Show REVIVAL OF SAN JUAN MINING INDUSTRY by col D A burgess ouray colo dec IO 10 with the guidance of past experience strengthened with rented confidence in the stability of existing national conditions tending to bring about prewar pre war prosperity and normalcy of mining conditions practical operators in the san juan district en embracing ibrahin ouray san miguel dolores and la plata counties are continuing systematic development and a sufficiently steady output of ore to distinctly disprove any suggestion of permanent inactivity there in fact conditions are improving all the time the revenue tunnel for years an important factor in the san juan mining industry is to be driven under instructions of the A E reynolds estate managers a distance of 2300 feet from the present tunnel level on the terrible vein cutting it at depth of feet from the surface thus affording three thousand feet of overhead sloping b ground t to begin with at the objective point the tunnel is already in some 1100 feet and many millions in values from the vein have been derived from that penetration the revenue was originally driven for the purpose of mining the celebrated virginus ore shoot which was a rich paying proposition from grassroots grass roots down to feet below the tunnel now one and one half miles long from the time of original of the virginus ore shoot in 1880 to cessation of large scale development a few years ago the production of the virginus after deducting all haulage treatment and transportation charges amounted to over in silver in lead and copper the shoot depth was proven continuous for feet in developing this amount of ore values the twelve or fourteen men now employed in driving the tunnel ahead on the terrible vein vein is is an instance of the carrying out of tle plans and expressed intentions of mr while living and which were held in abeyance only until the recent installation of needed power plants through connection with the western colorado power company another reynolds property of which the original owner always spoke in terms of high confidence in its ultimate production of goodly values is the emma mine at dunton in dolores county some sixteen miles west from rico this property is now being operated under bond and lease from the reynolds estate by H M little of denver an experienced miner in the dunton section behas been crosscutting for the vein and on entering the la plata sandstone obtained ore carrying 6 values in gold and silver from to per ton As but one wall is in place width of the vein has not y yet et been determined but indications point to its being a strong one negotiations are in progress which may result in again placing the sutton group one and a half miles south of ouray on mt hayden again in the shipping list the property consisting of ten patented claims is controlled by dr B B slick of ridgway and of ore shipped in 1915 to the salida calida smelter sain sampled pled eighty ounces silver 12 gold and six per cent copper the S H supply co of denver dealers iti in mining md maa chinery specialties supplies etc is owned and conducted by the morse brothers one of them B P is a sonin son in law of tile the late A E reynolds and he has recently been devoting much personal attention to the practical working out of their mining enterprises |