Show COPPER GULCH developing i 4 herald ouray colo the copper gulch mining and reduction company headed by king C gillette and the DeGol has taken a new lease on life and proposes to do a great deal of development work on their red and brown mountain claims this summer the claims of which there are 67 are located in gray copper gulch but extend up both red and brown mountains for a considerable distance they represent about acres of mineralized land the developments on brown mountain consist of three tunnels in the same direction connected by dinzes in one of these short shafts four feet of solid chal copy rite ore assaying 14 per cent copper and 41 ounces silver is said to have been opened and this will be developed during the summer it is proposed to drive an ali intermediate tunnel which is designed to cut two of the bodies exposed by the other bores and work on this will begin next week it is the belief of the management that by means of the proposed developments they will be able to break out 50 tons of ore per day great things are expected from the de golyer tunnel which will be driven into red mountain a distance of feet where immense bodies of copper ore are believed to lie judging from the outcroppings outcrop pings |