Show LEADVILLE AND CRIPPLE CREEK special correspondence denver colo july 10 both cripple creek and leadville the two greatest min ing camps of colorado are increasing their production the june ore output from leadville it is reported was close to 70 tons or tons more than in june 1910 the new monarch company this month expects to ship thirty ton cars to the smelter at salida calida this ore comes from the great cleveland fissure and averages 23 to the ton the ore body in places is sixty five feet in width and has been developed for a length of 1800 feet on new monarch ground an important ore body has been opened in the deeper levels on the tucson mine of the iron silver group it lies on the west side and is parallel t to 0 what is known as the tuc tucson son fault and in what was supposed to be barren barre n ground much of the production from these properties and the valley mine as well is coming from fissure veins while the earlier production of the camp came from horizontal or blanket veins reports from the mills and smelt smelters sm elters erx show a production of tons of ore by the cripple creek district in june the tonnage handled by the various plants together with estimates of value is given in the following table average total plant tonnage value value golden cycle 2000 ID independence dependence isabella smelters shelters Sm elters V U S R R 2110 new portland portland C colo 0 10 city 2150 totals 0 A new gold camp called awakening has been discovered twenty five miles north of winnemucca aca nevada |