Show COLORADO lake city phonograph W 0 rawson has arrangements finished for the campaign of development he will conduct on the crown point and joaquin in schafer basin this summer he will extend the drifts on both claims and open up the crown point vein with a lower level mr rawson with rube johnson will go up soon as weather conditions permit to begin preparatory work boulder miner the eureka tungsten mining and milling company plant at the mouth of boulder canon is reported to be wor working kInIg satisfactorily and with the changes proposed will the management believe take care of from ten to twelve tons of ore daily the mill will for some time be employed on company ore and will not attempt to do custom work until next month boulder miner A twelve to thirteen inch streak of tungsten ore has been opened in the lucky two mine owned by brosey and holmes of this city the vein is developed for about fifteen feet and shows ore estimated to run about 35 per cent in tungsten worth about per ton as broken A sample of solid tungsten ore weighing about 75 pounds Is on exhibition at the office of the metal mining association telluride examiner H A reveler and R L pomeroy are taking out valuable vanadium ore from the cliff below the old belle champion workings at sawpit there is a deposit in the cliffs there that was overlooked by R L blake the discoverer of sawpit for in his days lead carbonates were what he was after and the belle champion was full of caves lined with the carbonates in fact in blakes day vanadium was an unknown quantity ti cally but of late it is coming to be very valuable ouray herald the wed wedge ge property north of town was the center of considerable excitement this week on account of a very rich strike made in the mine about six inches of brittle silver was encountered n which will run up into the hundreds hundred si if not thousands of ounces to the ton this streak is in addition to the large amount of ore already blocked in the mine which will run in the neighborhood of to the ton the property is being worked under lease to F M jackson and promises to be a bonanza for him ouray herald the calliope tunel bunel is being driven steadily ahead to intersect the old working of this property and them it is contemplated that at the present rate they will have completed the tunnel by the middle of may tim manion is in charge of the work and in addition to being a capable mining man he has the utmost confidence in the property which has over a million dollars to its credit this is one of the properties that promises to repeat its former record of production when v en the present development scheme is completed leadville herald democrat another heavy deposit of silver bearing ore was opened in the dinero tunnel on sugar loaf yesterday afternoon this material carries more silver than any ore that has been found there up to this time and leads to the belief that the dinero is destined to be one of the greatest producers of silver in the district the newly discovered ore the same as that opened there last winter also carries small gold values these discoveries have been made in the north drift drift of the tunnel and not under the old dinero shaft which was in reality the object of the operations there it is believed that a large body of ore will be opened as a result of this recent discovery |