Gilpin observer., 1901-06-06
NEWS AND NOTES.

CelNeu Ouiteu toldIeS patent LOT tle
Memphis lode situated in Quartz Valley
Mining district. The patent has been
filed for record
Foreman Silas R. Teats, of the Ran
dolph 80 stamp mill in Black Hawk, re-
ports good supply of custom ore being
received in addition to that being treated
from the company's Carr mine in Lake
district. This mill will soon be con-
nected with the mine by means Of en-
aerial bucket tramway.
Manager Newell, of the Concrete Gold
Mining company, now has in operation
three Lyner power drills at that prop
erty, and is shipping four cords of stamp
mill ore daily over the Gilpin Tramway
companys line TO the Penn stamp mill
in Black Hawk. His mine is well sup
piled with appliances for handling OF the
ore taken out at small expense and
feeding it into the stamp batteries.
George G. Moore, of the Lamberson
mine, on Kings fat west OF Nevadavllle,
has shipped 80 tons of ore from that
vein to the Newton mill at Idaho
.-r.lngs for treatment. The shaft is q
feet daep, at which depth there is a
good sized body of crude ore which pays
well after concentration. He is also
pushing development work on the Ora
noake mine, which is not far distant
from the former. Denver parties are in.
tprasted in both pronarties
Manager w. H. Nichols, of the Robert
Emmet Consolidated Gold dining COM
pany, last Friday showed The OBSERVER
mining reporter a fine piece of smelling
ore which was taken from the 600foot
east level of the Queen of the West vein
which forms one of the consolidated
veins. The ore showed the presence of
, good percentage of copper, beside gold,
silver and lead values.
The United Copper company with
capital of 5000 1900 has been incor-
porated to operate in Montana. Arthur
P. Heinze, Stanley Clifford, Franklin
Men, Frederick Eckstein, Carl Swenson
and Oscar Nelson are the incorporators.
Wo.framite GRE carrying values of $3.50
per ton has been discovered near Flor
ence, Colorado The crevice is eight
| feet wide, from which the mineral is
| taken.
Robert n. Lewis is now in charge of
DR.. Ashbaugh's stamp mill in Gleason
gulch, east of Yankee and west Of this
city. 1t is running on ore from the
doctors property near the stamp mill
The Oro Verde Gold Mining and Tun-
mel company are driving a drift on the
Ross vein which they recently cut in
running their cross-cut tunnel. The
crevice matter is quite wide, but gives
indications Of narrowing, in which event
the mineral will become more compact
and carry higher percentage Of values
than at present. Their property is near
st. Mary's lake, west OF this city.
1t is reported in Nevadaville that Grip
Pile Creek parties have taken lease and
bond on the Hawley- Gardiner property
on Quartz hill, adjoining the property
of the Rome Gold Mining company on
the west. The shaft, now over GO feet
deep, will be continued to n greater
| depth.
Idaho Springs Sftipgs: The electrical
machinery for the Gem Extension mine
has been ordered, and it is fully ex-
pected that by July l this mine will be
operated by electricity. The construc-
| ton of the line was commenced to-day,
which will be run up Virginia canon TO
Buttermilk gulch, and then continue
over the hill past the Seaton, Tropic and
t'reighters' Friend to the Gem Exten-
sion, Sun and Moon and Garden.
Golden Globe: Placer mining in the
creek bottom is quite lively. A man has
been sluicing with a new arrangement
which takes gold from the water. He
uses chemical ard it seems to work,
and out of a day'a labor us test cleaned
up nearly half an ounce of the yellow
metal. He has capital behind the
scheme, and If things work smoothly II
large machine will be put in the creek
here.
The Georgetown correspondent Of the
Denver Evening Post announces that
the Mendoza mine near that place will
resume work again shortly under the
tribute systen
The sale of the Portland mine ia said
to be about completed . party ~ Eng
lish capitalists
Idaho Springs News Mr.. Philip Mis-.
sell returned Saturday from n trip to
Breckenridge. He Describes the Cushier
mine and mill in very enthusiastic
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