The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-07-28
MINING IN COLORADO.


Ruby Camp for the purpose Of exam
ining the Standard Mining Co.'S prop
critics, which are there located, we
called to see the Forest Queen mine
and its workings, one of the great big
properties of that famously rich camp.
The Forest Queen mine is owned and
operated by company, of which Gen.
VIM. A. Palmer, president of the
Denver & Rio Grands railroad, is
president; B. F. Woodard, superin-
tendent Denver & Rio Grande Tele-
graph company, u secretary; D. c.
Dodge. general manager Of the Den
yer & Rio Grande railroad company,
is treasurer; Robert McGregords fore
man, and D. c. Dodge, B. F. Wood
ard, and R. W. Woodbury. of .the
Times, W. T. Holt, Lee R. Thomp-
son and Ira Brown are directors.
The developments on this mine con-
sist of shaft down 18o feet on the
vein, which averages 100 feet in width
with pay streak of from 18 inches to
four feet wide. Ore from this pay
stfeak runs from 4oosto' 900 ounces
of silver to the ton: The character OF
the ore found in this mine is ruby,
brittle and natinilver, arsehical iron,
chlorides, black sdlphurets and steph-
ante, the component parts of which
last named mineral are silver, sulphur
and arsenic. The paystreak vi1l avs
erage about 600 ounces to the TON
that is, if YOU go into this mine and
take out 100 tohs>from the pay streak
andreat it without sorting, it would
average about 600 ounces, of silver to
the ton ! The mine is now capable OF
outputting, when the machinery. is in
operation, 20 tons per day, pr two car
loads, worth 5000 per ton, making the
Output of the mine s12, 900 per dav.
The total expenses of mining this
quality Of ore Pc, day-twenty tons
including the salary of engineer, fore
man, miners, etc., will be about 81
per day. To haul this from the shaft
house or dump to the cars at Irwin,
will cost not to exceed 81 per ton.
This would make the total expense OF
producing 20 tons of ore per day and
putting the same on board the cars to
be $40. The freight on this ore from,
Irwin to tie mills at Pueblo or Den
yer would probably amount to SIS
per ton. The price for treatment Of
this ore will be about SIS per ton in
large quantities. The mill owner on
this class Of ore makes no other charge
than the original one for direct treat
ment, and allows for the silver at the
rate Of S1:12 per ounce at the presen,
time. This will make the cost c1
hauling, freighting and treatment oi
this ore not to exceed S45 per ton,
leaving profit on the average Of
$555 per ton to be divided among the
stockholders or the owners of thi:
mine
Thus this property can be made tc
produce, ordinarily. taking good, bad
and Indifferent all together, fully
$1t,ooo per day profit. Working the
mine only six days of the week would
make S66, 900 per week, and working
it 50 weeks in the year, allowing two
weeks stoppage for accidents to ma
chinery-and this is a liberal allow
ance when the machinery is we'll cared
for-the output of this mine alone can
easily 5e brought to $1,000, 900 pei
annum.
Some Of our readers may say tina.
these estimates are not reliable. Deal.
ers in ore pay for it at this rate, and
the production is not over estimated.
The Manhattan Mining company,
of New York, owns the Manhattan
and Oregon mines, located at Austin,
Lander county. Nevada. The vein
on the properties just named will av.
erage not to exceed six inches, being
a child in comparison to this vein.
The quality of the ore taken from the
Nevada mines above mention.
ed is identically the same as that
found in Ruby Camp, and taken from
the Forest Queen, the Hopewell and
other first-class properties.