Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-06-02
MINES AND
MINING IN
SANJUAN
(Silverton Standard.

tSilverton Standard)
Just at this time, as in the past, Mr..
md MIS- S. NJ, Beach are doing a
great deal Of good work in the inter
ast OF San Juan county. About the
Jnly place in Colorado Springs among
those who are classified as promoters
Of legitimate mining propositions is
he Office OF Colonel Beach and wife.
Who have exhibits OF San Juan prod
CTS and who are ever ready to tell
hose in search OF investments to go
o he San Juan where the true fis
sure. the rich and the abund
ant exists. Old friends. your
sffoits are much appreciated.
The Tobasco mining property on
he San Juan-Hinsdale line. this week
eceived mill machinery costing SGS.-
90 in Denver 1t is the purpose of
the company to erect an up-to-date
concentrator at the mine. which is
2.00o feet high.
Contractor Feigel this week com
@erced the preliminary grading for
the new 200-ton Silver Ledge mill to
he erected near Chattanooga, mention
which together with the principal
details. has already been made in this
paper.
The Yukon tunnel has reached its
eleventh hundred foot into Boulder
mountain. Work is also in progress
At the upper or Lamont tunnel and it
Is expected every day that the Uncle
Sam vein will be cut. Drifting on
oae of the veins encountered in the
Yukon proves the ore to be continu-
ms but not of the best mining quality.
James Montgomery, who with o.
Z. Reynolds and Johnny Rose has
been working the Arnold in Ice Lake
BASIN. is down with the information
hat about three carloads of gold ore
s on the dump to be shipped when
the trails are in better shape Iudg-
ing from past shipments from the Ar
mold We should value the present pro-
iuct at about $10O per ton
Rumors OF fabulous riches in lost
mines. in abandoned tunnels. and in
shafts filled with water are nine times
JIt of ten over-estimated or reports
Of unknown quantity. and naturally
he average person was skeptical in
his belief as to the stories told of the
Montana mine in Deer park. The
Western States Gold Mining company
which A. H. Mundee was instrumental
in inducing TO operate in San Juan,
vas prompted to develop the Deer
park section with depth taken as a
basis that rich gold ore was mined in
the Montana shaft until water pre-
vented further operations and the
same was abandoned. Although sew
aral claims had been purchased ada
ent the Montana and many more
were bonded Mr. H. L. Henderson.
manager for the new company, was
no content with the report of those
who had operated before under ad-
verse conditions. and he set about to
unwater the shaft which required al
most a weeks time. and on Wednes-
ay last made personal inspection
OF the vein, from which he extracted
several large pieces. Aside from the
specimen gold ore that is occasionally
bined in the Eureka district, we will
state that we were invited to gaze
pom the finest lot of gold ore ever
mined in the county. No assay need
he made to ascertain the values of
such material as was shown. as the
ore was literally impregnated with
small beams OF gold. Now that the
ompany is possessed of facts. the
proposed 1,S00-foot tunnel will be
pushed with all possible speed. Mr..
HENDERSON reports that the vein is
four feet wide and that the width of
the streak from which the gold ore
was taken is fully two feet.