Daily camera., 1901-10-22
Boulder Mines
Are BOOMING
OUR GREAT MINES.

Some Developments in sugar Loaf. Wall
Street. Salina and Gold Hill,
Mining activity was never so prophetic
Of good things in Boulder county as at
present. The storm center is that belt
Of country comprising Wall Street.
Sugar Loaf, Sallna and Gold Hill. De-
velopments on vast scale are being
conducted at all these points and they
mphasize tn: confidence OF operators
IN the permanency OF the tue hssure
veins OF the telluride belt.
Manager Teagarden Of the Wood
Mountain company has just completed
IN up-raise from the cross cut tunnelro
the tunnel on the west Of Wood mount.
,in so as to ventilate the workings to a
depth Of 1000 feet. Heavy rail tracks
have been lai1 all through the tunnel.
and 1000 feet more Of pipe line laterals
from the air compreSsors have been put
n 10 furnish power for the additional
drills. Five more air drills have been
purchased. making ten this company
now has. The slopes are all being open.
ed and .imbered up preparatory for pro-
lucing heavy tonnage aext winter.
The mill at the mouth Of the tunnel is
oeing completely overhauled and en-.
larged. the boiler capacity being increas.
ed 10 $50 horse power. Manager Tea.
garden has just finished 1850 feet Of
wenty four and twenty.six inch pipe
line and installed FIVE foot De Remer
water wheel. which gives Iso horse pow.
n from the water Of Four Mile creek.
Another compound air compressor has.
also. been added TO the one already in.
s,alled. This week the company will
have its own dynamos lighting the tun
nel ard mill. II has expended $4,000
this fall in these suo.,antial improve.
meuts and now proposes to set the tun.
mel and the mill in motion to give the
stockholders returns from the vast ore
bodies exposed in its o.roo feet Of work.
lngs. The mill will begin 10 grind night
and day next week aad the Wall Street
Gold Reduction company has, in add
tion, been promised I,ooo tons as soon as
It's immense new mill shall have been
This mill will begin January
1 with a capacity for handling I25 tons
day. Is process Of reduction is not 4
new one. bu, much is predicted along
the line Of the many economies il is in
uoiucing. Il is a COLONIZATION mill and
is equipped with as fine machinery as
was ever installed in any mill in the
country. If i. can treat the low grades
OF ,ha, disuia: immense possibilities are
opencd.
Tbs Lucky Star is sinking still and
neau the 400 marx, having passed
through spar ledge and back into the
phenomenal ore body again. The Star
has mlde money for its owners in sink.
lag the shaft. Remarkably rich ore has
been fouad in drifting east and vest At
the } o foot level. while body of mill
ore vas exposed ,ha, is eigh, ,c ten fee,
wide.
Leu r Johnston is developing the
Sugar Loaf tunnel and it now stands in
a fine body Of ore two to three feet wide.
The Concord tunnel is being driven by
Abe Kent to cut the rich Concord free
gold ore shoot. The tunnel has been a
oon.iruous surprise in showing an i'm
m .nse body Of low grade nearly from the
surta e.
Shipley & Company have leased the
Forest and are installing plant Of MAJ
ehinery. They have opened slopes
showing solid body of smelling ore 100
feet long and four feet wide.
Mrs Donnelly Of Kansas City has
made a 6ne property of the George
Washington. which she recently reopen.
ed, cleaned out and sunk. The Wine
she sank shows vein Of solid tellurium
ere e;gh, feet wide and running from sI2
10 $500 to the ton.
Ha,t g. knight. under bond and lease.
are driving the Nancy tunnel. They
expect to cut the Gillard vein on Wood
mountain within about 400 feet. Con.
tractor S. G. Knott is pushing the work
with air drills.
Mrs Cooks Gladys mine is being work
ed continuously and is showing fine
body Of free gold ore.
The Tambourine, worked by Tiffany
& Son Of Colorado Springs, has com.
pleted new shaft house and installed
fine machinery with cage and all mod
ern appliances. The c. & N railroad
has put in a switch for them and they
are now ready to unload from the mouth