Gilpin observer., 1911-12-28
Colorado.

Colorado.
Helurhs from recent car of Paris
| ere shipped by the owners, Arvidson
Il Johnson of Ouray, gave better than
hve ounces in gold to the ton.
Great progress is being made in the
Sugar Loaf mine in Boulder county
one Is being taken out which runs as
hlgh as S2lG in gold and SO in silver.
More mines are being developed this
year and more men employed at good
wages than in the last decade. There
are no idle men who could not secure
work If they chose.
james Wright of Cripple Creek,
president of the 10 Dandy Mining
Company, gave it as his opinion that
the output of the Cripple Creek dis
trict Will be increased at least 40 per
cent within the next year as result
or drainage by the Roosevelt tunnel
1t is estimated that the production
from the Forest Queen mine, on Iron
clad hill, for 1911, will run close 20
$2OO,OOO, against one-sixth of that
amount in 1910. The latest ore body
opened is one of the richest being
mined in the camp. Returns as high
as $500 per ton have been received
from screenings.
Kramer Brothers, who are operating
lease on the Egyptian mine, on
Quartz hill, Gilpin county, are keeping
up steady production from the mine.
During the month of November they
Shipped fifty tons of screenings that
gave returns of SIG ton, sixteen tons
af tailings that brought values of $15
ton, and thirteen cords of mill ore
that yielded one and one-half ounces
gold to the cord on the plates.
Steve Laner and Company, operat-
ing the Columbia mine at Central City,
are keeping up monthly production
of good ore. During the past month
they shipped 30 tons of smelling ore,
worth go ounces gold, ounces silver
and 3l2 per cent copper per ton; 50
tons that returned ounces gold,
ounces silver and 21a per cent copper
per ton; IA cords of mill ore that
yielded ounces gold to the cord, and
IS tons of tailings worth 80 gold,
21s ounces silver per ton.
Without doubt one of the biggest
strikes for many day has been made
in the American Eagle mine at Grip
pie Greek, and within four days two
cars OF ore were shipped which run
from $50 to 1915 per ton. The Ameri-
can Eagles is one of the Stratton es
tate properties and located on Bull
hill For three years it has been
leased to the Colorado Mines & Invest
ment Company. The strike, which is
new in every particular, was made on
the eleventh level in a drift on the
main Eagles vein, north of the shaft
and north of the olo Stratton stope
from which s1,OO0,00O was taken out
years ago.
The optimist who has been persist
en- in his belief that the Camp Bird
mine, Ouray, would come through with
new and valuable discoveries now ap-
pears to be the man who guessed
right. Aside from the comparatively
recent discovery in the extreme east
breast of the drift on the Camp Bird
vein, perhaps one mile east from the
main cross-cut tunnel, aud where good
mill ore in payable quantities is be-
ing developed. the shaft going down
1000 feet, to the east of the main tun-
mel, is showing large body of pay
ore. The discoveries to the east in
dicate an entirely new ore bearing
zone in the Camp Bird vein. They
also go to prove that for an indefinite
number of years the Camp Bird will
be paying profits and employing con
siderable rumber of men.