Show COLORADO an official of the rico argentine mining company operating at rico under the perin tendency of J R griffin states that he expects the may output of the mine oil n company account to reach forty carloads of copper ore of twenty five tons each april production was thirty two cars the lessees lessels on the upper workings are shipping from ten to twelve carloads per month also general manager W C johnston of the randolph gold mining tunneling company formerly the empire tunnel ea company is making good progress with his preparations for resuming driving of the empire tunnel near idaho springs he has repaired the buildings rebuilt the power dam caught up over 1000 feet of the tunnel and expects to shortly install a larger compressor the bore is designed to open several good properties at depth power machinery including a five drill compressor has been purchased by the georgetown tunnel transportation company for its deep tunnel at georgetown it is expected that the new plant will be in operation by the middle of june the tunnel when completed will cut at depth properties on columbia democrat republican brown and sherman mountains it has already opened one vein said to carry ore valued at a ton P 11 denham has leased the bottom or level of the property of the jerry johnson gold mining company at cripple creek and is planning work which will be watched with interest by mining men of the district he has started a crosscut for the breccia schist contact estimated at a distance of only fifty feet from the present work and important developments are expected immediately the lease of the cripple creek deep leasing company on the property has expired the monthly report of president A E carlton of the cresson consolidated operating at cripple creek has the following to say of a new in the companas comp anys holdings diamond drilling on the seventh level in hole noa no 34 showed two feet of 92 ore and farther on twelve feet of 12 ore hole no 36 driven to corroborate the above showed eight feet of ore about ten feet from the good grade streak and five feet of 27 ore in another locality drifting has been started to develop these discoveries |