The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-11-16
WE HAVE THE GOLD G(NDS
WAY A COR RESPONDENT REVIEWS sE.
CENT RICH STathES IN IDAHO
SPRINGS = o. 20 OfSTHICY

| tSpecla4D-l he past month has .--I
punctuated BY a series of rich gold
strikes in the lower Clear Creek sc
tion, as the result Of recent exten i've
development work in laterals from the
great tunnels, as we'll as upon the sur
face in some Of the older section uf
. the district which have lain idle Tor
some years from various causes. such
as litigation. lack OF harmony anaE.
the owners, but very largely from bad l
of capital. Some OF the owners hay.
Joined in the stampede to new found
fields in various sections of the W
but have returned to the Idaho Sprius-
gold district-One of the most relia o.
and dependable, as well as the olaest
mining section OF Colorado.
Two of the richest finds made re-.
Gently are located less than a mle
above the very spot where plag.r
gold was first found In paying o.au-
titles in Colorado on January 8, 1.5S
by George W. Jackson. and indeel il
is reasonable to believe that the vary
gold discovered by that intrepid piU-
neer eroded from the very veins in
which the magnificent finds have Just
been made
! ne must ilHpoi tdlt StTlke TecOf u
is the discovery OF mass of yellow
metal in raise from the third level
west from the Quito shaft on Chicago
creek. A timberman engaged in cut-
ting hitch for mine support drove
! his rock chisel into the cluster of
wires and leaves Of pure gold quite
| BY accident. II is estimated by n IL
! ing men competent to judge, that The
pocket Of ore was fully two-thirds pure
/ gold, and that if ton Of the stun
were obtainable 1t would run at least
300 900 per ton. Shipments of ore
are being made regularity from this
/ mine, which return on an average Of
ten ounces in gold per ton Several
carloads have netted the owners I'm
excess of 81 200 ior each car, while
assays of the high-grade streak show
values of 2l9 ounces in gold per ton
or value of s220 a pound The
Quite mine has been lying idle for
decade or more. A twothirds into
est is owned by a poor printer, and
one-third interest by wealthy Cleye-
land Ohio, and New York City NH
lionaires. The latter would not work
the mine because they owned only a
third interest, ana the printer could
not work the property. Some months
ago, however. Il prominent miniug
man succeeded in getting an agree-
ment from the owners of the two In,
/ terests and sunk the shaft to depth Of
300 feet below the level of the creek
The operator is now shipping regI-
| larily enough ore to keep a twenfy
stamp mill constantly engaged in
pounding out gold retorts from the
ore, and will realize a handsome for
tune from his operations. At one
point in the Quito mine, twenty years
! ago. a stope less than eighteen ft.t
high and sixty feet long yielded over
SEQ 900. mostly in the form of gold
bullion. 1t is likely that the parties
at present working the property will
realize several times that amount
from their work. as they now have
| block of ground opened.
Less than ten DAYS ago titg At
torney Royal r. Graham of this city.
while making an inspection of an
eighty-fiye-foot SHAFT on the Columbia
claim. came across bug hole Of gold
which took his breath The attorney
exhibited specimens Of the a'erial
which showed a mass nearly three.
quarters of an inch thick of gold
I leaves. The rich streak is from five
| to eight inches wide. and is being
/ sacked for shipment direct 10 the
/ smelters. The Columbia claim has
been noted in years past for the gold
| leaves encountered in the vein from
time to time, but the recent ind is
probably the largest ever made in the
mine. Several years ago a miner sunk
a shaft on this claim, bringing his ore
home in a dinner bucket, and in the
evenings would pound up the rock and
pan out the gold. In this manner he
extracted big pay. how much of course
he did not make known. But as an
example of the srade OF ore it was
known that he extracted retort
worth sl36 from fye-pound lard
bucket of the rock.
This week in the thirteenth level
of the Gem mine, 100 feet above the
level of the Newnouse tunnel with
which ii is connected by a 2200-foot
shaft, a streak o. rich tellurium ore
was opened in a drift just started west
from the shaft fhs ore when roasted
| boils out bubbles of gold and ASSAYS
of selected specim ens will run into the
thousands of dollars per ton The
streak just opened is about eight
inches wide. and has alongside a fine
streak OF ore whiCn would pay to ship
direct to the snelters, but Yields a
better profit by being concentrated at
the mills The ore shoot is the con-
tinuation of the Coe or shoot which
produced a small fortune in the twelfth
level east. Ore shipments from the
latter lease ran from TO ll.i2 ounces
in gold per ton in carload lots.
In the Freiehters Friend mine, one
of the oldest patented lode mining
claims in the district, this week the
company owning the mine opened into
an eight-inch streak of solid gray cop
per ore in the second level west 320
feet from the shaft The ore ASSAYS
106S ounces gold and 1866 ounces in
silver, or a gross value of s326SS per
ton. The ore is worth sixteen cents