Gilpin observer., 1899-03-09
The Observer Mi3i29 Department.

I five miles in length. 1t will now be in g
its plant, at an estimated cost of only
IL cents. The purchasers are the Stan
dard Oil company.
The payment of dividend of $40 pei
share on Calumet and Hecla stock two
weeks ago, was the largest dividend ever
paid by an American Mining company
The company is stocked at s2,50o,0O0 and
has paid s6O,S50,000 in dividends since
its organization about 45 years ago.
The mine owners and operators in the
outlying districts will have worse roads
to contend against this year than ever
before. Inasmuch as they are more in
terested in good roads than anyone else,
it is wonder that they do not take pains
to have good and permanent roads con-
structed.
G. r. Wright, of Chicago, large stock
holder and one of the Notaway Gold Min
ing company, working the West Nota-
way Mine in the Lake district arrived
here last Tuesday. While here he exam
ined the property, in company with J. 1.
Perkins, the general manager of the
property.
Managers G. L. Hathaway OF the Elk
Park. Mining and Milling company, has
advertised for 500 cords of wood to be
delivered at the company's mins in Elk
Park, southwest of Apex. Recent reports
state that this company are succeeding in
opening fair bodies of ore at their mines
near to the mill.
Miss Madzie Gilmour, this city, is in
receipt of letter from her uncle, Mr..
VIM. Gilmour, who is superintendent of
Chicago mining company operating in
the Yukon country in far away Alaska,
saying that he had left Fort Wrangle
with party of miners to prospect in the
interior of that section.
Golden Globe: ]. +. Barris went out
prospecting in the vicinity of Golden last
week and he found a double header. He
found large bee hive hole in the rocks
and also discovered then and there a fine
inch vein of good ore that carries good
lead and iron. Mr.. Burris is an old part
ner Of Jack Kinnear, and came here in
1859.
Joseph Luxon, who is in charge of the
Boulder County mine north of Caribou,
by means of a crosscut, has struck the
Cardinal vein. Both are parallel veins.
The crosscut was driven for the purpose
of working both veins through the work
ings of the former vein. The manage
ment feels jubilant over having struck
the latter. 1t will require considerable
drifting to find out the extent and value
of the ore in the Cardinal vein.
Georgetown Herald: The Chamberlain
Sampling Works in this place during the
month of February handled 35U tons OF
ore which netted about S27, 800. The bad
weather has cut the average receipts
down. From the same paper it is learned
that the sampling works of Dewey &
Dewey shipped 424 tons of ore the same
month, which netted 6l6,2i0.SS The
miners of that portion of Clear Creek
were handicapped in their production
the same as those in Gilpin county, all
on account of the bad condition Of the
roads.
At the annual meeting of the Cripple
Creek Gold Mining company held in
Denver on Monday, A. j. Varney was
elected president, V. q. Talbot, vice pres
ident, and j. L. Harbough, secretary and
treasurer. The following directory have
also been elected: John Maehle OF Den
YER. +. ID. Mitchell of Chicago G. E.
Wilhelm and +. d. Cottim OF Denver.