Gilpin observer., 1911-09-28
w E STERN
MINING NEWS
IN q r I E r
western Newspaper Union News Service.


The Homestake mill at Cripple
Creek is now in operation.
High grade silver ore has been
found in the Newsboy mine in Ouray
county.
The Barstow mine, Ouray, is max.
Ing regular shipments via the Silver
ton railroad.
The Mabel M. and Hustled mines. 10
Gated at Cripple Creek, shipped 1000
tons of ore in August.
The Joker lease on Red Mountain is
making some fine ore in the mill and
making regular shipments to Ouray.
Paul Walker has struck a new body
of ore on the Kansas City group, Ou-
ray, and the ore seems to be of good
quality.
Work of sinking the Dexter shaft, on
Battle mountain, Cripple Creek, has
started. 1t is now down 800 feet and
will go to 1,100.
The Big Indian tunnel on Leaven.
worth mountain, Georgetown, is being
driven steadily forward, having at
tained distance of las feet.
Over $50 tons of ore have been run
through the mill and treated by the cy-
anide method at the Wano mine at
Jimtown, in Boulder county.
The Alpine Horn at Sugar Loaf in
Boulder county is outputting from
three to four cars monthly, the ore
running better than an ounce in gold.
F. D. Whitney has opened up a very
promising lode in Phoenix district, the
surface ore showing a width of about
three inches, with free gold showing
throughout the rock.
Gus Meyers is developing the Meta
lode, located on Montana mountain in
Apex district, and has opened up a
nice vein, from which he has received
assay values of $40 a ton.
August shipments from the Ouray
district are reported at ninety cars of
twenty-five tons each, which means O.
25O tons Of high-grade concentrates
and smelling ores worth SIS ton.
Left Hand and Jimtown district IN
Boulder county seem to be enjoying
unceasing activity in the development
of the mines and with it is coming a
larger output of gold and silver than
for some time.
The Gold Bug claim, located next to
the Modoc, on Battle mountain, Grip
pie Creek, is the scene of a rich sur
face strike from which samples run
| $50 per ton. The ore was encountered
| at a depth of five foot
With the arrival couple of weeks
ago of four carloads of machinery for
the Conqueror Mining and Milling
Company, Georgetown, comes the an
nOuncement that the 300-ton mill,
started year ago, will be completed
at once.
August and Paul Hahnewald of
Leadville, who were recently given a
lease on the Old Gold which adjoins
the Ell Paso on the west slope of Bea-
con Hill, Cripple Creek, are in the dis.
trict making arrangements to start up
this property.
Four machines have been put to
work in the C. X. & N. by Charles Rid.
path, superintendent of the property,
Cripple Creek, all on development
work, and besides gang of men is
working on repairs. A shipment is
now being prepared.
The Upper Granite shaft, Cripple
Creek, is the chief producer of the
Granite company and fifteen sets OF
lessees are at work, most of them in
ore. Several strikes made within
three months are holding up well, with
heavy production.
Reports from the Revenue in Ouray
| county indicate that the Cumberland
vein is making good and is going to
afford the means of soon putting back
the old Sneffels standby on the profit
paying side of the ledger with big
crew of men. 1t is believed rich gold
ore is near at hand.
Although only the limited amount OF
work possible by one man has been
done, three-foot vein of ore and
quartz at an altitude of $500 feet, has
been opened at the foot Of Mears
Peak. in Chaffee county. Assays give
results as high as IS in gold, eleven
ounces in silver and rs per cent. in
lead.
Shipments Of ore from the National
property in West Argentine have been
inaugurated and from this time for
ward until the heavy SHOWS set In Q
heavy tonnage will be marketed. The
company is running an adit on a body
of galena that is twelve inches wide
md returns of 65 per cent. in lead and
40 ounces in silver to the ton are be
ing realized.
Two cars of good grade ore were
shipped from the Sunshine mine IN
Boulder county.
Twelve men are working at the Iowa
Mining and Milling Cqmpany's prop
erty on the south slope of Straut
mountain which Is declared to bt