The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-08-04
MINING BRIEFS.

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week. that averaged $3.50 per ton.
x The Dequita shaft is down as
feet. 1t is just getting into mineral.
Gurley, Popham and Wigharh, have
let a contract for thirty feet of shaft
ing, to be sunk on the America and
the work is progressing rapidly.
The Ruby Silver Mining Co., has
also let a contract for 40 feet of sink
ing and cribbing on the Pay Lode,
the old shaft of which IS being en-
larged and ret,mbered.
Next Saturday between the hours Of
two and four there will be a foot race
between Tim Deasy and w. Buck
master for one hundred dollars a side
The ground Where the race will be is
not yet decided upon.
Mr.. ]. E. Taylor has sold out his
interests in his claims in Poverty Gulch
to stock company recently organic
ed in Champagne, Ills, and is now in
Colorado Springs arranging matters.
y. H. Sargent, has commenced
work on the President lode, situated
in Ruby basin, near the Milwaukee.
1t is now 20 feet deep and the vein is
about II feet wide between walls.
ffhe Fairy Queen, is on the same
lead as the Schuylkill and Pride OF
the Peaks, and shows the same charac-
ter Of mineral as the latter. 1t has an
adit with an 18 foot face and is owned
by the Kenosha Mining Co.
4 The Great Western, owned by
Sturgeon and others, located in Elk
Basin, north of the Micawber, is show
ing at depth of % feet good 9 in.
pay streak with brittle and ruby silver
we'll scattered all through it. The
claim is being vigorously worked.
IThe Pride Of the Peaks, in O, Be
Joyful Basin, is an extension of the
Schuylkill This claim has a ten foot
face on 26 inch pay streak, which
shows galena, chlorides and black sui
phurets. but no assay has ever been
made on the ore. Stalboy & Canney.
owners.
Middle c., in the same basin and
owned by the same parties, has II
foot vein. with galena, black sui
phurets, gray and native copper scat
tered all through the vein. It has air
adit worked on the vein which shows
an Is foot face. No assay.
The Johnnie Bull, in Rcdwcll Basin,
Is being worked vigorously There is
tunnel at present 40 feet long and 4
new tunnel is being run 10 feet to cut
rhc vein. The mineral is showing
very strongly now, although the tun.
mel at present worked upon is but
e feet in and shows five foot vein of
quartz. Fish Bros, Of Chicago, own
the claim.
Xrhe 0, Be Joyful Lode, in the same
BASIN, has vein IS feet wide, upon
which two open cuts with IS foot
face on each have been run. The
cuts are on opposite sides of the vein.
In one of them two foot and in the
otner sH foot crevice has been dis
closed, which shows galena, sulphur
cts. chlorides and silver blende, assays
from which have run as high as 400
OF. pc. ton.
K A tunnel has been run 20 feet on
the Lee Taylor, situated in Green
Lake basin, near the head of Ruby
basin. The tunnel is on the vein
which is about 9 feet between walls,
and has two pay streaks, one 10 to ~
inches and the other 4 to 8 inches,
with rock between. This rock is rapid
ly narrowing as depth issgained and
doubtless in . short distance the pay
streaks will Be found to form solid
vein. The ore from this claim has
sssayed from 80 OF. silver to 4e5 OF.
silver and y. gold per ton. Five
tons of the on have been sent to Rose,
Reed & Co.'S. works for mill run,
but the returns are not yet in.
The Bullion King is putting down
an incline working shaft, 9Kx4 feet
in the clear. ON the vein. which Is fo
be 50 feet deep when finished. The
shaft is now 20 feet deep and spaen-