The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-09-05

Mr.. w. A. Prunty, of Wamego,
Kansas, has been in this section for
several days looking after mining in
terests. He is a director in the
Grand-Clear Creek Mining company
the property of which, consisting of
thirty-three claims, is located in the
Daily district. The officers of the COM
pany are: Robert Scott, of Wamego,
Kansas, president; Con Callahan, vice.
president, and Clarence Scott, secretary
and manager. The tunnel has been
driven distance of 100 feet and the
company has twelve men at work,
running double shifts. The develop
ment work will be kept up for an in
definite time as the company is pre-
pared to do this. They are after the
large bodies of ore in their claims and
will cut them by means of this crosscut
tunnel. While the section is generally
regarded as silver-lead producer, Mr..
Prunty has assays that run as high as
s246 90 in gold per ton.
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Colorado. secretary y-treasurer of the
Humboldt mines, accompanied by Col. L
S. Judd. general manager, with head
quarters in California, have been here
this week on a tour of inspection of the
works and are highly pleased with the
situation and conditions. A. R Wills OF
Grand Junction is president of the com
pany. in fact it is now Grand Junction
company. The Humboldt comprises elev-
en- patented claims and five acre mill
site, all of which is located up Ute Creek
They have ten stamp mill for concen
trating and amalgamating but most of
the values are canght on the tables. Fre-
quent assays made from the tailings show
that the loss only runs from 25 to AZ cents
per ton on the lowest grade ore. They
have two and one-half foot vein of 81.
ore which they are milling alta profit.
The work at present is going on in the
No 3 tunnel which is in a distance of
1850 feet. Between this and the next
upper tunnel there are 161 feet of vir-
gin ground. In the present workings
they have IL to 18 inches of excellent
high grade ore which they have been
following for over fifty feet and in which
is small free gold streak the entire
distance. A good sample of this was
shown in this Office. Various assays
have been taken that show from forty
to sixty ounces in gold, about % ounces
lei uvd
is now being run o its full capacity.
"Mayor Straub" presided at the reg
ular meeting of the city council Thurs
day night in the absence of Mayo,
Roberts, and he certainly felt his oats
Dressed in the heighth of fashion, with
hands emaculate, he welded the gave
in mastery manner, and the monthly
business of the municipality was trans.
acted with neatness and dispatch.
After the approval of the minutes OF
the previous meeting and the reception
of the monthly reports of the officers,
the serious business was taken up.
Engineer Brown made a report or
progress at the new reservoir, showing
that eighty feet of permanent embank.
: ment had been completed on the west
end and forty feet on the east end dur,
ing the past month.
In behalf of E. D. Baker Post G. A.
r., Adjutant Devlan thanked the coun.
Gil for the donation of six lots in the
cemetery as burial plot for the ole
soldiers.
A petition signed by twenty-five cit.
izens and the Elks' lodge representing
$50 members was presented asking
that the organ at the skating rink be
suppressed and declared a public nuis.
ance. The matter was discussed a,
some length by several members, bu,
upon the advice of the city attorney
the matter was left to the city marsh
all to adjust the same and avoid trouble
The liquor bond of the Val Blats
Brewing company, doing business al
the Anderson old stand, was approved
The sidewalk ordinance requiring the
building of walks on either side of Col
orado street from Eighth avenue to the
west boundary line, and from the Soda
creek bridge east to the city limits OF
both sides of Miner street was passed
and ordered published.
The north boundary line question
, again bobbed up serenely only to be
tabled.
The new fire house in Sunnyside has
been completed and the finance com
mittee was instructed to approve the
same and audit the bills.
The Pikers def ated the Georgetown