Gilpin observer., 1911-12-14
Colorado.

The Atlas people at Ouray have
twenty stamps working, the output
being 800 tons per month. =,
Lessees are taking out good zinc
ore from the upper tunnel of the Coun-
| try Boy at breckenridge.
Adam Murdie has made q rich strike
in his mine twenty miles north of
Crested Butte. The ore runs high in
gold and silver.
| The Standard, on Gibson hill, Breck-
enridge district, with three men en-
ployed, is shipping carload of ore,
worth sS5 to $37 per ton, per week.
A streak of S00-ounce silver ore
from three to twelve inches wide has
| been found in the bottom of the shaft
being sunk on the American Sisters
vein at Georgetown.
Charles Campbell. owner of the Cla-
| rion mine on Collier mountain, near
| Montezuma, recently shipped car
load of heavy galena ore that carried
upwards of 10 ounces silver per ton.
| A new strike of heavy lead-silver
ere has been made near Montezuma
| by Wiltze Smith, in the Lena tunnel.
1t is reported that he has opened
two-foot pay streak of shipping grade.
A solid body of smelling ore eight.
cen inches wide and carrying values
of $55 a ton in gold and silver, has
been encountered on the Aetna vein
tthe Capital mine, Georgetown, by
Jasper McKirihan.
The Revenue mill, at Ouray, which
has been undergoing repairs, has re-
sumed operations on Cumberland Gre.
The force at the mine and mill re-
mains about as heretofore-fifty men,
including leasers.
Two sets of leasers are operating in
tunnel No. 2 of the Lombard mine,
Idaho Springs, both having good ore.
O'Shea & Co. are storing seven ounce
gold ore from a streak of six and
seven inches wide.
The shaft being sunk from the fifth
level at the Santiago mine, George
town, is now down seventy feet and
streak of ore ten inches wide is be-
ing followed that shows values of
d
The production of the Cripple Creek
district for the month of November
has totaled 77,25S tons, with the bull
lion value of s1,322,S40. The slight in
crease in valuation is due to the in
creased tonnage of smelling grade ore
shipped.
1t is reported that the Colorado Gold
Dredging Company is in rich pay grav
| ell in the stream bed of Swan valley.
| Breckenridge, opposite the mouth of
Galena gulch. The cleanup from a
twelve-day run is said to have been
over $4,000 gold.
company is now being organized
| by New York capitalists to take over
the Lebanon tunnel and twenty-nine
lode mining claims, including mill site
and water powers at Georgetown. The
property belongs to the estate of the
late Warren Brown.
The output from the Jerry Johnson
mine, on Ironclad hill, Cripple Creek.
will run close to sixty care this month
or about two cars day. 1t will be a
few cars short of last month. as work
has been delayed because of installa-
tion of new compressor.
The Kavanagh mill, 10 Dandy
ground, Cripple Creek. is fast being
enlarged. Work on the mine dump
has reached that part where the fines
and the screenings are found and the
values have gone up from S4 ton
to IS. A high extraction is being made.
The last cleanup netted S1,4OO.
The Dannemore claim, at the Camp
Birl mill, Ouray, is being opened up
by Richard Mcknight and others with
a crosscut tunnel of $50 feet and only
about twenty feet to go to cut the vein
Surface showing on this vein is most
encouraging; foot or more of fifty
tive per cent lead carrying gold and
silver.
In Portland mine, on Battle noun
tain, Cripple Creek, the water on the
level of the No. shaft is fourteen
inches above the floor, receding TWEEN
ty inches in one week, which is the
record fall since the drainage tunnel
work on this level until the first OF
the year.
one of the important discoveries
made of late in East Argentine district
is reported from the Alaska property
situated on Argentine mountain. Al
the bottom of the. forty.foot shaft
body Of mineralized quartz has beer
encountered and from test mill rur
of few hundred pounds settlement
was effected at the rate of s33 in gold
and silver. Alongside OF the quartz
there is showing two inches of solid
ore that shows assay values of $17(
a ton in gold, silver and lead.
At Frisco the Square Deal compan,
is again driving the big working tun
mel with two shifts and machine drills