Show COLORADO eldora record T the he record takes great pleasure in chronicling chroni cling the most important strike of the year when on thursday after noon the denver tunnel broke into the foot wall of the great ironsides vein and inch streak of the opened up a solid fifteen richest looking ore ever fou found nd in the district just how rich the ore is cannot be determined until assays essays are made but practical mining men who have seen the ore pronounce it rich without a question of doubt this streak is on the foot wall and the bore is being pushed through highly miner crevice matter towards the hanging wall and every indication points to the fact that a vein of enormous size is being entered eldora record in the upper tunnel on the fortune dyke located on sugar loaf mountain which is in feet a well defined vein of ore carrying good values and from fifteen inches to three feet in width is disclosed and from a foot shaft a drift has been hunu on the same vein for feet which has opened up two ore shoots one eighty feet long and from two to five feet in width and the other seventy feet in length and from eighteen inches to four feet in width both carrying values which will yield splendid profits at the mill the ore in character and appearance is similar to that of the cash nine amne from which mayor lou R johnston of boulder is getting such good results telluride examiner A few men have been employed on the congress group in bridal veil basin at the head of blue lake for several months past work was suspended a week or two ago on account of the deep snows reese breckenridge brought down a hundred pounds or more of ore from the property last week which will run seven or eight hundred dollars to the ton the pay streak from which this rich ore is taken is about a foot wide the vein is from three to six feet wide between walls and highly mineralized all through and a splendid milling or concentrating ore running in gold silver and lead but mainly the two former metals the rich streak is of course shipping ore and a considerable quantity of it is exposed by a hundred feet of tunnel that has been run this winter besides the congress there are three other claims in the group the royal emperor and mammoth peter hanson J W hanson P A lilley and E M arthur are the owners and cheit prospects for making a neat sum out of the congress are exceedingly bright telluride examiner orr J adams left this week for kansas to further the promotion of his company which is organizing for the building of a radium mill in the paradox valley mills are already in operation in the county for the extraction of vanadium and uranium and now mr adams is going after the radium he thinks the ore of the paradox is richer in radium than in uranium and exhibits photographs made with a piece of the ore in its native state just as it came from the mine the method employed in making these photographs is to lay the object upon the photographic dry plate with a piece of radium ore on top of the object the whole is then placed in a light tight box and left in absolute darkness for several hours the plate is taken out and developed in the ordinary way and the picture appears printed upon the plate through the agency of the light from the un refined radium ore on mr adams return he expects to be in position to immediately go to work at the building 0 of f a mill with mr adams went donald mcivor who will assist him with his electrical apparatus to give a number of lectures in the east A silverton dispatch says two of the four big concentrating plants have commenced operations this week as well as the ross copper matte smelter formerly known as the kendrick gelder plant of the san juan company these three will treat tons a day of the crude which would equal about tons of concentrates with an approximate value of 40 per ton these three plants alone will add over to the camps production they will be shortly followed by the old hundred ton and the gold prince ton mills then there are the smaller concentrating propositions sit ions such as the little dora the mountain queen the hamlet the sound democrat and others each adding its quota there will be no shortage of ore as enough is already sloped out to keep them all going a year when all these mills are in operation fully 2000 tons a day of the crude may be reckoned on or from GOO to tons of concentrates whose value based on 40 a ton would bring the production of the camp aside from the crude ore shipments to outside smelters shelters sm elters to almost a year the production last year was slightly over A cripple creek dispatch says if a producer is not opened on the long john on ironclad hill near the W P H all indications count for nothing at a depth of feet oliver and company who have a bond and lease have encountered a twelve foot vein of oxidized matter that assays essays from 5 to 15 to the ton they express belief that sufficient depth has not been attained and in a few days will start to sink the shat chati an additional feet making its depth feet when completed exploitation is to be pushed on the vein at the present depth they being of the opinion that the ore may be encountered at any time the gold mining company at dale on the florence cripple creek road is patenting fifteen claims the company is driving a tunnel that is in about feet to cut veins that outcrop on the surface superintendent fred hackey expects to reach the bodies in about three months the hercules gold mining milling company has granted a lease on the crank and crank no 2 to J J lewis for eighteen months at 20 per cent royalty the property is located on raven hill and adjoins the elkton |