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Show UTAH Mil MEN BUY RICG PROPERTY Will Develop Argentine and Blackhawk by Driving Driv-ing Tunnel to Cut Veins. Special to The Tribune. RICO, Colo., Sept. 25. The Argentine Argen-tine and BJackhawk mines, recently taken over by the Kico Argentine Mining Min-ing company, composed of mining men from Salt L.ake, are undergoing vigorous vigor-ous development. A new tunnel uah been surveyed to cut the known largo oi e bodies at. depth, and wuik has beeii started un it ami will be pushed as t&tt as possible. There is said to be a copper-iron vein in t.'iis property which contains ore very1 similar to that being mined by the Rico Consolidated Mining company, whose property adjoins tfie Rico Argentine property on the northeast. This vein, as exposed in the upper workings, is said to be ' thirty-five to forty teet in width, and the new tunnel tun-nel has been started with the end in view of giving greater depth and reaching reach-ing the zone ot secondary enrichment. Besides the copper ore the property is known to contain several blanket veins somewhat similar to the famous blanket vein of Newmar hill, only one of which has been partially explored, with verj gratifying1 results. The Blackhawk mine lies on toe northern north-ern slope of the steep hillside which separates Allyn gulch from Silver creek, and the vein is called the Blackhawk Black-hawk Fault and is undoubtedly the Barne as that passing through the Argentine Ar-gentine mine and World's J? air and Uncle Ned mines, finally passing over the ridge into tho Rico-W elli'igtor; mine, where Tor the past four years the Knight Investment company of Provo, Utah, has been mining large tonnages of copper cop-per silver ore and trom which it has paid for its property during this time. The Blackhawk mine was nrst worked In 1879, and has produced several hundred hun-dred thousand dollars. Thomas F. Walsh of Camp Bird fame once leased on this property, and is said to have made over 10.000 from his operations on if. Several Sev-eral other parties have made small fortunes for-tunes from leases on this ground from surface workings, but no extended development de-velopment has ever been done on it, as all the ore so far takon out has come from very superficial workings. The Argentine mine is situated in the valley of Silver creek, on the line of the Blackhawk fault or vein, and was formerly worked through a shaft which is now abandoned and filled with water. The dump of the Argentine shaft shows limestones and sandstones as the prevailing country rock. Coarsely crystalline crys-talline pyrite carrying copper is plentiful plenti-ful and apparently occurred as a replacement re-placement of limestone along the Assure. As-sure. It is claimed by Gladford Smith, who last worked the property, that tho Blackhawk fissure passes through the shaft, but that the ore occurred in another an-other vein, which is supposed to be the Last Chance fault. The Argentine has been worked spasmodically spas-modically during the past thirty years, and no record is known of its production, produc-tion, but it is believed to be large. Like a great many western mining camps, Rico has had the experence of poor management of its mines, in the past in many instances. A grat deal of money has been expended at one time or another, and various workings are extensive. The real worth of its preciouj metal deposits was not fully appreciated until Utah operators entered the field and started operations on an extensivi scale, Bince which time the camp has seen a wonderful revival, and conditions at the present time are such that the future of the camp looks brighter than ever before. be-fore. Many prominent Salt Lake business and mining men are interested in the Rico-Argentine company, among whom are M. H. Walker, Judge J. E. Frick, Charles Read. Dr. A. E. Rvkert, Fred W. Price, J. H. Woodman see, "i. O. Hoffman Hoff-man and McClure Wilson. Rico is extremely ex-tremely fortunate to attract the attention atten-tion of such men, some of whom are connected with the vast mining industry of Utah, and the fact that such men Bee the great possibilities of the future of this camp will no doubt in time lead to many other Utah interests entering the camp. |