Show COLORADO the cement foundation for the mill at the st george mine at georgetown is about completed and the construction of the building will soon be under way announcement has been made that the empire zinc company whose canyon city plant has been shut down for the last two years would resume operations at once starting I 1 with one of its units of the zinc oxide plant working about fifty men additional units employing larger forces of men will be opened as fast as conditions warrant the metals tunnel company owners of the denver tunnel near alvarado completed some time ago the expensive and laborious task of catching up and re timbering their tunnel nel and are now driving ahead and expect to intersect the jo reynolds and the Anie american rican sisters veins soon at a depth of about 1000 feet the tunnel is now anover 1000 feet john B giono of silverton silver ton has recently renewed his lease on the silver lake mine in silver lake basin and will later in the season grant several sub leases mr giono has been in control of the property for the past few years and before the slump hit the mining business produced both crude ore and concentrates the milling ores were handled at the iowa tiger mill in gulch in 1872 G W hall co charged 4 a ton f for or crushing and sacking ore 2 for sampling and assaying for silver and 3 for sampling and assaying for lead herman was one of several assayers assay ers in georgetown in 1872 in july of that year lie he gave for publication the statement that the average 6 value of lots of ore aggregating za b tons assayed by him during the previous six months was 2988 ounces silver to the ton nearly all the ore was shipped to europe for treatment the freight t rate being b 40 a ton from denver six men were sent to the Kitti mac mine about the first of the month to make the necessary repairs to buildings and do the preliminary minar y work in the mine before a larger force is employed floyd cooper is in charge of the work and as soon as the required repairs are accomplished will direct the larger force in the operation of the property conver will be available soon and the additional development will be done with machines the tramway was repaired last season it is expected that the mill be overhauled at an early date and the property placed on a production basis silverton standard |