Daily camera., 1901-10-03
Jil||OND Mines
S0| Look Well
GOOD STRIKES OF ORE.
Jimiown District sim shows Its Iufnito
Variety Of Values.
jamestown, Colo, Oct. 3. 1901.

Jamestown, Colo, Oct. 3. 1901.
Mr. Morgan Faust and wife lett Tor
their old home in Iowa, Wednesday
where Mr Faust has some business In
terests tha, require his attention. h
took with him samples OF ore from sew
eral o. Jimiown's rich producers. and q
large quantity from his recen, Strike in tx
Faust tunnel in Hills gulch. In the To-
cation o. this tunnel MIR Faust showed a
rare prescience-a knowledge OF whl, 10
do and how TO do It, and some CT the old
timers want to kick themselves Tor letting
SO good thing wait all these years for a
new comer Tha. the heavy nuggets
found in Stewart gulch and in Hllis
gulch below the mouth OF III: lorm.r r.
had come fsoul one or more blind lodes
in the south slope of porphyiy mountain
was apparent from the fact that no
known lode showed anything oi the kind
ard it vas Certain the ground was GOV.
cred by the numerous patents OF Ike
Patterson-Je creme syndicate OF Michigan
Mr. Faus, WAS no: the man 10 take any
thing forgranlei on the say so OF others,
SO be quietly obtained tn. survey no'es
of patented claims in the guleh as on
Porphyry mountain. and turned them
over to Colonel Irvine with Instructions
to find and show hlm the opea ground.
The open ground was jus, in the Tig hi
lace for tunnel site. which was imnc
dia,ely located. and surveyed from Hll's
gulch 5000 fee, noTihwesterly 20 and be
,ond the crest of old Porphyry. This
was in Angus, and the tunnel has since
bcea driven seventy hv. leet under
cover besides abou, fifty fecto! open Cut
approach to tunnel mouth, a, fifty fee,
under cover vein OF suriferous iron
was encountered which is nine an! one.
half fee, wide, resembling The best ore
IN the Loogiellow, and o! which Mr
Faust, who attaches but little value to
assays, will have mill tess before his
rtiurn.
The Wano people are re,icen, abou.
The cutting Of the main vein in cross eul
from bottom of the cid shaft. tu. the
rcmors oi week ago lha, the vein is
several feet wide-2ll pay ore. and a
considerable body running into the thou.
sands is unquss,ionablY correct. have
70. been able 10 obtain data as to width
of vein or OF values, bu! this and tie
strike in the Faust tunnel are sensations
Of the season, giving color 10 the ex.
preston Of very prominent mining
expert reoeaily visitor 10 the camp.
"@hsu this Districts property developed
Cripple Creek wont be IN II"
NJ, Brunaer has fine how OF water
running in the Fremsnt ditch 10 the REQ
Spruce mine and the Lone Pine placer
from the headgl,c clevea miles up on
South 81. Vain. The Red Spruce shaf,
IS nearly 100 feet deep, crihbed and
planked from the top. and is being stead
lily pushed down. The vein will prob.
ably be cut within ten feet and cyanide
plan, OF large capacity is a probability
in the scar future. Mr. Brunner has or.
dered eoo squares Of iron covering fol
the shat, house,
The Lcngiel!ow mill is ready ior the
machinery, which had 10 be bull, after
order was fled. /, is perfect in every
detail.
There is temporary suspension CT
work on several properties to enable the
men to see the Denver Carnival, which
accounts Tor the meager rews Of this
week, though many prosperous camp
would rej3ce to lie able to show two
such strikes as that in the Faus. tunnel
and in the WIno.