The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-13
RICH STRIKE In COLORADO.
WHITE QUARTZ IN TOPEKA NINE
CONTAINING MUCH GOLD.

Am0kheE mnu W w 49,
Largest Montana NuEEet-Gsed Front In
California O~res-Vpater Found
by sibkinE wells In tho Mehavs Desert.
DENVER Dec. 7.-Ono Of the richest strikef
Of the year has recently been mado In the old
Topeka mine In tho Central City district. A
streak OF white quartz has been encountered
from six to eight inches wide running very
heavy in free gold, some of which is in tho form
Of nuggets. Ono piece Of twenty pounds was
stimRted to be worth $500. Tho drift where
this quartz has been discovered hap been
watched night and day since the strike
TO prevent theft OF the ore. and as 1t is do.
vcloped tho streak appears to DO widening and
growing richer. An Eastern company obtained
possession of tho Topeka minoin June last. At
that time IL was considered an old mine con-
tanning only low. grade orc that would pay only
by careful management. Tho soO-foot level
was extended about 800 feet by the new man.
aRement, and an upraiso was started to connect
with q new shaft. For sixty.1ve feet this new
work opened a six-foot vein of fairly good pay
orc, and It was only when the hanging wall was
reached by tho new workings that this streak
Of gold bearing white quartz was discovered.
A distance OF thirty-1vo feet has boon made
along this quartz formation, with the values 70.
manning very high, and quito n largo block Of
ground Is now opened.
In November there wero shipped from Black
Hawk station 1874 GAYS of ore and tailings, rep
resenting tho principal output of Gilpin county.
This was an increase of sixty-ivo carloads
over tho shipments Of tho corresponding month
last year.
Several years ago men began driving an adit
on tho foot wall of tho French Flag in the
idaho Springs district. and after driving ahead
for almost 200 feet they concluded to stop
work, as tho mineral then coming out would
not pay sufficiently to Justify further develop
ment. J. o. Collerett recently secured q lease
upon the property, and after drifting for only
Q short distance he found several small scans
crossing over tho hanging wall. This made
him decide upon crosscutting for that wall to
see IL he could not find mineral there. He
now has threesfeot of pay ore, of which oigh-
teen inches Is smelling. ore, running two and a
half ounces gold and ten ounces silver. The
remainder is good stamping mill stuff. The
Same result has been obtained in tho Seaton
mine. Tho owner has gone right over the old
work and has found that not oil the pay ore
had been taken from the hanging wall, and no
ts now shipping n three-inch streak of lead ore
carrying gold and silver.
After o weeks work, Carl johnson shipped
from his lease on the Half Moon in the Cripple
Greek district $50 tons of ore averaging 800
per ton. Tho .lease lis said to DO netting him
$4,000 per week. For a lease of thirteen
months, ]. 8. McClurg of Denver paid $40. 900.
The property is the Fluorine on Copper Noun
tain. Tho ore 30 far averages about Sl7. SO
per ton. Sam Dyer. one.of tho first prospec-
tors in Cripple Creek, has sold two claims on
Tenderfoot Hill for $4,000. of which $1,000
was cash. The December shipments from
Cripple Creek will be a record breaker. Mean
while new machinery and more hoists are
added to the camp.
The Illinois Steel Company recently closed a
contract for 5000 tons of manganese iron ore
to be shipped from the North star mine in the
Leadville district. This ore carries some sill
yer, but its iron values are moro important.
The fire in tho Smugglcr mine which
troubled tho Aspen mine owners by reason of
permeating gas has been completely extin-
g%uished. Tho Mollio Gibson and Argentum.
Juniata people arc now arranging to set up q
concentrating plant.
Ouray shipped 205 cars of ore during No.
vember and one car by express. This is an in.
crease Of ~fifty-six carloads over the correspond.
ing month Of last year. Col. Mix has completed
$4,000 worth of improvements on tho CALI
ope mine and is now setting up the last car
load of machinery, preparatory to opening up
the property in the Red Mountain district.
The outlook for tho winter Is most encourage
ing. The Custom, Congress. Lake, Hero, and
Enterprise are all working steadily. Heavy
machinery and much now timbering is going
into tho Yankee Girl.
MONTANA.
BUTTE, Dec. 7.-There Is another claimant for
the distinction Of having taken out the largest
nugget Montana has ever produced. Edward
NJ. Rising Of Hope Gulch asserts that on Oct.
10. 1865. he found a nugget at the head of
6nowshoe Gulch which was worth So, 224. 80,
with gold at $40 an ounce, being moro yalua-
BILE by 1000 than any other nugget found in
the State. 1t was sent to the Paris Exposition
and atfrarfaH r,prI, tnptin tIo.1 1-A /. i
not known where 1t is now.
The Barr Creek Coal mine discovered by
Edward N. Lippincott of Augusta in Septem-
Der last is proving to be a very valuable dis
covery. A thorough examination OF the sur
rounding country and the hills adjacent to
Augusta between the north and south forks of
Bun River, has developed several coal streaks
of limited thickness. The mines on Barr Creek,
however, show specimens identical with the
Lethbridge deposits. The Barr Creek tunnel
has now been run $50 feet with a cross-cut.
The site of the tunnel is $50 feet below the top
Of the hill. A scientific examination of the hill
shows two more veins of coal, one of three
feet one inch, and another of seventeen inches.
There is no slack coal yielded In working the
Another rich strike is reported from the now
SsnnaPi az M,n Gar and az my cola dh is Is In the lhterna:
rich. This adjoins the McDermott mine, in
which a strike was made in November.
NNNSA SOLhOo ~ hC"b tHuL
the Alton smelling and Mining Company has
EetruGk the lead after fourteen months OF work.
yhe lead was struck b25 feet from the opening
2f the tunnel and about 200 feet under the sur.
mine is about ten miles west OF Helena.
The German Bar Company, operating near
Adobe Town.. in Madison county, recently cut
through the bed rock on. which early miners
worked and found gravel beneath, and finally a
second bed rock carrying big pay. This sub
s aaTnh ( the theory Of old timers that Alder
development will yield wealth.
The gold dredges in operation near Bannack
proved q big success the past season. Next
year a new and much larger boat viii be used.
The Celebration lode. adjoining the May.
bonded for $4,000 by the Sunrise Mining
Los ANGELES, Dec. 4.-One of the largest
strikes on the mother lode in recent years is re-
ported from the North Star and Black Warrior
consolidated mines, on Moccasin Creek, near
sonora, Iuolulnne county. The ledge IL thirty
hve feet wide. shows free gold IN almost every
piece and is also very rich in sulphurets. Three
Essays or the rock show SIS. $33 and 1877 per
who have Inspected the ledge say that il IL
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