The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-12-16
Colorado.


Lessees are taking out good zinc
ore from the upper tunnel of the Coun-
try Boy at Breckenridge.
Adam Murdie has made rich strike
In his mine twenty miles north OF
Crested Butte. The ore runs high in
gold and silver.
The Standard. on Gibson hill. Breck-
enridge district, with three men en-
ployed, is shipping carload of ore.
worth $50 to s37 per ton. per week.
A streak of S00-ounce silver ore
from three to twelve inches wide has
been found in the bottom of the shaft
being sunk on the American Sisters
vein at Georgetown.
Charles Campbell. owner of the Cla-
rion mine on Collier mountain, near
Montezuma. recently. shipped a car
load of heavy galena ore that carried
upwards of rs ounces silver per ton.
A new strike of heavy lead-slver
ere has been made near Montezuma
by Wiltze Smith, in the Lena tunnel
It is reported that he has opened a
two-foot pay streak of shipping grade.
A solid body of smelling ore eight.
cen inches wide and carrying values
of $50 a ton in gold and silver. has
been encountered on the Aetna vein
tthe Capital mine, Georgetown, by
Jasper Mckirihan.
The Revenue mill, at Ouray, which
has been undergoing repairs, has re-
sumed operations on Cumberland ore
The force at the mine and mill re-
mains about as heretofore-fifty men,
including leasers.
Two sets of leasers are operating in
tunnel No. of the Lombard mine,
idaho Springs, both having good ore.
O'Shea & Co. are storing seven ounce
gold ore from a streak of six and
seven inches wide.
The shaft being sunk from the fifth
level at the Santiago mine, George
town, is now down seventy feet and
streak of ore ten inches wide is be-
ing followed that shows values OF
$140 ton in gold, silver and copper.
The production of the Cripple Creek
district for the month of November
has totaled 77,25S tons, with the bull
lion value of $1.322,s40. The slight in
crease in valuation is due to the in
creased tonnage of smelling grade ore
shipped.
1t is reported that the Colorado Gold
Dredging Company is in rich pay grav-
el in the stream bed of Swan valley.
Breckenridge, opposite the mouth OF
Galena gulch. The cleanup from
twelve-day run is said to have been
over $4,000 gold.
A company is now being organized
by New York capitalists to take over
the Lebanon tunnel and twenty nine
lode mining claims, including mill site
and water powers at Georgetown. The
property belongs to the estate of the
late Warren Brown.
The output from the Jerry Johnson
mine, on Ironclad hill. Cripple Creek.
will run close to sixty care this month,
or about two cars day. 1t Will be
few cars short of last month, as work
has been delayed because of installa-
ton of a new compressor.
The Kavanagh mill, 10 Dandy
SlippiC Sf-Shb 10 Ao'N DSi--o
enlarged. Work on the mine dump
has reached that part where the fines
and the screenings are found and the
values have gone up from 81 ton
to $S. A high extraction is being made.
The last cleanup netted $1,4O0.
The Dannemore claim, at the Camp
Bril- mill, Ouray, is being opened up
nj. ;srbt oyI ut hnr rrrith
a crosscut tunnel of $50 feet and only
about twenty feet to go to cut the vein.
Surface showing on this vein is most
encouraging; foot or more OF fifty
tive per cent lead carrying gold and
silver.
tain, Cripple Creek, the water on the
level of the No. 2 shaft is fourteen
inches above the floor, receding twen-
ty inches in one week, which Is the
record fall since the drainage tunnel
was started. 1t will not commence
work on this level until the first of
the year.
One of the important discoveries
made of late in East Argentine district
is reported from the Alaska property
situated on Argentine mountain. At
the bottom Of the forty-fcot shaft
body of mineralized quartz has been
encountered and from a test mill run
of few hundred pounds settlement
was effected at the rate of $33 in gold
and silver. Alongside of the quartz
there is showing two inches of solid
ore that shows assay values OF $40
a ton in gold, silver and lead.
At Frisco the Square Deal company
is again driving the big working tun-
mel with two shifts and machine drills.
1t is now in over 1000 feet. The tun-
mel is being driven to cut two or three
large veins of copper ore, iron SUI
1hido and 2alena ore at great depth.