Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-05-15

greater part OF attention In develop
ment. The drifts OF the 300.foot lev
ell. wnich were started during earl,
winter, now reach out hundreds Of
feet from the shaft. and are in ore
face, roof and floor Average widt;
OF ore body No. 3. is between four and
five feet. Although the principal
bulk of this ore Is adapted to cyanid
ing. yet quite per cent of 1t Will bear
the shipping test
| Jonn II. Sloan came In for the
summer from Durango Tuesday. HIS
Tonopah-Goldheld experience was
brief-lasting seven OF eight day.
He says the entire force employed ia
the mines OF Goldfeld and Tonopah
combined aggregate 450 people. Sew
eral OF the mines are closed down by
| reason of the ores not being OF a
grade sufficiently high to pay trans.
portation and milling charges. Among
| other old.time Silvertonans met with
were Hub" Sherer, OF Minnie gulch
| prospecting fame, who is running an
| assay Office four miles from Bull
frog; j. G. Burnett. an old-time mack
er IN the San Juan. is in the lumber
business and making success OF 1t
IN Goidheld, Jas Marshall. formerly
an employe OF the Silver Lake mill is
secretary of the Miners Union for the
district; Payne Bros. packers, are at
Goldheld ready for business. James
Pilling and Billy Arslingstahl return.
ed from Nevada on Wednesday, nav
Ing made sale OF their property.
few days since the Tom Moore
Mining company resumed operations
with a small force OF men who are
doing the preliminary work OF clear.
ing out the big crosscut and drifts
preparatory TO extensive development
TO be done on that magnificent prop.
erty. The community In general is
pleased that Tom Moore affairs have
taken favorable turn, and all
through the exhaustive efforts of
Manager S. G. Martin, The property
Mt one time panned out in shipping
ore In the neighborhood of forty tons
per day which yielded handsome
profit from the smelter Things were
busy just then on the apex OF Jones
mountain. as a force OF forty men
were kept in steady employment
Underground development, both for.
reaching and deep. has established
the fact of a mine-and big ONE
In every sense of the word. Although
Mr.. Martin does not care to make
public the plans Of his company. yet.
perhaps, the prediction of concen-
tratlng plant -materlalizing on Toni
Moore ground in the near future.
would not be far from hitting the
bulls eye.
Since the transfer OF the Champion
to the Ross Mining & Milling com
pany. force OF ten or twelve men
has been put to work on ore, and
shipping at the rate OF two or three
cars per week will soon be In order.
The force will gradually be increas.
ed. Extensive improvements for fa.
cilltating work on the Champion are
already marked out. among which are
to be enumerated the construction
OF a boarding and bunk house, OF u
capacity sufficient for the accommo-
dalton of the large force that will
doubtless be employed within two or
three months, and also 1,5O0-foot
tram line, on the Bleichert system.
which Is to extend from mine to near.
est point attainable for a siding on
the d. & II. G. railroad. Packing Is
expensive and soon eats hole In the
profits of mining enterprise. tnat,
In year or two. would pay for a
tram. With the great Hercules Con
solldated mine and mill In active op-
eration-whicn, according to every
Indication 1t will be within the next
two months--and regular shipments
going out from the Champion. Sultan
mountain will have taken on an air
OF prosperity hitherto unknown to
that section. The benefits TO be ac-
crued therefrom cannot be overesti-
mated by the laboring and business
interests of Silverton.
John Killmartin, of the San Pedro
Whitehead gulcn. Is gouging out from
the gold crevlce on the claim from
81 900 to $4,000 every summer of his
own labor, he having no partner nor
hired men. Inasmuch as the gold, or
The greater part. Is in crystalized
state, the San Pedro 10 considered a
freak, and up to date merely speci.
men claim. No depth has been at
| tained by the two short drifts that
nave been run on the vein. Since the
first discovery OF gold in the San
Pedro-which occurred some ten or
twelve years ago-most wonderful
specimens of free gold have been
found on the property. one specimen
which It was claimed was found on
the trail where 1t was shot from
blast, having been sold to A. A.
| Brown, late of the Stony Pass com
pany, for S75. Killmartin also has a
crystalized gold specimen, tne esti
mated intrinsic value Of which Is
| 800. Although the wonderful golc