Show COLORADO according to a recent dispatch from blackhawk the two lassies classies mine being operated by anderson brothers inc and which recently started work at both mine and mill on a two shift basis is now running ore through the mill and producing high grade concentrates considerable smelting smelling sm elting or ore e running 9 high Z in lead silver and gold has already been mined and a shipment of this ore together with the concentrates will be made mad in a few days As A strike of new ore was reported in the lowest tunnel of the london property at alma which is at an elevation of about feet above sea level and just above timber line and about feet in depth below the north london or main operating tunnel from which the london leasing and mining company is operating and through which the london produced most of its millions of dollars worth of ore taken out the smelting smelling sm elting ore in this new find opened through the london lower tunnel is reported to carry from to per ton and to be similar in character to the veins operated through the upper tunnels I 1 it has often been said that the day of the small miner is passed and that nothing is left for the individual in mining says the silverton standard developments in san juan county during the summer are rapidly proving this statement to be erroneous eight pr properties es all of them mines of known value are arc now in operation and shipments are being made from six at this time and will begin from the other two properties in a few weeks the various mines are rna manned lined with from five to ten men and the production will have an important bearing in the years total all of the mines kincs under operation are engaged in the production of crude ore although on several of them nii milling aling is indicated and a corresponding increase in tonnage is hi bound tind to be the final filial outcome A M allen alien and george r IA bibb of silverton have recently secured under most favorable terms a long time lease on the immense pile of tailings at the Kitti mac mill near the mouth of minnie gulch preliminary survey and sampling indicates probably more than tons of material with assay value of about 12 per ton assays essays ranging from 7 to 17 were secured by A alien llen and bibb in their sampling and an average of 12 per ton in in combined values seems highly conservative A plant for fine grinding and the installation of selective flotation is to be undertaken at an early date the ne new w machinery will either be installed in the Kitti mac mill which is n nearby earby or at a convenient location on the silverton northern railroad the grade of which forms a natural barrier which prevented the tailing from flowing directly into the animas river at the time the mill was actively operated |