Show COLORADO telluride examiner the liberty bell shipped out a good big bunch of amalgam this chis week one particular thing that the lack of a railroad has not curtailed at the bell though it has with some of the other mines as the smuggler has already shut down the new mill because we have no railroad to haul in coal that they must have to heat the building with hence no amalgam is being made at that mill but the other one is running yet leadville herald democrat the in the st louis tunnel eastern breece hill now down feet is to be sunk another lift of feet and thet the work is now in progress after prospecting the vein of ore found at the foot mark the lessees lessels were convinced that it was worth while to open the tha vein deehr and so give more ground the vein is three and a half feet wide and will average 40 per ton an electric hoist has been installed and the sinking of the will be pushed ouray herald things are working fine at the atlas the new compressor is working in a very satisfactory manner and the drift to the east to make connection with the workings from the san pedro is being pushed ahead at a rapid rate the rich ore shoot recently encountered continues with variable width during the past two weeks the mill has been running practically all the time on the ore extracted in the process of development the company at present is confining itself to development work entirely ouray herald work on the uncle sam is progressing very satisfactorily in the tunnel being driven to cut the known ore shoot at depth the tunnel is now in a distance of feet and it is anticipated that one of the veins of the group will be encountered within the next fifty feet though it is about feet further to tha vein where the large body of hiffa grade copper ore is exposed by a tunnel which cannot be worked on account of water this property is located on engineer mountain in the vicinity of the frank hough and the ore is very much of the same character as that of the hough boulder miner W R doty manager of the livingston leasing company returned monday from a six weeks trip to new york where he has been consulting associates in regard to the work of the company during the coming winter arrangements range ments have been made to sink the main shaft to a depth of feet or feet deeper than at present from which drifts will be run to the old nianza ore shoot which on the upper levels several thousand dollars mr doty states that a large sum has been set aside for and that the mine will from now on be worked on a more extensive scale than ever leadville herald democrat the main tunnel being driven to cut the different claims in the alps azeta group towards the head of little south evans gulch is now in feet and the breast is in hard quartz superintendent kavanaugh states that he expects the ground to change in the next few feet when better headway will be made the columbus claim under a sublease sub lease leas has produced some ore during the last few months close to the surface the lessees lessels are now drifting from the bottom of the shaft feet south to catch the vein at greater depth the vein towards the surface was two land and one on half ehalt feet wide and the ore principally lead ran 20 a ton with a slight gold value one carload is now ready to ship |