Show BLUE MOUNTAIN MINES telluride people working the gold queen in san juan county examiner telluride colo tile the colorado utah gold mining com 1 was organized for the purpose of acquiring and operating mining property in colorado and ana utah and at the present time r has options on several promising groups in both st states ates if either or both of these properties prove pi ove of sufficient value they will be purchased other wised they will be dropped the corp orators of the company are gus brickson 0 C thomas V U rodgers lt A bricksin Bricks jn and john olson all mining men who have lived in the mining regions of colorado for a number of years this company is at the present time I 1 operating under lease the mammoth mine situate within two miles of telluride and the he indications are that this will be a pro bitable venture as this property is well equipped with a modern ten stamp mill and alid the ore bodies are developing very satis facto rily on account of the stress ot of f weather it was impossible to operate the mill during this winter but the ore is being mined and stored and a goodly sup ply will be accumulated by spring when the mill will be started and kept going steadily in utah this company has a bond and f lease on the gold queen group consisting of eight lode claims and one mill site making an area of about sixty fi five ve acres outside of the these claims are in san juan county in the blue mountain mining district on old maps as abajo on the east slope and about the center of what is known as the blue mountains they are F about seventy five miles from dolores colorado a station on the rio grande southern railroad and they are just six miles from monticello utah the county seat of san juan county there is a good wagon road to the property from dolores over which all of the traffic into southeastern utah goes there is plenty of fine timber plenty ot of water and nearby are undeveloped coal beds beds of considerable importance geologists 4 claim that the formation is ir most lost favorable f for large mineral deposits being quartzite y dol dolomite and porphyry there is a great big ig well defined vein cropping out and only lack of sufficient development work accounts for this property being at a a stand still at this time A shaft fifty feet deep was sunk IT from the surface connecting with a cross cut which is about feet from the upper k terminal terrenal of the tramway this shows ore all the way down and some exceedingly fine I 1 specimens of free gold have been taken out bof of this shaft one piece of over loo pounds plentifully sprinkled through and through aith with coarse gold is now on exhibition in the new sheridan hotel at telluride the averse average value of the ore is very high running from one to ten ounces gold and practically all free milling this company has started a crosscut cross cut at the head or upper terminal of the tramway y which is now in about feet and anticipate cutting the vein which has been prospected p by shaft within the next sixty feet adjoining this property are the claims of the alamo gold mines company and the no dream group on the south and the properties of grand junction mining company on tile the north and west |