Show CRIPPLE CREEK SEPTEMBER OUTPUT special correspondence cripple creek oct 10 reports from the mills and smelters shelters sm elters give a total production of tons with an estimated value of for the cripple creek district in september the tonnage handled by each of the reduction plants with an estimate of its value is given in the following table tonnage valuation golden cycle U S mining adin co portland smelters shelters Sm elters new portland Strat tons independence wild horse 1230 isabella 2500 1105 cavanaugh 1000 1000 total work has begun on an extension of the roosevelt tunnel which provides deep drainage for the mines of the cripple creek district in the ten months since the completion of the tunnel the water level has been lowered 65 feet the present flow is about gallons per minute and pumping has been stopped in the portland elkton and other large mines before drainage provided by the tunnel became effective the pumping expense in the elkton alone amounted to a day the extension on which work has just been started will be 2000 feet in length in about 1000 feet it is expected to cut the gold dollar water courses thus increasing the flow from the tunnel and the rate at which the water level is lowered A fund for extending the tunnel has been raised the principal contributors tribu tors being the portland elkton vindicator di strong gold dollar cresson blue bird Strat tons cripple creek and granite companies and the railroads of the district the el paso will soon start drifting on the C K N vein from the point where it was intersected by the fuller crosscut from the roosevelt tunnel the flow from this vein which is now 1200 gallons a minute will increase as the drifting proceeds |