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Show TELLUR1DE HEADS COLORADO SHIPPERS Tellurlde district continues to lead the stttto in the matter of ore shipments, says the Rocky Mountain News. Tu June 109 cars of concentrate were sent out from Telluride station, which means four-fifths four-fifths tSO per cent) of the ore lifted in San Miguel county, the other 20 per cent coming from Ophir. Saw Pit and other stations on the Denver &r Rio Grande Southern. The 109 cars, at thirty tons to the car, total 0270 tons of mill concentrate con-centrate and this material at eighteen tons into one (the Cni ted States geological geo-logical survey estimated means SS.S'aO tons of crude ore. Cripple Creek handled 65.376 tons of an n erage value of S10.5S per ton. but a portion of this tonnage v.as lifted from the dumps. Not so at Telluride. where the average per ton is higher on account of the silver content. Of the shipments reported, the English-owned English-owned Tomboy sent out sixty cars to (lie smelter at Durango. while the Smuggler-Union group, managed by General Wells, sent twenty-five cars to Durango and t wontv cflrs of zinc concentrates to the plant at Blende, near Pueblo. Lessees shipped fdxty tons from the Liberty Belle mill and John G. Warner, owner of the Cimarron mine, tent out sixty tons, also of the concentrate class. The Tonopah Belmont company, owners of the Wagner group, docs not appear on thp list, but lias probably helped in the July production. |