| Show COLORADO E J kane has announced bounced an the purchase from the joe T terry estate of controlling interest in the wide west mining company operating through the old hall tunnel property the purchase price was not given the hall tunnel is located on leavenworth mountain about midway between georgetown and silver plume and was driven to cut under the colorado central workings the big man of the empire chief and lead properties R E L townsend arrived in lake city from denver recently and found everything ever thing at the mines moving clock like and the workmen mak making ing fine progress in the way of putting things in a preparatory way to receive another two carloads of machinery and equipment it is stated mr townsend stated that the management mana ement plans to start early production of the vast riches that lie hidden in the earth of this valuable mining property in the san juan empire A carload of lumber is from Sa pinero to be used in the new boarding house when at least men will be put to work digging ore according to the management an electrolytic smelter for denver is the latest topic of conversation among the members of the colorado engineering society and denver mining and metallurgical men S generally ene rally R J walters one of the best known metallurgical engineers of colorado is said to be leading the movement for financing the proposed smelter and it is understood controls a number of patents on the electrolytic process the main idea according to engineers is to provide a cheap process for treating colorado ores and avoiding the necessity of shipping many of these ores to tooele thoele utah and great falls mont at excessive charges in freight owing to the distance involved between the producing mines mines and the mills |
