Show COLORADO A quantity of rail a blower and blacksmith supplies were sent up to the atlantic tunnel east argentine last week where a number of men are employed putting the property in working condition f A test run ot a wagon load of ore from the butler and williams property in east argentine returned one ounce gold and fifteen ounces silver to the ton theore the ore was shipped without sorting the porter fuel company recently reopened their mine mine near hesperus after an idleness of over five months the demand for coal during tile the season will regulate the number of men employed silverton standard the mountain chief and evening star mines on oil tip top mountain in tile the northern portion of gilpin county and noted for the high grade grad e go gold id ore they have produced are again to resume operations after an ail idleness of over thirty years the telluride journal states that t the lie liberty bell property was closed last week for an ail indefinite period the mine lias has been considered near the point of depletion for some time it has a fine record of profits and is closing a long operation in an ail honorable manner there has been talk recently about starting a local samp P pier ler where a miner can call sell ore in small quantity as in pre years at present he can call ship only in carload lots it is believed mining would be greatly stimulated if we ha had d su such c h a market georgetown courier operations have been resumed on the wheeling mine in east ar argentine entine by the palisade copper co company machine I 1 drills are to be used in develop development me nt of the vein vein an and d in the where the pay streak 1 better th than aai 11 12 aiches s strong tron 9 y carries carries grey rey copper and assays essays close to 22 a ton in gold and silver the force will shortly be increased work is progressing rapidly on the aerial tram being constructed by the roosevelt company at alice and manager ager 1 thinks that within the next two weeks the wire wire will be strung and the operation of the mill resumed they have a large body of low grade ore opened up and will start the mill on a 24 hour basis just as soon as possible the ohio and colorado smelter at salida calida colo has been sold to the owners of the raleigh 6 li mine in the salida calida district for a consideration of the majority of the stock of the balei raleigh h mine is owned by the parks davis drug company of new york which according to reports intends operating the smelter to produce drug supplies of lead zinc arsenic and other products byproducts by of ore from the raleigh mine jeffrey and decker who are operating the mt kelso on mt kelso above silver plume and who have been doing develop development iii 1 ent work up there for the the past four years driving a crosscut to cut the mt kelso and national veins have cut the kelso vein which is quite a large one showing in some 3 feet of good lead ore running small in silver and gold ad they expect to reach their objective the national vein in a week or ten days and will then start mining proper the redville reuville Re Rc uville group owned by ernest hoffman and B F boyd of silverton has been leased to john corcoran and ernst S and paul hoffman they have taken sufficient supplies to the mine to hold them until the red mountain railroad is opened for business when additional supplies will be shipped to the property recent developments have established the ore bodies sought in the reuville neuville Re uville and the leasers leaders are in position to begin immediate work on ore of a fine shipping grade the mountain top mining company in carrying out its plans of expansion has ordered a new hardinge mill and when it is installed the milling capacity will be double that at present recently ly while developing north on the agnes vein the largest 6 body of high grade ore the company has ever had was encountered being from a foot to eighteen inches in width present conditions at the mine and mill are very encouraging to the management ouray herald charles E havener president of the utah colorado mining and milling co which is operating in several of the western states came up to this city the first of the week says the idaho springs gazette and remained for several days during which time he started four men at work on the old bertha group which lies in between the old sun and moon and the frontenac there are about twenty claims in the bertha group and the company has also acquired several claims up virginia canon |