The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-07
SALES OF MINES MADE
Busy Day Among the Gold Hunters OF
Cripple Greek.

Cripple Creek.
Cripple Creek, Colo, Feb. GA lease
| running almost one year on the Elk
! IOU-S was sold today to Charlie Wild
| er and associates. The claim is located
| in the saddle between Battle and Squaw
mountain. Within the past few days a
| vein of wonderfully rich ore has been
| opened up on the property. About
| twenty-five feet of wash covered the
! ground and now, at a depth of thirty
! five feet, the rich ore has been found,
exceed six inches so far but not an as
| say has been under eleven ounces in
| gold gold and the majority Of them ran
! into the hundreds. Mr.. Weider is the
manager of the famous Moose mine.
The Smith lease on the Temomj is
said to have gotten into three feet of S6S
ore within the last two days at depth
of a little more than 80 feet.
a story is current on the streets oday
TO the effect that the jefferson, on Gold
hill has cut what is supposed TO be the
Geneva ore chute. Some people doubt
the rumor, however. The management
of the property refuse to say anything
concerning the matter.
The Bertha H., adjoining the Grip
pie Creek, was purchased yesterday
for a good round sum.
The Sella Girl, on the west slope of
Battle mountain, was sold yesterday for
$65, 900. a cash payment of $4,000 was
made.
The Puzzler, just north of Gillett,
made shipment few days ago to the
Omaha & Grant smelter.
The Maggie Reeve company has ac-
ceDted an offer for bond and lease on
the Ed Wolcott, Green Top and B. &
NJ, all good claims, for $500 each and
royalties of from Is to 20 per cent Work
viii be commenced within fifteen days
and the life of the lease is eighteen
months.
The Colorado Gold Mining company.
owners of the lease on three lots of the
school section near Grassy, close to the
Isabella properties. report the opening
of quartz and phonolite contract that
gives value Of 1925 at the surface. The
managers say that the vein is not yet
in place.
The Grouse Mountain Mining and
Milling company are working five
claims which start from Cripple Creek
and run to Wilson creek. and few
feet from the school section line F.
Barnett of Colorado Springs is presi-
dent Of the company and has a number
of men working the property.
The Eclipse mine on Raven Hill. own
ed by the New Haven company, increas-
ed its force TO twenty men today The
new machinery is working in good
shape and the shaft will be sunk 200 feet
as quickly as possible. Two levels are
being run and some good shipments
will soon be made.
The SQuaw Mountain Tunnel Com
pany has made contract with the Pap
poose company by which the former
gives the latter a small per cent Of the
net proceeds Of ore taken from the Ray
ground where the tunnel people have
already found a sixteen foot vein. This
contract extends 10 all other grounds
Of the Pappoose company. on which the
tunnel people have uncovered ore.
The condition Of the stock market :
alarming some people but il has not the
slightest effect upon the old miner II he
IS digging ore or searching for Il. The
conditions are not changed by the
slump. Gold. he reckons. is still worth
500 per ounce. and he knows that there
* an endless demand for -