The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-07-22
Colorado.


Creek.
Joseph Broad. operating the La
Plata property on Democrat mountain.
Georgetown. shipped ore recently that
ran $S5 per ton in silver and lead.
The Welch property on Leavenworth
mountain, Georgetown, is shipping
fair tonnage of smelling ore running
from SIS to $500 per ton in gold. sill
yer and lead.
Lessees working over the old dumps
at the Orpha May. on Bull hill, Grip
pie Creek. have shipped ore that is ex-
pected to run between $12 and SIS per
ton. a little higher than the usual run
of dump rock.
The Sweepstakes mine, Ouray, has
been leased to G. H. B. Barnhart, who
will run a 2.000-foot crosscut tunnel
which is destined to make another
mine for Ouray county. The sweep
stakes has been idle seventeen years.
The strike in the Modoc, Cripple
Creek. is holding up well and to date
five cars have been shipped from the
! fifth and seventh levels. The shoot
has not been found on the first level.
but the company is still prosecuting.
The lessees operating the Rcqua-
Savage property at Cripple Creek. are
making the usual output of milling
rade ore mined in the lower levels.
The shaft has been sunk to the water
level and at the bottom the main shoot
was opened.
strike has been made in the Yer
| 40 If California
gulch and Mineral point in Ouray
county. of large streak of ore run
ming 5000 in gold and silver 1t is be-
lieved to be the most important strike
in the history of the California gulch
district
Albert Lively and N H. Silliman.
| leasers OF the Argo mine at Jimtown
| in Boulder cour :, report strike or
ore running s25 gold $3.50 silver and
$3.50 lead per ton. The vein is eight
feet wide and $50 feet from the mouth
of the tunnel. One carload is ready
for shipment.
w. J.. Niles, leasing on the Little
| Puck Companys estate on Squaw
| mountain, Cripple Creek, has opened
| an ore shoot which promises to be per-
! uianent, in one Of the old shafts
| vein two feet between walls has been
! encountered which shows some syl-
| vanite and rusty gold.
In the famous old FL Mahdi mine in
Bachelor district there has been op'
ened a five-foot vein of beautiful gray
copper ore running from the hundteds
into the thousands of ounces in silver
per ton. This was the first paying
mine in the Bachelor district, which
was called into being by reason of its
| discovery.
A considerable number of prospect
ors are going into the territory at the
| head of Chicago Creek, ten to fifteen
miles southwest of Idaho Springs. \
companyo Minneapolis people have
been prosecuting work there for three
years past and they now report dis
coveries of phenomenally rich ore
Assays running as high as $4,000 per
ton have been taken.
At the American Sisters mine. one
of the most famous early day produc-
ers of the Upper Clear Creek district
the pumps will be started soon to lift
| the water from the Headlight shaft
| now down 220 feet. The shaft is to
90 another 200 feet when drifting will
! be started from the three levels.
Large bodies of low and medium grade
| ore are exposed throughout the work
ings.
Notwithstanding 1t has been defi
nitely denied that strike has been
| made in the east workings of the
| Camp Bird mine at Ouray one mile
| east of the main tunnel crosscut, the
rumor persists and will not down. 1t
has been stated by several that they
had positive information that strike
of large body of $50 ore had been
made at a depth of 1900 feet just
above Ironton. The strike Is said to
have been made in the breast of the
main adit development tunnel.
One of the biggest mineral discoy
cries made in years in the Daily and
| Atlantic districts is reported from the
Scotia extension property, on Young
mountain. At a depth of fifty feet
body of solid smelling ore eighteen
inches to two feet wide has been eX
posed that carries average values of
| S35 per ton in gold and silver. There
| is also showing a four-inch streak OF
ore that carries $3.50 gold and 70
4 ounces silver per ton. This discovery
has created no little excitement and
many prospecting parties are being or
ganized These districts have been re-
ceiving much attention during the past
| two years.