The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-30

Buren Hoyt has disposed of his Del Norte
or an one-half interest in it and it will be /
soon placed where it belongs among the |
bonanza mines. The Alabama has been
purchased by Ex Mayor Louther, of Pueblo
and Col. Carter. This ground. SO it proves
holds the foot wall and large pay chute OF
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. lode.
The Nemaha which holds portion, at
least, of the Bassick's Bonanza ground has
been surveyed for patent. The Tecumseh
horn silver mine on Game Ridge above
town has IS tons of ore on its dump. A
sack full of fair class from this niue
sent to the Denver mint gave $26, 200 to
the ton. Hoyt & Keeps Pentucket copper
mine shows better as depth is acquired.
THE GREATEST STRIKE
now conceded that ever was made in all
Colorado is the Derbey lode claimed on
the 18th, of March this year. 1t is an east
and west location on Iron Mountain hold
ing many of the best cross veins and mid
way upon the lode just on the west slope of
the Mountain a chimney of ore was struck
on the 9Th inst very simuiar to Bassick's
Bonanza which yielded $2,784 to the ton
10 gold and silver. Mr.. Bassck also
visited it on the 18th, inst. declared it
larger body of ore many times richer than
his was at one hundred feet and also that
it is an extension of his famed mine. 1t
was located by Prospector E0gleston and is
owned by Barker, Samuels, Eggleston &
Co.,
ARGOLD HILL
seven or eight miles east of Rosta num-
Der of claims have been opened and work
i hip ha
months. Some quartz is mined when very
rich 10 both free and composition gold.
Ar Oak City, half way between
Canon City and Rosita on the stage
road is quite pretentious camp although
but FIVE months old. Large bodies of low
grade galena are mined there near the sur
| face, veins increasing 10 width and rich
ness with acquired depth.
The Michigan Tunnel Company have
penetrated $50 feet into the east slope of
Tyudal! mountain the head of their tunnel
now being on the whistle ground. Carl
Wulsten, NJ. E., is mining large bodies of
calena ores out of the Bunker Hill claim.
lie has three claims or 4,500 feet on this
large ore body. Harry Hanna has devel-
oped his Silver Glance mine until it is be-
yond all question very valuable prop
ertv,
Edward EggIestone, Henry Fellartin,
NJ. f., Col. A. j. Dyer, late of St. Louis,
and others are erecting lixiviation works
near the Geo. NJ. Chilcott mine owned By
Mr.. Egglestone. The capacity to begin
with is 20 tons daily. B. F. Smith & Go.
and MIR. Egglestone have 20 ton amalga-
nation works in process of erection. Mar
tin Egglestone & Co. have FIVE diamond
drills on the way. With these they pro-
pose to test all ore bodies to depth of
400 feet at the rate of three to twelve
inches per minute according to the nature
of the rock bringing up core which will
be assayed as depth is gained thus in a
few hours at trihing expense what would
cost thousands of dollars to learn by the
shaiting process. The compressed air,
De La Mar diamond drill is operated near
Silver Cliff with success. United States
surveyor, VIM. FL. Holmes, is making a
large number Of official surveys for patents
J which is an emphatic surety of prosperity
J and permanency of Custer county mines
sANGRE DE CHUsTo RANGE,
forty miles of which lie within Custer
county boundaries, is to be attacked witt
determined host Of miners as soon as The
SHOWS melt. What little prospecting hal
, been done on it by Beaumot, Tall, Duck
q etts, Clark, Lloyds. Edward Egglestont
D and few others during past years ha
: shown that at their very apices the vein,
j up there are richer, wider and NOR,
q promising at the surface than any eve
v before explored. Several new towns vii
= be formed at intervals along the east bas
+ of the range and beyond doubt that sam
h range will show up more fortunes betwee1
now and November next than Silver Cliff
u LeadVille or even Story county, Nevada
G have yet exhibited And underneath tn
o shadow of this great continental divid
IT is the proper location for the capital cit
e of Colorado or a new and greater stat
Is than the present centennial with its an
mosities, ,jealousies and dislikes. one tactic
Of the other. CANDOR.