The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-07-28
MINING BRIEFS.


other contract for an additional 20 #.
to be sunk on the shaft of the Maud
Ashbrook. Work to be commenced
Immediately.
The Elk Queen in Elk basin, the
property of Sprague, Biggs & Allen,
has 2o-ft face on 2-ft. vein with a
4-inch pay streak. The character of
the ore is native silver.
Pride of Kenosha, in o, Be Joyful,
has ten foot shaft on SIT. crevice,
which shows black sulphurets in quartz
and runs $50 ounces per ton. Owned
by Kenosha Mining Co.
The David Crockett, near the For
est Queen, has a 55-ft. tunnel and a
lift. shaft. Work, which was tenn
porarily suspended, will be started on
this claim next week. The owners
are Bentz, Geiselman & Co.
><Woods, Mckay & Wagner are run
ming a tunnel to be $50 feet long on
the Little Minnie, in Ruby basin.
This will cut the vein about 100 feet
deep. Runs from this claim showed
IS ounces of silver and $40 gold per
ton.
The Central City in O,-Be-Joyful,
has now a 2o-ft. shaft and is showing
up finely. 1t is galena lode. A.
Diebold is the owner, and he works
his claim himself and intends to keep
on working it until he develops a
mine.
The Seldom Fed is the name Of a
new claim which was discovered by
Sam Powell short time since. As
the assessment work has not been done
on it yet, we refrain from further
mention until some development is
made.
Eclipse, in O, Be Joyful basin, has
25-inch pay streak, an assay from
which at depth of IS feet showed 81
ounces of silver per ton. The rock
carries galena with chlorides and black
sulphurets. 1t is owned by Nelson &
Conway.
The miners from O,-Be-Joyful
basin report everything lively over
there-minels busy at work and the
sounds of blasting constantly filling
the air. The owners of pro- operty there
are constantly working it instead Of
lally-gagging" around.
>/The Little Schuylkill shaft is now
down 16 feet. Last week a new kind
of rock made its appearance in the
bottom of the shaft. 1t is extremely
heavy and the assayers think it con-
tains quicksilver. Samples of it run
IS ounces silver per ton.
f! K The Orgo, in O,-Be- Joyful basin,
is an extension of the Spar Chief. 1t
has r5-ft. vein with mineral through
it. \ 22-tt. shaft has been sunk on
the vein, which the owners are dig
ging deeper every day. Hinkle,
Wagner and others own it.
S, Geiselman is still working the
Jawcracker in Independence basin.
The shaft is now 80 feet deep and
some very fine looking rock has been
taken out, specimen of which We
have in our cabinet. This claim will
be worked vigorously all summer.
The Bangor Silver lode is the name
of a new claim being worked near
Lake Brennan. A tunnel is being
run into the hill side, and from all ap-
pearances the owners intend to find
something or" bust" The tunnel is
now about IL feet in, nicely timbered
and Jagged.
Mr.. Estes, of the Taylor mine in
Ruby Basin, is hauling ore to the samp.
ling works that will mill $50 ounces
of silver per ton and two ounces in
gold. Like many other mines in this
camp there has been but little said
about it, for the simple reason that the
owners know that their property is
good enough without any encomiums.
kThe Paragon, on Slate river, owned
by Messrs. Street, Cullom & Co., has
about $500 worth of work done upon
it. The vein has been prospected at
different noiots hrt the main x,orL