| Show 1 i IY v f t 4 f 5 I NEWS OF THE MINES News Gathered from all aU ts Pa Facts Parti of Colorado Colordo S and Adjacent DistrIctS District Rich meb strikes continue to be made at Copper Rock nok Boulder Douder County County- An assay of 52 53 o ounces of silver siver per ton has bas I been obtained by G. G G W. W Atkinson from rock roee taken from froth Fortification Hill JI within Florissant Florl Finns Floris sant town limits Denver parties among whom are arc A. A Webber Webber Web Web- ber ben and and A. A A A. A Denman Denma have recently de developed de- de Ie on Mount Elbert Ebert near Twin Lakes Lales a a awo wo wonderfully er ly rich vein eln of gold ore of some live feet In width A six-Inch six streak of which runs over over two ounces in gold to the pound pOnd The ton tot vein rein assays nays from 0 to per A big strike has been made In the Mauch Chunk mine In Deaver gulch near George George- George tow town n. n A vein ven of solid sold high grade gade ore been uncovered which measures meures seven inches In i thickness two inches of which is 1 silver siver glance which will fl run rn 2000 20 ounces ouces or more in silver sUver silvero to o the ton the the other five fe inches will wi mill mi from r to 6 ounces silver siver to the te ton The best discovery of the season senon has ba been been made in the te famous Black Back Hawk mine at Rico The n dri opened Into Int an In Immen immense 1 body of high grade gade ore one running COO G ounces in silver siver per Ier ton The exact dimensions of the the te ore one cannot be ascertained until the w workmen work work- ork- ork men teen drift dri t through rough It I but from present Indications indications Indica indica- tons it Jt promises to be of great ma magnitude In the Calumet and Ind liccia Hecla at Alma a cave cavelia lies lias lia been discovered ered of a width of fr from m ten to twelve feet The owners think the place of pf this thi cave is an old water waterway way Very floe fine stalactites hang from the roof and Ind sides sIde The Bottom consists of ore one running from 10 to COO 0 ounces silver siver and from one oneto to sev seven en ounces gold A carload of ore from this cave care is no now being shipped The Caribou tunnel at i La 1 now In over COS CO feet and have hive got 1400 feet to t go before reaching the vein When the vein is I reached they w will wi ill have feet of good ground gound to work on This enterprise was wa started last lat year and when put through will vI prove prove whether er en or not deep deep mining is I profitable at Republican I The 0 Gregory company are arc now nov running 2 21 S stamps on the ore recently opened up between the COO GO and Ind foot levels level le An Atm I additional 2 ts stamps will vIll wI soon Boon be put In shape to crush cm the theore theore ore from this large largo body recently expo exposed ed The Gregory Gregor Is b coming t to the front under the management of Mr J J. J W. W Bostwick and weare we t arc are glad to know that the ore Is good much muck above e the av crage Central City Cup Register Call The Ready Heady eadY Cash mine situated above the tin I Lookout In Cunningham gulch Is showing t a I laige ge lo holy body y of ore It I is owned by the Livings Living Living- donA s- s l MT c i c. nm 1 Clark who rho h h have been working c gi it all winter t n One of 01 f j the thc owners was down yesterday and tells your correspondent that they have three streaks oi of I ole oie oie In the vein ven One eight Inches wide dc o of gray copper coppel running one streak run running rn icing ning 75 and one lead streak that will trill wl rup mi about 50 j. j The property Is just above thc the i I well wel known Highland Ighland Mary lary group which hat has I i been producing he heavily for the past pat few lew years Sol Solid Malchus Brothers received some specimens specimen specimen 3 I j yesterday f lions from i om the thc Queen of Cement mine in It I Ohio Gulch which full of native I Ian arc aie literally ful S an and brittle britte silver siver The men workIng on the i proper property say the streak streak varies Vries from ten t to a eighteen inches and that bat they have bave alread already r taken out about tw two o tons as ri rl h as the samples sam sent 5 plea pIes brought to town which rn er 1000 a II I I ton This is the thc richest ore ever found Ir th the e i Cement district The pro property erty is on oi I the Red lIed e 1 side of the cree and Is not snore more an ali li r h a big producers in iu t that camp Soi mp The Thc Te Union Smuggler Mining a ad d Milling company are arc spending large mounts amounts 0 of ot I money mony in development on This Thi company like the noted noted Sheridan Consol Consoli Consolidated Consolidated I- I I dat dated d believe in deep mining and to pro prove e that deep mining is more pro profitable able than sur sm surface sur surface face scratching they commenced a a tunnel la last t fall fal feet In the clear cear which the they will vi run ran rn nearly feet leet to cut the Smuggler Smuggle vein eln 1200 feet below the surface The Thc Smuggler Smug gler has ha always bore the reputation of pr pro producing pro the richest mineral minera on the entire entre vein veir and has shipped as much if I not more than tha a any other mine thc the Sheridan not excepted During the past ten days w work ork has ha ha been re rs resumed re on fully live twenty twenty mines and pros prospects pros that that closed dow down n last lat fall faU People ar are getting out in the thc hills bills his as fast as the thc weather weater will i permit and everything points to a a abi big mining boom for Hinsdale county this t sea em sea son With Wih the Ute and may Ulay running at their full ful capacity which will wi be bo in about thin thirty days and a n dally daily daly output of about twenty toe tons of ore from Carson vv with wih the addition of a faI fair output from flom several other properties Lal Lake City's shipments shipment will wi not fall fal short of from I Ito 12 to IS 15 carloads per day Among the thc more mom prominent shippers will I be be the Ute and Ula may Ulay Golden Fleece Capitol St St. Jacobs George I III Legal Tender Peli Pelican Pel Ican I- I can and many others Lake Lk Lake City Time Tim Times No definite arrangement has lIa as yet been bee made as to the of the tho so called Sixth Sith street shafts and the Penrose though Ii meetings of those thos Interested have been held Meanwhile the Bohn shaft on the Str Star tar C of i Hope lope Is being steadily carried down dow n and md hr has hM now attained a depth of SO feet below It the tho pump station or a a total depth of about 47 4 feet from the surface About 25 23 2 feet mom more e will wi place them In the contact and a singular thing is now nOv noticed w which is also an m extremely extremely ex ex- satisfactory one ont and anti that is that at not so much vv water ate is tact met w with wih in the bottom the IC greater greter portion porton of that now In t the c shaft coming comIng com com- ing lug from the vicinity of the pump station staton above the bottom Arrangements hive have been made by which It Is held at that point and ld turned directly into the tank A small siphon Is i doing most effective work at this point Leadville Herald The Cowenhoven Mining Transportation and Drainage Tunnel Company have bare started to t extend the Cowenhoven tunnel on into Smuggler mountain Contracts have been signed and delivered w with wih Ith Mr lr E. E D. D Wright of ot the Regent Park Town Iowa Joplin Lissie Cascade Cas Cas- cade cae Consolidated mines also alo lo with the Pon- Pon Mining Company to exi extend nd the tunnel through though a distance of 1760 feet This will wi develop these thee properties and drain drin them some 50 feet or more deeper than the present lowest low low- 10 1 est cst workings and ando no doubt will wi open up great and rich ore bodies he The rhe first frit 20 feet will wi be he through uh the balance of the Bushwhacker company's com corn pany's property and the next t f feet ct will wI be bt through Mr MI Wrights Wright's ground when the Pontiac ronta ron Port ta tiac tue company will IU ill be penetrated Brunton of the tue tunnel company says that It ii I go good d ground is found all the he gO al way will reach the In 11 four tour mouths months month It I j is quite quie wil probable that the S I will onI 1 go right on through the tIle ground and into the Mineral Finn Farm Jt making a distance of about but 2400 feet that the tunnel will wi now be extended before another halt bait is made An en JC In driving the main man drift on the Black Dack Hawk k ty at Rico the tle men tuc-n one da day daj last week opened Into a n body Lody of ore that surprises those thOo who urho thought they knew It all al Instead of copper pyrites pyrites- and zinc tine It U is grey copper Coppel and solid at that It I i tune luns un COO ounces silv silver er to ounce siver the ton tn There Is SI a vein eln of the rich mineral ov three feet wide ant and the wall not reached leached yet jet The Ahe niece more work done on the Property r the it Xo No up matter in what a drift Is In run on this property properly it ends in Ia If the mine keeps up otto vo Is on of the fortunate will cill noM not owne outside capital to extend thc thi Rio tande l' l to the thc oj |
