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Show PLAN TO REOPEN LEADVILLE MINES With approximately 90 per cent of the present work in the Leadville district already carried on by Ieseeed, a movement move-ment is on -foot to secure favorable terms rn order to bring about the development of properties which liave been idie for long, according to Ihe Mining and Scientific Sci-entific Press. Many of these are known to contain large bodiea of eilver-bearing ore, although several of the owners are aatidied to await a more favorable time, I leaving their ground idle and paying biU I a .igbt tax on undeveloped property. A syndicate of local oper-atora, headed by John CbrtellJni. t he Joyce brothers. Tlieodort- Zadra. Tj. Canlield and others, is actively developing the Adelaide Park properties, the Dolomite. General Grant, Laurel and Kcho. through the Dolomite ii.ii ft. A drift is being driven now to locate the ore body in the first contact, and the syndicate iH already planning to aiiik deeper and also to work through the shaft on the General Grant. A contract con-tract for 100 feet of sinking baa also bfc.jn let by Frank G. Peck. |