Show COLORADO telluride examiner dan patrick one of the old timers at ophir shipped thirty tons of well sorted ore from the favorite mine up waterfall gulch to the salida calida smelter this week and went over with it the ore looks good and was worth worta looking after tests showing it to run 9 in gold fifty ounces silver land and sixty five per cent lead there there is about four feet of solid ore in the breast of the tunnel and all of it looks as good as that shipped boulder miner E M gradey of waterloo iowa who is interested in the brunswick at jamestown after spending the winter at his home returned to boulder county last week and will at once resume operations on his property the brunswick is being developed by a tunnel and has opened up some splendid ore bodies some of runs very high in the yellow metal those who are best post posted edat at jamestown speak highly of this property and its future as a big producer colorado springs gazette cripple creek operations were resumed today at the lucky corner shaft in squaw gulch the leasing company has expended consider able money in cribbing around the collar and down to solid formation and no further danger is looked for from the settling of the ground the surface buildings have been repaired land and the machinery has been reset A large tonnage of high grade ore lies broken in the drift and will now be brought to surface the mine is owned by the doctor jack pot mining company and the royalties paid by the leasing corporation are rapidly building up the doctor jack pot treasury leadville democrat howard colllns collins is working the long and derry property in iowa gulch through a tunnel that was started at the foot of long and derry hill some time ago the bore has already been driven over sixty feet and steady progress is being made it is proposed to push the tunnel through the lime tor for a dis tance of about feet to connect with a well known streak of ore that has been worked through shafts started from the sides of the hill in the past much importance attaches to this work as in addition to attacking an ore zone it will serve to drain the hill and make possible operations on other properties in that vicinity colorado springs gazette victor J D bryant of this city and associates w ano ao recently secured an eighteen months lease from D C weyand president and general manager t of the gould mining compana on che rhinoceros and nil Despe on the northwest slope of raven hill have put miners to work in the two tunnels and in the shaft workings cleaning out the old drifts to permit the thorough sampling of the different veins exposed machinery will later fater be installed over the main shaft and at the mouth of one or possibly both of the tunnels when work will be carried on i on an blab elaborate orate scale the properties adjoin the doctor jack pot and work gold mining companies shipping mines and with development should be represented among this class of properties leadville democrat the french gulch dredging company at breckenridge is arranging to continue its big boat in operation all the year around in the future last winter operations were suspended during the cold weather season but experiments tried on other dredges in the breckenridge breckenrid e field proved conclusively that it is possible to keep up the work even in the severest temperature some necessary means of protecting the machinery from the cold and something to prevent the water from freezing will have to be put into use but it is known that these precautions can lie be supplied and put into practical operation J F of denver president odthe of the french gulch dredging company was in leadville last week and announced that nearly two acres of ground have been turned over since work was started there on april 2 mr says that his company is contemplating starting operations in the gunnison district they also have dredges at work in hi california and other portions of the mining country |