Gilpin observer., 1911-10-26
Colorado.

Prof. j. G. Roberts, director OF the
United States mine rescue car, IL at
Cripple Creek, to confer with Manager
Smale of the Portland Company con-
cerning rescue apparatus to be in
stalled at that property.
From the G. K. & N, on the west
slope of Beacon Hill, Cripple Creek.
shipments are being made by the COM
pany from one big shoot which was
left when the mine was closed down
and promising prospects have been
opened.
A gold brick weighing 34.s pounds
and valued at $500, which resulted
from a cleanup on mill run of
about 500 tons of ore from the Wano
mine in the Wano mill in Boulder
county, has been sent to the Denver
mint.
The preliminary run of the new
cyanide mill which has been under
construction at Boulder the past year
or more, has been made and it is
thought that the plant will be ready
to go into commission within a week
or ten days.
Hemby & Anderson, operating the
Ramona property on Bull Hill, Cripple
Creek, are shipping two cars month
of good ore stopped from the old vein
on the second level. 1t has been mined
for years but there is still plenty oi
ore in sight.
The Nugget, fractional claim ad.
joining the Portland on Battle NOUN
tain, Cripple Creek, for which the
Favorite Gold Mining Company paid
$500 in the early days, has been
leased and bonded to J. r. Anderson
and associates for $25,000.
Reports of mineral discoveries in the
foothills between Perry park and
Platte mountain, known locally as
Devils Head mountain at Castle Rock,
have served to revive interest in
locality which has been prospected for
twenty years without definite results.
Frank Galley and sub-lessees will
ship about forty cars in October from
the Jerry Johnson, at Cripple Creek.
A good output is being made from a
new strike on the bottom level of .
flat vein. The old Jerry Johnson vein
is holding up well and about two cars
a week are shipped.
Uncle Billie" Clark has suspended
operations for the season at the Gertie.
Mt. Sneffels, Ouray county. Things at
the Gertie look good, with an 1S-inch:
streak of quartz. literally sprinkled
wkith ruby silver. That is the show
ing in the breast, after going through
ten feet Of this ruby silver shoot.
A Camp (Ouray) Bird official made
the statement that about four months
would wind up the operation of the
mine on the present basis, and that
after that the ground would be
leased. Even now, he said, the com.
pany was offering blocks of ground to
leasers. The force at the mine and
mill has been materially reduced re-
Gently.
The greatest mine of high grade
veloped, and is already producing, in
Gilpin county, it is rumored. Radium,
which is found in uranium and which
is worth $2,500,000 pound, will soon
be produced in laboratories to be es-
tablished in Denver. The biggest
piece of pitchblende, which is almost
pure uranium ever found in the world
has just been shipped from the mine
to Denver. The nugget weighs 240
pounds and is So per cent pure uran-
ium, which is worth 500 pound.
Rarely has pitchblende been found in
chunks weighing as high as five hun
dred pounds.
Increased activity is apparent on a
number of veins opened up by the
Newhouse tunnel, in Gilpin county,
which has been completed for dis.
tance Of 21.96S feet. or miles and
S4S feet. This tunnel is the longest
mining tunnel in the United States. IL
not in the world. The tunnel was
started number of years ago by
Mr.. Samuel Newhouse, from whom it
derived its name, and was controlled
by English capital. After the tunnel
had been driven for several years, Mr..
Newhouse withdrew from the old com
pany, and since that time American
capital has had control of this enter
prise. and the name has been changed
to The Argo Tunnel Company.
After several weeks of steady work,
the water in the Robert Emmett mine,
in Chase gulch, Gilpin county, has
been removed and when the drifts are
cleaned out, and the shaft made safe
for work, development of the property
will be carried on in good shape.
This property was a good producer
when formerly operated, and under
the management Of Mr.. Bawden, will
soon takc its place among the regular
shippers Of the county.
The leasers on the Corydon mine.
in Gilpju county, who commenced
work a month or so ago, In putting 1t