Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-03-03
SAN JUAN COUNTY MINES.

lie oCotld, tnat nOtaDle SOlu Specl-
men mine, situated In Picayune gulch,
is giving up its usual wealth. Al
though in small quantities, the pres
ent leasers, Wymer e. Warden. have
been making better than wages for
some time past. Their first class ore
which Is sorted to a nicely. will net
the boys $50 pound basing the esti-
mate on past shipments in lots of
40 to 80 pounds. Twenty tons or
more Of a good grade of ore as sec
ond and third class, will be ready
for the smelter early next summer.
Last week the men working be
tween the fourth level In the North
Star on King Solomon mountain open
ed up body of ore that at the last
information had been entered ten feet
and the further wall has not yet been
encountered. In going the ten feet
three elghthom shifts of two men
each took out 70 sacks of good grade
shipping ore
Dan Donovan, foreman on the Even
ing Star mine. was In Silverton this
week to impart some pleasing news by
letter to ]. ]. Yeckle, president of the
Sunlight Mining company, who Is now
in New York CITY, to the effect that
the Evening Star vein. for which a
tunnel has been run to crosscut. had
been encountered, and is found to
be twenty feet In width, all OF which
is practically a good milling ore.
prospect owned by Roe and Reynolds.
situated in Prospect basin and par
allelling the Henrietta vein. Is to be
worked on small scale. A 22.inch
vein OF 325 ore Is what the owners
claim to have at present, and this ney
find was made through a l50-foot tun-
mel making 1t possible to extract at n
good profit Provisions and mining
supplies were taken up this week for
active work.
II is said to be definitely settled that
the Silverton railroad will be extend
ed this year to the site of the old Sar-
atoga mill below Ironton. and not far
from the present intended terminal In
1889. but In later years the track was
torn up and traffc discontinued be
yond Custom. But the building OF the
proposed smelter and the consequent
reopening Of the dozens Of low grade
smelling propositions on Brown
mountain will insure tremendous
railroad business. Much OF the ore
mined near Ironton will for obvious
reasons be brought to the Kendrick
| smelter for treatment. thus bringing
to our city volume OF business not
| had from that direction since the
boom days of the Red mountain dis
| trict.
| One OF the best ore bodies eve'
opened up in the San Juan was shot
into Monday OF this week on the
Irene, In the Cement creek district
owned by Sheriff c. 8. Casad The
Irene has been small shipper fo'
several seasons, last year sending {
number OF cars of $50 ore to the smell
ters Late last fall Mr.. Casad let ;
100 foot contract to drift on the vein
already In about 100 feet from the tun
mel intersection. This contract wa
just being finished when the ore chut'
was shot into and several tests OF th'
mineral proves It TO be worth 62
ounces per ton in silver. witt
small values in gold. At this writinl
the size OF the chute had not been de
termined. but II seems to be the widtl
Of the vein and is probably more o
less continuous from the point Of dis
covery. Mr. Casad IL highly elate
at the wonderful showing. as he ha
right to be. and while he has no
fully determined what his plans 70
the future operation of the propert
will be. he will undoubtedly max
It one Of the big mines OF the di'
trict.