The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-27
OUR MINING INTERESTS.
VIEW SssoOIATIoN FOR MINERS
FORMED ~ COLORADO.

British Coiumbin-Tho 8iark Hnlu Ficids
DENVER, Col, Dec. 15.-Tho leading mining
operators OF the State met In Denver this weel
and decided 10 incorporate the Colorado Mining
Association. Tho object Is for the mutual nd
vantage Of oil persons engaged In mining
The business ia TO DO managed by a board Of
eleven directors
The operators dlsclaim any effort toward
blacklisting the miners union or opposing
mill men, ~sInelter managers. or railroads. They
say this organization Is for mutual boncht and
the discussion OF improved methods OF operat'
ing gold and silver mines.
December will DO tho banner month In the
history of Cripple Creek IN the production OF
both high and low grade ores. The tonnage for
the month will be about 10000 tons. Six
months ago II was predicted that when the acid
process mills wero completed and the addition
10 old ones had been made there would not be
enough ore mined In tho camp TO keep them
busy. All the works are now running at full
capacity with every bin filled 20 overlooking,
aud the side tracks are crowded with cars ready
20 DO unloaded.
Tho Independence mine is sending sixty tons
Of orc daily which 10 taken out as the miners
lenRthen the drifts on the levels. There is moro
ore blocked out in this mino than has ever been
noted before in its history. The output from
tho Portland averages about sixty tons per
day.
krhs LILY two years ago sold for $4,000.
Il 10 now paying dividends at the rate Of &c.,
900 per month, with plenty Of ore in sight.
ThefsA are now four shipping mines along the
limo OF contact between the granite and tho
efuptive formation of Battle Mountain, thrcc
Of which are bonanzas. The Cripple Creek dis
trict is continually revealing new and interest
ing studies, but none of them surpassed this
uAonNaAA -nha MA Ianootku ha-a ham f,t,pl Iu.
Ing deep in the granite. with not q semblance
ofa vein Tho Strong lie shipping 100 tons q day
efS4o orc.
Tho population Of Central City has increased
FULLY 20 per cent. during the year and over 100
new residences have been built. The output
from the mines will be fully 81 100000 greater
than that of last year. The output is coming
mainly from old and woll.known mines which.
after years ofidleness, have been reopened. new
machinery added. and the properties put on @
paying basis.
W. E. Renshaw. who recently secured the
Newton mine at Idaho Springs. has como upon
Q ten-inch streak of ore running from ten to
seventeen ounces gold per ton and about 100
ounces Of silver. The owner Of the Joe Rey-
nolds mine at Lawson has made a good strike
of mineral in the seventh level that will run
5000 per ton. The owner is Jay Morton of Chi
cago. The sampling works ana mills at Black
Hawk handle daily 500 tons Of ore. Two years
ago there were but fifty fast-drop stamps in that
town. Now there are $50.
A now gold strike Is reported from the old
Centennial mine in Georgetown. The Pennsyl-
vania group of eight claims at Sunny Side, near
Ward. has been sold to a Boston syndicate for
$4,000.
&C. II. Weber, a ranchman near Durango,
Q short time ago went into the La Plata Noun.
tains on a prospecting trip. In ten days time
he had discovered a vein. the first shipment of
two tons returning 800. He sold a half inter-
est to q Chicago man for $500, and the latter
soon after sold one.half of his share for So, 600
to q banker Of Durango, who now holds a lease
and bond on the entire property in the sum Of
100000. The mine is now fifty feet deep. and
almost two carloads Of ore are ready for ship
mont. An ore chute 176 feet long and SO feet
wide has been developed and is supposed to con-
tain values to the amount of 100000. All
La Pastaacounty is greatly excited over this
strike. -. a.
"'T"" MONTANA.
BUTTE, Dec. 21.-There is a place in Deer
lodge county. this State, called Lincoln. which
Ia one of the oldest placer mining camps in
Montana. As early as 1865 gold was found
there in paying Quantities, and during the fol-
lowing year 1t experienced quite a stampede.
In 1867 it was q town of 5000 Inhabitants.
Then the mines gave out, and probably not
more than 100 people in Montana know where
lincoln is. 791
ifFbe past season a few old Aimetminer tried
their luck in the old abandoned camp once
more, and several good quartz prospects have
been uncovered. Lincoln is located in d val
ley through which runs the Big Blackfoot
River. In tho early days the gold was taken
out Of the left side of the valley, but on the op-
posite side have now been discovered q mum
Der of copper claims. These copper discov-
cries are In a gulch on Stonewall Mountain, tho
second gulch above Lincoln. Very little de-
velopment work has as yet been done, but there
is. enough done to show one three-foot vein Of
coppef and silver ore, a~ssaying 65 per cent.
copper and eight ounces of silver. A dozen
other claims show good copper ore, and most
of them have recently been bought by Marcus
DAILY Of the Anaconda company. On the Buck
lode is a ~four-foot vein of ore which runs from
40 10 80 per cent. copper and 2 to 8 ounces
silver. shown in n ~ffty.foot tunnel. The Blue
Grouse claim adjoining has an eighty-foot
tunnel, CARRYING 80 per cent. copper and q little
Is next. with just as good ore in a sixty-foot
tunnel.
Northern Pacific Railroad, and there is already
talk of u branch line 10 the mines. The place is
on, of the most desolate and most seldom visit.
cd in all Montana. Last week prospectors dis.
covered in a gulch adjoining Stonowaii large
deposits of anthracite coal. It is found in a
basin covering five or six sections of land.
Z. P. Chisholm or Bozeman has purchased
the Great Eastern, Great Eastern Extension,
MG,tan2 Chief, Imperial. Great Western, and
In the Emigrant district for $4,000.
CALIFORNIA.
Los ANGELES. Dec. 1s.-The California Min
ors' Association will try to get a bill through
Congress this winter creating a commission 10
examine all land patented by the railroad com,
ganies in this State during the last fve years.
Between 1892 and 1896 tho Central Pacific,
California and Oregon, and Southern Pacific
roads patented In this State over 9 400 OOC
acres of land. 1t is the belief OF most of the
Miners Association that 500. 900 or SOC, oUO
acres of this land is mineral land and Is there.
fore held fraudulently by the railroads. This
by the Mineral Lands bill, which the Miners
Association has been trying to get through
Congress for the last three years.
The Consolidated Gold Mines Company,
Butte county. estimates that it has in sight
upward Of 100000 tons of ore. su ticicnt 10 keep
the new iO'stGmp mill running for more thar
fvo years. The average OF the ore, discarding
The rich assays. is SI.33 per ton, while il Is
worked Mt an expense of 81. "a per ton.
The property OF the Selby Mining Com.
pany, near Placervillc, FL Dorado county. has
an ore body sixty feet wide OF medium grade.
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