The silver lance., 1899-08-18
CUTS AT CRYSTAL.
Washed Fro9 the Rich Dep ssits on The Lane
Exchange Table.

Washed Frea the Rich Deposits on The Lane
Exchange Table.
Bear are quite plentiful up Crystal
river this year. Quite a number have
been seen along the road and streams,
and Hugh Pattison says they are 30 plen-
tiful you can hit them with rocks most
any time in the day.-Cdrbonddle Item.
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There are fortyone new and abandoned
properties In and about Gothic which are
being worked as silver propositions alone
besides the lead and copper CLAIMS,
which in few instances have been found
to assay as high as ~ per cent copper,
some 36 per cent lead and carries Is or 16
per cent zinc.-Gunnison Netcs.
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Some of those skeptical minded people
who contend that the Elk Mountain
Mining district has seen Its best days are
likely to have their opinions reversed by
being made acquainted with conditions
as they exist here. Never since the
slump in silver came has the outlook
beensso bright and promising as at pres
ent.-ELk Mountain Pilot.
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In Crystal district number OF new
prospects have been opened this season.
The Fargo owned by the Crystal River
M. Co., has vein which carries copper
with lead and silver. The concentrator
at Scofield under the management OF
Cramer & Co, Is equipped with three
tables and is nearly ompleted.-Mining
and Scientific Press.
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Copper discoveries made at the head OF
Crystal river, in Gunnison county, are as
sisting in revlving interest in the Marble
and Crystal districts that have heretofore
been working principally for silver and
lead. The Crystal river railroad is being
extended to Marble and this helps in
creating something of boom in the sec
tion to be tapped by it. Denver people
are becoming interested. Warner Miller
of New York was recent visitor to this
new old field and it is understood that he
was SO favorably impressed with the
showings and the prospects for big mines
there. and he will become interested at
an early date. 1t is proposed to build
an electric line from the upper terminus
of the Crystal river railroad to the mines
around Crystal.-DenUer Republican.
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a nna Oh
of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company
has paid visit to the new coal fields OF
the Crystal River valley being opened al
the Mcclure tunnel, five miles above
Redstope, on the new railroad. The
grade for the line is completed as far as
the new tunnel ready to put down the
| STEEL and work is well on toward tn,
I completion of the last bridge on this
piece of the line. Superintendent Blount
in charge of the construction, expects to
have the trains running as far as the
tunnel by the 18th of the month.
The Crystal River railroad starts from
Carbondale, where it has connection
with the Rio Grande, and a spur a mile
in length will connect it with the Mid
land also, and at present it is operating
trains for distance of seventeen miles
to Redstone, where a daily stage con
meets from the Crystal River mining dist
riot, just now attracting attention for it
great copper wealth and incidentally the
most varied and remarkable wealth o
precious and semi-precious minerals
found in one section of Colorado.
The line is contemplated to extend a'
far as Marble, standard gauge, and ther
| operate an electric narrow gauge line tc
the qnartz mines Of Crystal. six mile:
| further up.-Denuer Times.