Show I SALE OF PORTLAND MINE Tho Valuable Property to Soon Pass Into Syndicates Hands < Denver Nov Although the reported re-ported sale of the Portland mine Is de nled at the olllces of the company in Colorado Springs It is generally believed be-lieved in mining circles that this big Cripple Creek property will pass Into the hands of an English syndicate consisting of the Venture corporation the Exploration company and Werner Bolt Co the South African diamond miners B and Investors in Mexican mines and railways It Is said tlut the price to be paid is i about 15000OCO It Is known that experts ex-perts for the concerns In the deal have mqde thorough examination of the property and from London the report comes ilmt the deal is practically closed The plan reported from London is tp consolidate the Portland with Slratlons Independence and to forma form-a nC company to control both of the great gold properties Such a consolidation consoli-dation would create not only the greatest great-est gold mining property In Colorado but probably the greatest In the world Mining1 Notes Director HarHeld of the Grand Central Cen-tral leaves for Provo this morning Three cars of ore from the Grand Central ofTintlc were maYkctcd yesterday yes-terday The Eagle Blue Bell of Eureka has three more cars of gold ore nt the sampler Three lots of ore from the Silver Shield of Blngham were sold on yesterdays yes-terdays market i The Carlssa of Tintlc forwarded three more cars of ore to Colorado yesterday fortreatment Five cars of concentrates reached the smelter from the Ophir Hill of Ophlr caiiyon yesterday Alfred Murray leaves for Phoebe today to-day where he will begin assessment work on old locations Ben Hatch has returned to his copper property In the La Sals whore he will remain through the winter A P Schumackcr a prominent mining mi-ning man of Denver arrived from the East yesterday to look into Utahs camps M L Efllngcr manager of the Ophlr of Statellne has gone to camp In response re-sponse to news that a new strike has been made there Manager Schcu reports assays on samples from the new strike In the Honerlne at Stockton showing very satisfactory values Superintendent Morehouse of the Utah Queen leaves for Dry canyon again tomorrow after disposing of another an-other lot of ore Henry M Crowther left for the south last night to conduct an examination of mining property over which negotiations nego-tiations are pending I J S Johnson reports five men working work-Ing on highgrade copper ore In the I Regulator group at Alta on which developments r de-velopments will continue throughout the winter President Cohen of the Con Mercur leaves for California next week to measure up the new developments In the Bully Hill of Shasta county now owned by Capt Do La Mar The Sentinel of Eureka Nev reporting report-ing the shipments out of that locality for the week gives RoccoHomcstakc the leading position with lllSCO pounds of highgrade lead and silver ore Manager Lewis of the Cactus group near Frisco has forwarded a selection of copper ore to Denver where It will be subjected to various processes for the leaching of copper ores The result will be awaited with a great deal of interest in-terest by miners in the locality Charley Lammersdorf one of the founders of Gold Mountain mining dis trict Is scheduled to arrive from that southern camp again today and be fore leaving definite arrangements will have probably been made for the resumption re-sumption of work on the Scvier com panys ground Hon O W Powers of the Orient has received a report from that West Tin tic property that in the northeast drift off the UOfoot level eight inches of ore has been encountered that shows from S3 to 20 in gold G to 40 ounces silver and 10 to 17 per cent lead He is very much pleased over it and believes the management Jias reached the old Scotia vein |