| Show COLORADO the mono baltic mine at ironton closed down since 1900 is about to be reopened opened re by the chicago owners of the company A foot of solid galena blende ore that shows values in excess of ounces of sil ver to the ton has been opened up by andy sylvester leasing on the laplata laplaca property on democrat mountain near georgetown leasers leaders operating on the seventh level of the santiago mine near georgetown are mining in what is considered to be the finest ore body that has ever been discovered in this well known property A recent weeks shipment amounted to sixty tons C condit of silverton former owner of the colorado central mine has taken over the old john M osborn mill site and claims near idaho springs and will resume active development of this well known property as soon as snow is off the ground in the spring excellent progress is being made on the star of the west property at central city the new shaft has reached a depth of feet with a vein practically covering the entire bottom of the shaft which shows values of 54 to the ton H R wade is president of the company the following is a list of the ore shipments made during the month of october from silverton properties sunnyside Sunny side M M co 27 iowa tiger 24 mayflower leasing co 6 dives 2 highland mary 3 black prince 1 silver ledge 24 red mountain mines 1 congress 4 brooklyn 1 barstow 1 dora M leasing co 1 total 95 two to three cars a week of the new ore from the foot level of the eureka mine near central city is going forward from the mine to the smelter and indications are that this average will be maintained the new ore shoot is located in a section of the mine hitherto unexplored and none of the ground above the has as yet been worked columbine routt county is the scene of a recent strike that would indicate another leadville had been discovered the mas ter key mining company has uncovered two cross veins about four feet thick which assay better than ounces in silver to the ton one car of which has already been shipped to the smelter the property lies between a porphyry dike and a basalt dike and the ore shows considerable wire silver A new compressor has been installed at the old orinoco property near idaho springs compressor house and boarding house have been completed and an active winters development campaign will be carried out the surety gold mining company is the new operator of the fourteen claims in the estate and some excellent results are expected from the efficient manner in which the work has been commenced by robert C lane who is in charge it is predicted that the columbus mine at animas forks will soon be one of the largest producers of the state A vein thirty feet in width showing from one wall to the other much of which is solid mineral was encountered recently on a crosscut at the 1500 foot mark the vein has been intersected at a vertical depth of feet and work is now being rushed on an upraise to the foot level which will give an immense body from which to extract the ore visitors to the property report the vein to be one of the largest of good ore ever encountered in the entire state |
