill is being fed upon dump matter from the victoria tunnel the capacity being da 60 tons for each 24 hours this mill has been running continuously for the last six years the average yearly net income being after paying operating expenses royalty and smelting smelling sm elting charges leadville democrat one of the important mining events of the year is the ore discovery in the dinero tunnel west of the arkansas river a few days ago while it is an important matter in itself the value of this discovery lies in the impetus it will give to other enterprises in that portion of the county already there is talk of new operations in the sugar loaf saguache and st kevin districts it is certain that two or three enterprises will be set to working there during the remaining months of the present year the coming winter and spring it is believed will witness a great boom in the country west of the river boulder miner the initial ton test of the new cyanide mill of the taylor gold mining company at magnolia will be completed this week and so far as it is possible at this time to deter determine mizie the work of the mill is satisfactory and should the cleanup clean up verify the predictions of the management the mill will at once be put into commission and steadily operated on ore from the magnolia camp the success of the cyanide method of ore treatment for boulder county ores has been demonstrated in various parts of the country and the new mills in various stages of construction when completed and in operation will greatly add to the output of yellow metal from this section |