Show COLORADO supt bupt nazro of the sampson mine near gladstone reports a new find of a body of ore averaging ove raging three jeet feet in width and containing values of from 30 to 2000 ounces silver to the ton A new strike is reported from silverton as having just been made by the lombard lomba rd gold mining company which has recently taken over the lombard mine under lease and option the ore assays essays 26 ounces of gold and silver running over 52 per ton the puzzler an extension of the robert bonner at silverton will be worked by its owners during the winter ore running running over six six ounces gold has been shipped from the property the independence lying near the puzzler and bonner will continue operations during the winter the demand for electrical power for mining purposes may be considered a fair index to the renewed interest in mining in the alma and mosquito range sections says the denver financial and mining minin 6 review the colorado power plant generating its hydroelectric hydro e electric power from the flow of the colorado river near glenwood springs has built one branch into alma and as far as fairplay through breckenridge b and has surveyed for an additional line from their main branch at leadville across mosquito range Z for 2000 more horsepower horse power to be used for mining purposes purpose sy most or practically all of which is contracted for to be taken by the time the line is completed one com company liany is now using about hp and others smaller plants what is probably the richest and largest discovery of ore made in the cripple creek district distria t in a year with the possible exception of new discoveries made on the cresson has been encountered by fred cobb and harry porter on the sixth level of the forest queen the ore was encountered at the junction of a flat vein with the breccia brec cia and schist contact and is proving larger with each round of holes A sample across the back of the raise raise w which aich cobb had driven up the contact to cut the junction of the vein showed gold per ton and a grab sample of the muck pil pile e from the round returned per ton the new discovery is is in in en entirely vir virgin b in territory and the probable length of the ore shoot cannot even be estimated at present the vindicator and golden cycle properties of the united gold mines company comp any at cripple creek shipped a total of seventy cars of ore during october the company has been shipping steadily from the new strike which they made early in the month on the sixth level but the greater part of their ores was produced by b y lessees lessels les sees the new on the sixth level has been cut out for a distance of sixty feet not sufficient settlements have been received to accurately estimate the grade of ore but it is believed the will vill average Z about 12 for the coarse ore and 25 or 30 for screenings drifts will be started soon on lower levels in an effort to cut the ore at greater depth the ground above the sixth level also is practically virgin and the ore shoot has every opportunity to go to surface |