Show COLORADO telluride examiner P P and partners are working a small force of men on the contention lease and when they can have plenty of water will mill their product at the big stamp mill owned by the san miguel consolidated mining company using a part of the stamps for the work there is considerable 4 good ore in in one on e of the sto pes and it is ready to take down as soon as they are ready to mill it meanwhile more ground is being opened by a small force of men ouray herald yesterday an important strike was made in the alexandria mine which is one of the crawford syndicate group of claims located about half a mile east of the yankee girl on red mountain no 2 the alexandria has been worked since last summer under lease by lonergan stratton davey who made several shipments last season of good grade lead silver ore they have been looking for the main shoot and yesterday broke into a streak of two and one half feet fe et of 70 per cent lead copper ore which promises to carry good silver and gold values from development at various points adjacent to the new strike it is believed that a large ore body has been discovered and that a big tonnage producer will be the result of the development the leaders leasers have so persistently and faithfully pursued ouray herald since last may the camp bird has been forced to forego all work in one of the levels because of an excessive flow of water with the fifty gallon pump which they have been using since that time they have been keeping the water down awn to a certain level A short time ago an order was placed for a 1000 gallon tur bine pump which has arrived and sol as s t as the road between the mine mille and r jet opens up will be taken to the mine a atia placed in operation there will be no S ther trouble with the water after a if of such an enormous capacity has tb 1 started and the taking of ore from fromet level will be commenced as soon as the ter is under control w eldora record the new compressor compressors compress orV the champion mining and milling compa was turned over for the first time me t tw 3 week no trouble was found in brin bringino gini 41 over from the moffat road although it ia w quiren six horses to pull it it is expect expects 3 0 that the air pipes will all be laid and th drills installed and in use the fore part 0 f the che coming week the drills are especial I 1 designed for sloping and will greatly 11 i crease the output three cars of ore we shipped this week two of them being to e second class and one of smelting smelling sm elting grad the ore is hauled by teams to the road about one and one half miles from tj it mine and is there loaded on cars a shipped to the smelter at denver teams are at present finding themselves i able to haul all the ore from this proper tj but the company expects to purchase mo teams in the near future j telluride examiner at the columbi mine in savage basin development work 4 being done on a crosscut which will be ovi one mile in length when completed th lona iona gold mining D company is doing t taj work under the supervision of W G darson derson who has exclusive charge aa drills are employed and about feet ij made each month the drift is feet a aej has to be timbered when finished the will be plenty of good ore blocked out ai then systematic mining and milling can done at a comparatively small cost I 1 expense of the long drift will be confide able but the company figures that with 0 01 coming to their mill it will not take a gr grei while to pay for all the work and turn some dividends on the side john P a john B olson recently made a small i tune from a lease on the columbia a there is reason to believe that the compa can duplicate their work and a little bi N ter because of having a greater ore rose reser to draw from |