Daily camera., 1900-06-01
valuation.
DEEP MINING PAYS.

DEEP MINING PAYS.
This Fact Proved in the Victoria aud Other
Gold Hill Mines.
Never in the history of Boulder county
has there been such promising outlook
in a mining way as obtains now in the
famous Gold Hill district. This is the
district of which Professor Hayden said,
"Gold Hill is oneof the richest of all the
mountains of Colorado" There have
been times when Gold Hill has not been
as promising in mining way as now,
but no period of Its mining condition has
been due to any fault Of tn. district.
Deep mining is proving all that Professor
Hayden or the warmest partisan of the
district ever claimed for it.
Recent strikes in the Victoria, the
Prussian, the Golden Eagle and other
properties of the Gold Hill district have
emphasized these early prophesies OF the
enduring value of the district. Great
enterprises such as the Cold Spring and
Prussian attest the value OF the district
as deep mining section. There never
has been time in the history OF this
mining section of Boulder county when
there have been so many properties at
work. There never has been a time in
the history OF all these properties when
their outlook compared with their pros
poets at this time.
Considerable attention is attracted now
to the developments of the properties of
the Victoria Boulder Mining company
which owns the Victoria, Lincoln. Prince
Albert, Horton and Lombard and the
Prince Albert mill site, all OF which are
full patented claims. The reader will
recall that the Victoria was the property
that Charles Davis handled SO success.
fully, producing no, less than $3.50 20
under his ownership and that it also pro
duced extensively under the manage
ment and ownership of the Hansbrough,
father and sons. and under the Tnayer
management of few years ago. A, no
time has the outlook of the Victoria been
more promising than now notwith stand
ing the fact that in the first and second
shafts the great pockets encountered
were reported worked out.
The Victoria Boulder has three shafts,
two of which are vertical and one slope
and developments at the present time
are conducted upon what is known as
shaft number three. being the junior shaft
of the property. 1t has been the theory
of everybody connected with the several
managements of the Victoria that the
great Fortune dyke would open up ri:h
ore bodies on pushing the Victoria into
Buck Horn mountain.
The Camera is now in a position to say
that this prophecy has beer fulfilled and
that at depth of zoo feet the cid body
of ore encountered in working on shaft
number one and two, but lost by virtue
of the intrusion of fault on the cast
line, has been found again. Ore found
east of this shaft and in the Fortune
Dyke, justlhes the most sanguine hopes
of the present management and also
ful6lIs the prophesy made by MrDavis
and the Messrs Harsbrough io the earl
Ter management of the property.
The Fortune and Hoosier dykes are the
great mother veins Of this district, run
ming east and west, The Fortune dyke is
found to furnish the very rich gold veins
of the Ingram, the Emancipation and
the Richmond properties, which a, this
time are producing very heavily. The
great advantage found in the present
strike in the Victoria lies in the fact that
it lies 400 feet from the surface with vir
gin ground to the surface. A large vein
of high grade smelling ore has been en-
countered in this portion of the property
The management is In a condition to
handle this pre- duct to advantage as it
has an eighty and fifty horse power
boiler, three engines and complement
of Rand air compressors capable of sup
plying power for six Sullivan air drills
which are now being used in pushing the
work of the property. The question of
water is being solved by pump that dis
charges $50 gallons per minute and two
others discharging 50 gallons each per
minute. The company have ample
shaft houses, ore houses and first class
surface facilities for taking care of the
product OF the property.
Just over the hill from the Victoria, on
Left Hand, is the Prussian, great tun-
mel enterprise that aims to cut the great
veins tributary to the town of Gold Hill
The recent strike in the Prussian is prob
ably the most important one that has
been made in Boulder county for good
many years.
The depth at which the ore is found
adds new testimony to the often repeat