Show COLORADO telluride examiner there are five oi or six cars of concentrates on the ophir loop sidetrack belonging to the alta aita mine and no more cirs cars are available however the railroad ought to be able to move these in the next two weeks and be able to put in some more empties for them and the ophir shippers boulder miner last thursday the yellow pine company settled with the local sampler for pounds of ore it ran 09 ounces gold ounces silver the lot yielding for years the shipments from these veins were not sampled for gold values but under the present management every shipment is tested for copper gold and lead as well as for silver in some shipments the gold values have run as high as two ounces or 40 per ton this indicates the rake off the ore buyers took inthe other days from the thousands of tons shipped every ton of which must have contained more or less gold ouray herald in the thistledown mine on mount hayden on tuesday evening a strike was made in the raise which Is being made from the lower tunel bunel level to the working above the vein of ore is five feet wide seventeen inches of it is solid lead silver ore and the entire streak will average 25 to 50 per ton this strike is considered of the utmost importance it is the same in character as that opened in the two tunnels run above and is beyond doubt a continuation of the same as it is but a few feet below the level of the upper workings it i is s about feet north and farther into the hill than the workings above and about to feet below the surface ouray herald A notable discovery of ore was made monday of this week on the san antonio mine situated in red mountain the strike was made in what appears to be a blanket formation below the koehler tunnel level which means about feet below the surface the ore is the rich like that discovered in the yankee girl years ago and runs up into the thousands of ounces of silver to the ton the entire vein is changing from a black copper to or peacock copper and it is in this latter the streaks of rich appear the entire body of the ore is of a shipping grade while the streaks of ranging from two to six inches are found in liberal quantities making this one of the most important strikes made in ouray county during the present year |