The daily sentinel., 1900-03-14
OTHERS SEE OUR GLORY.
The Unaweep Mines Gaining Prominence-A Larg.
and Promising Field Opening to Enterprise
The San Juan Miner Publishes a Compre-
hensive Article That Great Region.
(From The San Juan Miner. J


good vein Of three and one half feet was
uncovered but short distance from the
surface, and shaft OF twenty feet was
sunk, and the body found to maintain
it's average width. Careful tests on the
ore show that it will steadily average
S25 per ton, or trihe on either side of
it. The vein is traceable on the surface,
for distance OF several miles, and where
it has been opened up is indeed beauti-
full formation.
Ons-third Of the vein is a solid lead
pay streak, the product from the entire
width of the matter returning 43 per
cent lead The owner will prosecute
considerable work there this winter.
Another claim, owned by the same
party, is the Iron Crown, and the work
already done on this property has un-
covered some excellent mineral, proba-
bly, the best shown In the exhibit, con-
tanning the only bismuth specimens ex-
hibited, and carrying high values. A
shaft of fifty feet inauguratss the work
and splendid vein has been cut, assays
from which show 81 per cent copper, sll
in silver and 81 in gold.
The owner being mining man of life
long experience, is confident Of big
proposition in the property, and his
views are shared by many others.
The Iron Grown and Contention are
on one leoge and the crown vein can be
traced for four miles in spar vein l2
feet in quartzIts. The claims are CEN
tered in a rich mineral locality, and
other prospects, many Of them merely
ten foot holes, show, ore carrying any
where from 25 to 90 per cent copper, and
some has been uncovered which will as
say A ounces in gold.
The immediate location OF these prop
critics is twelve miles from Whitewater
and twenty miles from Grand Junction,
with splendid wagon roads running right
up to the very tunnels. These are
among the prospects that prominent
Cripple Creek parties have lately been
examining and they arc extremely
pleased with the 3-fcot showing of ore in
the Iron Grown.
The Dowrey mine has fourteen inches
OF solid copper ore and twenty inches Of
cal Donate and low grade mineral
About ITO feet Of work have been done,
the operators commencing on a paper
seam which widsned out as depth was
obtained. Assay tests place the values
at $104 per day, and shipments will soon
be made In the attempt to bear these
figures out.
The Virden shaft is down 100 feet,
with ore all the way, and drift Of 60
feet has also been run to further open
the ground. The ore is valued at 500
per ton, values being about equally di-
vided in gold, silver and copper.
This is but brief men ton OF a few OF
the properties that are being actively de-
veloped and every Indication points that
some excellent mineral propositions will
soon come into production.
AS before stated the field is compare
lively new and any development OF i'm
portanee will be awaited with great in
terest by the mining world. The opera
tors are doing their work quietly, and
treating the matter in 4 conservative
manner and are in every way trying to
avoid boom until they determine what
they have.
The information herein contained is
absolutely correct, and speaks in no
sm all measure OF the actual work going
on. Everything would warrant tho be-
lief that a new copper field of some OK
tent will soon be opened in this section
OF the country; and as copper prospects
arc now in demand, Mesa county's inter
ests will not go begging for capital if
the properties bear out present showings.