Gilpin observer., 1906-01-18
NEWS FROM The MINES and MILLS

shipments of smelling and crude ores,
tailings and concentrates from the
Black Hawk depot totaled 1855 tons, a
gain of 165 tons over the preceding
month. The shipments for the first
half of the month were heavy, but the
holidays interfered with the shipments
during the last half.
d. w. Shepard, manager of the An
glo-SaXon Mines Company, expects to
have his mill in full operation by the
first of next week, says the George
town correspondent of the Denver
News This is the first cyanide mill
erected in the district and good deal
of interest is centered in the success
of the operations. If successful it will
mean much for the future of the dis
trict as other plants will follow.
For the first time work is being fur
thered in the old Washington vein be-
low the depth of 200 feet south in
Stratton's Independence mine. The
company is pushing the work, and the
fact that the ore is out in the granite
and perssting as depth is attained is
taken as very good sign. A winze,
sunk from the 200-foot level, is now
down forty-five feet The shoot is
sixty-fve feet long and the ore aver
ages $65 to the ton.
The recent strike of Louis C. Nelson
near Dexterville, settlement which
exists only on the map. is attracting
much attention, says a Saratoga. Wyo-
ming, dispatch. Nelson is believed to
have rediscovered the old Dexter mine.
the location of which was known only
to Dexter, the discoverer. who died
many years ago without divulging the
knowledge. Nelson displays samples
of ore running from 1872 to $400 in
gold, which, he says, comes from a
solid vein four feet in thickness.
Victor correspondent says:
James F. Burns of the Portland Gold
Mining Company is interested in the
new gold discoveries recently made in
the district thirteen miles south of Red
Cliff, in the Mount of the Holy Cross
region. He has fifteen men at work,
developing five claims. Fred Forch of
this city, also an owner of property in
the new district, has brought back
some fine samples of quartz contain
ing much free gold. He says that when
the heavy SHOWS are gone, which now
badly retard winter work, the district
will be developed extensively.
Enormous piles of gold, silver and
copper ores are being heaped up at
Humboldt, awaiting the operation of
the smelter of the American Smelling
Company, says Prescott, Arizona, dis
patch. A single mine, the DeSota has
10000 tons of ore ready for reduction.
Several hundred men are being rushed
to get the furnaces in operation at the
earliest possible date. 1t had been ex-
pected that the plant would blow in"
January 1st, but the work proved
greater than had been estimated. Rich
copper ore is coming from the line of
the Arizona & California railroad and
from Pinal country, via the Phoenix &
Eastern road, and practically every
mining county in northern and central
Arizona already has representation on
the ore dumps.
The Taylor Park Mining Company
has six four-horse teams busy hauling
ore from the Enterprise mine to Aspen,
a distance of twenty-six miles, over
Taylor pass. A splendid vein of ship
ping ore has been opened in one of the
lower tunnels. In one place the mine
shows seventeen feet of ore. The com
pany has driven several extensive tun-
nels representing probably 10000 feet
of work and has abundance of ore
blocked out. The shipping ore will net
over $50 per ton, while the balance is
a good milling material. Development
has shown almost unlimited quantities
of mineral and l00-ton mill is being
constructed to handle the ore. This
mine will make up heavy output this
year. The company represents Boston
capital.
The Sunnyside group of mines. To-
Gated near this city. has passed into
the hands of the Ross Mining Com
pany, a wealthy Pttsburg syndicate,
the consideration being reported as
$2,000,0 900, says the Silverton CORE
spondent of the Denver Republican.
The new owners will take possession
of the property February 1st. The
Sunnyside group Of mines was located
in 1871 by r. p. McNutt. now county
judge of San Juan county. Within the
last five years the Terrys. who ac-
quired the property in 1883, have
cleaned up at least s1,000,000. There
is said to be in sight at least $4,000. 900
worth of ore ready for the mill. The
probabilities are that the Terrys will
remain in the district and re-invest