The indicator., 1897-01-30
MINING NOTES s.

Nearly 900 miners are at work In
San Junn county this winter.
The Aspen Times reports the outlook
Tor that camp as quite encouraging.
Large numbers of miners are going
into the Blue Mountain district ot
Utah.
The force of men employed on the
Revenue mine at Duray is being daily
Increased.
Puma City in Park county is the new
est camp and has n newspaper, The
indications for good camp are encour.
aging.
A determined effort is being made 10y
the business men of Aspen to sccurc
lower rates ON low grade ore from the
railroads and also better terms for
lesSecs.
The largest pump station at Aspen
has been COMPLETED. II is mt the foot
of TIA" Free Silver shaft. 100 feet b"-
low the surface. ana the chamber Is
1SXISX1l feet.
w. S. Ward has been appointed man
agcr of the Gulf Gold Mining compH
ny, located in the Sunset district. Boui.
der county. The mine is said 10 lie 20
very promising property, and is being
thoroughly developed
Cripple Creek is getting a now mine
in the residence portion mt the foot Of
Womack hill, known as Cripple Creek
heights Assays had from the bottom
of the rtyfnut leasing shaft of Tutl
Pcnrosc S Dewitt ran $500 and SO 81
n ton. The claim is the Steubcn and
is owned 10y the Mars Consolidated
company.
The strike by Henry Turlcy and FL
Fuller in the Aspen Mining and Smclt
ing company's property on Aspen
mountain. published in Thursday
Times, continues to improve. The orc
now runs 10000 ounces to the ton and
the boys are sacking over 81 600 day.
The streak is narrow. hut is almost the
pure quill The lucky lcssecs are
heartily congratulated by their friends
over their good fortune.-Aspcn Times.
The Raven company at Cripple Creek
is now getting ont high grade ore from
their new working shaft at the 200
and 3OO-foot levels. which runs in car
load lots from seven to eight ounces
per ton. There are strcaks of sylvan
itc that run from seventeen to eighteen
ounces The tunnel is now n little over
LOO feet into the mountain. and in
the course of thirty days the breast
will he underneath the new working
shaft. when an upraise will be started.
The company is only taking out what
ore is encountered in opening up the
mine.
A dispatch from Cripple Creek says
The combined capacity of the mills Of
the district is something like 800 tons
per day. Every one of them Is crowd
ed to the utmost with low grade orcS
Car after car of the same Is standing
on the tracks of the Florence " Grip
pie Creek and Midland Terminal rail
roads awaiting treatment. and the
samplers and other plants where ores
are handled have been obliged to re
fuse purchasing any more mineral un-
til such time as n portion of the large
amount already on hand has been dis
posed of. The smcltcrs report an in
crease in the value of the ore product
handled by them from here. and morr
rock of the smelling class is being
mined now than ever before.
There is n very decided Increase in
the inquiries of eastern capitalists for
lead property in Colorado, and several
agents are now in the state looking for
mines of this character, II is reported
by them that there is to he n strong eff
fort made TO secure high tariff on
lead. which it is presumed Will have
the effect of materially advancing the
price. Among mining men it is not
thought that there will he much sue
cess in finding properties of any great
magnitude. The supply of lead in this
state is so short that the smcltcrs are
compelled to 20 into British Columbia
and Mexico for lead ores TO provide
the necessary fluX. The imposition of
n high tariff on lead, however, viii
have the effect of bringing into opera
tion n large number of small lead-sil-
yer mines now unable To work on ac-
count of the low price of lead. The
result of this will he 10 very matcri-
ally increase the lead output of the
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