The Winslow mail., 1911-04-15
Colorado.

erty at Cripple Greek will begin soon.
At Montezuma there is considerable
activity and a good season is antici-
pated.
The Home Company at Tin Cup. is
driving a tunnel into new ground near
Gunnison.
In March the Cresson mine at Grip
pie Creek sent out $500 tons worth
$25 per ton.
1t is reported a large milling plant
will soon be constructed in the Twin
Lakes region.
Quite a force of men are working
on the Maple Leaf at Sillsville and
with good success.
Frisco, in Summit county, keeps up
it's record for energetic work and has
a good monthly payroll.
The Fair Chance property at Grip
pie Creek recently made a shipment
OF thirty tons of good ore.
The Jerry Johnson mine at Cripple
Creek is doing good work and will
ship at least twenty cars in April.
The Jonathan, one of the best known
of the properties that are just below
and near Ouray, is producing fine ore
at this time.
At the Buffalo Placer Mining Com
pany's large property, a mile north of
Dillon, carpenters are constructing a
boarding house.
The force of men on the Gold Links
mine and mill at Gunnison, has been
somewhat reduced this winter, but is
getting back toward the 100 mark.
Recent development in the Excelsior
mine, Breckenridge, is reported as hav-
ing opened up large streak of ore
that assays we'll in gold and silver.
The hoist for the Nichols shaft at
Cripple Creek, is expected to be laid
on the ground in the near future and
inside of a month it will be ready for
work.
Bonds to the extent of $150,000 are
to be issued by The Hamlet Mining &
Milling Company, of San Juan county,
in order to raise fund for develop.
ment work
Repairs are being made on the big
concentrator mill of the New Penn.
sylvania Company in Summit county,
preparatory to starting On ore from
that property.
The Blue Flag shaft at Cripple
Creek, is being sunk, two shifts being
employed. A contract recently was
let to sink 300 feet from the 500-foot,
or bottom level.
C. E. Shaeffer has men at work in
the crosscut tunnel being driven to
develop the Bolivar group on Collier
mountain at Breckenridge. The tun
mel is now in over 800 feet.
The Philadelphia vein at Brecken
ridge is being drifted on, with good
results. The Philadelphia's first class
ore runs about SO ounces in silver
and up to rs per cent in lead.
With the return of Carroll M. Car
ter from California work on the tun-
mel above Ohio City, in Gunniscn
county, will resume and the new mill
b eput in commission during April.
w. B. Lewald is driving the new
crosscut tunnel to intersect the big
Peruvian vein and later on to cut the
rich vein of the Shoe Basin lode in
Summit county. The tunnel is said
to be in over 500 feet.
Important development work by the
Vindicator Consolidated Gold Mining
Company at Victor, has been started,
company's main shaft to a depth OF
1000 feet. The shaft is now 1,400
feet deep.
The new 100-ton mill of the Colo.
rado-Toledo Company at Montezuma.
has been started on ore from the com.
pany's group.
Work has begun on the shaft of the
State Coal Companys mine at Greeley
and when completed the shaft will be
one of the largest on any mining prop.
erty in that section and can be
equipped to hoist upward of 1000 tons
of coal daily.
One of the most important strikes
in the Monarch mining district was
made in the United States Treasury
mine tunnel, located on Mount Aetna,
three miles west of Garfield in what
is known as Camp Summit. The ore
averaging $23 per ton.
In the rich districts of Red noun
tain, Animas Forks, Mineral Point,
Ironton, Sneffels, Marshall Basin, Inlo-
gene Basin, Silverton, Howardsville,
Eureka Gladstone, Ouray, Telluride,
Ophir, Rico, Dunton and other camps
in the San Juan mountains, active op-
erations are rounding into form and
they anticipate greater production this
season than ever before in any one
year of their history.
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