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Show mining At ms. The Good Thunder Mine Makes a Magnificent Mag-nificent Sbowi'ig of Large Bodies of Ore. NEW B0NAN7A AW ASTONISHES. Another Eich Body of Ore Has Escn Oponed in tho Gdoonda and tha Little Auuie. Apen Is the Tintic of Colorado "and as both camps are similar in many ways a brief account of the present, condition of the Aspen mines will be of interest to Utah mining men. Shipments were commenced yesterday yester-day from the Kdison No. 'J. A twenty-live twenty-live ton lot was sent down. This is the lirst that has been shipped since the big body of ore was struck in the incline. in-cline. Another diflicuHy that has retarded the working of the initio is tho small plant of machinery. Tno capacity of the bucket is about 800 pounds, and this has made development rather slow. working shaft, deeper to start I lie second level. A station is n- i,,, ,, ,lm,4, and drifting to the or- i,0!y v,iii begin in a few days. No ailcnq",! i,,,,,,, made to shin much ore as S1;,., .,-.... tion had to be given to inking iq t)lt. water was epeuivc t i :i ; i . ; 1. . ;1r-lv ;1r-lv ftSO.WO worth of ore ha already been shipped. The entire title (if the "three patented claims, the Kureka, Little I Annie, and the Ju.la, stands in the nanio of the company November an order was made l,v . li,lrict . uitrt to sell a sixth interest oi' the minor heirs of the Wonger (. ,.,, ,( I Wheeler purchased the ininvst and conveyed it to the company. For'the purpie !if miking sure that the payments at e m.'t us n.v COlll . ,),, Manager Wheeler will list the stock on the Denfer Exchange and sell a portion of his stock and use the proceeds with hi? dividends to meet tu. payments. The company is out oidebt. Mr. Wheeler Whee-ler gave his own pcrv n il notes in part payment forthe propel ii"s nil cg.omcd the task of paying the p-irehas price and owned l.THT.oiiO share of which he has sold 5000 shares u pniatc anient -JO cents a share. As the company has no debt of itsown all the net. proceeds of the mines will be divided among the stockholders in dividends. Of course Mr. Wheeler wiil draw his dividends on all his stock not sold and this with the proceeds from the (.ale !' stock wiil enable him to easily niect the balance of his obligations on the purchase of the properties. Parties buying stock will get their proportion of the net pro- Hut at 13 o'clock tonight tho new machinery ma-chinery will start up. A largo engine and hoisting plant has been placed on the mine, and operations can be pushed. Some idea, says tha Aspen Times, can be gained of the ore body that, has been discovered when it is known that it has been opened up for fifteen feet, with no sign of foot or hanging walls The shaft on the property is 400 feet deep. From tho bottom an incline was started, which is now down thirty feet. There was a little ore found in the bottom of the shaft, but it was not until tho incline was ell under way that the big body was found. Some of this ore is very rich, assays the other day :going over li'JOO ounces. These were obtained from picked specimens speci-mens but tho whole is of good grade. The value can not be known until the returns are received from this 25 ton lot. N'ow that the new machinery will soon be working, levels will bo started off from the incline and tho mine worked to its full capacity. , THE GOOD THUNDER The developments in the Good Thunder Thun-der mine are something astonishing. Tho mine was fully described in these columns a few days ago. At that time the level run from the shaft toward the contact at a point thirty-six feet below the 412 foot level had just struck the ore. The level has been continued twenty-five feet through ore. After disclosing that enormous amount of mineral, the work struck the foot wall along which levels have been started both ways. Everything in sight is ore, and the work makes a magnificent showing. Three hundred tons of ore has already been hoisted from this part of the mine, and it looks as though the property would soon be one of the heaviest producers in the camp. The south end is showing seven feet of ore that runs from 75 to 100 ounces. cceds oi me mine irnni tlie lirst. Air. Wheeler has twenty three months vet to pay tho balance of the purchase price and on easy payments The purchase pur-chase price was about siO'i.OUO; about Hf,000 remains to be paii. About $."itl,0i)0 worth of ore is now in sight with the small amount of development develop-ment work done. Since Mr. Wheeler took hold of the property, a. year ao last September, he has' spent nearly $30,000, much of which was spent in dead prospecting work. His predecessors, predeces-sors, some of whom were his eopari-neis. eopari-neis. spent during the p;lst seven years nearly $70,000 in prospecting. By this it will lie seen that the property prop-erty has costfiO.OOD. .Mr. Wheeler wiil also commence selling other properties, such as his Iiushwhaeker, Aspen Consolidated, Con-solidated, Iowa and Smuggler Mountain, Moun-tain, and Aspen Times stocks, and his many valuable mining interests from Frying 1'an to Ashcroft to help him pay ot! his Little Annie notes and save for himself all of his. Ektle Annie stock possible, as he believes that he has iu the Eureka, Little Annie and Juda claims the foundation for one of the most valuable mines in the world, and he is not alone in this belief. THE At'STIN. Work is still continued on the Austin in Lime gulch. The vein will soon be tapped at a depth which is thought will reach pay ore in place. THE GEM. The tunnel on the Gem is running on the vein in low grade ore, and it is thought that when greater depth Is attained at-tained pay ore will be found. - THE WILMINGTON. The Picnic, Idiewild and Wilmington tunnel being run by Tony Nugent and H. Clark Wheeler has cut the porphyry and tapped the blue lime, which is thought to be about sixty feet thick, when tho Climax vein will be cut at a depth about 200 feet deeper than the lower workings of the Climax and a short distance south. Four men are working. liy February the Climax problem will be solved. the grade of tho mineral in this lease being much higher than that in the north end. A shipment was made yesterday yes-terday of 2r tons which, it is thought, will go over 80 ounces, the samples having hav-ing run up to 100 ounces. This was t he lirst lot taken from this end for several days, but if teams can be had regular shipments will be maintained hereafter. THE WILTON BELLE. The Wilton Belle is producing some wonderfully rich ore. It shows a streak three inches thick from which three assays as-says were obtained yesterday, as follows: fol-lows: 50'J4 ounces, 4470 ounces, and 211 ounces. The ore also carries 14 per cent copper. The vein is four feet wide, and there are indications that the rich streak may increase in size. This property is being worked under lease by the Red Jacket Mining company com-pany of St. Louis, James W. Mageo being be-ing the superintendent. Mr. Magee is greatly pleased with the developments that have followed his work, and he is looking forward to having a big mine there in the future. The Wilton Belle lies west of old Castle City. It was worked several years ago by John C. Teller, but did not prove up at that time. TO START UP. It was reported yesterday that arrangements ar-rangements had been completed to start up work on the Deep shaft and Franklin Frank-lin Monday. It could not be learned certainly whether or not the report was cone.it, but a gentleman closely identified iden-tified with the magement informed The Times that such arrangements had been completed. ANOTHER RICH OIJK HOLV. Another rich body of ore has 'been opened iu the Goleonda. Several such bodies have been oponed in that and adjoining ad-joining properties belonging to tho Aspen As-pen Alining and Smelting company: so such a tinii is nothing new, but is interesting inter-esting nevertheless, as showing how far even the old mines are 1'iom being worked out. liCCKHOHN NO. TWO. A report was circulated yesterday that a strike has been made in the Ibickhorn Xo. 2 which is being worked by Tourtelottc and others. This report was founded on assays secured from the property, Tho lessees found some ore iu the drift that is being run. and when it was assayed it was found to run 30 ounces. The extent of the lind is not yet known, but it is not thought by Mr. Tourtoletio to be more than a small pocket. It is an encouraging encour-aging indication to his mind, however, and leads to the hope that important results will soon be reached there. THE 8!MCi) E '!. The north drift on tho 200 foot level of tho Smuggler has developed some nice looking galena ore. The mineral has just been struck and it cannot yet be determined whether or not there is enough of it to be of any value. This drift has been running through low grade, material that has had a very promising appearance: and it had beeu thought more than probable that a good ore chute would soon be opened. THE LITTLE ANNIE. During the past mouth the Little Annie company havo been sinking the |