The silver lance., 1899-01-06
OPINIONS OF TIME OPERATORS AND OTHERS
Who Have Studied the Signs of the Times.
ALPHABETICAL AND NUMERICAL LIST OF THE
Patented Mining Claims of this Section.

velopment Of other properties. The
Mammoth Cave, which has been idle for
several years, was cleared up and put in
shape foI pushing development work,
Near by the Venice tunnel was started
early in the summer under the direction
OF company composed OF Austrian and
Italian capital, and promoted by Denver
parties.
The most noted developments OF the
year was that of the Burt, on Mineral
Point, under the direction Of N. w. Ward,
manager for the Indiana Mining Compa-
ny, owners Of the Belle Of TItusville, a
high grade silver proposition. few hun
dred feet lower down the mountain side
than the new and remarkable find. Here
with less than two hundred and fifty feet
OF development work all told, has been
opened up one OF the largest copper and
lead deposits known to exist in the Camp
One ore assorter is kept busy at present
with only half dozen men employed
and the force will be increased within
the next ten days. In this property the
ore body was opened about the first OF
October after three months OF work with
a small force Of men. Tunnel No. l is
located at a point some three hundred
feet below the crest Of Mineral Point,
and it was here the ore body was first
opened, at a point about seventyfive feet
from the mouth of the tunnel, and in
tunnel No. 2. a hundred feet below No. l,
the ore was cut at los feet from tho
mouth Of the tunnel, while in tunnel No.
3, 30 feet lower down it was opened at a
slightly greater depth. The pay-streak
varies in width from eighteen inches to
four feet IN a vein that at points is as
much as twelve feet wide. Assays OF
the shipping ore taken out have shown
values of so par cent. lead, twenty ounces
copper and sixty ounces silver, with va
rying gold values. The vein is in what
has heretofore been called a quartzite,
but is now pronounced by mining experts
to be an intrusive sheet of porphory.
The ore in the vein is exposed on the
hanging wall. The Indiana Mining
Company, the owners OF tho Burt, have
a concentrating plant located at the base
OF Mineral Point, with ample power to
operate tramway from the mine to the
mill, distance Of perhaps two thous-
and feet, and the first work which they
are preparing to take up in the new
year Is the construction Of such system
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The strike in the Burt was the sensation
of tho season and was tho means OF
bringing and interesting number OF
mining men ia the district.
Up on Whitehouse mountain the Old
Columbia. Jackwhackcr. Tabor and
Change properties were the subjects Of
some work by leasers, but owing to mis-
understandings or disagreements OF some
sort but little was accomplished during
the year.
For nearly month now the compress
ed air drills have been hard at work ex-
tending straight into the hill, the main
working tunnel Of the Bear Mountain
Tunnel and Mining Co. This big bore
Is now IN distance OF about 400 fest,
and will be continued to a depth Of 1900
feet, where it is expected it will cut the
granite formation. The work already
done has revealed two contacts and one
fssure vein. Prospecting from the tunnel
will not be commenced until the great
Illinois vein is cut by the tunnel. This
vein will be cut at depth of over 1000
feet below the surface, and Judging from
its wonderful surface showings, should
furnish vast amount OF rich mineral.
The compilation of this great undertak-
ing will be OF insstimable value to this
district. as it will extend our knowledge
OF the mineral formations, and prove or
disprove prevailing theories as to the
value of the various veins nov known to
our mining people. Il will also prove il
god exists in psyiaz 4A.a.sios n GUS
ores.