Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-06-29

make quite a change in the appear.
ance of this camp.
Gus and Charles Ekburg and Louie
and Charles Ahlander are the owners
of a claim situated near the Little
/ Jane called the White Diamond. on
which they have run drift $50 feet
and leave shipped ore that ran nearly
800 per ton. and they have lately
m&le the discovery that they have
been throwing ore over the dump tina
VIII run ten times as much While
working the assessment late last iali
they struck a body of black stuff. con
] siderably decomposed and rather soft,
which they did not have tested, but
as II looked rather peculiar. one of
| them put piece in his pocket and cur
ried ii for some time, with the result
that IL soon began to show gold all over
| il. When this piece was shown to us
I last week We had no trouble In rec
| ognizing II as the same kind of black
tellurium that the Slide mine in Boul-
der county used to produce, The boys
have purchased car and track and
will extend the drift and sink ON this
| shoot. This is another example of
the absolute necessity of having as
saying done when prospecting or do
| ing development, as they are confident
| that they threw at least two carloads
of this ore over the dump, and which
| is scattered for a thousand feet down
the mountain, and being so decompos-
ed that scarcely any of 1t can be re-
covered.
..tt toll tnI AJou los n
Friday to learn something authentic
regarding the operations of the Man
cos Consolidated Gold Mines Develop
ment company At the companys Of
flee we found Superintendent Toll and
wife busily engaged on the books and
reports, but he laid aside his work
and spent some time in showing us
over the mill and explaining its opera
tions. He has had a hard job on his
hands, owing to the destructive wind
storm late last fall and the heavy
snowfall of the past winter, but he has
succeeded in getting things into shape
once more, and from now on will be
! able TO make a production of bullion
and ore that will cause investors to
rush to this district This company
owns 25 claims on the contact, cover
ing an area of about 220 acres. and
having between 5000 and 10000 feet
of development They have a ten
stamp mill equipped with copper
plates. two Cammett concentrators
and two Frue vanners. the yanners
taking the tailings from the Cam
metts. The motive power for the mill
is steam and there is 5O0-ton pile oil
) coal on hand. They have a 3O-horse
, power gasoline engine which runs the
dynamo tha. furnishes power for three
electric drills, an electric pump that
will be used to pump water from the
creek below the mill when there is q
shortage in their supply, and also fur
nishes light for all of the company's
buildings
A first class assay office is operated
! by Mr.. Cohen of Iowa, and the mill is
i under the supervision of Mr.. Finlay
son, mill man from Nevada, and the
boarding house is run by Jane:
Brown of Mancos 1t is our opinion
that this plant only lacks a few cya
> hide tanks to be most complete one
: Tor The purpose of thoroughly testing
lHt DIE DouleS VI VIC oNhcu ny th'
. company, and we are confident tina
another year will see them at worl
on mill of ten or twenty times the
capacity of this one. The ore beint
run is taken from the North Star ant
Sundown claims, and as it comes on
> OF the mines, is dumped into bill
from which it is trammed to the mill
: distance of about $50 feet. Only l.
men were working last week but thi
force will be increased as fast as min
ers apply for work. But n small force
is required to keep the mill in opera
II ton, as the ore is from two to sever
II feet wide and very easily mined. The.
have large amount of shipping or
= in sight, but are not taking out thi
class at present, as the roads am
trails are not yet in good condition
. Messrs. Doyle and Lonergan are ex
. pected to arrive in camp in few day
and 1t is likely that their advent will
result in more work being started, a
= Mr.. Doyle controls another group o
l. mines similar in character to this one