The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-07-28

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per cent. The Manhattan company
ships away from its mines about $780,
900 worth of ore per month, thus
making the output of that compara-
lively small vein to be about $4,000
600 peayear.
Among the properties in Ruby
Camp that have been developed to a
sufficient extset to prove their worth,
and which are at present producing,
are the Forest Queen, Ruby King,
Ruby Chief, Lead Chief, Old Mexico,
Durango. Bullion King, Monte Cristo,
venango, Micawber, Fannie Parks,
Fairview, Burlington and many 9TH
ers. Each of the properties named
are proven to be larger than the Mari
hattan-in fact giants in comparison
thereto. The Hopewell vein, which
is now being rapidly developed, has
at the surface much lager outcrop
than either os the properties aboye
mentioned, and the ore brMght from
this mine, as development progresses,
is of the same character as that of the
Forest Queen and other properties in
Ruby Camp, and the Manhattan mine
in Nevada. While the vein proper in
the Manhattan mine in Nevada has an
extreme width of about ten inches,
the vein OF the Hopewell IS at least 60
feet, sand where the Manhattan has
one pay stteak, the Hopewell has at
least ten pay streaks therein, and
without doubt more; but ten clearly
defined ply streaks have already been
found as the work Of Prospecting che
vein has been carried on.
Thus taking all these absolute facts
into consideration, the stockholders
|3f the Forest Queen mining company
and of the Standard mining company
can each of them count to certainty
upon large returns year after year,
and generation after generation as the
work Of legitimate mining is carried
L.on-whiae means going down, down
directly upon the VEN, then work 1t
as depth is gained.
AT the present time the shaft on the
Forest Queen is down to the depth of
18o feet. 1t las the deepest shaft by
100 feet there is in the camp, and
therefore the best developed property.
Within one year from date-unless
severe accidents intervene-the shaft
of the Hopewell vein will be down to
a total depth of at least 500 feet.
In conversation with Jay G. Kelley,
mining engineer, practical miner
and expert, at present residing at
Leadville, and for years largely ac-
quainted with and participating in the
mining interests of the county, we
are informed that the outcropplngs Of
the Comstock mines in Nevada, which
are the widest at the Mexican and
Ophir, did not exceed 40 feet, while
the widest outcroppings of the Hope
we'll are fully 60 feet. As depth is
gained on the Comstock this vein
widens, so that it is 50 to 300 feet in
width on the lower levels, pinching
in and widening out as usual with
such veins. The outcroppings Of the
Hopewell being much wider at the
surface than are the outcroppIngs Of
the Comstock; if indications go for
anything it is safe to count upon find
ing very much additional vein matter
as depth is gained on the Hopewell:
The pay streak, or tenderloln; of
the Manhattan, exactly as is the case
in the veins here in Ruby Camp, runs
into the thousands of ounces per ton.
Ordinarily this which we call tender
loin is known as pay streak, so our
readers and miners generally can call
it what they please.
The Hopewell vein is one of the
wonderful rich properties of the Stand
ard company, and is fully the equal of
the Forest Queen, except in the mat
ter of developments, and in the opin-
ion of the best miners in that vicinity
(Ruby Camp the Hopewell is ca
pable of producing at least S3,ooo,-
900 per year.
The cars of the Denver & Rio
Grade railway will he in Rubv CamD