Show S r T NEWS OF THE MINES MINE Item Items Gathered from all n TarU rat of or Color Colorado do doand and ana Adjacent Districts Several mines in Montana have shut down I because of the low lo price of silver siver The owners of the Sheridan Sherdan and other mines mine have hae reduced their miners' miners wages from fronS 4 O 00 I to 3 50 a day owing to the te low price of ot silver Some of ot the tho te Denver Mining Stock Exchange e propose that the leading tomes mines of Creede Crede and Cripple Creek should be listed but others other op oppose op 0 pose the suggestion as 1 the tbs r rules mica allow alow only 0 patented mines on the list The shaft shat of ot the Penrose mine min Inside the I limits of has ba reached a depth of C I feet bet teet There has ha been a t good god deal dea of water t to c pump out and last st lat week a tremendous amount amoun began to come comein In and the miners had to t get out in a 1 hurry The Te San Juan mine mino shipped a 1 carload of ore from Trout Lake last lat Saturday Win Vm WO M M. T Tucker Is operating this thi mine under uder lease leDe and ane has baa only a small smal force on at present but In ID Inthe the spring will wi have a large largo force 0 p Republican 0 Out of ot the hundreds hundred of ot veins that have already been located every everone one shows free tree gold either to t the tho te eye eje or in the pan running from froma a few dollars up to t thousands thousand per ton It I Is I a veritable poor mans man's camp and prospectors prospectors' paradise Creede Crede Creede Neshe News Nes The hc he fifth level of ot the min main crescent Incline continues to to open up and they have bave now about five lve feet of ot very fine stuff stu there thero This carries about 80 30 3 per cent cent lead to t the ton tn while the tho silver value is I more than t the tAver el aver average age of ot that class of ot It Is reported a ig big strike was wa made mae in the Republican mine near Silverton this week The property is owned by and Kramer and is claimed that five feet of ot ore was wa opened 0 up brittle up-brittle brittle silver which sliver which siver-which which runs 13 without sorting and ore streak continuous Sold Solid Muldoon A strike of ot good goo ore has ha just been made In Inthe Inthe inthe the Acanthus tunnel three miles mies west of ot Crested Butte Dute This tunnel has ha been run rundown r down 40 or 5 feet to cut a 1 vein in the carbonate carbonate car car- 0 bonate bonat belt bel and there tere has ba been much speculation speculation specula specula- specula tion ton as to t the thc outcome The owners are very ver jubilant over their discovery Summit county has ha come to t the front with witha 0 a find that attracts attract great gret Interest of ot the whole mining world world The strike was wa made mae In the Spring l lode de an old claim claim and Is in the shape of ot a 1 body of ot ore four feet I In width crossing the tunnel at an angle Ingle of forty five forty degrees The ore Is I a white whit quartz quart completely Impregnated Impregnated with wih gold in all al sorts of shapes Wires and nuggets are very ver i. i n. n The latest from Copper Rock Rok is shIpment of ore from the dump of the Rudolf Rudol mine which yielded 2229 22 The Te mineral has baa ha been I lying lying on the dump all al sumer summer and was re ra gar ed as valueless until the te excitement broke S out two Vi ago on the discovery of the Orphan Boy Doy wees mine Since Sines then the dirt on the dump of ot this tl mine has ha been panned and I found to t contain contin gold equal to t that found inthe Inthe in inthe I the Orphan oy Boulder Herald Heald The first frt large shipment from froni the Anaconda c mine at Cripple Creek to the Denver smelters I IS started Thursday two Twenty Twenty Twenty-to large ore wa wagons waS wa S gons goes paraded the street with the te legend Ore S from front the Anaconda Mine Mie on each wagon The shipment consists of two to carloads carload and it ii itis I I is claimed that It ft shows free gold in dazzling I quantities The Te value of this shipment in the S estimation of the owners Is shown In the fact faa fat I that tat the ore was wa sacked to t prevent Its It beIn being I I stolen In transit Word comes come from Villa VUa Grove that Valentine Valentine Valen Valen- tine and Sharpe Share working on the Empress I II Josephine mine at Bonanza Donan have encountered I l in iii a drift dri tn ten inches of ot e and brittle britti S t assas assays onA s. s sample lot 0 b P gold guld and ounces for the former an ano ani 34 ounces silver siver and 80 ounces gold for forthe forthe fo the latter ter They took tk out oui 55 5 sacks sack two men mci a wor working last week and now now have aye ported fly five tons ton that Is throughout that highly high impregnated with wih this rich ore 0 What do you think of ot a body bod of shipping ore ore 30 3 feet in thickness so far 15 feet long and extending downward to an unknown a depth Think of ot the te fact that every evry 3 cubic cubi feet of it Is a ton tn of ot ore and then ra rack k your you brains for the number of ot tons there are arc in th the themas mass mas Yet such Is i the fact the mine has opened up the te largest lagest body of ot ore ii In Inthe Inthe a the state a and d the point has ha not yet been bee a reached where they expect to t find fd their rich richest L Leat est eat ore cither Miner NinI Two To rich strikes were made mae at La Plata Flata Utah last lat week which It Is thought will wI direel direct di di- reel attention of mining to that camp One Ole I of ot is in the Meats Mears Meas Consolidated an extension extension ex ez I tension tension of ot the Daley tome mine which Is now ayIng ay I Ing lug dividends of 5 a 1 month and the theother th C Cother other Is in West Ontario lying west of ot Great Grea i Ontario but not on th the seine same sae vein In both boti bothof ti of oZ f these tese mines large bodies boies of high higl grade or have have been uncovered similar in character charter an and andgrade ad grade grae to t. t that produced by the Ontario The Te folks are reported as being i ia in ina a foot 5 vein cIn of ot fine sulphide ore which so fai fa Of has averaged ounces in silver siver per ton tn This win vein Is a 1 continuation of ot the streak which w was wa as continued a considerable distance some time ago ago being then ten only eighteen inches In thickness but finally developed lot Into Int c a 1 vein ven of ot five l e feet The breast brent of ot the drift I Inow la I now In this thi ore but owing to t the te almost alost Im- Im i- i lee passable condition of ot the roads roa no ore can CM b be shipped at present and it can cn only ony be stored store an away way ay until the roads roas are In a better condition I or a millis mUis erected in that vicinity It I has ha l leaked leaked aked out that thee the te Slide com coee company cm I pany are not ot getting tho the ore for their large lang lag C shipments nt from their headings Nor Indeed d does dos any part part of the ore shipped come from n neither either of their tunnels nor yet from anywhere 0 near the breast The ore now being shipped il ilIs is being sloped d out from front the i ground above tb Ui th 5 j main drifts and of ot course back from th the thereat 0 breasts reat For some time the vein in bot both Li levels h has been dead and it gives every ever evidence evi ev I. I dence that t the ore has petered out In fact fat I work has hI been abandoned in the breasts c of ot f both tunnels tunnel It Is a singular fact fat that Ui the theore te teore e eore ore in the Slide veins seems to t peter petr out e as a S soon sn as a the tunnels attain attin any appreciable e depth in the mountain In the old origins original 1 Slide workings the ore played out when th the e drift wa was wa in five f e or six elx hundred f feet et and Ui the te a mineral mInera never came cae In again After pushing g. g the te workings of that level two or ot three thre thre a hundred feet farther In dead ground ft t wa was wa abandoned Now the company has ha the sam same IC experience with wit the two remaining levels level leeI 3 Why is I Is the te Slide only a 1 surf surface ac n chimney 1 Can the owners get ore only u up p and down HI Iti The on 11 management seems t to 0 be of that opinion for we hear that t they tat contemplate con cur 1 template prospecting by sinking for the foun foun- foe a. a elation dation daton formation or strata trat of ot the he region b be be n- n lieving that when that is reached a large o ore ore e body will bo be found in it It t Is said by wI b the m man management n- n a- a anticipate that they tey may have I to 0 0 sink eight hundred or one thousand feet b bj- bj afore a- a fore they rea reach foundation formation Oray Ouray 1 p Argus The Te Cash Cah Entry Enby mine at t Cerrillos Ne New w Mexico is to be developed to t t a very consider considerable rable r- r able extent The shaft is to be sunk to a depth of 1000 10 feet and a cut cross croscut Iun rn run t I to I connect with wih the shaft shat of ot th the Central Sue Such t h Is the news nes wired from front London wred by the ma manager man Si ager ager C Capt Richard Williams The shipments from the shIpment Union Smuggler ir have dropped off 01 considerably the te past pat wed week C I this was wa owing to tha fact that the Union n mine has hag not been putting out any ore at a all LI I while the te upraising was wa In progress No Now Now nl w that il It has been completed and the force ol of miners Increased the shipments shipment of this cm com a. a I pany will wi correspondingly j Telu U ride rde Journal I our I J i L 2 t |