Show WILL OPEN MINE ouray colo herald in june of 1906 a sensational find of free gold in quartz was made in poughkeepsie gulch the usual scramble for claims litigation and delay in getting to actual development resulted so that it was not until last fall that colonel L A may of new york represented by his local manager joseph H tumbach bumbach Tum bach succeeded in getting titles cleared up and bonds and leases arranged upon twenty five of the centrally located claims work was crowded by contract upon a crosscut tunnel last fall but after driving feet and barely reaching the vein snow drove out the miners the vein was not crosscut and the virtue of patience has since been exercised pending resumption of work which is due to commence in the tunnel within ten days it is exasperating to have just reached the vein at a point directly beneath the surface where trenching drenching tren ching for thirty feet along a six inch streak in the vein showed average values of thirty six ounces gold per ton colonel may as may be imagined is extremely anxious to resume work and prove up this wonderful surface showing by means of the crosscut the gold occurs in clean quartz which accompanies an enormous porphyry dyke along the strike of which colonel may owns locations for more than a mile that he is going to open up a great gold mine is universally predicted and ouray will benefit very largely if he does as the property is very accessible to the town and ought to employ hundreds of men presuming that there will be large shoots of comparatively low grade frei fre milling gold quartz |