The Delta independent., 1900-03-09
RoUBiDeAU GOLD FIELDS.
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During the past week . sampIa of
quartz from the mouth of the Cotton
wond was shown M~aars Edward Sprin
ger and Sam II. Blair. Of Telluride.
prnspectoss Of more than twenty Year,
experi~nce. who are spending the winter
in Delta.
The quartz shown thsss veteran pros
pectors looked N proniaing thst sam.
pie was cent to tho Rocky Mountain
A..aying Co. ut Denver. On fhursdsy
oe last week . c. ihcats of sss,y vas
received which gave returns of the ssm.
pls 1t 80 in sold per ton. The test
being made for gold only.
On Friday trip WAS pade to Mr..
Henry Grsy's ranch on the Roubidsau.
Who kindly hitched up his team 70 .
spring wagon and drove the party to
point whore the quarts vein VS. s'tust-
cd. Tho flrst point visited wss nesr the
mouth Al the Roubideas on the south
bank Of the Gupnison river. With pick
and hammer IN exsoinstioN wss made
Of the vein OF deposit. Tho conclusions
reached by the proepectors vas that
there existed fat contact or ore shute
betv~ss qaaTtsite and . setiimentsry
sasd rock. Tho thicksess Of the ore
body - shown BY Groupings vas u to
IA feet thick. the croppisGs extending
sioos the blu6 moro than 1000 feet.
Mr: Gray Who 10 we'll acquainted In
that scctiOn ssys he believes the deposit
can be found over y large territory.
From thst point we were driven to
pnint on the Cottonwood distant about
three miles where the orc body was
again found. the character a the quartz
the same. nainisining its thickness with
the ssms fsrmsiions surrounding tie
ore - ut the first point visited.
On the south bank Of the Cottoovood
for several hundred feet the orc body 10
covered only by the soil and esn he
taken oss very cheaply.
Three thines nust b taken into
co.sidesstion in . mining proposition:
Pisse, the auasiity OF the oss body.
0scosd, its ssssssibility ssd cAsspssss
Il missing. THIRD. what Y Dest visId
per ton to m3ks it . payirs proposition.
The crOppings % shovn At two points
fully thrss miles apart saswsrs the orsa
question Satisfactorily.
I.s secessibiIity and chespoess Of
mining 10 shown BY It being above water
levsl, bet eln~s to large stres0Of vstes
that you Gun drive . wsgeo to any
Joint Of the contsct and no deep shssts
will be required to resch the deposits In
any section % far - esplored.
Mills can be built on the Gunpison
river on the line Of deposit, with the
r.ilrosd running within = few hundred
feet oi them. The ore can be mined as
chesply q cosl and trained TO mill by
gravity railroad.
The answer 10 the third question can
bs easily settled. In sll the mining
states there srs many Of the best mining
prop sitions that srs treating ore that
hss an assay value Of lees than five
dollars per ton. Mines that pay steady
DOsihly dividends With NO greater ore
b.dy than 10 in sight on the ROubidesu.
whether the ore 10 free milling b Jet
to b detssmined.
II 10 co0non mistake 70 suppose
that low grade orc 10 only valuable whcu
Il 10 free milling. for tho lowest grade
orc worked in the United States st .
profit 10 not free milling. It 10 transported
quite distsnce. stamped. concentrated.
thes srsItsd and have slwsys yielded
lees shsn tvo dollass ton. refer to
the Atlantic copper mine.
That this gold field 10 promising can
not - dosbted thst large kodiss d low
grade ore sre being fouDd in all parts Of
the state u evident to any one who
sds the mining news. How exteosi' .
tho ore deposit 10 will bs determined IN