Show COLORADO boulder miner in sinking twelve feet in the bottom of the twenty feat afeei below the tunnel level of the wood mountain manager J B annear took out ore which netted above all expenses expanses something over this is not so morse and indicates that the end is not near for a property which on upper levels has yielded seven hundred thousand dollars ouray herald col C B babcock and E J bragdon president and secretary treasurer of the thistledown mine company of waterloo la ia were arrivals on the belated train this morning end went up to the property to see how things are looking up there at the present time the outlook is very encouraging on this property and it will be but a short time before it will be numbered with the permanent producers of the camp silverton miner the big mill of the gold prince mine at animas forks has been running for the past week on ore from the mine only thirty of the stamps have thus far been started the machinery has worked perfectly and but little delay was experienced in getting started after the preliminary arrangements were completed there is an abundance of ore at the mine which is already broken but which requires sorting as everything both good and bad was broken for feet thus far the operations at the mill have been highly successful and manager camp bell has reason for being thoroughly sat boulder miner the old amalgam thief which has been idle for the last twelve years has recently been taken over by john R wolff and william and men began work monday morning overhauling the property and preparing for a system of development it is the purpose of the leasers leaders to make surface explorations to open the big veins of low grade ore known to traverse the property with a view of getting a big tonnage for the new cyanide mill of the united states gold corporation po ration now being built about a mile and a half from the property the now new mill will be ready for ore the latter part of the year and the leasers leaders are confident they will be able by that time to supply a large tonnage ouray herald A renewal of activity has been started by the ross mining company on the congress mine this week at red mountain Moun grading has been started for a compres compressor vor plant and an electric hoist which will be installed as soon as possible the congress is a copper property near the now famous san antonio min mine a the plan of development is the sinking of the shaft on the congress feet deeper which will bring it to the level of the koehler tunnel on the san antonio property the shaft is at present feet deep and has produced some most excellent copper ore it is probable that the congress people will make arrangements with the san antonio company to use the ko koehler ah tunnel for transportation purposes in which case a connecting tunnel will be run from the latter tunnel to the workings cf the congress patrick lonergan is in charge of the work at the present time and is pushing things along as rapidly as possible |