Gilpin observer., 1901-08-01
NEWS AND NOTES.


under the management OF Frank Pool,
of this city, are employing 10 men.
a party Of prospectors from Routt
county who have been taking in the
mines of Whisky park in that county
passed through the city about o'clock
Saturday evening.
Louis Olsen has conveyed to p. A.
Linstrom one-half interest in and to
the Notice and Augustine lode claims in
Lake and Illinois Central districts, south
and east of this city.
Sinking in the pump shaft on the Gun
nell mine, this city, is going forward in
very satisfactory manner during the
absence in the east of Frank C. Young,
the general manager of the property.
Another power drill was put at work
yesterday in one of the drifts at the
Cook mine on Bobtail hill.
The last lot of stamp mill ore treated
in Black Hawk from Leidinger & Sons
Black Horse mine In Vermillion district,
west of Central City, cleaned up an
average of ounces of gold per cord.
G. FL. Berkey is looking after the in
stallaton of the new plant of machinery
and the erection of the shaft building on
the Delmonico mine on Quartz hill.
Local parties have taken lease of
Ross Hunderman's lode on Quartz hill,
Nevada district, which is known as the
Eliza lode mining claim.
Phil Rolling, manager of the Che
mung- Belmont property near the Susan
Mary mine on the summit of the hill
west of Running Lode gulch, last week
made another shipment Of ore.
The st. Joseph parties owning tue
Hidee lode, near the East Notaway in
Lake district, are taking out very fine
appearing quality of smelling ore. The
ore came from depth of 200 feet.
Mr.. Trpp, operating the Clay County
mine, in Lake district, is piling up at
that property large lot of smelling ore
which will be shipped to the new Car
penter smeter at Golden. A number of
other mine owners of this county will do
likewise.
The Denver Evening Post says Secre.
tary of State d. A, Mills has gone into
the millionaire business himsely. In his
office this morning there was incorpor-
ated sl,OoO,OO0 mining company, of
which he is director. The other di.
rectors are A. B. Gray, reading clerk in
the Colorado house Of representatives
A. +. Griffith of Nebraska and James J.
Fleetford, Colorado mining man. The
company will operate in Colfax county,
New Mexico.
The international Mining Congress,
which met at Boise, Idaho, last week,
adjourned July % to meet at Butte,
Montana, next year. Officers were
elected and resolutions passed asking
that department of mining be added to
the executive section OF the government.
Golden Globe: Evergreen seems to be
on the eve Of large mining boom. A
company have n copper claim in the
vicinity of Mountain Nook one mile
long, GO feet wide, showing lG per cent.
copper, 20 per cent. zinc and about 50
gold. y mill will probably he erected at
Morrison on account Of coal facilities.
Joseph George ct nl this week shipped
considerable orc to one of the custom
stamp mills in Black Hawk from the
Elliott lode, which lies north of the
Buell. mine, and from appearances is II
parallel vein with the latter. This pool,
which is II local one, have been voriiing
the property for several years, but have
not as yet opened up n bonanza.
After sinking 10 n depth of 200 feet the
Gettysburg Mining and Development
company operating near Gllpin, ia Cen.
Mining district, have found their boiler
capacity inadequate for the require.
ments. Captain a. NJ. Willard, who is
looking after the mine, will increase the
boiler capacity.
Leidinger y Co, of the Prompt Pay
mine, Rui sell district, shipped u quantity
OF lead ore TO the State Ore sampling
works in Black Hawk. The returns gave
values of 1850 ounces gold, 1870 ounces
silver and ~ per cent lead per ton, IA
total value OF over $50 per ton. This
property is the same vein as tho old
Jefferson, but west Of the latter.
The shaft building on the Gettysburg