Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-05-01
MINES AND
MINING IN
SAN JUAN.
(Snverton Standard


The Idaho lower tunnel is now in
LOO feet. Two veins OF good guam
tity and quality have been cut. but
something better is looked for on
ahead.
The Silver Lake has lessened ship.
ments of concentrates for a week or
two pending the closing down of the
upper or old mill aud increasing the
capacity of the lower or new.
Ira Torrey. the man who has staid
with the Deer Park section through
thick and thin. is tunneling for some
veins that are certain to become rich
producers.
Over at the North Star on Sultan
mountain. drifting is going on from
the bottom OF the shaft to cut the
vein. which is expected to be accom-
plished. according to Superintendent
Starkweather in very few days
The Strayer Brothers have abandon
ed work on their tunnel below Chatta-
nooga and are prospecting the vein
on the surface in the hopes of finding
an ore chute. This they believe they
have found in the recent discovery of
streak of stromeryite, test ship
ment of which is now being taken out.
The ore assays 430 ounces in silver.
The great Inez-Hollister or Isolde
vein in Burrows Park crosses the San
Juan county line, and w H. Kearns
and partner of Silverton, who own an
imnFediate extension, say that their
claim is wholly within this county
The big vein in places stands out bold
and bare and well Travelled trail
for many years past ran alongside of
a ledge from which some of the rich
ore comes.
Contention company is milling
about 100 tons of ore per day. The
bucket grips on the tram line from
mine to mill are not at all satisfac-
tory and the Sackett gripps will be in
stalled shortly. Occasionally buck
ct releases it hold on the cable and
like a skyrocket descends over a 10
per cent. grade sometimes reaching
its destination at the mill, sometimes
jumping from its trolley cable.
Is it not just possible as well as
practicable for the business men of Sill
verton to organize a mining company
as for those of Creede and other
Camps of the state? The Equity
Mining and Investment company of
Creede was organized last week and
poses to develop few idle properties
into paying mines With a small
monthly investment according to the
stock owned by citizens of the town
and with competent manager and min
ers and a general understanding of
their own interests, they have invited
outside capital to share with them in
their project The plan of operatin
is a cooperative one and induces the
miner as well as other stockholders to
chance, in part, his labor In all,
Z Creede's home mining company will at
least show the outside world that ''to
gain confidence of others one must
have confidence in himself"
Three men are at present employed
on the Galty Boy mine. The work
xis being confined to the lower tunnel
and at depth of 500 feet from the
surface where a 600 foot tunnel has
cross-cut the vein. upon which the
men are now drifting. The Galty
Boy Group of mines are about the best
developed properties in the upper Ce-
ment Creek country among those not
classed as regular shippers, and
across a five foot vein an average
sample was taken this week and by
assay found to contain values in gold
and silver of $35, but more conserv-
ative estimate on the vein as far as
prospected along a 300 foot drift
which has been run during the winter
places the value at from SIS to SIS.
This is considered above the average
value and when further considering
the topography of that particular
eection in which the seven veins con-
stituting the Galty Boy are situated,
and the systematic mining that may
be employed, one will conclude that
Butler Lonergan & Lonergan, to-
!. gether with others holding small in
terests, have an excellent proposition.