Show COLORADO telluride examiner work on the black bear mine is going ahead under the management of E J carter in a systematic manner on account of having bad air in the part of the mine lie he desired to do the most work in the manager started an upraise of feet to connect a higher level that in turn was connected by raises and drifts with the surface and in another week he hopes to have the work completed and have all the ventilation any mine could use this raise was run all the way on ore of a good milling grade and ten stamps at the mill have been dropping on the ore taken out in developing lake city phonograph during the past week a body of fine looking ore has been encountered in the crosscut of the alpine claim up alpine creek it is a complex ore of zinc galena and gray copper which will undoubtedly run well in gold and silver the property is owned by dr S P collins of hot springs arkansas with the development in charge of B N ramsey for the past twenty feet numerous stringers of ore had been encountered and mr air ramsey had almost concluded that the full vein had been intersected so the first of the week lie he directed his father L B ramsey who had been carrying on oil the work to run a long drill hole in the header before finally discontinuing the crosscut after drilling a foot mr air ramsey struck ore which continued eighteen inches without cutting through so he stopped and resumed the work of breaking in the heading reaching the ore body thursday the whole tunnel header is now in ore and the body is not yet broken through it looks like a very important strike and next week we hope to be able to report the width and values of the mineral |