Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-10-21
BIG MINING DEAL.
c. w. 5oyee's Company Acquires {
Valuable SlIver-Lead Property.

G. w. 5oyee's Company Acquires .
Valuable SIIver-Lead Property.
@. w. Boyce was in town last Friday
on his return to Boston from st. Johns
bury. He viii come up later for q weeks
hunting, before going to Mexico on a
business trip. Mr.. Boyce's company, the
Boyce- Mouat Engineering company OF
Denver, Col, has lately acquired control
OF q very valuable silver and lead proper
ty Ia Georgetown, COL, where Mr.. Boyce
! has been for some time putting through
the deal, returning to Boston Tuesday OF
! last week. The transaction is reported IS
I follows in the Georgetown tCol.) Courier
"One of the most important mining
deals that has been consummated in
many months in the Clear Creek district
was closed last Saturday when the Belle
vue- Hudson group of fourteen lode min
I ing claims passed over to the Southwest
ern Mines Corporation of Boston, Mass.
"While the purchase price has not been
given out for publication it is reported
that the same reaches into six figures.
| The final papers we're signed in the office
of the Boyce- Mouat Engineering COM
pany, 5O4 Quincy building, Denver. This
firm will serve as general managers OF the
new corporation. II is also the same
mining company which is prosecuting
operations in the states Of chihuahua,
Sonora and Zacatecas, Mexico.
"The company maintains offices at 10
Congress ST., Boston, Massachusetts,, AZ
Broadway, n. Y, chihuahua, Mexico,
and 5O4 Quincy Building, Denver, Col
II is considered one Of the strongest cor
porations of its kind in the United States
and the financial end of the proposition
has been provided fog in q liberal manner
Announcement was made last Satur-
day that a modern compressor plant capa-
BILE OF operating ten machine drills
would at once be installed, the machinery
already having been ordered from the
Colorado Machinery and Supply company
OF Denver.
''It has been decided to equip the prop
erty with q mill which Is to have q capac-
ity OF 100 tons each day, and inside Of
thirty days actual construction work will
be under way. The machinery for this
plant will also be secured from the
Colorado Machinery and Supply company.
While II has not been decided what
method of treatment Is to be provided
number OF shipments will be made ct once
to the ore testing plants in Denver. 1t
is quite likely, 90 states q. W. Boyce,
senior member OF the engineering COM
pany, that the mill will be patterned after
the Capital Of Georgetown.
"One OF the largest campaigns Of devel-
opment in the history OF Columbian
mountain during recent years is to be
inaugurated and inside Of another week
the working force will number twenty
five men. The ninth level, which Is now
in 1900 feet, is to be driven ahead, and
within $500 feet from the present breast
such well known properties, or the extern
tions thereof, as the Dictator, Mogul, Mil
lington, Prince Albert, American Sisters,
Drummond, 10 Reynolds and Lamartine,
will be intersected at enormous depths.
The combined production OF the above
named mines is estimated at close to
IS, 900, 900. When the apex of the moun-
tain is reached q vertical depth of 2900
feet from the surface will be secured.
at has been decided to sink a double
compartment shaft from the ninth level
to a depth of 400 feet, while from each
10O-foot station drifting viii be p-osecut-
ed east to cut under the ore shoots that
are known to exist on the Anamosa vein
In due time this shaft is to be given to-
tai lift Of 1000 feet.
"With 400 feet Of sinking completed
this will be the deepest worked mine in
the silver-lead district of Clear Creek
county.
Gan leases that have been in existence
heretofore have been cancelled and hence
forth all work will be prosecuted on
company account. Large bodies of low
and medium grade ore are exposed
throughout the various workings and
shipments of both mill and smelling ore
will be in order before the present month
has drawn to a close. During the last
two or three years number of rich strikes
have been made and especially is this
so in a winze that was sunk to a depth
of 30 feet from the ninth level. Mill
certificates show values running as high
as 400 ounces in silver to the ton, with
the unsual percentage in lead.
"The Bellevue-Huds mine has been
developed to q depth Of 500 feet deeper
than that Of the Capital at Georgetown,
where good ore is now being mined at
vertical depth OF 1900 feet from the sur
face. The vein system of Griffith and
Saxon mountains traverses Columbian
MOUNTAIN, anu IL seems 10 D6 IOfegone
conclusion that even richer ore will be
mined from the present working OF the
Bellevue Hudson mine.
"The Bellevue-Hudson and Anamosa
veins are phenomenal inasmuch as the
ore is oxidized down to depth of 300
feet. Development has proved that the
silver is leached from the surface, impreg-
mating below in the form Of gray copper,
which is a secondary mineral. At this
point the vein is forty feet wide, being in
a crushed mineral zone. Gray copper is
found throughout in all cleavages, while
fragments of ore are found in gangue
matter which assays into the thousands
of ounces in silver to the ton. This in
all probability is broken from an ore
plate below, as the vein st this point
shows g great movement.
am. w. Mouat, who will be in charge
of operations, is a graduate OF the State
School OF Mines at Golden. Mr.. Mouat
has been operating on the Bellevue-Hud-
son as q leaser for the last three years and
is confident that the property will shortly
be classed IS one of the richest and biggest
dividend payers in Clear Creek county. |
He is a practical, as we'll as q theoretical
mine operator, and 1t can be stated With
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