The silver lance., 1899-01-06
FACTS AND FIGURES FROM THE 'o8 RECORD TELL
The Story In Resume of the Past Years Labors

could, IT the management chose, give
tonnage and value OF product during
1899 as great as all the tonnage Of the
county during the past year, coal and
marble excepted.
The Catalpa, another Sheep Mountain
property, lying below the Black Queen,
owned by Chicago capitalists, was oper-
ated for portion of the year by one Of
the owners Mrs. Sarah May. who had
| personal charge Of the work done, and
who was interested with some Denver
mining mon in a lease from the CO.
owners. Some small shipments were
made to the smelters and it is under
stood the returns were eminently salts
factory, and the coming twelve months
will doubtless see much new develop
ment done.
The Crystal Mountain Mining &
Drainage Company, whose big tunnel
now penetrates the depths of CRYSTAL
mountain for some sixteen hundred feet,
have reason to feel satisfied with the dis
closures wrested from Nature during the
year. just closed. In May and June the
tunnel was driven through about fifty
feet OF mineralized formation, much of
which il concentrating ore of good
value and Of such minerals as can be
handled with the least expense. For the
past five months over fifty feet per
month has been averaged in extending
the main tunnel and number OF veins
have been cut, which will be prospscted
later. AT distance OF some two hun
dred and fifty feet from the present
breast OF the tunnel contact will be
reached which carries the rich ore bodies
OF Crystal mountain. 1t is rumored that
the management of this property will
build concentrating plant for the pur-
pose OF treating the bodies OF low grade
ore already opened up. This company
has one of the best plants of machinery
in the whole district and its stock is very
largely held by CalIfornians, many of
whom have visited here during the year
and given expression of their confidence
in the enterprise by the purchase OF ad-
ditional blocks Of stock, from the sale OF
which development work is being carried
forward.
On Meadow Mountain much work has
been done and is in progress. The Lead
King, than which none of the new cop
per propositions in the state have be-
come better known, has been worked
continuously through the entire rear,
and at present two tunnel contracts are
being pushed as rapidly as possible, one
for two hundred feet in extending the
main working tunnel and the other for
seventyfive feet of prospecting work
This mine ia remarkable for the large
bodies Of copper, lead and zinc ores, each
being found in a high state Of purity,
though frequently two OF the minerals
will be found with only seam seperat-
ing them. The mine is owned by
Messrs Burnett, Smith & Tays and is at
present being worked under lease by
L. II. Meads.
Next to the Lead King, adjoining it on
the north is located the Laura, property
of the Mineral Point Mining Company.
which IS being opened up by the driving
OF tunnel, to cut the contact in which
are found the ore bodies of thc former
mine. A contract for four hundred feet
of tunnel was let to Ford & Kline who
have already completed third Of the
distance. Meadow Mountain is a con-
tinuation OF Sheep Mountain and the
rich mineral deposits of the cne extend
through the other. These mines are
within stones throw Of the old town of
Snow Mass, and both are working
through tunnels under the old trail lead
ing across Sheep Mountain where two
decades ago the prospectors and experts
of that period passed these locations un-
noticed.
The same company owning the Laura
also has a group of claims on the onpo
site side OF tine canon, on Mineral Point,
among them the Daisy and Agatha, two
properties of great promise. aud on both
of which considerable work has been
done the past season. At the Agatha
have been found the highest gold values
ever found in any ores Of the section, and
from the Daisy have come some very
rare specimens of splendid ore, in the
form of copper, through which appears
threads of wire silver.
Lower down on tae same mountain Il