Show COLORADO ouray herald A force of si sixteen teen men is working at the thistledown adaise A raise is being made to connect with the ore bodies discovered in the upper workings general manager M L thistle who came in from waterloo la ia last week is very much pleased with the progress t made during 11 1 1 the past month and is of the opinion that he will be in good ore before long ouray herald despite the high graders the atlas is working in good shape and making the property pay with a ten stamp mill the management is getting ready foran addition of ten or twenty stamps to the mill this summer and a revision of the entire working system already a a compressor plant has been installed and machines have taken the place of hand work in the leadville herald democrat the lan gola mining company operating the R A M on iron hill expects to open another large zinc prod producer acer manager hanifen is carrying on a systematic campaign of exploration in the lower levels with very fair indications of success the lessees lessels on the garbut maupin and associates are making a production of good copper sulphide from that property until the body is sufficiently developed shipments are irregular but it is expected to get out several carloads a week silverton standard at red mountain the fitzgerald brothers tom and john have put in a long siege of hard knocks in developing their lookout group the brothers work for the essential grub stake during the winter and turn their attention to their own holdings during the summer As a result of a good many hundreds of feet of development which has required from fifteen to twenty years to accomplish ore bodies of from five to seven feet in width have been uncovered in the main workings of th the property the ore for the greater part pal consists of iron and copper sulphides sulp hides car crying silver values it if va we mistake not the two or three lookout was bonded some the deal crawford years ago to george failing however through some cause or other to materialize itis it is said that some of twenty five per cent the ore runs as high as copper leadville herald democrat by the and his associates middle of may judge harrison socia tes on the miller group in half moon district expect to get their mill started this mill will run on a good grade of ore which in addition to saving a portion of the values over the plates will concentrate a product carrying thirty six ounces gold the denver lease on the famous little pittsburg property has come to the front with a good strike of iron the essays assays show from fifteen to sixteen ounces silver and forty five to fifty per cent excess iron the body is a large one and shipments will be commenced at once telluride lel luride examiner the small experimental mill built at sawpit by ballard lonsway is about ready to run and will be started in a few days four stamps only have been installed at present as the proprietors prie tors are not sure that they have a free milling proposition but room has been provided in the building for more stamps and they will be added should be present experiment peri ment prove profitable the mill is equipped with concentrating tables of regulation pattern and in addition has a slime ing device of mr ballards own invention A description of it is not obtainable but mr ballard has made numerous tests and found it to work well on each occasion ij last summer it was in operation at his bis ranch below placerville erville and is reported to have collected considerable values from the waters of the san miguel river situated as it was twenty miles from the nearest stamp mill on the river mr ballard is confident of being able to save the values if there are any free milling values there but regards t it as possible that the cyanide process may be the only method of solving the problem of the district should such be the case an attempt will be made to install such a process |