The Delta independent., 1889-02-05
MINING MATTERS.

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tons.
The Aspen Mine is regularly sending
down about 100 tons of ore per day over
the tramway.
THE Mike and Starr shipped $50 tons of
ore last week to Argo, the average of
which was $50 a ton. This steady increase
of shipments is an encouraging feature of
the development.-Lcddu Journal.
Shaft No. 6 of the Matchless mine is con-
Quoted in systematic manner. Already
| some good ore and iron have been struck
] and shipments average 60 tons day from
| drifting and stoping.-Lcdduille Journal.
| The Thompson Brothers, having leased
the Discovery shaft on the Little Pittsburg
property, have in their employ about ten
men on the day and seven on the night
shift. The shipment is about 40 tons of
iron daily, which carries 12 ounces of silver
to the ton.-LeadptlleJ Journal.
| Bonanza, Saguache County's famous
mining district, promises to again come to
| the front. Several good producers have
| been opened within the past two years
and a concentrator is kept busy on low
| grade ores. In addition shipments of crude
ores are made regularly to Denver and Pu-
| eblo.
The Santa Fe Ne,o Mertcan says: Santa
| Fe county leads in exporting the treasures
of the earth. AT present Santa Fe County
| is shipping out hard and soft coal, coke,
| charcoal, iron, turquoise, silver, lead, cop
| per, zinc stone, lumbertlnd gold. Ship
ments of the latter have been going on con-
tinuously for more than 100 years.
The Continental Chief is shipping at
| present at the rate of 500 tons month,
| marked increase over the December ship
ments. So coon os the lower tunnel is
completed the output will be largely in
creased, as over $50 feet of new stopping
ground will be opened by that work. The
output before the end of 'S9 will likely be
over 100 tons day.-LcddUiile Journal.
The ore shipments from Aspen last week
were 1879 tons, as follows: Via Midland
to Denver 597, to Leadville 246; total, S43.
Via Denver & Rio Grande-to Denver 27l'
to Leadville 73s, to Pueblo 1877: total, ! ,l3G.
This is good showing. The Castle Buck
horn No. 9, Jenny Lind and several other
new producers are deferred from shipping
by the necessity of putting up new ore
houses.
An encouraging evidence of the revival
of mining in Leadville is the increased
forces being put on by the heavy lead mines
of the camp. The Maid Henriett company
is now working a force of over 200 men and
has shipped over 5000 tons this month The
new contracts made are on a basis of
cents for lead, where the ore carries 80 per
cent. or over. The Colorado No. 9 and
Louisville are shipping so tons day The
force will be further increased.-Leadpillc
Journal.
One feature speaks well for Aspen, and
that is that miners there are not afraid to
dig out ore when they strike it, and all are
diligently working to find it. We can con-
sistently recommend this camp to both the
capitalist and working miner. The one
will find abundant opportunities for invest
ment and the other secure work or obtain
good leases. The leasing system is in great
favor there and very many poor men have
secured competency by using their
knowledge and skill in this character of
work.-Mining Industry.
The finest specimen of ore we have seen
at knights drug store. 1t comes from A.
B. Williamson's Keystone mine, between
here and Irwin. 1t is a solid chunk of lead
ore weighing about 100 pounds, containing
some antimonial silver, and is no doubt a
fair average of the ore in the vein.
which Mr.. Williamson says is sixteen feet
wide. To imagine vein of this
kind of ore sixteen feet wide is to imagine
mine that is good enough for anybody
EUs Mountain Pilot
The smelling industry, which has here
tofore been the greatest consumer of the
mountain timber, will soon cease to draw
on that source for its supply. 1t has been
said that smelling could not be successful
ly carried on without charcoal, but the
gentlemen who carry on that business ap-
pear to be equal to the emergency and they
have solved the problem. Timber cutting
will now be reduced to the wants of the
railroads for ties, and when "a substitute is
found for wood, then, and only then, will
the demand on the forests be reduced to
minimum.-Denucr Times.
The Arizona Copper Company has adopt
ed a novel contrivance for getting rid Of its
Stag A sluice box of large capacity is
brought from the main flume to the smelt-
er, and from there is carried on to the river
with fall Of about Is degrees. From the
tap hole there is a conductor to convey the
fluid Stag, discharging it into the sluicc box,
where it is Immediately granulated and
carried off by the water into the river The
same contrivance has sometimes been
adopted in making ''building sand" from
Stag for mortar at some of the iron furna-
ces, and for granulating copper matte to
avoid the great labor of crushing it when
required for roasting.
Mr.. X. b. Dell, who will be remembered
as an extensive contractor at the time of tho
building of the Midland road, yesterday
brought to the city some fine specimens of
ore taken from some newly discovered
mines on Pulver Mountain, near Howbert,
on the line Of the Colorado Midland How
bert is about fifty miles from this city, and
Pul~er Mountain is five miles from How
bert. Mr.. Dell has sunk to a depth Of fifty
feet in one Of his mines, which he calls the
"Yellow Diamond" and has found a vein
| of valuable mineral Some of it has been
assaycd and makes q good showing II ia