Daily camera., 1901-05-13
SOME DEEP MINING.
con,inu,d lrcm nr., PIG.

mas OeCu Otouk NJ uo"u w '" DS ~
s,mplers is phenomenal in richness. III :
ming thousands Of dollars Per ton Tney
have IS inches Of ore which run, $,m y
,cn and this from 700 feet below lhr sur
face. The Slide. Melvina. Lucky S,s,
Emancipation. Richmond, Ingram-a'
had great values at the grass roo,s ami
are all now proving tha. they havs
equally as great values b.lpw $40 fee
Suppose these properties had been
mined all these years as properties are
mined elsewhere and as new comp inies
are mining them now. Boulder county
would have been the richest district In
the state Of Color ido by common &C
ceptation as now it is only in potential
way. They are getting down.
Between these great dykes referred to
is the Victoria. Ills now owned bv
Boston company. the Victoria-Gold
Mining company. and Harry B. Mcclure
Of Boulder is its manager. lthas wearIed
Of initiating the Boulder county habit o!
surface mining aud has gone down.
has found a great ore body and it is
going after it in business like way.
There can be but one result. The i'm
mense pockets found by Thayer ano
Charley Davis, the ore in place which
was taken out by the Hansbroughs. was
no, there by accident. 1t came up from
below. Veins carrying gold and silver
do not drop from above like meteors and
find Judgement in the soft earth. The
Victoria is now building the fines, work
ing shaft in Boulder county. complrt.
ment shaft I2xSt5 feet, 4 in hes, with
4 foot cage way. foot bucket way and
4-foot ladder way. 1t is being built tre m
below with squared timbers and will be
a vertical shaft equal to the best and
worthy OF a company owning mine
with such history. This was necessi
tated by the slip-shod mining done by
former owners, the shaft in its career TO
the bottom describing miny an angle
and veering to all directions A shaft is
to a mine what the stomach is to a man
and neither is much good if the shaft is
cramped and crooked or the stomach
une quail to its task. The 400 level was
run in barren rock, but 10 feet below
the level ore has been found Of immense
values. This has been exploited dis
tance OF Us feet and runs I.6, ounces
gold, $50 ounces silver for first grade
and II ounces gold. I.o ounces silver
tor the second grade. The width OF The
pay streak varies from six inches to one
foot and its lowest values are .oI ounce:
gold and lS3 ounces silver. This wa!
found by working from shaft No. l
which pitches away from the main work
ings and was an expensive method o
getting to the ore. Hence the No.
=. shaft. whose shaft house is ver,icall!
over this immense ore body. is being pu
in condition and being sunk to get unde
tuiS Oie Suoot. aooNS iuiS bo'S oh>
Thayer extracted nearly $500. 900 ant
precisely the same Conditions are foun'
between the 40 and 400 as existed above
Again the lower ore chute is identica
in length with tina. at the 2oo level from
which Davis took out over 500. .oo'
profit. The new shaft enables working
to the east from No. and IS great saw
ing on the old system by means Of shat
No. through vast amount of barre
ground. After spending large sums @
money Mr. Holbrook OF Boston and b.
associates. discovering that below the
had the same ore bodies as their grant
: ors in the more superficial working
ordered the maniies,ly proper thing,
ge, down by good working shaft unde
this nearly vertical ore shoot. 1t mean
that they have solved the problem an
:. are coming into ore bodies which ar
, far richer than any found in the bonanz
3 days of the Victoria. The company i
well equipped Tor this work. having ma
chinery in place to handle its immens
development ana ore producing project
1t has ISo horse power boiler. ~
h1rse boiler, duplex Deane pump tha
throws $50 gallons minute and SNOW
pump throwing Is gallons. The work i:
!. being done by air drills, the compressor
being a modern Rand I2xI6. The
Victoria- Boulder owns the Victoria
Lincoln. Lombard. He. ton. Prince Abe,
and Prince Albert mill site, all eontiguou:
claims and all afording ample room for
conducting the enterprise free from con
Aict, or possible litigation. 1t has start
ed on a career which promises much for
Its promoters and for Boulder county
and will soon enjoy the prosperity ofthe
Logan. Living ston and the others Of its
neighbors mentioned above.
The Logan is gong down and Thomas
r. Mann. its manager, reports richer
ore bodies in its lower workings than
ever in its history.