Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-08-31
WESTERN MINING NOTES.


Ore carrying eight ounces in gold,
seven ounces in silver and some lead was
taken from the shaft of the Mollie Glib
sen at Puma City by Edward Parker
of Colorado Springs. A contract has
been let to sink 100 feet.
"A rich strike was made in the Better
Lake, Wyoming, copper mine. A i've
foot vein of copper galena, almost the
pure metal, was struck i'll the east drift.
This is now the richest mine ever .devel-
oped in the Rocky mountains.
A two-foot ledge of gold ore has been
uncovered at Bingham, Utah. while grad
ing a wagon road between Carr Fork
and Cottonwood gulches 1t belongs to
the Phoenix Mining company and Will
pay from the grass roots.
A rich strike is reported five miles
west of Granite canyon, Wyoming, on the
properties being operated by the Crysier
syndicate, on the Big jim claim. A true
assure vein was struck at depth OF
twenty three feet, carrying ore OF very
fine quality.
The new find, the Mule Skinner,
at the head of Gregory canyon, about
four miles from Boulder, Cox, in an ell
tirely new district, yielded ore lately
which went 500 silver and IS gold. The
mine is but thirty-fve feet deep, but has
big vein.
-Prospectors are not a little excited
over the recent gold discoveries on Lone
Cone proper. and large parties of them
are heading that way, says the Telluride,
(Col) Journal The country is just COM
ing into notice, it having been regarded
as nothing more valuable than cattle
range for a number of years.
"A report comes from Mancos, Col,
that Will Cheesman has opened big
vein of copper, which is said to be the
highest grade of that metal yet dlscoy-
cred in Colorado. The claim is located
in Madden gulch, near the head of East
Mancos, and is said to contain ore with
value of 65 per cent. copper. The vein
is three feet in width.
Over on Grand gulch, at Little Deer
creek, Col, where already several good
mines are located, new and very prom
Using vein has been uncovered, showing
some free gold and assays from ST. to
S23 in gold at ten feet down. Many OF
the leads uncovered in this district show
up we'll in copper and lead some of them
containing as high as IS per cent. of the
latter mineral.
The excitement caused by the finding
of some very rich float on Bryan noun
tain at Ell Dorado, Col, has developed
into a grand rush for that part of the
district. Several parties brought down
samples of ore which showed up rich in
over with bars of sylvanite Several
tests made there and in Boulder ran over
fifty ounces in gold per ton. Several To-
cations have been made on the belt
which show tellurium.
The richest piece of placer ground
ever discovered was the famous Montana
Bar, Confederate Gulch, Mont. The bar
comprised less than an acre of ground,
but Yielded S1.200,OO0 in three months
aS tho raSl7It Of tho Ia hofs of fOTp mon
The dust, which Of course contained
some black iron, weighing 1000 pounds,
was packed in nail kegs and f1oated on a
raft to ST. Joseph, Mo-, in the fall of
1864 Confederate Gulch produced in
all about $3,00O,000.
Men with gold and others with moth
ing but blasted hopes and whiskers have
just arrived from Alaska on the steam
er Bertha, says the San Francisco EX-
aminer. She got in from Unalaska
with 40 passengers, most of whom are
miners, and about 100000 worth of
gold dust for the Alaska Commercial
company. OF the mining crew not more
than ten had anything to show for the
trip, and they had cleaned up variously
Germany is the lucky man of the lot.
He came back burdened with 265 pounds
of the precious metal. and will realize
something like $4,000. In all Mr.
Mueller spent eight years in the mines
of Alaska, but the bulk of his gold was
The lucky miner is inclined to be nom
committal, and does not like to talk
about himself and his dust. He dug
and prospected in many places, and at
last struck it rich on Miller creek, about
forty miles from the Yukon and at a
place called Fort Cudahy. Mueller is on
the way to Germany to end his days in
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