The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1897-10-08
THE HILL TOP MINE.


the ron Produced.
The mn Top Is the name OF the latest
Colorado wonder In the way Of a pro-
lur.ng mine. 10 deserves lbs name,
Tor 10 is located nt an altitude Of be
tween 1850 aud 1900 feet. II rs
about twelve miles from Fairplay, and
from 90 q hirdscyc view Of lradyillc
can bee obtained Nathaniel Robertson
't the Robertson Doll Company. re-
crutly visited the property aud this Is
what he said uf 1t yesterday:
"lN me the lllll Top seems u wonder.
ful mine. Tile owners invited mo To
gu through the property. and | feel
Wcll repaid Tor having done 80. II Ia
n silver and lead proposition. and 10
silver was now worth what II was
some years ago. the owners would all
ho milllonnircs As It IL the lead val.
urs are such that good profit ls real
lied from taking ont the ore. What
the value Of the on Is cannot say.
M did not ask hut there are such i'm.
mrnsc bodies NJ H. and II Is 81 easily
handled that most anybody would be-
satisfied with the net results.
The shaft Il dnD feet deep. and from
lis bottom the workings extend Ia all
directions.
"fo give you an idea ~ the size OF
the ore bodies. I need only mention
that I was taken into one chamber.
which was made 10y cXcavatlug the
ore, and this chamber was twenty-five
feet wldc go feet long aud seventy
feet high. or course. all the cxcavn.
lions were not so large M this one.
There arr other bodies which I passed,
hut which We did not enter probably
because the manager did not wish me
IN see the amount Of treasure avail
able. They arr probably the Kind "
miners who do not exhaust an ore
body Immediately after II Is discovered,
hut 90 ON looking for something else.
meanwhile using the ore held In ~
serve 81 that the property will pay div
blends constantly
"'rhc milne gives employment 10 he
tween sixty ana seventy men. ana =
bigger stronger. better looking set 81
men I never saw They 10 not work
/ FOR wages. hut nll do piece wo-k. Two
or four men viii work together ari
when they have filled n car with orr
Z N II wheeled N the shaft placed on
The cage and drawn IN the surface
There II Is weighed nnd the weight ls
Registered and credited IN the men villa
eXcavatod the ore and put II on tho
car Each set NJ men fnsicns n Ticket
/ 90 the car. and Il n 10y This means that
/ the man on top knows To whom IA
/ credit the ore The men receive M
cents q Ton When working by tho
piece this way they do more work than
when working hy the day. When II
/ II desirable 10 drift. make an uprnise
sink the SHAFT or do any Kind OF dead
work contract n made with riiC
men 10 do the work NJ n fixed prize
per foot Many ~ the men make NJ
much rs - y day az the rate paid foi
| taking out ore.
1.-THE owners confidently expect IA
I find gold values In lower contact
I Tie ore II Ia blanket veins and the
| formation seems W Ne the snmc ~ tina
NJ f.eadvllle. The operators wen
through 200 feet Of pornhyry bcfor
finding any orr. 30 they think they nr
IN the first contact. when the shat
Is sunk until n reaches quartz. etc,
they expect 10 find gold In this OK
pcctation they nrp supported by Elm
mons. the geological expert who's
maps show all this territory To be gol'
bearing
"Like many another good mine. ih
property has passed through the hand
n several people. II was first wOrke,
many wears ago. and NJ least two par
ties whom ! know went broke on II
The present owners are the ilrsi people
who ever took ore out NJ the mine
zone strange feature n this property
Is that there n no water In the mint
10 prove Troublesome This Is because
the ground Is froyen 10 n depth Of be
tween iO0 md 200 feet"
The nm Top mine n nrlnclnnlll
owned In Denver. the In Bols brother
and officers N the Denver & Gulf rail
mad being among the stockholders. -
Dsnvcr Republican.