Gunnison news-champion and tribune., 1905-09-01


capital has for elrht years been
pluckIly engaged in developing
true hs-ure VEN on the south slope
OF the Continental divide. The
News Champion Is pleased t. record
their success and to give its readers
some facts as o. the recent strike.
gained through a personal visit TO
the Enterprise mime
That IT Is a mime and mo- longer a
prospect seems 10 he the universal
opsnion Of experts Even the men
handling drill and shovel ia the
tunnels, intelligent miners Of many
wears exPesience, speak IN confident
words, 1T looks as though we had
real mine now
Number 3 tunnel. run at timber
line mile and a quarter into the
granite, has proven the continuity Of
ore bodies found in No. ? tunnel.
$50 feet above, and developed values
100 per cent greater. samples care
iessly picked from the ore bins re-
turn 80 ounces IN silver aud &
ounces in gold An average Of the
first grade shipping ore will run
$500 ton, while there is much
sloo ore and large bodies of mil
ling grade RAINING from SO to
x25 that will pe treated in the new
mill just being equipped for con
eentration and cyaniding 1t exhib-
its ruby silver and gray copper in
abundance, besides lead copper and
zinc. The gold values run from
two to Six ounces, giving an ore that
will stand the heavy shipping
charges and return good profits.
The strong assure vein has been
traced for miles through granite aud
porphyry OF the backbone of the
continent, and this discovery at over
. thousand feet Of vertical depth
proves its vslses enduring.
TIE Teyler Park Aiaing com psny
owns % clsims on the vein. One
was first discovered in a shaft high
above timber line A tunnel con-
Meeting disclosed shipping ore but
both became filed with ice. Several
hundred feet below, No. 2 tunnel
was projected and is in 800 feet
with drifts and upraises in shipping
ore and exposing large bodies Of
mill mineral. In a 40 foot winze,
being sunk from the tunnel level,
there is a three-foot bod Of ship
ping ore, II inches of which ASSAYS
SO ounces in silver and 3l-l0O in
gold. There is also a four foot body
of milling ore
1t was to catch this ore shoot at
great depth that No 3 tunnel was
projected $50 feet below. For some
distance the ore shoot has been
known to be in close proximity bv
the lunches of ore found along the
vein. The main tunnel crossed the
streak diagonally and it was later
developed by drifting. The south
drift is now in 60 feet and the north
drift 20 feet, both showing a contin-
uous body of from s to Is inches of
high grade mineral with much OF
milling value Some eight or ten
tons of the late strike are on the
dump, although every freight team
to Aspen is heavily loaded An mp
raise will be driven to connect with
No. , and quickly develop stoping
ground.
The new mill, which will be
pushed to completion in few
weeks, is equipped with two vii
fey concentrating tables to separate
the lead and silver, Nanner table
TO treat the shines from the Wilhevs.
and cyaniding tanks to separate the
oxidized gold values remaining.
After careful experiment it is be
heved that the combined process
will be thoroughly adapted to En-
terprise ore. The concentrating
tanks are Of redwood, made at Black
Diamond. California Two of them
are 26 feet in diameter aad 6 feet
deep The mill roof is l2O feet
long and - wide. Intentions are
10 eventually double its capacity.
\ new engine Of 100 indicated horse
power is already on its bed and a
lalge new compressor for the mine.
nower crusher for the mill. etc. are
being set up. An 50 horse power
boiler. weighing six and one half
tons, was being transported over the
Taylor range by Atkinson l2-mule
team.
About Go men are employed at
the mine and mill and 10 or ID
more hauling and at other points.
4. Forsythe, formerly a successful
mine operator at Victor. Colorado. is