Gilpin observer., 1911-04-27
Colorado.

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| Colorado.
| Prospectors are looking for vanadi-
um up and down the San Miguel river
in Ouray county.
Work is being continued in the Full
Ter crosscut from the Roosevelt deep
drainage tunnel, at Cripple Creek.
Mining men and metallurgists are
watching with keen interest the mill
under construction at the 10 Dandy
mine, Cripple Creek.
At the Legal Tender, in Ouray coun,
ty. the men are still at work in the
porphyry and the indications continue
to be very encouraging.
The Hughes mine in Russell dis
trict has shipped to the Golden smell.
er, thirty-five tons of smelling ore
which brought returns of $32 ton.
The Federal mine in Russell dis
trict shipped recently to the Golden
smelter, eighty tons of smelling ore
which averaged from 500 to $50 ton
The Baker lode on Quartz hill, in
Gilpin county, shipped recently to the
sampling works fifty tons of smelling
ore, which brought returns of $25
ton.
Smokey, Eade & Co., leasing through
raise No. on the Aetna vein, at
Georgetown, shipped forty tons Of lead
concentrates which averaged SIT per
| ton.
The recent strike of the Ohana Min
ing Company at Sacramento Pass, in
Park county, is one of the biggest
things which has occurred in that part
OF the county in long time. -,s
Offerson and company recently
opened up new streak of ore in their
lease on the fourth level of the Gold
Dirt and Legion mines, at Empire. The
returns show value of S400 in gold
per ton.
The rich strikes that have recent
ly ben made in the Capital mines at
Georgetown, and the heavy shipments
that have been going out, are greatly
stimulating the mining industry of the
Georgetown section.
Checks for the second quarterly div
idend of the Portland Gold Mining
Company. Of Cripple Creek, for 1911,
at the rate of cents per share,
amounting to 100000 have been for
warded to stockholders.
Shipment from South Burns Leas-
ing Company. operating the South
Burns of the Acacia estate in Cripple
Creek will commence soon. The ore
is of god grade and after. sorting will
run close to $40 per ton.
A strike of a most important nature
has ben made on the Ouija claim OF
the San Pedro Gold Mines Company,
in the Sneffels district of Ouray coun-
ty. A vein of galena ore has been cut
into, which runs forty-two per cent
| lead, So in gold and twelve ounces in
silver.
Egyptian mine on Quartz hill, Gil
pin county, shipped the following dur
ing the past month: twenty-seven tons
of smelling ore, which brought returns
of $20.49 per ton; twenty-five tons Of
smelling ore, which brought returns
OF $1,000 ton; thirteen and one-half
cords Of mill ore, brought 20.4 ounces
OF gold and 15,46S pounds of tailings
brought returns of 1884 to the ton.
Edwin Arkell, who is working a
claim east of the Wedekind mine,
near Sparks. brought in some fine look
ing carbonate. rich in silver, recently.
1t ought to go better than 500.
Some twenty or more men are now
at work in the Nevada-Douglas, Gold
field, putting the raises and the levels
in the mine in shape to produce ore
as soon as the railroad is completed
to the property and the smelter at
Thompson is ready to handle the ore.
All former bullion shipment records
from the Consolidated. Goldfield, mill
were broken when twenty-four bars of
bullion valued at $535. 1000 were turned
over to the Wells-Fargo Express Com
pany for conveyance to the Selby
Smelling Company at San Francisco.
The Goldfield Consolidated Mines
produced 25.S14 tons OF ore which
yielded gross value of 81 .04O, 900 dur
ing the month of March. Total costs,
including operating and general ex-
penses. were $215.OOO. leaving net
profit of $s25.O00. Average values were
about $40 per ton.
Production from the Goldfield An
mex, Case at Goldfield has been ofavery
satisfactory nature for some time. and
the present outlook is probably the
best in the history OF the lease. Ship
ment OF 2O0-ton lot is just being COM
pleted and the values are maintaining
an average well up in the pay figures.
New Mexico.
The last smelling at the Deadwood
mines. Mogollon, produced. $500 Troy