Daily camera., 1898-08-19
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is Prosperous
CARIBOU'S REVIVAL.
The Old Silver Camp and Eldors Briefly
| Reviewed by the Cameras Editor.

The Old Silver Camp and Eldors Briefly
Reviewed by the Cameras Editor.
Great things may confidently be ex.
pected from the old Boulder County in
the Caribou district. In company with
Governor Adams, General Manager Blair
of the Northwestern and Judge Goddard
of the supreme court, the editor of this
paper, a few days since, was piloted
through the workings of this mine by J.
Wells Smith, the manager OF the prop
erty. Mr.. Smith took the property only
five weeks before this visit; had umped
out the vast volume of water which had
accumulated in the mines sixteen years
Of idleness. and was found at this time
busy with force of miners clearing out
waste rock and supplying new timbers
where needed. The mine was found in
excellent condition considering its long
repose.
The Boulder County was always noted
for the strength, width and uniformity Of
its vein. Suspension of operations came
at period when $35 for smelling. IS per
cent deduction for water and other loss
es, and the heavy cost of mine supplies,
rendered the mining of fifty-dollar ore a
proftless venture. All this has since
changed, but the old mine shows no less
of width OF uniformity of vein than when
Johnny Grove closed it down sixteen
years ago. The writer has seen it in
all these stages of development and
was agreeably surprised to note the ex-
cellent condition in which it had been
lett. No less surprised was Mr.. Smith,
who finds vast bodies of ore ready to be
knocked down and he has already be-
gun trial Shipment of 900 tons of the
mill ore to the Pennsylvania works at
Culbertson.
There's future in that mine If the
ore will average $40" remarked Cover
nor Adams, who is considerable of
miner, himself. OF the ores value Mr..
Smith had no knowledge as no attempt
in the by gone days had been made to
secure returns from the four foot vein of
mineralized matter which extends hun
dreds of feet through the adit level and
drifts of the Boulder County. Since this
visit, however, assays representing the
vein matter and not from selected ore
have returned as high as $40. The Boul'
der County looks like bonanza, but Mr..
Smith proposes for the gentlemen inter-
ested in this property prospectively to
give it a thorough test before saying
much about it
Old Caribou, once tie silver bonanza
camp of Northern Colorado, is now
busy hamlet, with every house occupied.
the old Sherman house once mole pre-.
sided over by mine host Billy Donald.
the old saloon in full blast. a meat
market and stores and other signs of
activity. Colonel Joe Taylor, Cassius M.
Carroll and others are putting gold prop
critics into operation and now M. F.
Leecb, who has remodeled the old Carr.
bou mill at Nederland, has undertaken
to concentrate the values out OF the old
Caribou dump. Of course, the silver
properties are idle. but the Idaho. Eagle
Bird and other Idaho and Boulder Coun-
ty hill properties show new shaft houses
and signs OF unwonted activity. After
her long years of slumber Caribou.
weather beaten and with her tilted
houses, appears to have been touched by
the golden wand and 10, she is rejuven-
ated, bounding, jubilant with din of in
dustry.
At Eldora the same party visited the
great Mogul tunnel. which Super,n,end.
ent ]. A. Gil6llan has driven about 300
feet and which, under persuasion of air
drills, turned by compressors in a fine
building near the mouth of the nam
moth tunnel, is moving into Spencer
mountain at the rate of eight to nine feet
day. and it's going that way 5000 feet
before it stops, and there is ample money
to put it through. Manager Blair's COM
pany is largely interested in this enter
prise. and it is the project which is to de-
velop the value or worthlessness OF
Spencer mountain, cutting as it will the
Enterprise and Village Belle lodes and
opening up scores Of others. Already
fifteen veins or feeders have been cut,
all of which indicate values. The tun-
mel employs twenty men on the two
shifts and there is double track road.
way running through Spencer noun
tain, finely timbered as It progresses
and capable of becoming the easy
passage.way for many hundreds of tons
Of ore every working day. All have
confidence in this tunnel enterprise be.
cause Of the known value of veins it 10 to
cut, and at the accepted theory that at
the depth cut by the tunnel, these val.
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