Show COLORADO the georgetown tunnel is now in 2100 feet and within about feet of the cliff lode which produced handsomely in early days from surface workings the vein will be cut at a depth of nearly 1700 feet george gallagher has left with the georgetown courier samples of native silver copper and from the cashin mine of paradox valley masses of native copper have been found of all sizes up to several hundred pounds in weight A fine vein of high grade ore has been opened up in the east foot level of the hampton mine near central city according to manager S G hamlin the ore as says 9 ounces gold 20 ounces silver 38 per cent lead and 4 per cent coper giving it a commercial value of a ton the streak is ten inches wide and shows for feet robert pellet and emmet nutter of rico have started work on the union carbonate ground which they have leased and bonded the ground upon which they are working is looking very encouraging and it is thought that the property will produce a good tonnage of ore in years past a good deal of ore was shipped from the union carbonate but of late years very little if any work has been done the yak mining company of leadville is reported to have perfected a system of separation of minerals whereby they are enabled to handle three dollar ore at a profit the yak company has tons ol of this grade of ore and at the laboratories of the company experiments have been lia in progress for nearly a year with the result that the problem has been satisfactorily solved and the process is being installed in the companas comp anys mill at the portal of the yak tunnel to handle its low grade ores |