The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1880-06-26
COLORADO MINING NOTES.

! COLORADO MINING NOTES.
! At Rico new discoveries are dali,
reported.
Immense quantities of rich ore i
reported on the dumps III Ten Mill
district.
All of the mines in the vicinity o
of Lake City are being vigorously
worked.
The bullion shipments last week
| from Leadyille mines amounted tc
S263.S46.
Some rich fissure veins are report,
ed discovered in the Sangre de Chris.
ITO range not far from Music pass.
The crushing and sampling work:
of Georgetown shipped during May
4S6,2l7 pounds of ore valued at SlSl :,
569.21-
4 Last week, says the Silver Cliff Re
4 publican. the Silver Cliff mining com
pany shipped re pounds OF silver
valued at S1i, ,947.39.
Rockey Mountain Mining Review
More capitalists, eastern, western and
local, are leaving Denver for San
Juan, than ever before.
A quarter of pound of ore from
the Big Nampum mine near Black
Hawk, SO says the Post, panned out
one dollars worth of gold.
The Republican of Silver Cliff re-
ports a fine vein of coal discovered
in Mavano pass, about twenty-three
miles south of that city,and also near
the coal mine heavy vein of hema-
tile iron.
Ouray Muldoon: Stevens, Goss
IN mr.
on the Fellow stone in the Mt. Snef-
feIs district. The prospects are very
encouraging and the owners will
work it TO a patent.
The ores in the vicinity of Gothic
are reported as being principally
iron aud galena, and the latter carry
ing from forty-five to sixty per cent
lead and twenty to forty ounces of
silver to the ton.
u The company owning the Morning
Star mine at LeadyIlie propose to
begin paying dividends on July 1st,
of S45, 900 per month. For the first
four months of 1880 the receipts, for
ore sold amounted 10 Ses4,60O.
Moss Agate, in a letter to the Lead
vile Chronicle, reports from koko-
mo that the Snow Bank mine in
which Senator Blaine has an interest
is proving very rich. He also re-
ports many other rich mines and
prospects.
Buena Vista Times: E Lowman,
the well-kuown proprietor of the
Chicago store, has made q lucky
strike within three miles southeast
of town. An assay at a depth of
three feet gave thirteen ounces gold
aa2 three OF silver TO the ton.
ruv yUIlsvvfI camp TuIrIN-nVe
miles west of Alamosa. the ludepend-
ent saws. is showing splendid miner
al. Over one hundred claims are al
ready staked and the ore assays from
$50 to $3.50 per ton. Several capital
lists from Chicago are working claims
there.
Bueua Vista Times The Little
Florence is the name of promising
prospect on Four Mile, owned by
Fortson, Hopskins aud others. As
saws ut feet gave return o. S65.25
per ton. 1t adjoins the Pinion half
interest in which was lately sold for
5000. The ore is copper pyrites in
terinixed with white quartz.
C. II. Bent has organized COM
many composed OF Buffalo, n. Y. cap
italists to be known rs the Park Gold
and Silver Mining and Smelling com
many. to operate mines and works in
and near Burrows park and Sher-
man. The company's property con-
sists of the Cumberland. Sunshine,
Jessie, Coay, Red Gplch and Big
Galena lodes. or these, besides the
assessments, the Cumberland has the
greatest amount of development in
the shape of cross-cut tunnel, now
in SIS feet. and 10 be extended fifty
feet farther or TO a distance shat will
interSect the vein. IL carries galena
with gray copper and iron.-lSilver
World.
Our fellow tOwnsman, Thos. L.
Spencer, owned one-third interest
in the Cumberland lode previous to
the formation of the company. Four
of the six lodes have been worked for
five wears and are immense true tis-
sure veins, tracable for miles. From
what he knows of this property Mr..
Spencer thinks the company will be
richly remuueratcd in some one or
more of the properties, if not the
pioneer prospectors of the park dis
,rica should seek some other field for
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