Show COLORADO telluride examiner R J mccarthy came up from delta last tuesday and left for ophir wednesday morning to start work on his mining property located in waterfall basin mr mccarthy has spent considerable time and money on his claims and from the present showing he will no doubt in the near future reap the benefit of his investments telluride examiner george southard M K monroe and J C ferguson have taken a lease on the oceola mine near ophir this mine in the early shipped considerable rich gold ore over the range to silverton on the backs of burros but now with better facilities of transportation por tation and smelter treatment a good profit can be made even if the ore is not as rich as it was on the surface the lessees lessels have a bright future before them pearl mining times fred richter was in pearl during the ath and was showing some fine specimens of mineral taken from a lead which he is developing over on the platte east of the big creek ranch this property called the union has a six foot vein of quartz which carries gold silver and copper an assay taken at the surface running to the ton in three metals there is a thirty foot shaft on the lead and in the bottom of the shaft to one side several stringers of galena ore is coming in the property is about twelve miles from pearl and considerable outlay in the way of development mr richter has been working on the property for some time and intends to continue until he can demonstrate its possibilities |