Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-06-25
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Silverton Standard.
Under the direction of Superintend
ent All Knnkle, considerable force
OF men are busily engaged in making
preparation for the resumption OF
work on the Sunlight group on Cali
fornia mountain, north of the Gold
Prince mine, which suffered severely
from one of the great snowslides of
the winter. Manager X. C. Barton,
who spent the past week at the prop
erty, returned to Omaha, very much
pleased with the progress being
made. The Sunlight is regarded by
expert mining men as one of the most
promising properties of the district,
as the immense vein of that great
dividend paper, the famous Gold King,
In its trend to the northeast passes
| directly through it and is over 200
feet in thickness. The main tunnel,
which is in 500 feet, is driven on the
Sunlight vein, which will intersect
| the main vein at almost right angles
| at distance of about 1000 feet fur
! ther. Electric drills will be used in
the tunnel. the power being furnished
by the Animas Power d Water Co.
Now that Otto Mears mas the Sill
; verton railroad in operation between
I here and Red Mountain. A. ]. Aurand,
manager of the Bullion King group in
/ Porphyry gilch near Chattanooga, is
/ preparing 10 begin regular shipments
I from this valuable mine. AS a result
of the winters work large amount
of ore is in the bins ready for rams
! portation. The vein which is being
operated at present is very large and
strong, running heavily in lead and
carrying good values in gold and sill
yer, 1t Is chiefly galena. The work
ins force will be considerably increas-
ed during the summer.
c. W. Macarthur and Smith Mckay.
two expert millwrights of Denver
who have the contract for the building
of the great Gold Prince mill left for
Eureka Thursday morning to resume
work on the construction OF the mill
which was suspended because of the
snow blockades of the past winter.
They were accompanied by Frank f.
Sheppard, construction engineer, who
made all OF the plans of the mill.
From now on work on this great en-
terprise will be pushed as rapidly as
possible until completed.
f. A. Sperry has just completed the
installation OF 10 new Sperry sinners
at the Grand Mogul mill, which are
working very satisfactorily in separ-
ating the zinc and lead production of
the mine. The mill, which is now
treating about rs tons per day, will
soon be run to its full capacity OF
from 200 to 300 tons per day.
Paddy Hughes, formerly member
OF the board of trustees of the town
of Silverton in the early SOS. is pros
pecting in the vicinity of lockwood,
and recently opened up a good-sized
vein of ore carrying values in copper,
silver and gold that reach into the
hundreds.
From Silyerton Miner.
The Champion is now sending two
carloads of high grade ore to the
Ross smelter daily The smelter is
running steadily on ore from the
Champion and Silver Wing and ev-
erything is working smoothly Ore
will begin coming down from the
Cattle Boy and the Henrietta In a
short time.
Jessie Kramer. formerly of the Sill
yer Ledge. has accepted a position as
Superintendent of the Precious Met
ais company and tagen charge of the
work on the Silver Crown group. Al
win Carney's big pack train Is busily
al work taking up supplies and lum'
ber and buildings are being erected
as rapidly as possible. The compress
+, sor plant has been shipped from New
York and the work will soon be max
ing rapid headway.
p Patrick Hughes has Just received
returns on ore from a group oi
n claims which he owns near Cascade
+ The ore showed values amounting te
Oh ounces gold, go ounces silver ant
as per cent copper. The Locations
N have been held by Mr.. Hughes FOL
y several years and although 1t looked
IS well he had never had 1t sampled be
S fore. Further tests will be made ant
a " It continues to show such exceilen
'e values active work will be done u
IS develop the property.
y q. A. Marshall Is just completing
70 ioo-foot contract on the Old Abe ol
" Cambria mountain, which was begul
h last fall, but the work was discon
y liaued on account OF snow. The tur
et mel has been driven alongside the vet