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Show The veins are all true fissures, varying from 1 inches to 75 and 100 feet in width between granite walls. The vein matter is quartz or quartzite. The Aurora and some others are classed as "contact fissures." The Aurora is twelve feet wide, with a pay streak of twenty inches, carrying argentite, 6tephanite, sulphide and galmite. The better bet-ter quality, assorted, gives assay returns of 400 ounces of silver to the ton, and the inferior in-ferior selections 100 ounces.- There is some calcium, and the owners thereby anticipate striking chlorides when sufficient depth sbail have been attained. Frank J. Fulton has been in Denver with the view of engaging capital for an interest in the Aurora, of which he is the owner. The vein has been traced a distance of ' 3000 feet, covered by the Aurora and Nancy Belle extensions. The property is admirably situated for development de-velopment by adits or tunnels, with an abundance of timber and water near at hand. Mr. Fulton is arranging to explore this lode to a depth f '2o0 feet, and is conn-dent conn-dent of making a great mine as soon as it can be methodically opened. The only productive group in the district at present is owned by William Wallace. No shipments of ore can well be made until the county wagon road shall Imve. been put iu good order. Tbi the commissioners have promised" shall be done early next spring. On the Lake fork of Clear creek '.he Belle, owned by J. J. Miller, Is ready to ship, but awaits the completion of a smelter which he is building at Rockdale. The prospects of the camp are exceedingly favorable, and may be expected to cut au mportant figure in next year's product. C0L0RAD0JlA PLATA. Denver, Oct 5. At the head of the south fork of Clear creek, a tributary of the Arkansas Ar-kansas river in Chaffee county, is a belt of mineral veins which, under recent development, develop-ment, give extraordinary promise. Among the located claims is the Aurora, situated about fifteen miles from the Rio Grande railway station at Granite. The manager of that line has indicated his willingness to construct a branch' fron Granite Gran-ite to Winficld, three miles from the camp, whenever the miners can assure him a carload car-load of ore daily. The district, christened La Plata, was or-I or-I ganized ten or twelve years ago, and at the , present time contains about 75 voters. In 1S1 it enjoyed something of a boom and considerable capital was invested then-Owing then-Owing to its distance from railways and markets, no large quantities of ore were produced. |