Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-06-23
GREAT TUNNEL TO uNWATER
VAST MINING DISTRICT
Frnm tho OnrnY Hcrnld

From the Ouray Herald
/. wasn't 81 many years ago. along
about the nlneties, that the grand old
Nlubee Girl mine at Red Mountain
was ortputtinE a steady stream of
wealth for Its owners George Craw-
ford was then manager. and he Is now
general manager of the Red Mountain
Railroad. Mining and Smelling Co,
which Includes practically all of the
rent mines about The Yankee Girl.
he Gustuu. Genesee Vanderbilt and
others, aud making the enormous
mineral bearing territory OF over 400
acres
Tho Yankee Girl in the old days
produced car after car OF ore that
nefted sl0.U00. s200OO. 10000 and
&5G,DO0 Ia round numbers TO the car
| load OF ton tons. One lot OF 24S tons
netted the enormous sum of s400, 900.
| Very few indeed Of the greatest OF
The great mines Of the world ever
made such n record for profits. which
extended over number of years.
Work was abandoned at the Yankee
Girl for the principal reason that the
lower workings became flooded with
water which was so heavily charged
with sulphuric acid that Iron and
stoel would he eaten up in few
hours, and The flow was so great that
the pumping plant proved inadequate.
There Ia no doubt but that there are
great bodies Of ore yet remaining in
The Yankee Girl and Custom, where
D. al. fuf afs
In the Yankee Girl. And, below the
present workings Of the Crawford
syndicutcs group OF mines, only about
400 feet there must be deposits Of
ore no doubt equal In values and
quantity TO the levels above, The in
iogrity of the great Revenue vein has
boen proven to the depth of 5000 feet
aud II Is reasonable to suppose that
the Red Mountain mines, not far
away. viii continue to prove product
iyc 10 that depth.
Now IT rs announced that tunnel Is
10 be- Immediately started below the
Yankee Girl, cutting It and the Gus
ton etc. 500 feet deeper than the
present working tunnel Of the Gen
csser-Vanderhilt. with which tunnel 1t
viii be connected The Immediate
use of this new tunnel. as announced
hy Mr. Crawford. is the unwatering Of
the entire territory embraced In his
group VI 400 acres. Including the Gus
ton and Yankee Girl This proposi-
ton has been the unrealized dream
OF many mining men. but they have
heretofore lacked the capital and the
nerve to tRckle II, even with the al
most certain knowledge that such
tunnel would develop ore bodies OF
great value and representing enorm-
ous tonnage. The fact Of the matter
i4 that the whole mountain under the
Crawford group Is underlaid with ore:
not necessarily continuous ore. but
vast bodies of It.. as has been proven
In years past, and only lately In the
Gencssee-Vanderbi where body OF
ore fifteen feL- thick was lntrsected.
and whose smelling values only 100
feel from the surface 10 gold and cop
ucr. Indicate that II Will be handled
i'm the cumpany's smelters later at u
profit This tunnel Ig going steadily
into the mountain. and body after
| BODY oil ore VIII Ds cut hNc""Hb -
surface Indications
Tho new tunnel viii unwaier the
territory under the Yankee Girl and
| Gnston in the course Of compara'
lively few hundred feet. but Its ulti-
mate destination Is one and one-hnlf
miles nnder the peaks of Red Noun
I tain. In that district the known veins
+ .,,,,f ,,,,. Indi.s "a VIII cul almost stag
ger The imaglnation. not TO mention
4 the possibilities of Its encountering
J other bodies OF ore. how large and
how numerous can only be con