The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-09-02
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This is largely gold region, the metal
being found in two distinct kinds of
veins or deposits. The camp has pro-
baby been heard of among mining
men more because of its great deposit
of low grade gold ore in porphyry to
| which considerable attention has been
given and on which development
work has disclosed great body of low
grade ore some thousand feet long and
| of an unknown width. You will un-
derstand that cross cutting operations
have been conducted for 3S5 feet with
out disclosure of the side walls. So far
modern metallurgy has not been APP
piled to this great deposit in such
way as to treat it at profit though no
doubt this will be only a matter of a
short time. We look for a great deal
of help along this line from th+ ex-
tho State School of Mines IN their splen
aid new labratory erected by the
State for this very purpose. When
the problem of treating this ore is
solved this deposit bifs fair to rival
any of the other well known great low
grade deposits which are being treated
SO successfully such as he Homestake
or TIeadwell
The secend system of veins consists
of well defined assures with streaks
Nor heasterly and Southwesterly. They
have clearly defined walls and carry
near the surface decomposed quartz
with pyritic gold content. A great
many Of these veins are easily worke
portions of them being what is common
ly called 'pick and shovel ground" and
requiring little poweder. The ore is
simple free milling ore not complicated
with base metals or suphide. One of
the most promising of these fissure
veins is known as the Lalla and 5000
feet of vein il covered by two patent
ed claims. Harper and Burns secured
this under lease some months ago and
single-handed have been operating it
aud seing development work. They
erected five stamp mill at their own
expense asd it is said not only have paid
all expenses of development but have
lived off of the property even though |
being able to work onlya few tons day
through their small mill which was
equipped with the old style Gilpin
county stamps and hence did not have
any great capacity. They have
driven in three levels on the veins and |
connected the two lower with 80 foot
upraise and we understand have blockd |
out ready to take down over $50, 900
worth of ore
Realizing that without capital they
would not be able to handle this proper
ty in the most profitable manner they |
applied to local Denver operators for
assistance. They at last brought
their mine to the attention of Sam H
Alexander, Denver who with associa-
tes represents large coterie of Wis
consin and Pennsylvania capitalists
is and got him sufficiently interested
to make an examination of the proper
ty. Mr.. Alexander and associates
were sufficiently well pleased with
their Investigations to take over the
lease and have already begun vigor-
GUS operations at the mine and mill
in the way Of blocking out additional
ore and taking out ore of shipping
grade ready to make their first ship
ment. Their operations in this To-
cality are being carried on under the
name Of the King Solomon Leasing
and Exploration Company. Mr.. F.
C. Dinsmore who is president of this
company and has oversight of the field
work and purchases, has been in Idaho
Springs this week and at Alice look
ing after their work and putting in ad-
ditional men on the mine. AS soon as
sufficient ore reserves are created these
men expect to provide milling facilities
capable of handling at least 100 tons
per day. The operations Of the com
pany will not be confined to this prop
erty alone as they have already under
consideration several other well known
and important properties which have
been good producers in the past.
The McKelvey mill of the Idaho
Springs Milling company ran a couple
of days this week on dump ore in order
to get all the apparatus in good rum
ming order. Some Of the machinery
needed adjustment but things will be
in shape the first of the week for /
working on the ores in the bins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Smith Of Kear-
ney, Nebraska, are spending their on
eymoon in the Marston rustic cottage
up Soda crek. Mr.. Smith was an en-