Show COLORADO eldora record two men at present are employed on the morning star on east spencer I 1 pen mountain and are mining some very fine ore re tellurium and sylvanite showing in lib pral eral quantity the shaft has reached a depth of 27 feet the vein holds its width P and the ore shows a visible improvement as depth is gained the ora mined is be ing piled on the dump P reparatory preparatory to shipment I 1 la plata miner the may day mine con finues to td make its regular shipments of over 1030 per day and the lower tunnel is being extended to cut a lower grade vein above the may day work is going ahead on the framework for the tunnel terminal of the new tram line and also on the erect erection of the ore washer at this point by tha time that the two miles of track to connect with the rio grande southern railroad can be completed in the spring this mine will be in shape to make an output that will make older and larger mines hu hurja s 1 l to match ouray herald the force of men will be largely increased at the continental mining and smelting smelling Sm elting company properties as soon as the bad weather is over several of the old workings are to be opened up thus enabling g some large ore bodies to be reached more than 1000 feet of development work has been done in the past two years since the present management obtained control and over have been expended in labor and improvements in the past few months several other old properties in the neighborhood of this group will be opened in the spring ouray herald A strike was made on the high highbridge bridge property near the revenue tunnel the high bridge mine is onnel by james canavan of this city since the first of the year it athas has been leased to mike cluney and johnny beavers who have been working the property the assays essays recently made give about 60 a ton value running solely in gold silver and copper the silver is 82 ounces to the ton and the gold ounces the ore is contained in a two foot vein at present and is exceedingly promising the leasers leaders are highly elated over the results they have obtained in the short time they have held the property ouray herald C R parsons who is engaged in teaching school at portland and who owns several claims there has made a strike this week which adds much interest to the work he has been doing the claims where the strike was made are situated east of portland near the day ranch and opposite the portland belle tunnel the tunnel has been driven for nearly a hundred feet through lime rock and it was believed that it would eventually cut the contact the ore was first discovered in the bottom of the drift and from assays essays made run 70 ounces of silver and 22 per cent copper the ore is contained at present in an eight inch streak eldora record there is much excitement in and around jamestown over the big strike of ore recently made in the wano claim of the monarch cons G C M and S co the wano is operated through a tunnel and through this there has been developed an ore body that is certainly tali ily the biggest thing that has for years been opened in boulder county this ore body is not fully developed as yet but there is now showing all of 40 f feet of ore that will average from 15 to 20 to the ton in gold neither wall has yet been reached so there is no knowledge at present of the full extent of this immense body of ore the values of the ore is in the sylvanite and tellurium which occur in myriads of small streaks through the schist there is a 50 ton daily capacity mill being erected at the mouth of the tunnel that is rapidly nearing completion leadville herald democrat the new mill being erected on the premises of the old grant smelter at the foot of letter avenue is rapidly nearing complete readiness for the new machinery required it is neat and conveniently arranged structure compact and will handle the ore practicably aly wholly automatically once it enters the dryer this is a long steel revolving tube through which the ore will work its way re ceiling a thor thorough ough drying as it moves along thence it discharges to an elevator which carries it to the top of the building ana from there it distributes to the separating machines there will be seven blake mo sier separators magnetic each oz or which will handle 10 to 15 tons daily the denver rio grande will shortly put in I 1 a switch along the upper side of the mill from which the ore will be received there is ample room for increasing the capacity of the plant as deemed advisable by the tha damascus mining alining and milling 1 company eldora record superintendent germac of the monarch mining company has sent down from jamestown to the companas comp anys office in boulder a fair sample of a new four foot ore body encountered near the foot level in one side of a big 35 foot this seems to have no walls the schist rock which has answered that purpose having broken and disclosed four feet of ore to td one side the lowest values of which are per ton and the highest development work is proceeding constantly but with special reference to holding the ore in reserve for the cyanide mill the company is building at jamestown the discovery of this extra four feet of a very fine quality of ore suggests the greatest possibilities bili ties as there is considerable excitement the wano is owned by the monarch consolidated mining company compa with headquarters in boulder and of which T S is president the mill now under construction will have a capacity of tons da daily ily |