The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-03-16
OurMines.
LATEST REPORT FROM THE
PICK AND SHOVEL.

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This time year ago everybody
were building their hopes on realizing
unprecedented prosperity, not only in
this camp, but the whole Gunnison
country for that coming summer. To
certain extent our hopes were par
TALLY blasted, Notwithstanding there
was considerable work done. We can
readily see to-day why we were disap-
pointed and also why we expected to
realize more this year than last. A
year ago the prov Of the iron horse
had hardly been pointed westward
over the continental divide, while to-
day the great civilizer is battling with
the snow banks of the Elk Mountains,
doing away with at least one hundred
miles staging and freighting. Another
thing is that there are hundreds of
prospects that are at least one hundred
dollars nearer pay mineral than year
ago, while, there are numbers Of pros
poets that have been transformed into
partially producing mines, and the
successfully manner in which some of
them have turned out to be remarka-
bly, rich, has gwen encouragement to
owners Of prospects to go deeper just
as soon as possible. After hearing OF
the strike in the lower cross-cut we
hunted up Mr.. Brown, who very
kindly took us through all of the work
ings Of the
FOREST QUEEN MINE.
Sometime ago the news went abroad
OF the cutting of the Forest Queen
vein in the sixty foot cross-cut. Right
away Superintendent Brown put Mr..
| Winters with force of men at work
at the bottom of the shaft, 18o feet
deep at the intersection of the tunnel,
to cross-cut east for the vein. Work
was rapidly pushed, and few days
ago at a distance of about fifty feet
they cut the vein, richer than it was
above and are now in about ten feet
on the vein, but vii! probably have to
go at least eight feet farther before
they come to the foot wall, as the vein
where opened above shows to Be about
eighteen feet wide. Foreman Pressler
has also cut the vein in the 20 foot
cross-cut now so that the vein is opened
every 6o feet, making good stoping
ground and showing the vein to be
permanent and in place to the depth
of 1So feet. 1t is proven conclusively
the permanency of the Queen vein
and there is no doubt but what to day
the Queen is one of the best ii not
the very richest quartz mine in this
state. 1t is assuming the appear
ance of developed mine now, the
vein being exposed every sixty feet,
and it is through the good manage
ment of Mr.. Brown, with the assistance
of Messrs. Jacob Pressler and Frank
Winters. While Mr.. Brown always
exercises his own judgement in a
judicious manner in the prosecution
of the work, he is always ready to
counsel with good, sound practical
miners, like the above, and get their
opinions and views with regards to
their various workings. Both Winters
and Pressler are miners of several
years standing, and are both capable
and reliable men.
LEHICH VALLEY PROSPECTING, MINING
AND SMELLING co.
The Lehigh Valley Prospecting,
Mining and Smelling Company, has
been organized in New York through
the energies of DR.. w. H. Kinney, of
Easton, Pa, who made several trips
to our camp last summer, and liking
the prospects here SO we'll that he pur-
chased properties belonging to Thos.
c. Davis and John McDermot. situa-
ted at the head of ODE Joyful Basin.
They have about ten claims in that
vicinity, and the one they have been to
work on this winter is the Lehigh Valley
tunnel or lode, which is turning out
remarkably we'll. This was located
as a lode. and in sinkino ten feet +},.v