Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-05-12
Mining Notes.

- dii VI It'pp iilG olJlllI blNlIlcl. san
Miguel county, shipped 1913 carloads of
ore. In 1897 the total shipments
reached 451 cars. For the first quarter
of the present year, with many prop
critics delayed by rough weather and
some of the mills waiting for the
streams to thaw, the shipments reach
1SS carloads, all high grade ore ana
concentrates, the years gain over 1897
will reach 80 per cent.
The work of turning the Holden lix-
iviation plant into an up-to-date con
centrator is about completed by the
Aspen Concentrating Company, and
within day or two the plant will be
In constant operation day and night.
The first test gave results highly salts
factory. The crushing is done by two
ten-stamp batteries. An equal number
| of stamps are at the present time
standing idle. but it is the intention to
Increase the table capacity of the mill
at an early date, and put these extra
stamps in operation.
The Smuggler-Uni Mining Com
pany at Telluride is taking out some of
the richest gold ore ever seen i'm the
camp. Fully one-half the weight of
the samples that have been exhibited
Is gold of value of $15 an ounce. The
rich ore was uncovered some two or
three weeks ago on the north end Of
the Smuggler, at depth of more than
1000 feet. 1t is in the nature of a
streak of white quartz about three
inches in width thoroughly fmpregnat-
ed with free gold. II is not leaf gold
and the mineral Is remarkable for its
weight So far as can be learned the
streak as yet gives no indication of
becoming exhausted, and the pertinac.
| ity with which 1t continues is one of
the most surprising as well as crafty
Ing features. Three shipments of the
rich stuff have been made by express.
but the aggregate number Of pounds
they represented cannot be learned.
Below the water line, and at 900 feet
beneath the surface, Cripple Creek has
produced the richest body of gold ore
ever opened. It is in the already noted
Portland. The new chute was found
by cross-cut run east from the Anna
Lee drift about 300 feet north of the
big chimney, and is known as vein No.
. in the development work in the
ground opened by the former manager.
j. II. Mckenzie. and lies in Hidden
'N"7oit Slpuih, dbOHJ -)U Iebt east
OF, and parallel with the main vein Of
the Portland. Assays soon iumped
up into the hundreds of ounces and the
work continued. Up to the present
time the drift has run 10 feet on the
chute, and the breast is still In ore.
five-foot ore body in three seams: one
OF disintegrated rock that partakes
OF the character of sand quartz. and
lies on the foot wall from ten to sixteen
inches in width. and is of fabulous
richness Against this comes a seam
OF huorite-stained quartz that carries
all through it great blotches and cubes
of sylyanite, similar to the rich stuff
OF the Orizaba, ana from eight to
twelve inches in width; on the hanging
wall side lies between two and three
feet of ore that is shipped at from two
to live ounces, as taken In the work OF
stripping the higher grade seams
Either of these seams would be enough
to make an ordinary bonanza. Speci-
mems of large size show to be nearly
half gold, and almost every piece of the
rock in the carload that is being nra.
pared would make a handsome cabinet
specimen. Assays are supernuous but
the usual mine samples taken daily
range in the unusual figures of from
$1,000 to $4,000 ton.