Show COLORADO lake city phonograph reports from the highland chief continue very satisfactory the ore bodies in both drifts are continuous thil lous frequently widening out in big masses of very heavy mineral early in inthe the week it is said the whole face of the west drift was a solid body of ore over five feet wide and carrying a heavy percentage of lead by the time milling can begin next spring the mine should be in shape for steady and heavy production telluride examiner at the carbonero mine ophir manager george B pickett is driving a crosscut cross cut calculated to tap the ore body over feet lower than the present workings and is already in over 1000 feet the carbonero is a silver lead proposition and is worth about 40 per ton crude the product is taken out under the supervision of charley hedlund mine superintendent packed to ophir railway station by thirty mules and shipped from there to the ohio colorado smelting smelling Sm elting refining com banys plant at salida calida A pueblo dispatch says A greater por tion of pueblo countes coun tys output of vanadium most of which was discovered by george F barker has beben secured through contract by wealthy germans an agent of a ger man company has just obtained barkers signature to a contract by which the pueblo county prospector agrees to deliver the mineral to that company incidentally the negotiations will make barker who is 60 years old independently rich for his first shipment of vanadium to germany barker receives and he says he has enormous deposits in the greenhorn mountains thirty miles southwest of here the vanadium ore from barkers mines runs per ton 0 |