Gilpin observer., 1899-06-01
TEN THOUSAND PER DAY.
That Is the Present Output of the Inde-
pendence Mine.


pendence Mine.
The production now being maintain
ed from the Independence mine is 100
tons n day. Everything sent out il
smelling grade, and none of it will run
less than four ounces to the ton. This
ranks the Independence as the heav-
lest shipper of smelling ore in the dis
trict.
The record is a wonderful one. and
will in many ways be of great import
ance to the camp. Estimating the av-
erage grade of the mineral being mar
keted mt 500 to the ton, it means that
the mine is Outputting at the rate of
$4,000 day, or S30O.0OO Il month
This will, it is thought. sufficiently
swell the output of the district gener
ally to make the current months pro-
ductiOn greater than ever before at
tanned. The month of January of this
year is at present the banner month
in the camps history. The big produc-
tion for that month was the result of
heavy shipments of the high-grade ore
by the Isabella Company. Again. al
though the present production is just
about four times the amount being
maintained some time before the Eng
lish company acquired the property. it
is by no means the full capacity of the
mine. The fine plant of machinery of
the Independence Is capable of hand
ling II much larger amount of ore than
ut present, and comparatively only Il
small force Is now employed. The
glowing reports of the wonderful phys
ical conditions of the mine made to for
eign investors. 1t Is to be supposed. has
been received with certain amount
of incredulity. As the reports of the
mines production are received, or. bet
ter. when the enormous earnings of the
new company have resulted In the pay
ment of handsome dividends. what will
of necessity be the result with the
Englishmen? 1t can be safely asserted
that such taste of Cripple Creek in
vestments will create such II further
demand for them by the English in
vestors that an invasion of English
capital will result in such proportions
that boom will be inevitable When
1t is found that the production and CON
sequently the earnings can be and are
increased, 1t is by no means madness
to predict that the boom will attain the
proportions of a craze. to which those
of South Africa and Australia will lie
as pigmies.
The present force at work mt the
mine is $50 men, including those en-
larging the ore houses. or this num-
her it is learned nearly 100 are work
ing In ore. The ore houses will be
completed in n few days now, and will
then be twice the size of the old ones.
Their capacity will be at least 1000
tons. and 1t is not unlikely that when
they shall be ready for use the force
will be greatly increased and the pro-
ductlon also. The showing that the
mine is making ut present aud the even
better showing ii will make in the fu-
ture but demonstrates the wonderful
possibilities of the mines of the Grip
pie Creek district. There are other
properties which are capable probably
of even greater things. which are mt
present being developed ahead of pro-
GuctiOn. as was the case OF the great
Independence. This paper can only re-
lterate what 1t has so often said be-
fOre-the story of Cripple Creek dis
trict has only been told In part.