Cañon City record., 1898-12-15
Bare Hills.

put have buildings constructed of
suificient size to admit of increasing
70 so tons with very little trouble.
The ore, of which there is very
large body, carries an average value
Eof about Sc per ton in gold, with
Enough silver to cover expense of
Treatment.
h The 0 K Mining and Milling COM
pany, of which ". A. Abernathy is
president and W. H. II. Nivling, Of
Sioux City, Ia, secretary, have com
pleted arrangements for the erection
of a 20-ton cyanide plant close to the
mouth of High creek on Four Mile.
"a wagon road has been built up Hig
creek to the mill OF the Bare Hills
Lumber company. which has the COR
tract to furnish the material for the
buildings. Mr.. Abernathy states tina.
a number of mill ruis have deter
mined the value of his ore to be So il
gold, and that with thc cyanide treat
ment he expects to save about ST.
which viii give him a profit from
$3.75 to 81 per ton. Construction
viii be pushed as fast as possible, and
it is the company's intention to have
things in running order within sixty
days.
The 55-horse power plant for the
Mayhower has been put in place, with
the exception of the pump, and the
shaft house is rapidly going up. In
making excavations new vein was
uncovered running parallel to the old
one and about % feet to the east.
As soon as the top works are COM
plete, the rock breaking viii be done
in crosscut at the 150-foot level to
tap the new vein. The company will
put on three shifts and work the
mine to its best capacity. Three
hundred feet of stoping ground has
already been opened, the ore of which
is smelling proposition.
The Galveston company has put up
a whim and is sinking a shaft on the
Last Chance, one of their properties
on the big New York dyke, on which
the Junior Order is located. If the
Last Chance proves as good as the
JUNIOR Order, which the work SO far
- cpnpany j. pre-
pared to erect : frst-class cyanide
plant with all modern machinery and
improvements Development in the
Warren shaft has been suspended the
past few weeks and a part of the
have been engaged in doing the an
nuals' on their outside properties
that have not been brought to patent.
Geo. l. Long, in his shaft on the
Fannie L, at a iepts of about lis
feet, encountered fow of water i'm
possible to handle with the whim.
consequently the working is shut
down. temporarily, while he goes
East to arrange for the putting on of
a steam plant. The group of three
claims is being surveyed for patent.
The Harlan brothers are workirg 9
on the Emerald near Hays camp. Out
side of this there is very little work
going on in the Wes tern part of tie
district.
VIM. Maher returned from a trip TO
Emerson. Neb-. lev days ago and IS
preparing to put force of men at
work on the EsmeralGa-
R. o. and j. S. Raymond, of Sidney,
Neb., have arrived in camp and are
making preparations for work on their
properties in the north part of the
district.
The prospects of the camp are
rapidly improving. Since is has be..n
demonstrated that cyanide viii salts
factorily treat the big bodies of low
grade ores here, efforts have been
made to interest capital in the con-
stuction of mills and with good sue
cess Three cyanide plants are al
ready under way and more in con-
temptation. Just as soon as any one
of them proves commercial success,
there will be at least dozen more
commenced at once. The low grade
deposits of So to S. ore seem mex
haustable, and there is every disposi
tion on the part of the owners to en-
courage the investment of capital to
exploit them on the best of terms.
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