Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-03
MINING ACTIVITY NOTED
THROUGHOUT COLORADO

present summer VIII be more energet
&c. more thorough, and m re intc'li-
gent than any searcn for Orc deposits
that has been undertaken in this state
foI many years. To get prospectors
into the mountains, to put men with a
nose for ore on the trail of gold and
other metals, grubstake fund of
$4,000 has been raised by popular
subscription. The spending of this
money will be in the hands of a COM
mittee composed of men widely known
for their ability as mining engineers
o. their success in mining ventures.
The members of the committee are
Max Boehmer, Ernest LeNeve Foster
and James Doyle. They are sending
out fifty picked prospectors, providing
them with the necessary provisions
and equipment, and giving them ex-
pert advise concerning the best places
and the best methods for prosecuting
a successful search for new ore bodies.
Large areas where metalliferous veins
are known to occur in Colorado have
been given only superficial prospect
ing, and there is perhaps nowhere else
in the world a more promising field
for the prospector. The search for
ore is necessarily gamble, and those
who fail are more numerous than
those who succeed; but there are big
prizes to be won, and mining men
well qualified to form an opinion on
the matter are hopeful that splendid
results, possibly another Leadville or
Cripple Creek, will be the outcome of
tho present prospecting campaign un-
dertaken undertaken under such fa-
vorable conditions.
| Intelligent Search for Ore
Closely allied to the prospecting
campaign is the work of the state
geological survey, for which the last
Legislature made an appropriation of
100000. This survey is supplying thc
geological data that makes possible
an intelligent and scientific search FOR
ore in the place of dependence on
blind luck. The work done by the
survey in the old Monarch district of
Chaffee county has been followed by
a revival of mining activity and the
discovery of the best ore ever found
in that part of the state. This sum-
mer the survey will carry on sinilar
work in the Alma district Of Park
county, and the White Pine district of
Gunnison county, in both of which
there are numerous opportunities fer
getting large returns on moderate in
vestments in the intelligent develop
ment of new ground. The fact that
eNhausting the resources of even the
oldest mining camps of the state is
shown by the recent history of Lead
vile, where during the past year have
been opened in abandoned workings
of many Of the old mines extensive
and immensely valuable deposits of
oXidized zinc ores whose presence
there had until then entirely escaped
attention.
Sensational Strikes in the La Platas
Coincident with the interest of the
revival in prospecting, reports of inn
portant strikes have been coming with
increasing frequency both from the
old camps and from the hitherto un-
explored mineral districts of the-state.
Two strikes that have started a rush
of prospectors into that portion of the
La Plata mountains in Montezuma |
county are reported from Mancos. In
both instances rich free gold ore was |
found in or near abandoned tunnels. |
The Doyle Consolidated company,
which is operating in the same dis
trict is putting up a fifty-ton mill in
which the cyanide process with a pre-
liminary roast will be used. The de-
volopment of ore by this company has
been in progress for several years,
and there has been an abundance
blocked out to maintain regular pro-
dUction. In the western part of Mon
eNNNNiH NobiltN an oll buuih 10 WSH
under way, and lease of state land
in the new oil field has been the sub
iect of bitter controversy. On the
eastern slope IF the La Plata noun
aims in La Plata county the sensa-
sonal shipments which largely in
reased the output of the district last
'ear have been followed by systematic
development and arrangements for To-
al milling that promise to bring the
"a Platas well up among the leading
camps of the state, Mining
len we'll posted regarding the posi-
ilities of the district predict that it
MS future shat will make it as ia
,ous as Cripple Creek.
Discoveries at Cripple Creek
Although the lowering of the water
vel in the Cripple Creek district fol- =
wing the cutting of the first water