Show MILL FOR BLACK BEAR colorado company will equip its mine with machinery examiner telluride colo the directors of the black bear mi nine company have made a final selection of tho the numerous sites available for their stamn mill plans for which have been under con coll for some time the site selected tei is upon a forty acre mill and reservoir sil site e which was secured by the co company about a year ago it is in ingram ingrain basin two or three thousand feet below the mine near where the two creeks unite to form ingrain creek the mill will either be ten or twenty stamps the size has not yet been determined and work will be commenced as jooa soon as the weather will permit ingram creek furnishes plenty of good water for milling purposes and electricity will be used for motive power to further increase the water supply a rock dam will be built creating a small reservoir to equalize the flow and carry the mill through low water periods an electric hoist will soon be installed install ej in the foot shaft which has been sma from the tunnel level and the shaft will wil then be continued deeper by the ald aid of air drills A compressor and machinery for the purpose having already been purchased ed the mine is developed by some two thousand feet of work mostly in drifts upon lahe the vein the main tunnel or crosscut cross cut from the surface ei cut the argentine vein was then continued for feet when a bend in the vein was encountered and the values running to copper work at this point was wag discontinued A shaft was then sunk froni from the drift about feet from the crosscut cross cut and from the bottom of the shaft drifting driffin on the vein has been prosecuted about feet to the east and feet to the west in the east drift splendid maeral tua his heal found the vein being from seven to twelve feet wide of good milling ore running from 9 to 12 per ton exclusive of a rich streak of shipping ore which in places is two teet feet wide and worth 50 or 60 per ton rhe hie vein is wider and richer in the lower drift than in the upper feet above which encouraged cou raged the management to think th ink that at least as good conditions may be found at a still greater depth in the east drift feet from the shaft an upraise has been started for the purpose of sec securing aring ventilation and it is here at a 8 distance of 80 feet that the richest mineral yet found in the mine has been encountered A sample taken in iii Febu gave a return of ounces in gold and ounces to in this is near neak a rich ore chute found in the upper up per drift and the management is greatly great ll elated over this proof of the continuity of the ores and the values with the completion of the upraise good ventilation will be secured and a block of exceedingly rich ground feet be in condition for very economical ore extraction the principal part of the black bear stock is held by telluride people and they certainly have cause for believing that they have in the black bear a great mine |