Gilpin observer., 1900-04-19

vile, South Carolina. 1t contains fifty
per cent. OF wood creosote, ten per cent.
OF pine tar and forty per cent. of oil of
tar. The railroad companies have been
using it for years, with satisfaction, but
the use of fernoliue in the mines is now
nearly equal to that from any other
source.
The women of Honduras washed gold
from the sands of the Guaysye river, and
from the proceeds OF their labor paid for
the construction of a church at the town
of Piticcelpa
The possible blowing up Of the 10.
hannesburg mines by the Beers, rather
than permit the British owners to work
them, means the wiping out for num-
Der of years of one of the worlds greatest
souyces of gold supply.
The Union Gold Extraction company
has been incorporated in Denver with Il
capital of s5O0,O00. Incorporators, w.
B. Milliken, FL. Campbell and Adolph
j. Zang, all OF Denver.
Manager Fl. C. Eastman, of the On
tario Gold Mining company, has ordered
large sized hoisting plant for that COM
pany's O'Neil mine on Gregory noun
tain.
Golden Transcript: John S. Dillon
came in unexpectedly last Friday. Johns
mines in Mexico have been doing re-
markably we'll, and he is now negotiat-
ing a sale, which if consummated will
put him on "easy street." His success
is gratifying to people of this com
munity generally.
The Boulder Herald says that John L.
Bell, colored, aged 56 years, born slave,
has learned to read and write since he
was % years of age, has discovered what
promises to be rich vein within two
miles If Sunshine. The vein is 4 feet
wide and carries 6.20 ounces gold and 121
in silver.
Professor c. E. Linderman, of the
Seneca Gold Mining company, has had
telephone connection made from the
Brooklyn mine with the main office of
the Colorado Telephone company in this
city.
Through a disagreement among the
members of the company who are operat-
ing the Sanderson & Warren mire on
Kings Flat, west of Nevadavillc, work
has been suspended for the present.
j. III. Nichols, who took lease and
option on Hon. Willard Teller's Pocha-
hontas mine on Quartz hill, has two
shifts Of miners engaged in stripping
and retimbering the main shaft which is
to put in a safe condition for permanent
underground development work.
The leasers on the Alger- Kansas mine
have cut into promising vein of ore by
means of crosscut. McCallister &
Sanderlin, who have a lease of the ad-
joining east 3C0 feet, will soon start up
on that property.
Senator Newell started the air com
pressor at the Concrete mine the first of
this week and is now using power drills in
the development OF that vein. w. j.
Lamont completed the placement of the
compressor and air receiver Saturday.
Developments will now go forward with
greater rapidity than ever before.
The new air compressor at the Hill
mine, property Of the Hill, Banta Mines
company, is working successfully, two OF
the power drills being used in extending
the development work mapped out by
the company's manager.
Joseph George and others working the
Elliott lode, near the Buell. on east Law
rence street, made shipment OF mill
ore this week. Recently they have been
hoisting smelling ore. Tho latter comes
from the $50 foot level.
The parties who have been asserting
the dump at the Susan Mary mine in
Lake district, lately shipped the mineral
they picked out of the dump, which left
tlfem at the rate OF S3 per day after pay
ing royalty.
This week the New York Mil con-
pany OF Black Hawk, are putting through
the stamps lot OF mill ore from the
Midnight lode, situated in the rear of
the Black Hawk foundry.
The main shaft OF the 30. stamp rapid
drop mill at Pergo. broke, but the
weather and the road is in such condi.
ton that it was impossible to bring it to
the foundry in Black Hawk for repair.
A shipment OF ore was made this week
from the Whitney mine on Prosser
mountain, south OF the Rocky Mountain
Brewery, Eureka district. It is owned
by the Rara Avis Mining company, n
Philadelphia incorporation and worked