The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-21
CRIPPLE CREEK MEN AT AUSTIN.
Take Hand In Revivine Old Mines Of
Famous Nevada Silver Camp.

The famous old silver camp Of
| Austin, Nevada, is being revived In
! fitting style. and many OF the mon
who won riches in the Cripple Creek
country are on the ground to bring
riches from ground here. Relative to
the conditions of the camp, l.. Haworth
| has the following to say:
New factors are being added to
| the working forces that are pulling
Austin out of the inactive class with
| all certainty that this noted Droduc-
| ing camp Will early resume a reg
ular output Of bullion. The guarantee
of long period of prosperity for this
, place lies In the thousands Of tons of
ore on the dumps and In p miles of
underground workings. which was too
low grade TO be handled at u profit
with the system Of reduction in vogue
when the mines were operated In the
| past with mill costs reduced to the
minimum Of the present day. these
ores assure immense profits. This Is
| TO say nothing of the virgin ground.
Of which there is vast acreage, and
| nothing Of the unmeasured possiblll-
ties Of the Austin high-grade fiSSures,
when mined TO the deep. The average
depth of the workings which have a
record oi many millions is less than
500 feet The Austin Manhattan com
pany Is rushing preparations to sink
a central shaft to the /, ,100-foot level
The Nevada Equities company is one
of the new factors In the rejuvenation
of Austin This company has an es-
tate of more than 200 acres. The man.
agement is In the hands Of men who
carved out fortunes In Cripple Creek
They are men who in the Colorado
camp have led all others In making
profit from ores of the lowest grade.
The general manager of this company
after a survey of the underground
workings. asserts that there Is $50O,00O
net profit I'm the ores in sight. This
Is wealth that could not be saved when
the property was last operated, In
the not distant future development
work will be commenced on this acre
age, a tunnel will be run from Slaugh-
ter House canyon In southeasterly
direction, prosecuting the vein system
of the district, and at a distance Of
about 5000 feet, forming junction
with the Moss shaft This will give
ready access to these milling ore re-
| serves dDONG dIuutu w.
This company now fayors the In
stallatlon of concentrating plant.
which Will follow the practice Of the
Mexican and Australian systems for
the reduction of ores similar In char
acter to that of Austin. The United
States Smelling G. Mining company,
after two years Of experimentation at
Pauchuca. Mexico, has perfected this
system TO a point making possible
a saving of 90 per cent OF the values,
with 70 per cent from straight con
centration and the remainder saved
from the shines. In Mexico nine-ounce
ore is made TO yield a profit. This
ore is Identical with that of Austin
The Austin Nevada Consolidated Is
another company, headed also by a
Cripple Creek operator, H. G. Rich
ardson, which has acquired an Import
ant Austin acreage and VIII develop
the same at once. II includes tract
of l60 acres through which runs such
famous producing veins as the Pana-
mint, the independence and the North
Star These great leads are paral-
leled by some ten or a dozen smaller
veins. all Of which have been opened up
Sno"inS SllhHdi NdlucS W Inose louuu
in all the workings on Lander Hill.
Nevada Consolidated has in its favor
the fact that Its acreage is all vir-
gin ground that has been proved up
by the workings on adjacent territory
and the further fact that the percent
age of gold greatly increases on the
southeasterly trend of all these veins
The northwesterly end line OF this
property is within 400 feet of the Frost
and the Lander Hill tunnel, which
effectively drains the entire acreage.