Show COLORADO the boulder county metal mining association is contemplating the publication of a directory of the mines of boulder county I 1 it was decided at a recent meeting of the stockholders of the denbigh silver lead mines company operating near georgetown to dissolve and dispose of the com banys holdings at auction the gold center 0 roup group of claims which adjoins the property of the early bird mining company at animas forks has been taken over by this company and they will be extensively developed by a foot crosscut 11 the hidden treasure mine owned by the walsh estate and located near ouray is being put in shape for extensive operations the corning coming 6 spring 11 1 1 A small force of men has been put to work cleaning up the property fred jacob former superintendent of the white cloud mining company has secured the mona queen group of claims on bond and lease for two years from gordon gordo N kirn binl ball the property is located on red mountain near ouray tallmadge kyner will act as consulting engineer for the new developments about to be started at the centennial mine near georgetown t recently taken over by los angles and eastern parties the first work to be done will be the watering unwavering un of the shaft returns have been received by sam thomas joe flynn and john manuel leasing on the old hampton property near central city for one of two cars of good ore they have shipped the shipment showed 81 ounces of silver 1020 per cent lea lead au 2160 in gold to the ton J A schwartz and associates of den ver who have recently taken over the railroad boy mine on melvina mountain near boulder are planning to drive a tunnel at a depth of feet below the old shaft which will serve to the ore body this further distance and make transportation easy to the wagon road the hidden treasure mill at black hawk located on the oldest patented mill site in the state dating back to 1859 has been acquired by the gilpin milling re company and is now being remodeled and put in shape for the modern ore treatment process of the american continuous retort company the mill will have a daily capacity of tons what is considered the greatest strike in years in san juan county is the recent discovery of an immense body of zinc leau ore in the columbus mine operated by the gnome mining company at animas forks the ore body shows a width of forty forty feet all of which will average better than 20 per ton with some streaks running as high as 75 a ton in gold and silver A new vein of parallel to the consolation vein discovered last spring by john evans of jamestown has been uncovered by mr evans and boyd demons clemens son of J H clemens owner of the argo property the new vein carries a spar content of 90 per cent for a width of two and one half feet and has already been followed tor lor a distance of better than feet in length work on the tunnel that is being driven in the perseverance group of claims owned by hughes brothers in the hughesville Hughes ville district near central city is progressing favorably already feet of work has been done and it is expected that the ore body which showed values of as high as 1900 ounces in silver on the surface will be reached in the next feet the tunnel at that point will be about feet below the surface the placer machine invented by J H schott of boulder an announcement of which appeared in a former edition of the mining review has been successfully demonstrated on the sands of jenny lind gulch near tolland the land tested is the property of the colorado gold king mining company of which W G bigelow of denver is president values of from 25 to per ton in gold were found to exist in large quantities and it is the intention of the company to install the machines in an early development campaign |