The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13
BIG STRIKE AT CRIPPLE CREEK.
Very Rich Vein OF Gold is Found In the
Emma.

| Cripple Creek, Colo, Dec. 12.-The
| Emma, one of the Isabella properties.
| has made an important strike. A car
| load shipment was made last week
| which ran at the rate OF $500 per ton A
| streak Of very rich ore was broken into
a day or two ago on the foot wall and It
shows free gold and sylvanite, and as
says that have been obtained run as
| high as $4,000 per ton This mine is
being worked by Cameron. Glenn &
| Sharpe, lesSees. Since last August
they have been making regularly week
~ shipments. The ore has continually
improved with depth. They sack all
the high grade ore which is for ship
ment to the smelters and besides send
a good deal Of low grade ore. which runs
about two ounces, to the Gillette chlOTi-
nation mills 4 new shaft house, 20x5S
feet. has just been completed and new
ore bins are being constructed. A new
plant of machinery has been put in and
the Emma may now be considered one
of the best equipped mines in the dis
trict. The shaft is 105 feet deep and
drift has been run twenty-five feet from
this point. In this drift the rich ore
has been found.
The recent strike on the Pharmacist
has brought that property 70 the front
again. For two years the mine yield
ed no profit. Il did not lay idle all this
time. but the ore not being the richest
and the management at l0ggersheads.
the property was not paying PROPOSE
ton All this is changed now A d.
Jones, the locator OF the claim, Is now
in charge. with Mr.. William Trevarro
as manager. Things are looking up
and moving along smoothly and the
mine was never IN better shape ana
never before had more rich ore in sight.
The principal work now being done :
at the fourth level. a distance az 20
feet from the surface. The original
vein upon which the incline shaft vas
sunk. and which runs east and west.
was stopped out from this level aud a
cross-cut was started from this point
and run a distance Of 80 feet. when
the vein was entered. running almost a.
right angles 70 the first one II = -he
vein that Is yielding the rich ore that
has recently brought the Pharmacist
into prominence and caused Tn ad-
vance n the price OF is stock Work
IS now going on IN both the Iorth and
south drifts and .the vein matter =
found between pOrphyry and Poniliie
walls. and VIII average about four fs-et |
across. OF this SIX inches IS strictly |
sylvanite that has shown v2l1es % |
from twenty - fifty ounces II gold
Ia ArAr-i o. Nc-cFa1t = ---@a ~14i1- /
up today and put a force q men - /
work or the Earnsssine and pefsrs1e- !
Gold Mining compsnys P-oP---ti=s-
Work j. 20 b. pushed as rapidly as -
s.bas. with visw 70 pase1ii2g az tae 4
compzny's properties
\ south half % the Gold klEz Eas i
sold today - M Z Porter % J7l.e-. 4
III for S35.e0a o. Iris amount $1,000 1
was cash and the balance - due on tae 4
bond. which expires in Feor1aFy- Tie
purchaser signifies bis !ate1Eic1 q tax {
ing Up Re bond next week The calm
= Owned BY III God and Glot-s con-
pa.y a1E was under a bond and lesse
70 AZ. A ". Reed and NJ A = H1nt-
ley. For ne past eight months tie
.ssSees have beSa sending ore - tie