Show COLORADO boulder miner work has been resumed on the wood mountain mine the main shaft now between and feet deep will be sunk a short lift drifts will be driven under the ore body thelast sinking passed through which yielded 50 per foot sunk the mill will be operated on this ore and from the reserves of 2000 tons of low grade now stored on the dump telluride examiner tally thomas has his mill plant all set up in la junta basin his tram in and the electric line for power will soon be finished and the converters set when this is done the next matter to be looked after is the getting up of supplies at present his pack train is doing some packing for the management of the carruthers lease and when this is done he will take up his supplies and commence winter work telluride examiner more hard luck for the smuggler union mining company friday morning about 9 a fire started in the mine buildings near the mouth of the bullion tunnel the main workings of the smuggler company and before it could be controlled ten buildings were burned and the loss ran up to in the neighborhood of about of it fal lingon falling on the store of E J carter which set just across the road from the smuggler buildings ouray herald on the senator beck work is progressing to the point of preparations for a shipment of a car of ore from the new strike made there a few weeks ago the showing in the present workings is a very promising one and promises to develop into a property of great importance the operation of this property the amity the treasury tunnel and the barstow would make the hill just this side of red mountain one of the active spots in the county and a great producing section leadville herald democrat P W breene was in the city yesterday and referred with much enthusiasm to the big tunnel enterprise which he is pushing at kokomo kokomos the company which has been recently incorporated is known as the ko komo consolidated mining and tunnel company with a capital stock of the principal office of the company is located in leadville maurice hedderman and L A turner are associated with mr breene in the incorporation the company controls about acres and the intention is to open up the large mineral deposits in copper mountain A tunnel has already been started and is in feet and is projected to go at least 2000 feet further silverton miner the new ton mill of the vermillion company a mile west of animas forks was started on ore from the bonanza tunnel monday the present operations will consist of a trial run on a few hundred tons of ore to determine what if any alterations or changes will be required L 0 bastian formerly superintendent of the silver lake mill is in charge during this trial run and his wide experience and technical knowledge of the work will be most valuable in making this preliminary run the mine has been worked borkel for the past two years on development only and large bodies of ore are now blocked out under the of jack berry regarded as one of the best mine superintendents ten dents in the san juan the property has been splendidly developed to the very best possible advantage and will be in shape to furnish unlimited quantities of ore when the mill is once started on a steady run |