Show COLORADO ouray herald A crosscut cross cut tunnel on the polar bear of the bear creek gold trio grop has intersected the vein at forty feet and encountered a fine streak of gold silver ore that assays essays as high as 71 ounces gold and 1700 ounces silver this ore is about eighty feet from surface telluride examiner S P F wolcott one of the heaviest stockholders in the united vanadium company of springfield ohio left placerville erville this morning for new york city after spending a couple of weeks in this county with the manager of the company A C greene of telluride while here mr air wolcott authorized the taking over of thirty eight more vanadium claims in this county below the club ranch in the disappointment country la plata miner aliner perhaps the most prominent feature of the present revival of interest in mining is the fact that so many of the old time mines are being reopened the cause for this no doubt lies in the changing conditions of the day in the fact that lower grade deposits may now be worked at a profit this means also that as new deposits are opened up they willell will in all probability return greater profits than would have been the case a few years ago ouray herald uncle billie clark if not the first then one of the very firstman first men who prospected in sneffels els eIs is to the front again with a strike of ruby silver in the gertie on the south slope of sneffels els mountain some years ago lie he had a fine shoot of ruby in the gertle gertie the genuine article that bleeds when you maist moisten en and scratch it with a knife the yankee boy and ruby trust were famous for this character of ore the gertle gertie not only has very rich silver ore but it has extensive shoots of quartz that run better than half an ounce in gold in addition to the silver values la plata miner A C austin lessee of the silver spoon group with four men at work on oil a new tunnel about fifty feet from the old tunnel is doing rapid work and has encountered ore at a short distance A sample brought in saturday assayed to the ton the deeper they penetrate the better the ore becomes tuesday lie he brought in some more samples literally in crusted with wire silver rusty and free gold goll the assay value will undoubtedly run very high the vein is nearly six inches in width As soon as the surveyors now in this country can find the opportunity mr sheek will have the group of twenty four claims re surveyed 0 |