Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-07-01

near Gladstone |
The Ross smelter, after a few days |
OF idleness to repair the furnace, is |
again steadily working and is having a |
an enterprise that Silverton is proud
OF and Is glad to see continuously
running.
j. w. Bodyfield is an arrival from
Chicago to begin the summers work
on the Meadow Park group on Green
mountain slope of Stony Pass. This
group is exceedingly promising on the
surface and so far as development has
proceeded looks very good.
The Crawford mines at Red noun
tain will get busy next week on the
Genessee and later a good force will
be put TO work on the Joker tunnel.
The company had TO wait for the rail
road to get into commission before
they could resume work Their plans
are for extensive development.
The Valley Forge property on Tow.
er mountain will he worked this sea.
son and the ore bodies are showing
up in great shape for the amount of
development. DIR. Pascoe is the prin-
cipal owner and is satisfied that he
has something exceptionally good. The
ore carries gold, silver, copper and
zinc.
Quite a number of miners have gone
up this week to work at the Silver
Lake mine and there are now about
200 men employed at this famous prop.
erty. The big mill is running day and
night and the production for this
month will he very large. Everything
has been working nicely and the force
Is kept busy all the time.
The result of three months work on
the Little Maud. in Maggie gulch. has
been the opening UP of a very ricn
body of mineral. Some of the ore
assays as high as So ounces in gold
and 1000 ounces in silver. The rich
streak is six inches In width and is
holding its own in both value and
quantity in depth. There is large
amount of SIS material ready to be
sent to the smelter, besides the rich
ore that is being mined and all has
been taken from one drift in doing
development work. The Little Maud
adds one more to the many good min
ing propositions in Maggie gulch>
The Highland Mary mine, one of
the properties of the Gold Tunnel L.
Railway company, at the head of Gun
sumed its place among the ranks OF
shippers. The snow has disappeared
from that section and the management
has repaired the buildings injured by
landslide this spring, the trails and
everything about the mine are in first
class condition for season of much
activity. A force of fifty men is now
at work and this will be increased
in short time A large amount OF
ore has already been taken out and
last Tuesday the pack trains COM
menced hauling it to the railroad and
they will be kept busly from this time
on. The ore from the Highland Mary
is gray copper, running away up
in copper values, with good per-
centage in lead and some gold and
silver. 1t is shipped to the smelter
at Durango. The property will be
worked vigorously this season and
made a steady and heavy producer
Silverton Standard.
Bandora ores although of high grade
tangle up the smelter.
ID. Forester is running a lixivation
process at the old Walsh smelter.
Little Maud lessees made a ship
ment OF AL ore to the Ross smelter.
Tuesday.
j, w. Bodyfeld resumed work on
his Meadow Park property, on the
back bone of Green mountain Thurs
day.
The Dr. Beaton property, one OF
the oldest locations of Minnie gulch,
is in active operation, which looks
like something might be dom up
there this summer.
Alfred Hes of the Ariadna. wears a
big, broad smile which could not even
be shaded by a big sombrero. The
Yukon tunnel has drained his 300 foot
shaft which shows two feet of gray
copper, as dry as bone. Good luck
VIII hit good people-sometimes.
The Red Mountain Mining, Smelt.
Ing and Railroad company have squar-
ed up its Indebtedness which amount.
ed to somewhere between $65, 900 and
$4,000 is on deck with George Craw.
ford at the steering wheel.
ID. s. Rogers Is up from Durango
clearing away the snow and Ice from
his Mastin property in Arastra basin.
which he Intends to work with a small
force Just as soon as conditions are
favorable. The Mastiff. which Ia d.