The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-08-04
The miners, who own claims in Sill

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yer. Snow. Hoosier and Kansas basins
recently combined to make good
trail for pack and riding animals te
those points. The. construction o.
this trail was superintended by Mr..
Stevens, who has done the work Sc
well that the trip can now De made to
any Of the basins named in three
hours on horseback. The trail runs
over the divide between the heads OF
| o, Be Joyful and Silver basins.
The Carrie Louise, Maine Terrace
and Companion, in Poverty Gulch,
owned by Ed. De La Vergne and
Others, are looking very promising.
Each of these cl.lms has its assessment
work finished upon it. The mineral
is principally galena and the veins are
from 21z to 41l feet in width. The
predominating mineral in the whole
of Poverty gulch is galena. The
Homestretch is beingvigorously work
ed, and is showing we'll. The owners
Of this Claim have not let up a day
since they started in this spring and
as natural consequence the claim is
looking splendidly' Some very nice
looking ruby silver has been taken
from the claim.
| \ The Lead Chief is working IL
men, who are engaged in stopping in
the drift and running a cross cut from
the working shaft to the vein in the
Little Chief, the adjoining claim own
ed by the same company. The cross
cut is in a distance Of 80 feet and
it Is confidently expected that in 6
feet more the vein will be reached,
since the overground measurement
from the shaft to the aforesaid vein is
just 86 feet. From the shaft of the
Little Chief, which is only down a
short distance, some very rich ore is
being taken. Our reporter brought
home specimen Mrs. jenkins picked
cut for him which would make min
eralogist's eyes sparkle with delight.
K The new shaft house on the Ruby
Chief. erected over the new working
shaft, IS 6oxa4 feet, "a feet high. The
present depth Of the Shaft is 80 feet,
on the weir, from which pay mineral
is being constantly taken. This mine
shipped ten tons Of ore to the Samp-
! ling works of Rose, Reed & Co., last
week, which milled ago OF. per ton.
The Machinery for the hosting works
Is on the.road and expected to apive
/ any day. The development work On
+, this claim consists OF two cross cut
tunnels, each 10 feet, $50 feet of drift
ing On the vein aud a 50 foot winz,
besides the shaft before men :ioned,
and all in mineral.
The winze of the Venango is now
! down 90 feet and the lower level has
been drifted upon.4 80 feet. Saturday
night a seam which the miners had
been following up for some distance
widened out into vein OF pay matter
II in. thick Of rich ruby ore, which
appears to widen with every foo. Of
work done upon it.
This vein corresponds with that in
the upper level, thus showing that the
ore bearing vein is continuous for a
distance OF at least 100 feet from
where it was encountered, as the upper
drift is fully 40 feet long and the
lower drift, when the discovery was
made, was in only 10 feet.
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A contract is now beng offered to
let to run new tunnel on this claim
/ $40 feet long, below the present one,
which will give depth on the vein
117o feet deeper than the present tun-
incl. The company will continue to
lsink wines and run drifts and de-
1 seiop the property to its utmost ca
/ padty. They know that they have a
good mine and intend to develop ii
fully. If some Of our other mine
owners would only start in with vim
to do like wise, in less than six months
our camp would have no parallel,
much less an equal in the State.
! Col. Phil Peters, superintendent OF
the Spring Creek and Ruby mining
company, of Louisville, KY, is doing
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