The new era., 1911-03-16

Colorado.
Operations will be resumed at the
Franklin property at Boulder.
Kelly & Eastwood are getting out
two-car shipment from the old Niwot
workings in Boulder county.
Work was resumed March 1 on the
Wolftone, Maid Of Erin and other
Leadville producers of the Western
Mining Company.
The original discovery vein on the
Ell Paso Gold King. in Poverty gulch.
Cripple Creek, which was opened by
Bob Womack, is again being prospect
ed.
B. S. Barker OF Fruita is closing the
sale of zinc mine near Trinidad to
q California syndicate for $48,000.
Three years ago Barker was penni-
less.
Hellar & Richards, working the Co.
manche Plume, Cripple Creek, have
settled for two cars of ore shipped to
the Copeland sampler which returned
$40 per ton.
City coal mines, idle for the last
month, will open within few days.
Large gangs are being sent from Pu
eblo to work in the mines.
After prospecting more than a week,
Lehnhulh & Wiellant. operating the
Rittenhouse, on Gold Hill, Cripple
Creek. sent out shipment which was
above the milling average.
A night shift is being worked on the
Old Gold, Cripple Creek, which is
leased to Brentlinger and associates.
and it will soon be back in the ship
ping list. The water is fast receding.
Joe Brentlinger, who holds a lease
on the Dan Mcdonald on Guyot hill.
Cripple Creek, will begin development
at once. 1t is in good territory and
on the ground traversed by the Bea-
con Hill.AjaX veins. A plant will be
installed on the main shaft.
l.. Oliver, who recently took lease
on the west drift of the Ktna vein.
Georgetown, cut 1900 feet from the
portal of the Capital tunnel, has start
ed stopping on a streak of smelling ore
eighteen inches wide. Numerous tests
indicate that returns of $40 per ton
will be realized.
In the Fuller crosscut in the Roose
welt tunnel, Cripple Creek, about 100
gallons minute is now coming from
the heading, an increase of 200 gal
Ions developing in the last two days
A gain of ten feet daily is being made
There is now close to 5000 gallons a
minute coming from the portal of the
tunnel.
In the crosscut being run to the
north from the new level on the w
P. H. on Ironclad hill, Cripple Creek.
search will be made for three flat
veins encountered in the sinking.
These carry good ore at the intersec-
tion of each vein. These veins are
new and have not been worked in any
other property.
Heavy shipments are still in order
from the Josephine mine on kelso
mountain, Georgetown. An average OF
ten tons of galena is being marketed
each day, but with the advent OF
spring it is proposed to triple the out
put. The ore averages $55 per ton in
silver and lead, the monthly output
crowding the $4,000 mark.
The Kelso Mountain Mining Compa
ny is late incorporation that has en-
tered the upper Clear Creek district.
The Howard group of claims has been
purchased outright and contract is to
be awarded to drive the lower adit 100
feet. This property has been pro-
ducer from grass roots and the pros
pect is bright for making it one OF the
best producers in the West Argentine
district
The General vanadium Company OF
Liverpool has been active of late in
signing up contracts for vanadium
ore. c. e. Cherrington, who owns va
nadium claims at Newmire in San
Miguel county, has agreed to sell this
company 200 tons Of ore a month, de-
liveries to begin in May. The ruling
price for the ore is about 81 a pound
for the metallic vanadium it carries;
that is, $50 ton for per cent ore.
The Pioneer mine on Covode noun
tain at Georgetown, has been taken
under bond and lease by j. II. r
Smokey and associates and, 1t is report
ed, a campaign of development VIII
be inaugurated. The property, en-
bracing three lode mining claims, vii.
be transferred to the Internationa!
Mines and Land Company, which Is
carrying on extensive operations in the
Cripple Creek district. 1t is said that
on the fourth level of the workings Il
two-foot body of ore, showing assay
values of $173 per ton in gold, is eX'
posed. The Pioneer mine long has
been a producer OF high and medium
grade ore. Manager Trevellion is pre-
pairing to ship smelling ore that Will
mill close to $50 per ton in gold and
silver.