The Delta independent., 1890-03-04
MINING MATTERS.

Supt. T. E. Schwarz has re-tim bered the
Custom shaft, provided the mine with the
best plant Of machinery in the San Juan
country, turned over dividends in excess
of s20O, 900 to the shareholders, exposed ore
bodies estimated at 100000 AND will now
hand in. his resignation to take eject
March 18th. He quits Red Mountain with
the best record ever won by mining sup
erintendent and engineer in this. country.
Solid Muldoon.
The Bushwhacker improves as develop
ment proceeds. The management has pre-
dicted bright things in March for this gem
producer, and the evidences are that the
prediction will become a realty. The
Alpine, the twin claim TO the Bushwhacker
is looking well. Bunches Of ore assaying
ninety ounces are being encountered in the
south drift.-Aspen Times.
The new shaft for the Little Annie ma
chinery arrived yesterday and work will
be renewed in the west workings. Since
this place has been closed part Of the force
has been employed in the first level from
the middle shaft. Here the ore body
grows richer as the work proceeds. A
new body Of ore was struck which assays
125 ounces. The pack train will undertake
to make a trip with ore to-day.-Aspen
Times.
The New York Mill Company, Black
Hawk, have completed the repairing OF one
section-25 stamps-of their 75 stamp mill'
and have a good supply Of ore on hand the
full capacity of the mill being in operation.
Forty stamps are running on ore from the
San Juan mine on Quartz Hill. This mine
now keeps seventy stamps in motion, and
| is the largest producer of stamp mill ore
in the county.-Centrdl City Register Call.
Work on the Boyls has been commenced
by the arrival of its owner, G. w. Boyls,
of Pittsburg, Pa, which occurred the first
of the present week. This claim carries
both gold and silver, and from assays made
about two months ago, mineral in the value
of siS to the ton was obtained. Mr.. Boyls
will at once set at work sufficient force
of men to fully develop the property. The
claim is located on Columbia gulch one
and half miles from Claytonia, and was
first located by w. A. Mcintyre in 1883,
and since relocated by Mr.. Boyls, who has
succeeded in raising a company at his
Eastern home. The claim has every ap-
pearance of being a good one and ought TO
make large returns to it's owners.-Sd-
gudche Crescent.
A letter received from Montana says the
north half ef that State Is excited over un-
expected discoveries Of placer gold mines,
quartz and silver and lead galena in the
mountain in the spurs and hills of the
great reservation, as well as in the belt Of
the mountain. One mine near Maiden is
| crushing enough rock with 20 stamp
| mill to turn out every mouth 100000 in
| bullion. A projected railroad extension
from Great Falls will, it is believed, hasten
the development of that section into one Of
the richest mineral belts in America. The
state mining inspector says that over
| L, 900 mining claims have been located In
Montana under mining laws.
The work being done in Hunter Park is
| of the most encouraging kind, the study of
| formations has been one to bear results in
| the near future, and several properties
which have for the past year been assid-
| iously worked are daily expected to reach
the contact The Lula S. has just COM
pleted a new pump station, pump and pipe
| lines and settling basins, and has started
to sink depth of s65 feet Manager c. E.
| Palmer expects to reach the contact any
day. The Badger State, being worked by
an English company, is having an incline
driven on the contact. This property looks
so well that it is reported the bond will be
taken up.--Aspcn Times.
| There is more activity in Boulder Coun-
| ty mines at present than for many years
past. The district by reason of its great
accessibility from Denver has always been
a favorable field for Denver mining opera
tors, but especial prominence has been Civ
en- it of late by the highly successful re-
suits thot have attended the re-opening of
certain Of the Ward district mines. Two
of these, on the Columbia vein, have now
been under profitable operation for
over year, and both are rapidly push
ing down large shafts into this great lode
OF auriferous pyrites which for so many
years has been thought to be among the
unavailable deposits of the State by reason
of the assumed refractory character of the
mineral. The success of these properties
is certain to stimulate the development OF
others IN the same vicinity. The Ward
belt of veins is fully as strong as that Of
Gilpin County, and the ore is nearly OF the
same Misunderstanding Industry.
Some very interesting developments are
in progress on deposit Of mica on the
north side of the Left Hand, about mile
above Jim Creek. This valuable mineral
occurs there in the center of an enormous
vein of white quartz about fifty fee, wide.
1t is an old discovery, but has recently
passed under the control of parties who
are opening it carefully and scientifically
By drifting in the quartz alongside Of tho
mica. Heretofore all work has been done
in the mica itself, which occurs in q we'll
defined seam four TO ak feet wide. OF
course in working it in this way the min
eral when produced was shattered and
broken by powder and much Of its value
destroyed. The present owners, by adopt.
ing the other course arc enabled to get out
tho mica in blocks or masses some Of
which are Of large size and are very. .valus
BILE, while the balance being very free from
quartz. may be valuable for the manufac-
ture Of lubricants.-Minin0 Industry.
Yesterday Mr.. Walter Beam brought
over from tho Kokomo lode in
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