Show COLORADO telluride examiner ninety two cars of conc concentrates en were shipped from the telluride station during the month of january which heats beats the same month last year considerably sider ably la plata miner word wora comes of a hig big strike on the incas which was sub leased a short time ago by the price brothers to the hammond boys not quite a week ago the latter struck an ore body samples of which assayed over 60 while details are meager it appears that hammond have reason to be jubilant over their strike since the ore body is said to be the largest that has been uncovered in the camp for some time idaho springs mining gazette pollard co this week shipped a lot of fourteen tons of ore from the lexington mine to the combination mill they were returned a 9 ounce retort proving the ithe ore to be a very fine amalgamating product A small shipment of smelting sm elting elfing ore was also sent to the sampler mr pollard has been doing a large amount of exploration work in the old workings of the mine and believes that he has reopened one of the ore shoots which made the mine noted years ago georgetown courier ed butts and a company of local and eastern business men who have been operating the key west property on leavenworth mountain under bond and lease recently had a half ton assay of the ore from the bottom of the shaft which proved to be unusually rich the streak is only a few inches in thickness but the returns of this assay gave values of 1788 ounces in an the yellow metal or a value of better than a ton the bottom of this shaft has a very annoying flow of water and it keeps the operators busy pumping the water it is therefore their intention to commence lower down the mountain and drive a tunnel from where they will raise on the ore body this is one of the most important strikes made in georgetown Gorge town in a number of years |