The silver lance., 1897-07-30
AMONG fHE MINES.
Float Picked Up Around the Crystal District and
Echoes From the Hany Miaes.-


Echoes From the nany Miaes.-
A breakdown of the machinery at the
Belle Of T!tusville yesterday morning
closed that property down for repairs.
this will necessitate idleness until Sun
day or Monday.
Work on the Missouri Belle is being
pushed so as to put it to patent AZ soon
as possible. Extensive work has hereto
fore been done on this property. Mr., T.
O'Bryan has the contract.
Ford & Dudley have taken a sub lease
on the Tabor mine on Whitehouse noun
tain, on commenced work on the proper
ty Wednesday. They think a good lot
of splendid ore can be taken out.
Y. B. Ford and v. A. Cobb have been
sending the ore they had on the dump at
the Milwaukee to the Marble 8. & r. Co.
Eightysix jack loads were brought down
in three trains, aggregating about nine
tons.
The Inez Gold & Silver Mining Com
pany is continuing development work. A
drift is being drivens@est from the main
tunnel to strike the ore body which was
cut through in parable drift on the
second upraise.
The new tables and other repairs for
the Scofield concentrator have been re-
ceived we understand, and the wheels
will be turning in few days, treating
orefrom the Lulu and other near by prop
critics Of the mill company.
Fred A. Fisher of Aspen has taken
some splendid looking ore from a pros
pect in Crystal Basin. He has been
prosecuting work on tunnel until a few
days ago, when he went higher up on an
open cut, where he is striking good look
ing ore.
M. N. Shidler, of Cripple Creek has
has been securing some assays from the
Buffalo, in Crystal Basin, the past ten
days to determine the prospects of that
property. Shidler Crothers & Bean have
secured lease on this property and will
begin work at once If the assays show Is
favorable as they expect.
Yesterday afternoon the whistle at the
Crystal Mountain Mine blew for the first
time in twelve months. The repairs on
the engine and other machinery has been
completed, the power drills set up and
once more the hum of activity is heard.
Monday morning six men will be put on
and development work will be pushed.
The furnaces will be blown in at the i
Marble Smelling & Refinieg Company's
new smelter, Monday morning. Ores
now in the bins to be treated are from |
the Lead King, Tabor & Chain. Milwau-
kee, Jack Whacker, Bradbury, Mattivi |
Brothers, and Daisy mines. Hoffman |
Brothers, the managers Of the new plant |
are confident it will be propitious be-
ginning.
This morning the Lead King begins !
shipping ore to the smelter. 1t is being |
hauled to Marble by jack train. thence
to Carbondale, whore it is loaded on cars. |
There is big lot of ore on the dump at
this mine and more will follow the pres
ent shipment. The shaft from the top |
is completed and the new power whim
in operation. Development work is to
prosecuted vigorously for the present,
ore bodies blocked out
The shaft being sunk on the Belle Of
Titusville struck the vein at depth Of
about twenty feet below the level Of the
tunnel, and found it widened to about |
four feet, carrying mineral streak twen-
ty inches wide at the point where the
shaft cuts it. The shaft will be sunk to |
a depth Of fifty feet or more when drift
ing will be begun to strike the contact at
various levels along the vein. The vein
in the shaft is pretty good looking ore
body in itself, and the prospect is very
promising to strike a large body Of ore
soon. But the management proposes to
block out the mineral and continue de-
velc.,.nent work for the present, and
leave the matter Of shipping until later
date.