Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-09-21 | Page 35 | Aspen Boasts of Bonanza Strike

SSPEI BOASTS IF BDIMIKE Sensational Find Reported by Camp Famous for Molly Gibson Mine. Kike City, Park county. Color.nJo, mines fttnl the Aspen district are all favorably affected by tho uiivanco In silver and tho Ren oral resumption of devcloument. In tho latter tho homo pools organized by men who know tho proper t leu are inure than keeping pace v,i: h tho own ini; comJMIlie, Krotn A.i'cii comes word that the dis-eovt-ry of h'.h -rade sIlver-bearliiK ore made by the Scott Lrother.s Alexander an.l M.irtin ,-ott fiwiiuii aiid op'ratini; I t: " olj ('ukland mine on tho south Pido f.( Cjui'-'ira k iili'h, about four miles Houi h of Ann, p:omii s to t:ike rank with the rich .st strtKes on r-rd in the l.is'ory 'f Asen and C"o.or;i lo, according to the i;ocky .Mountain N s. i .Mine Rimiiies are nliowinir silver content con-tent hy a.-".M' te.t as h;fc :i its 1 l.u'iO , o urii 's, whic.i at prt-seiu market price o; the wn:;e metal arnounts to Kjout $ L;.7u." tn the to;i. Tin a Mfi-Krude ore. v as taken from t ho rich core of the vein that me.i. irrs fuliy ni:,e ft et between be-tween walls, wh.i.e the rt'inainlng vein maitvr garr.p.es on an average 175 ounces ?:lt-r to the ton. i The ti!.-i overy haa caused Int'-nno ex- , citeinent in A pen, and it 1 3 freely pre-dictr'l pre-dictr'l that the -reat silver camp will I a-rain become as prosperous as during the ; time the famous Mulhe Gibnon mine and , other properties of thj district were producing pro-ducing higii-grado ore. Already many properties In the vicinity of tho Oakland, In the Queen's gulch section, sec-tion, are being sought by prospective lessees and investors, and tho renewal of pros'tf cting and general activity in that immediate section js marked. The Oakland la one of the early day locations lo-cations of this district and was developed by a tunnel several hundred feet in Itr.gi h by former owners without striking strik-ing ore veins that to them seemed worth exploiting. Some time ago Alexander and Martin Si'ott, brothers, acquired the property. They believed the former owners had committed a serious error when tho bo-caiel bo-caiel small feeder veins they encountered encoun-tered were not thoroughly prospected, Tne .Scott brothers decided to follow a feed'-r that looked promising. The vein continued to widen until It is now nine feet across, all of which is ore carrying frozn 177 to 17S ounces silver a ton. An eight-inch sreak in this vein was uncovered un-covered that assayed 6r'00 ounces In silver a ton. Within the last forty-eight hours this streak was widened to two and a half feet, while the values quickly climbed to 11,000 ounces silver a ton. The strike, it Is believed, will develop into one of the largest and richest bodies of ore ever opened up In Aspen, not ex-ceping ex-ceping the famous discovery in the Mollie Gibson a quarter of a century ago, which set the mining worid afire. As yet no estimates as to the extent and value of the strike have been made by the owners, but everyone seemed unanimous in the opinion that it is tho biggest thing that has ever happened in Aspen, or, for that matter, Colorado. The further development of the discovery dis-covery in the Oakland will be watched with "the keenest interest by many lay and expert mining men, who have long believed that there was a rich ore-bearing contnet to the west of the well-defined trend In the old recognized dolomite-blue lime belt of this district. Among these men is Colonel A. C. Salisbury, Aspen 's mine expert, who has always contended 'that there was a vast contact far richer in value than tho old blue lime contact. The owners of the Midnight Mining company, which owns the Pitkin claim adjoining the Oakland, believe they will share in the pood fortune of the Scott brothc-rp. ns their property Is located within fifty feet of the bonanza discovery.