Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-09-24
Huge Veins Of G0|d
NpQ| Boulder.
WIDE VEINS IN BOULDER.
Great Values in Them rs Proved in tn
Wood Mountain Tunnel.

/ E00m PROVED
Wood Mountain Tunnel.
The strike in the Wood Mountain tun
mel. on Four Mile creek, is proving to b.
the biggest in the history OF Boulder
county. The tunnel shows that all o.
Wood mountain is a great net work Of
veins carrying gold values The sig
nl6cauce of the operations of this tunnel
lies in the enormous width of the veins
it has cut. The tunnel is now in 1900
feet and is forging ahead with two All
drills working side by side in breast Of
ore fifteen feet wide with neither foot or
hanging wall exposed. This phenom
email ore body is found in the Gopher
lode, one of the Wood Mining company
properties, at depth of 100 feet from
the surface. Work on the tunnel bega
eighteen months ago and has been con
stantly pushed into Wood mountain up
on whose south side the company owns
sixty.tive to seventy acres of patented
claims.
The company has ten stamp mill
which has been kept busy night and day
since encounter,ng the Gopher 900 feet
in, 700 feet below the surface The oe
is forty to fifty per cent free milling and
800 day are saved on the plates. The
con centrates a'e worth SOS 10 $3.50 ton.
1t goes without saying thai the huge ore
body that has been Cut in this vein and
by the 900 feet OF levels driven either
way from the tunnel will necessitate a
much larger mill The equipment of
tables consists Of three Wiley tables
and one Frue VAnner, capable of con,
centratlng thirty 10 thirty five tons day,
alter the ore has been crushed to the
fineness Of a sixteen mesh screen.
The cheapne SIS with which this ore is
treated shows the great value OF the
recent strikes. Mr. J. A. Teagarden, who
knows all about 1t. because he started
The enterprise and has been its constant
and vlgllant superintendent, says it costs
IS cents TO mine the ore and tram it to
the mill. and 80 cents for milling, total
OF S1.4s ton. Levels have been driven
on the Gopher $50 feet and show con
tinuous ore body from four to fifteen feet
wide. Twenty SIN aller veins have been
cut, but the Fitchburg bulges out with a
width OF twenty-five feet and carries d
streak of $40 ore. The Van Ben IS
twenty-five feet wide and the Franklin,
where cut is forty two feet between walls.
Drifting on this huge Franklin vein, the
miners show breast OF or GOV ring n
whole face OF the tunnel and 1uLniI < 50
to $40 ton. This Is Boulder county
property-the home of the 'kniie blade
str eak." Few districts in the state can
show larger and richer true fissure
vein. From the breast of the Gopher
came those pieces of wire gold in quartz
which can be seen in the windows of the
First National bank of Boulder and gold
bars weekly brought down b, Mr. Tea
garden tell the eloquent story of the
values in that ore. There is no sorting
here. All is grist for the Wood Mount
ain Tunnel company's mill. the rich wire
gold and the lower grades, and so sus.
ceptible is It to amalgamation that the
plates save all or the rich particles con
tribute TO a richer concentrate. Within
fifty feet Mr. reagarden expects to catch
the rich Number g. ore chute, from
which the company took out $4,000 at
! the surface.
Four years ago Mr. Teagarden was
s,umping over the hills, when he noted a
blow out. where there had been some
digging. He inquired of the late Gard
ner P Wood if there were not values
there. Mr. Wood, who had owned the
property. said mo, the hole was dug by
parties ignorant of the fact that it was
patented. and was abandoned for that
reason" Teagarden gathered up some
pieces, brought them to Bould and
found the rock had an average. value Of