The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-21
MILLIONS IN SIGHT
PrOSpectOrS Cover the Hills in the
District.
STAMP MILL TO BE BUILT
Lurid Reports From the Cripple
Creek Country Cheap Ore
TRANSPORTATION Strikes
and Gold Everywhere.
'TAMP MILL TO BE BUILT


News from Cripple Creek says: Great
Ute canyon. often called Eight Mile
canyon. on the line of the Florence *
Cripple Creek railroad. is lively with
graders and prospectors at the present
time, north and south from the Nc
Court camp. Garlic a. Weigbret, who
have the contract TO raise the grade Of
the the roadbed for a distance of 10
miles. expect to have the work COM
pleted in 30 days. The road then will
be safe from washouts similar to the
one of last summer, when railroad
property to the extent of 100000 was
destroyed and seven lives lost. The
big mountain of quartzite at McCourt
has been divided up among the original
owners, and IT is now being worked by
three sets of men. Two claims have
been secured, under bond and lease
for $4,000 by Charles Gilmore and 9TH
ers of Denver They are putting in a
10-stamp mill, which will be used in
testing the ore, and IL 1t is found that
ii carries values better than 81 per
ton, a 250-ton mill will be erected at
Florence. The supply of ore is almost
unlimited, and IL can be mined and
hauled to Florence at a cost of not more
than 81 per ton. Three carloads of the
quartzite were shipped to the Hartzel
mills a few weeks ago, and il is relia-
bly, reported that the savings on the
plate were a little better than 81 per
ton. Expert mining men who have
given the McCourt ledge an eXamina-
ton say that If the immense body of
ore will average 81 per ton IL is the
biggest free milling proposition on
earth, and that the famous Homestake
mine in South Dakota and the Alaska
Treadwell company's mine on Douglass
Island, Alaska, are pigmies in COM
parison. One well-known mining man
said that a thousand stamps could be
worked on the McCourt ledge for
thousand years without making a large
hole in the mountain. For the past
three years the McCourt district has
been prospected, and a half dozen or
more carload shipments at different
times have been made to the Black
Hawk and to the Cripple Creek stamp
mills, and all showed values of from
SO to s6.4O on the plate.
1t is reliably reported that a big
strike was made on the Lucky Bill a
few days ago. At a depth of $50 feet
in the north drift a big body of sylvia
mite ore was entered. Specimens of IL
fell into the hands of a number of par
ties not interested in the mine. 1t has
been roasted and assayed, and no rich
err sylvanite has ever been seen in the
Cripple Creek district. The roasted
specimens are covered with bubbles of
gold, and assays are reported to have
run as high as $50 per ton. The Lucky
Bill is located on the west slope of
Womack hill, and adjoins the corporate
limits of the town of Cripple Creek on
the east. 1t was staked last June, much
to the surprise of thousands of resi-
dents of the city, who never i'm
agined that a fraction so close to
Cripple Creek could have been over
looked for so long. The locator sold 1t
in a few days to Denis Sullivan and
associates of Denver for $1,000 cash.
Ever since the Denver men secured the
property IL has been Systematically de-
veloped. and enough ore has been
taken out without any stopping to meet
the payroll. Very rich blocks have been
encountered in drifting and sinking.
and about all of it has been sold to To-
cal ore buyers. one little jag of 1900
pounds netted 1920 after being retorted.
Still another averaged at the rate OF
$3.50 ounces per ton, and carload TO one
Of the Denver shelters went $3.50 per
ton. The receivers receipt for the
Lucky Bill fraction has been received.
and regular shipments can be looked
for from this time forward.
In the Creighton, on the Jack Pot. in
cross scouting from the bottom OF the
1907 foot shaft, what is supposed TO be
the Doctor vein was entered yesterday.
The Golden Eagle company has been
and Thomas ]. Maloney of
Cripple Creek has been elected presi-
dent. All the leases of the properties
have been surrendered, and the com
pany will start work itself in few
days on the Comstock, located on Ra-
ven hill.
Four carloads OF ore that averaged
$50 per ton was shipped from the In
CHAM on Raven hill last week. A con-
tract was also let to sink the shaft ad-
100 feet from its present
depth OF 100 feet. and also a contract
was let to run a drift an additional 100
feet.
The company will begin the sinking
Of shaft on the Rose Maud to a depth
OF 200 feet at once. Several applica-
tions to lease portions of the Rose
Maud recently have been received. but
none of them have been entertained,
since 81 is the intention of the company
to work the ground itself
The Sylvanite. Dolphin and Little
Davy. all located on Globe hill, near
the summit. have been secured under /
lease and bond by Denver parties for
one year from March l. Low grade ore
has been found on the territory. but
evidently depth Is what is required 10 !
find il rich enough TO warrant ship |
ment to the smelters and mills.
The final payment due the Eclipse |
company for the sur
render OF its 100000 bond on the Eclipse, |
located on the northwest slope OF Bat /
lie mountain. was made yesterday by 1
Charles J. Poor the agent for Baron I
Won Richthofen, and the transfer OF the /
property TO the English company WAS I
The big plant Of ma /
,hinery which is u be located at the /
mou. h OF the old Eclipse tunnel has ar I
rived and will be put in place with all /
possible speed.
Some very fine looking quartz that i
assays as high as $50 was found yes 4
erday at the bottom Of the 100 foot 4
'heft on the Mayn0wer. located on 4
Carbonate hill and while q Is not vet 1
N paying quantities.. the owners are i
greatly encouraged and will sink with 4
hree shifts from now on.
j. Il. Crosby is again In camp. lie /
represents the interests Of the Cripple Il
Creek Pioneers. which have already Sc