Show COLORADO boulder miner two carloads of concentrates cen are being loaded this week at the boulder county mill by the primos min ing company to be shipped to the primos primes chemical company at primos primes pennsylvania the value of the shipment is approximately there appears at this time to be no particular change in the tungsten market and it is hardly probable that there will be leadville democrat A three inch streak of jasper ore was recently encountered in the margaret mine near granite and this promises to make that property one of the richest in the country every sample taken out of this vein is literally covered with specks of free gold and these particles can also be found in every portion of the vein the extent of the rich streak can not be determined at this time but the employed emp loyes of the mine are busy developing it and would not be surprised to have it open into a largo large ore body ouray herald the initial step in the opening up of the pony express mine in the district just north of ouray was taken this week by joseph H tumbach bumbach Tum bach who made a trip to the property with his consulting engineer J C ingersoll on thursday a small force of men were put to work making the necessary preparations for the opening of the old workings of this property and the necessary supplies have been put in the work is being started with the idea of a complete and thorough development of this old property which has lain idle for the past ten years ouray herald on wednesday of last week work was started on shoveling out the trail to the thistledown mine on mount hayden with a view to starting work on that property immediately additional new equipment for the working of that property has already been purchased and is on the road the hoist formerly used on the chipeta chapeta mine will be installed in the thistledown and used in completing the raise being 1 made in that property from the lower tunnel level to the workings above a distance of over 1000 feet other machinery with transformers has been shipped and is on the road and expected to be in at any time leadville democrat fred kuenzel of buena vista was in the city a few days ago acro 2 and announced that the new process smelter which he is erecting at that place Is nearing tion and that he will have four furnaces ready to blow in about may 1 A power house and electric light plant have been erected and two boilers of horsepower each are now being put in place with their installation the plant will have a steam production capacity of horsepower the smelter plant proper is to be 65 by feet the building to rest on a concrete foundation the present arrangements call for the construction st of four furnaces of a capacity of fifty tons each per day but as the business of the plant increases others will be installed tracks are now being laid from the denver rio grande railroad so that the ore can be hauled right up to the bins 0 |