Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-10-06
MINES AND MINING
IN SAN JUAN
lSilverton standard.l


J. c. Davi shipped a carload of heavy
lead ore from Ruby basin to the Du-
range smelter this week.
The Kendrick smelter is in receipt
of a shipment OF ore from the Par
sons mine at Ophir. j. O'Kelly was
the consignor.
Another contract of 200 feet on the
Nathalie tunnel has been awarded to
Percy kemper. Thirty feet of this
work will cut the Occidental. Three
sfts of men with machine drills are
being employed.
Another carload of ore was shipped
from the King mine the first of the
week. This ore comes from the up
per workings, which are being put in
shape for steady production. In the
meantime work on the lower tunnel
is progressing steadily. At the last
measurement there was SS feet to
run. and as about four feet a day is
being made it will only take twenty
two days to reach the vein if the dip
figured on holds true.
Work has been progressing at the
| Ruby Basin tunnel for the past year
and last month the vein known as the
| Jay-La Plata was cut at depth OF
35O feet. but the assays showed very
low values and the tunnel will be
driven on to richer veins ahead and
work is now going on at the rate of
! three feet a day to cut the December
vein. which is thought to be 1G0 feet
from the breast. The next in order
will be the Tornado-Alhambra.
The Florence and Iron King, two
claims on Galena mountain owned
| principally by Mrs Mercy Garrett OF
this city, are among the best proper
ties of that section. Recently vein
from twelve to sixteen inches was un-
covered on the property which was
supposed to be a lime tale. but which
proved later to he baryte quartz
running one ounce in gold and 1850
ounces in silver. a total value of
s3650 per ton. The claims are old
ones and some very good ore has been
shipped from the vein, but the new
streag of mineral opened up ought to
put them with development in the
steady producing class.
| Seventeen hundred feet on the EN-
ma tunnel, Galena mountain, is near
ing one of the big veins that are being
run for. Besides this work Adolpl
: Fang of the Zang Brewing Co, thu
Minnie group of mines on hn the his -,
monntain is receiiyIrn-.i - ,,.,,I
tentior 49, at lhls nme with good
. results by l65-foOt tunnel that has
+ cut two fine ore bodies Mr. Theodore
Grabowsky, who has charge of the
work, not only for Iang, but many
,1aa Denver people, has planned to
ties aetiye odiih1s IA ha @.nttein, ,Iqga.psr Ipqggapsr.
| w. d. Condit of Des Moines. Iowa,
who is secretary of the Mclean Arms
company. was visiting his brother.
Colonel E. C. Condit, manager of the
Sioux Mining company at Eureka, his
object being to secure an interest with
his brother. We congratulate him
upon his connection with such an en-
terprising company. and feel sure he
will soon be receiving dividends there
from, for their development work is
on some of the best properties in the
county. We also congratulate the col
onel in securing his assistance. Mr..
Condit departed for Des Moines last
Sunday morning.
|
been done on what is known as the
Independence vein opposite Minnesota
gulch, Cement creek, since that lead
was cut by the owners, Goodwin,
| Stroebel and Rowe Bros. The total
| length of the crosscut and drift is
about 200 feet. Drifting has been car
ried on in the hopes that the mineral
matter in the 15-foot vein would be
come more in place, and progress
would indicate that the hope is not
| in vain. So far the owners have been
rewarded by streak of tale carrying
masses of mineral running ounces
| in gold, % ounces in silver and 5R
per cent copper. The gold is, contrary
to the rule in that district. a tellurium.
much resembling sylvanite.
This week it is reported that
splendid strike has been made on the
Mabel and Minnie, located on the
western slope of Tower mountain and
operated by the Alpha Mining com
pany under the management of A. j.
Aurand. An old shaft on the proper
ty exposed a good vein of fair ore, but
instead of following it down, the com
| pdny lnlS bpIlHB ulueltooh me VEN
at the bottom of the shaft with a $50
foot cross-cut The contract was com
pleted several weeks ago. and since
that time drifting on the vein has been
| diligently prosecuted until few days
ago, when the faith of the company
was rewarded by encountering body
of ore that is said to be worth $500
ton in the yellow metal. 1t is under
stood now that the vein will be further
developed by a crosscut tunnel to cut
| it 700 feet
The group of claims pending pur-
chase by the Grand Mogul company
from Westley Riggs of which slight
mention was made in the Standard
of two weeks ago. was consummated
today and the bunch of fourteen claims
known as the El Paso group, situated
lbetween Gladstone and the Mogul
mines, passes into new hands. The
consideration of this deal is 100000
and convinces one that the Mogul
people have been encouraged by a
years exploitation in Ross Basin, to
acquire all the property adjoining.