Show COLORADO ouray herald the first car of ore from the strike in the midnight at the mineral farm group which was sampled by the munn brothers was shipped to the smelter wednesday several new men have been added to the force of the mine la plata miner hunter price finished packing a carload of ore from the gold dollar mine in burnt timber gulch on and will ship it to the durango smelter this week they are repairing the mine buildings and will put in a large lot of supplies and conti continue nue work during the winter oura ouray y herald the total output of gold for the state of colorado for the year 1904 was for the year of 1905 the output was an increase in creasa over the year 1904 of of this increase 2 is credited to ouray county this means that nearly half of the increase of the output of ore in the entire state was from ouray county and speaks well indeed for the prosperity of this section la plata miner mr st glair clair who has a contract to run 1000 feet of tunnel and drifts on the chief mining companas comp anys property will start the machine drills today and will push the work as fast as possible the tunnel is now in feet and will be farther to cut the gertrude vein at a depth of feet when drifts will be run A drift arif t will also be run on the same vein from L a point not far from the end line of the may mak day eldora record the discovery of ore recently made in the morning star property proves to be of great value and adds another producer to the camp the shaft is but twenty three feet deep but at the bottom in a vein eight feet wide that will average 50 in gold the entire width of the vein arrangements are now being made looking to the thorough development of the property on an extensive scale this promising prop erty is located on east spencer mountain and is one of a group of five claims eldora record sinking is now progressing in the pine grove shaft near cardinal in the bottom of the shaft is exposed a fine streak of ore that is improving with every foot of development when sufficient depth is gained drifts will be started east and west on the ore shoot the upper workings have for some time been producing much ore that gave smelter returns of 40 to 50 to the ton this is one of the most promising pieces of property in boulder county today and indications are that a bonanza is being opened in the pine grove pearl mining times A vein of gold silver and copper ore a mile and a half long and feet wide has been discovered in cameron mountain north park according to I 1 R biedin of north park to secretary J J buns of the state commercial association cia tion blevin is now in denver and says cameron mountain and the hills in its vicinity are highly mineralized mineral zed and that north park will be the greatest mining camp in the state if it is opened up by the proposed colorado wyoming and idaho railway now known as the denver yellowstone and pacific which is projected through that section of the state telluride examiner M ons one of the most experienced miners in the country has taken a lease on the no 1 level of the butterfly terrible mine at ophir loop mr Mon grandis territory extends from the no 1 or upper level to the surface from this portion of the mine some very rich ore has been taken in fact the richest that has ever been found in the mine but it was supposed to have been worked out mr thinks differently however and will put it to the test he leaves in a few days to commence work and expects to employ about twenty men his product will be treated at the companas comp anys mill by the company the company has stopped work on their lower tunnel with only a distance of feet to run before cutting the vein A number of small leasers leaders are working in the lower levels with good success leadville herald democrat at the mammoth shaft a new gallows frame will be erected and also a horsepower engine put in place this work will take about two weeks major bohn thinks and he will then proceed to beat the water down with an gallon bucket he believes that he can exhaust the flow of sand with the bucket better than with pumps meanwhile he will be enabled to get the pumps in good condition and add whatever relief for further sinking that may be necessary the first flow or of water which brought the dolomite was very dark almost inky black in fact faa as if from an iron body this was followed by yellowish water and these colorings lead major bohn to believe that the water came from the carbonate contact although it did not find an outlet when the lower station was cut in that contact if this is the case then the dolomite will cease to run when that upper contact has been drained |