Gilpin observer., 1907-04-18
FROM voLokADo's MINING coUN-
TIES
Boulder.

Boulder.
Joel Davis of the Roman Eagle Min
ing Company, who. with Phillips broth
ers, is operating the Roman Eagle
mine on Governor Group hill, near
Jamestown, was in Boulder recently.
He reports that the showing in the
breast Of the drift is better than ever,
and that Improvement is visible with
every foot of advance of the work.
The breast is now $50 feet from the
portal on the north face of the noun
tain, and is being driven towards the
Thunderbolt claim. which has been a
producer of high grade gold and silver
ore.
Chaffee.
Word has come to Salida from the
Stratton Gold and Copper Mining and
Milling Company's camp Oh Badger
creek that body of rich copper ore
has just been uncovered in 1.40O-foot
tunnel and at depth Of 900 feet. says
the Salida Mail. The ore it is said
shows forty-one per cent. copper. and
may even exceed this percentage ut
other points.
Clear Creek.
During March the heading of the
Seemapn tunnel on Fall river was
driven eighty-:hrse feet, making the
total length 9S1 feet. 1t required twen-
ty-one shifts to extend the tunnel twen-
ty-six feet through the big soft vein, or
dixie encountered early in the month
The ground has been closely timbered
and will not cause further trouble.
A cablegram received from London
says E. ]. Wilcox, general manager of
the Waldorf mining properties in east
and Woct districts tuS hppn
successful in selling the holdings to an
English syndicate for $3,500,0O0
The Liberty Bell tunnel, being bored
under Lexington mountain. near Idaho
Springs, has just opened small feeder
that bears good indication of pay dirt
This tunnel is being watched with
great deal of interest by Il number OF
owners of mines On Lexington noun
tain. 1t is calculated to furnish trans
portation facilities for a dozen or more
well known mines.
Gilpin.
One of the latest interpretations
formed to operate in Gilpin county is
that of the Colorado & Southern Min
ing Company, which has taken lease
and bond for three years on the Maine
and Hamlet mines in Gregory district
Denver and New Yorl, people are in.
terested in the operations and the
management of the property is in the
hands of w. l.. Shull of this city.
Park.
The Pawnee Company. driving to-
ward the London formation from the
east side of London mountain, has be-
gun to crosscut its formation from the
600-ioot breast of its tunnel. at pres
ent driving south. A crosscut will
also be driven north from the main
tunnel, after which some sinking will
be done on the vein or which the tun
mel has been driven. The plan is be-
ing followed to more thoroughly pros
pect all the ground owned by the Paw
nee Gold Mining Company.
Routt.
The Copper Ridge Mining and Mill.
ing Company, which owns the Repub
lican and Democrat claims on Copper
ridge, three and half miles north of
Steamboat Springs, has been sinking
a shaft on the Republican with the in
tention of cutting the vein ut Il depth
Of about 100 feet. The vein, however
was cut at about eighty feet. where
IL showed about two and a half feet
OF highly mineralized quartz
Teller.
Although the rock being broken is
the hardest kind of granite, good pro
gress is being made in the driving OF
the new drainage tunnel at Cripple
Creek. Single-jacks are used. and the
bore is now in solid formation Il dis
tance of forty-one feet. The work or
installing the large compressor will
not be finished for several weeks. and
machine drills probably VIII not be in
operation before April 10th. The
compressor when set up. will be oper-
ated by electric power. All cxcavating
work for the various buildings has
been finished and the laying OF ia
foundation for a sawmill began to-day
The mill will be used in turning out
timber and other lumber material nee.
essary in the driving of the tunnel.
p. ID. Drake and associates. who
made strike several days ago in the
Fairview claim of the Stratton estate
on Globe hill. now have good-sized
body of ore exposed it is said. When
first encountered the vein was one and
a half feet wide, but it has increased
In size and showed "A width of two and
n half feet from wall to wall. The
values also have increased, and re-
turns of three and half ounces in
gold to the ton have been made.