The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-30
LEADyILLE AT LOW EBB.
IyYTHING BUT a LIVELY CAMP
THERE SILVER IS n Drug.
gtorlep from Trinity County. CAL, Arc Highly
Colored. but There II Much GOLD There
Prospcctors In Montana Chased n Glitter
ing Rupor-Cook Inlet Placer Miners Thrive.

Of mining In the downtown district in Lead
Vile have been laid aside owing to tho con.
tinued decline in the price Of silver. The pump.
ing combination which was to unweter the dis
trict exists only on paper, and ID. II. Mofat OF
this city declares that no will do nothing until
silver advances. As he Is the handspring of
the pumping combination, the outlook for better
times In Lcadvllie Is exceedingly gloomy. A
few OF the mines along tho gold belt and isOlat.
Cd properties still continue to work, but Lead
vile 10 by no means n lively camp. Aspen
lessces are fast becoming discouraged, and the
mining outlook for that silver camp 10 like
wise bad. All over the State silver mines are
closing down.
Interest increases in the gold placers of the
gtato as 1t decreases in silvCr-bcaring lode
mines. An old placer near Granite which has
been worked for many years cleaned UP last
week and n gold brick valued at So, 900 was
tho result. While two messengers were con-
yeying the retort to the city on horseback, two
highway robbers held up tho men aud made
away with the gold.
Near Breckenridge both lode and placer min.
Ing operations are quite lively. The Sisler
placer. which has been constantly worked for
twenty-scven years, Is doing unusually well
this year with plenty of water for the giant
monitor. Over in Summit Gulch q ten.stamp
mill is running night and day, while n new tun-
mel Is In contemplation to bring the gold.bear.
ing formations closer in touch with tho mill.
Tho Carrie mill is being renovated for steady
work, and meanwhile a pack train IL bringing
down ore until u wire tram can be set up.
The Elkton mine at Cripple Creek for July
made a record OF $37.l60 with an expense &C.
count of $l4 200.
After several years Of effort a syndicate has
finally gained control of placer claims along the
bed of Clear Creek for q distance of twenty
miles in the vicinity Of Idaho Springs. This
carries with it all water rights ind gives the
syndicate "a most valuable holding.
In the Hahn's Peak country the prospectors
arc more encouraged than ever over the results
of their explorations. Il. I. Darncll took out
of q claim on the south side Of the peak re-
Gently chunks of quartz as big as n mans head
allowing u great tangle OF wire gold. The Elk
horn mine has been working ten men. and twelve
tons of ore have been sacked in the development
work that are estimated to be worth Sc 900.
Two men as a result of four days sluicing
OH Difficult Creek in Pitkin county obtained a
seven-pound gold Ietort la week. The dirt
was taken from an open cutting in the gulch.
+. Margowski, an old-timo miner of Tellu-
ride, last week disposed of three claims IN Cornct
Basin for $4,000 to Arthur Winslow of Kan
sas City. who made the purchase for an Eastern
syndicate. The, syndicate now control about
anticipated that the combination will make as
big a dividend paying enterprise as the great
A new syndicate is opening up the Hidden
Treasure mine at Lake City, which made a great
BY reason OF the excessive development cost.
The new crowd went only twenty feet deeper
~ 'h 9ro Sna uh M1eG ib 5nSy o StrI nnw in shi2 a f,Gn ooay Oh
Ledge new mi hssy, t%o mill NILES IS Pbs eioM ke at nc moa silSfn
on the line of the Silverton Railroad.
CALIFORNIA.
Los ANGELES, Aug. 2l.-So many. stories of
rich strikes In Trinity county, most Of them evil
4 difhcult 10 get at the truth, The Graves
Brothers. whose rich pocket finds started the
SSffi sso9 mining say o aea on t their e eisim Ia EiEie am so1ers
o ons t yss sssss,s but t,t that they R5SP ,ns to ~ work ss
esr treating the ore. Mining experts now say
lhat .isse rich lodges, near Coffee Creek are
fend Trinity counties. They are ali blind Lodges,
Win the decOmposed country rock. High grade,
sesn % fOHnSS By Sye' PITTS fiasss asd M sSS 10 ' on fGR: 6as
lscsted a claim on Steven GuIch and took out
SSI L1 the 2eot frat st, day. A man on an adioining
Truaix and his PARTNER. an actor ma Named billon,
reached the CofIeo Creek ~diggings at noon on
and by, night hud enough Of it stripped to show;
G tWo-foot ledge of remarkable richness. II.
foot tunnel into the creek bank and have made
E S.rrie rich orc q s Mhiat II the Elma mine ore has
erty at Trinit yCentrs at a recent cleanup net
s9a Sl1 mi0o south 4 O. Gh HIS WIEN STSiSnp p9aIS. eTas oo &
ssss6R6Ssalaly lily The LGrenz mine has yielded over
$s9S; 900 70 CO GpId from ron TIE gravel claims Of this
regi9n Is SoLrse' the pieces often yielding as
The sthlwaggon and Rosebud mines, near
bought BY Ireland & Bqrrows, Who viii develop
them. +. G, Hendrick returned to jackson
y With a hye.pouh nddYiI lard ip,aeifi I'll ZIP Of II r Isat q GoEn.
specimens that were worth u 1000,
putting i'm in most IF The 'p tine for W Sever nI' y eeGs
bunting a lost ledge on Bear Creek, Fresno
NOT lost, rich enough in FREQ gold and SUI
phurets for experts to say there are $4,000 in
Kandsburg. Kern county. now has thirty
paying mines. The Wedge mine has been kept
back for some time, by a war petween two Of
W. Rogers. Mr.. Roger last week sold all of
his stock to Mr.. GLADDEN., and the difficulties
Wedge - down nearly 800 feet and pays regu.
lsI dividends. The owners Of the skookHin.
Garlock whicl, they propose TO Keep coniinn..
G 1ms:y running mn on ore from The group, The ore
work thirty tons per day.
The Standard Consolidated Mining Company,
Mono county, made IL net profit of $4,000 In
The Big nipp,er Mining Company, Iowa Hill,
55iacer count, hos deveioped n body of gravel,
1000 feet from the mouth of the tunnel, which Is
Soo tegL wiac as Tar as Developed, although the
esst SIDE has not yet been reached. 1t is
open up ground which will require six years ia
sight. ~ =" "
It is said that S. W. Dorsey will soon
build q 100 ton stamp mill ard II railroad to the
Colorado River from his Picacho mines in san
Diego county. A large body Of auriferous stib.
mite ore has been discovered in the Laguna
Mountains. siXty,ilye miles east of San Diego,
having az assay value OF $50 per ton in anti.
mony and IS per ton In gold. A vein OF calcna
ore twelve inches wide on top has been found
In the Jacumba Valley which Yields 4, 900 ounce
Of silver per ton.
At Deer Creek. near Bassett's Station, Sierra
county, a company OF six cleaned up 100 ounces
OF gold after a elk weeks run.
Dale Brothers, Butteville mining district, Sis
kiyou county, have In sight a big body of COP.
per ore twenty feet wide, which assays 81 pei
printer named c. w, Buyck has made q rich
strlke near Summersviile, Tuolumne county,
The specimens run 81 100 to the ton. The Old
Donila has been bonded by Is. and i. Sonlsby
Tor y2on.noo. san Franciscans will reopen The
Andy Johnson mine at Chinese Camp, CarrI
gan q CO. have bonded the Lost Fox for $l4, 900
The old Pennsylvania mine, Browns Valley
fuba county, was recently taken In hand by q
company, Of san Eranciscans headed BY Charlie.
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