The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-15

about sixty days being required to "break |
in" fairly Intelligent mechanic. There Is
still another process for concentrating, be-
ing tried in the country, but your cores
pondcut failed to find the parties in inter
est. If the Pomcroy company succeed in
making the practical working of their pro-
cess, on any considerable variety of ores,
as successful as they claim it may be, II
will add an impetus to mining operations
that will be felt throughout the state wner-
ever low grade ores are found, end cheap
processes necessarily required.
ON TBB TRAMP.
An carly start from the National, up
Boulder canon, through scenery as bold
and rugged as ought to be found on Ciear
Creek, our ta'ty turned off at the mouth
of -Four Mile Creek. Following up that
valley, we made our first halt at Camp
Tcllurium, where we were shown the vine
lode owned by Watson Dyer and Mcknight,
with a thirty foot shaft, going down two
feet a day, showing pay streak OF eylva-
mite. Above this about two miles is locat-
cd the Logan mines, owned by Philadel-
phia parties. We did not go to the mine,
but were shown some wonderfully rich
specimens Of tellurum and free gold, said
TO have been taken from thence.
Above this on the creek, we passed the
mouth of California tunnel, owned by
Frenchman and an Irishman. We did not
learn their names, but that they are indus
trious men is very evident. 1t is said they
have been very successful, having bank
account of $4,000. Exceedingly indus
trious they grub away in Four Mic-gulcb-
ing in the summer, and pegging at the tun-
mel in the winter and regardless OF season,
time or place, extracts gold dd lib, About
seven miles out from Boulder, we pass "a
tuuncl recently commenced, under the
management of Hal Sayre, esq, of Bould-
er, and in which they intend working the
Wood drill. The compressor is about 100
wards from the mouth of the tunnel, and
| driven from the main shaft of stamp mill
recently elected. There is no good reason
why it should not be very successful. We
did not see the drill, the tunnel being
| closed, but the pipe work was thoroughly
constructed, and the compressor seemed a
very excellent piece of machinery.
GULCnING.
AT frequent intervals along the bed OF
| Four Mile creek, parties are actively en-
gagged gulching, and generally with excel
| lent success, derrcks being in sOmc instan-
ces employed in removing the debris. AT
Sugar Leaf post Office, we hitched the
stock for climb up Wood mountain.
About half way up, we halted at the shaft
of the Isabel lode, we'll defined vein
traced the entire distance, and showing in
the shaft at twenty-five feet, a pay streak
of sixteen inches of gray copper, about
four and one-haf feet between handsome
smooth walls. Mill sample of one humid
red and fifty pounds from this mine gave a
return of S21S per ton-a very valuable
property-but could be worked to better
advantage by tunnel. Above this is the
Lone Jack mine. and below, the Summit,
the three properties belonging to one party,
kirkpatrick & Co., good miners, who de-
serve all their good fortune On the same
mountain, lower down on the creek, tun-
mel has teen commenced by Colonel Phil
lips, the manager of the Burleigh tunnel
Georgetown, for the purpose of cutting q
large and valuable belt of mineral running
through Wood mountain. This work Ii
closed at present, the management no,
being of the most entcrprising character.
However, il may eventually fall into othel
hands and accomplish its object. Farther
up the creek, about half mile above the
Forest Home, we visited the Ogalalla tun
mel. at present in $40 feet from the mouth
At $50 feet they have sunk fifty feet ant
drited Thirty feet, with an overland SLOPE
thirty feet. In all the present workings,
GOOD PAYING MINERAL
is found, AMI ia some places pockets o
very high grade. This property belongs tt
Messrs Blake, Eanes Il Co., Of Boulder
aud is more developed than any mine VI
examined. They have fine ore house
tramway and switches, and good dump
the latter of no little importance in larg
work OF this character. a mile above ant
opposite tie peak of Sugar Leaf mountain
we reach the Crown Prince tunnel, onl!
driven IA yet fifteen feet. 1t is INTENDED
next season to push this enterprise to
depth of $50 feet. 1t Is driven on a vein
but eventually will cut several lodes at
worry considerable depth. From this point
crossing the creek, we clambercd up Suga
Loaf trail, heading across toward Magno
liza, to examine the deposit of telluriun
lying northeast of Eagle Rock. There ar
but four or five now working, but thos
show very flatterng indications, The de
velopement is mostly by sinking shafts
three of which are from eighty to ninet.
feet in depth with fair amount of drifting
Very valuable ore, in small quantities, +
taken from all these mines, but they ar
holding the mass of the mine yield to hav
it treated by the Brett process. Shout
Mr. b. succeed in his endeavors thes
miners will all be rich and corresponding
happy.
We had intended TO return by way c
Gold Hill and Salina, bnt our day was a.
ready declining, and so we reluctant
turned down the trail, and after n shar
ride reached Boulder at 8 o'clock p. m.
tired and hungry enough. Your CORES
p0ndent is indebted to Hon. G. G. Corning
Henry Blake, esq, and other gentleme
for courteses and information, and min
host Salisbury of the National, whose ad
mirable hotel neels no commentator fror
me.
That Boulder county possesses
VAST MINERAL DEPOSITS
in her mountains and canops there can
no manner of doubt, and while this ms
also be said of many other location
througho out the etate, there are none wher
there are so many good roads, affordipg cas-
access TO the different districts. Reductio
works are also found in different parts O
the county, so that miners with good Isy
ing ore have no trouble in changing it int
, currency of the realm. 1t is the best Il
, cation in the state for men of moderate @
extensive capital to invest in mining proI
: crty. AS the investment, if properly d
rected, may be made to yield large intel
| est, and that, too, at an early date. Nearl
I all the district that | have endeavored
= describe, is peculriy adapted to tn
driving of tunnels on the veins, the mouk
! aims being quite steep, and very many {
the best veins tending towards the gulcl
es, or main water courses. When capt.,
shall have been ,alistied by close invest
CATION of the substanlisbillity of the il
! vestments offered, Boulder may then fl
| the color, as the banner mining county {
) Colo RADIO. COLONEL.