Show COLORADO the silver plume consolidated mining alining company backed by eastern interests and represented locally by C S mcdonnell is preparing 11 for extensive development of the buxton group near silver plume driving of a foot tunnel is to commence at once olice dick gibbons working a property owned by phil oakley at bowerman has uncovered a threefoot three foot contact vein at a depth depol of only fifteen feet the entire showing pans freely the ore is similar to t eliat 11 at found in other parts of the district and the find is regarded as important manager J B putnam of the princess annie copper mining development coll company states that a recent sampling of the vein on the companas comp anys ground near vest cliffe showed values up to per to ton E employees are sacking thirty tons of tile the i high agh grade which is to ibe be shipped by express to oni omalia alla large returns are ex pecked from this consignment good progress is being made iby by fred sutherland of victor who is enlarging the shaft at the longfellow mine at independence he has completed the first fifty feet of the work the shaft is feet deep and is to be sent to the foot point as soon as the present work is completed this will correspond with the level of the golden cycle through which the longfellow is being worked iby by the excelsior mining milling milling electric company sinking n at the jamie lee shaft of the fryer hill section of leadville which is under development by the united states smelting smelling Sm elting interests under the management of H S lee is now approaching apro aching 1 the foot mark or feet below the old workings A new pump station has been cut at a depth of feet below the old shaft bottom and pumping machinery installed there the water course which caused much trouble in the past has been intercepted by a drift from this station and the water is now giving little concern to the management small ore bodies are being opened in the carbonate zone and shipment will commence soon from there |