Gilpin observer., 1899-01-26

and have let contract for sinking the
shaft an additional 100 feet; the proper
ty is giving splendid showing.
The Puzzler mine in Puzzer gulch,
Ward district, Boulder county. has been
sold for $4,000 to party of Massachu-
setts capitalists. The vein has received
1000 feet of development work, the ore
Iunning from 500 to $50 per ton.
The Polar Star Mill company of Black
Hawk, has filed an affidavit of co-part-
nership with the county clerk and re-
corder. The company consists of Mrs.
Carrie E. Young of Denver and Mrs. Vir-
ginia Kimber of Santa Barbara, Califor-
MIA.
The 1bex Mining company, of Lead
vile, has ordered large compound con-
densing pump with 36-inch stroke. 1t
will be the first 36.inch stroke mining
pump to go into mines at Leadville. 1t
will have capacity OF 800 gallons
minute.
The main shaft at the Hidden Treas
ure mine, Nevada district, has attained
depth Of l 300 feet. The shaft will be
sunk 400 feet deeper, when connection
will be made with the California mine
workings on the east OF the former and
the same vein.
L. H. Stockbrige Of Black Hawk, who
is looking after the Gold Collar mine in
Prosser gulch, will continue the engine
shaft on down TO a depth OF 500 feet, its
present depth being 300 feet. The prop
erty produces very good grade Of stamp
mill and smelling ore.
The yield Of the stamp mill ore from
the Pierce mine on Nevada street for the
last month treated at the Hidden Treas
ure mill in Black Hawk was $50 ounces
ofgold. Work is confined to the 200 foot
east and west levels, the crevice matter
being from to 10 feet wide.
B. j. Smith has resumed work on the
German mine at the head Of Virginia
canon, situated north Of the Hot Pot
mine. When it closed down twelve
months ago, pay streak two feet in
width had been opened up. William
Couch Of this city will look after the un-
derground workings of the German.
In assaying for bismuth, says the Min
ing and Scientific Press, the sample may
be native bismuth. bismuth residue, or
combination, or an alloy. II the first, the
assay should be as that for sulphide OF
antimony; if the second, cyanide of pot
assium, carbonate of soda, potash and
salt are required, the result of the fusion
to be tested for other metals; if the third,
by wet assay or analysis.
"A Boulder county, Colorado, miner has
compiled table showing the prices at
which mining supplies sold there in 1870
and 1898. In 70 giant powder sold at 81
per pound, and now it is 13 cents. Steel
in those days cost 40 cents, now it sells at
8 cents there. Candles that now re-
tail at "a a box then cost $50. Smelling
charges were $50 per ton, and he now
gets it done for 81, and SO on through n
list of some fifteen or twenty articles
mining are now in use at the Silver Lake
mines near Silverton, San Juan county.
They are OF the Stcmens IL Hulzke ~
German - pattern, from Berlin. Four
drills are in use at the mine, eight hay
ing been purchased. The drills are used
in drifting on the vein. The average
number of feet drilled in nine hours is
30 feet. The Silverton Standard says that
they excel any other drill now in use for
mining.
There is nothing in the mining law re.
gnrding the legality or illegality of loca.
ton work on any day of the week. A
miner can take and hold claim. There
is nothing in the federal mining law
which prevents any one locator from ap-
propriating as many locations on the
same lodes as he may be able to find in
dependent discoveries upon which to
base them, but no location can legally
exceed the stationery limit as to length
and width - namely: l,500x6OO feet.
The reorganzed Board OF Trade and
Mining Exchange of Colorado Springs
held its opening call last Monday morn
ing. The sales did not meet the ex.
pectat,ons OF many of the members, OF
which there are forty-two.
Mueller Il Co., lessces Of the Chicago
lode, on Quartz hill, are keeping up their
development work. They will soon be
shipping ore regularly.
Mr.. Goodlet, superintendent of the
Rialto Extension and Vanderbilt, re.
Gently taken hold OF by the Kelley Gold
Mining company, is gradually getting
what Is designed for the cage shaft in