Gilpin observer., 1911-03-23
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MINING NEWS
The Trend of Metal Prices.
Colorado.
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lican mountain, Georgetown.
Peart and company are shipping a
lot Of ore from the Gum Tree mine,
Idaho Springs. They have a lease in
the fourth level which is producing
ore which runs to $40 per ton.
Frank Balls and partner who have
been leasing on the Tungsten NJ. NJ
& E. Co. properties, Boulder, took out
five tons of ore and sent it to the
Ardourel G. Smith mill as a test. The
ore averaged ten per cent tungsten.
Frank Galley, lessee on the Jerry
Johnson, Cripple Creek, has made sew.
eral strikes, all of minor Importance.
The original plan of development is
being carried out. Drifting on two lev
els is continued.
During the next thirty days it is ex.
pected that a force of at least fifty
men will be at work at the Wilcox
tunnel, Georgetown. Considerable de-
velopment is now being carried for
ward.
Now, more than at any time in the
last six months, have mining men of
Cripple Creek begun to prepare for
the sinking of shafts in order to work
the deeper levels, as the water is re-
ceding faster than at any time since
the first course was struck in the
heading Of the Roosevelt tunnel.
The Burleigh mill. Silver Plume,
which has been closed for short
time has resumed operations. The mill
has been fed largely from the Pelican
dump. The mill closed for short
time on account of the frozen condi-
tion of the material. 1t is hoped that
it will now have long and uninter-
rupted period of prosperity.
John Connors, lessee on the Forest
Queen, Cripple Greek, has shipped in
the last week five cars OF ore running
between $40 and $50 per ton. This
shoot has just been opened and de-
velopment SO far fails to show any
end to the ore. The vein was opened
by accident and has produced since
the day it was encountered.
Middagh Brothers, leasing on the
Australia of the Ell Paso Consolidated
company, Cripple Creek, who some
just above the tunnel level, have
stopped through to surface, mining ore
of high grade to grass roots. The lease
has been one of the most profitable
of the Beacon hill section for year.
An immense cavity recently entered
at the nineteenth level-1,6 feet deep
of the main shaft on the Blue Bird
mine on Bull hill. Cripple Creek, is re-
ported a veritable cave of crystal
Specimens, some weighing fully fifty
pounds, have been exhibited and are
sought eagerly by owners of mineral
cabinets and displays of ore of that
district.
Since resumption of work in the
Last Dollar by Lewman and associates
at Cripple Creek, two weeks ago. five
sets of sub-lessees have entered the
mine and three are working in ore
Morgan and Carr, operating a block
between the fourth and fifth levels in
a cross-vein which intersects the main
vein, shipped car which returned
$50 per ton.
A new shoot on the McLaren vein
OF the Gold Dollar Consolidated Min
ing Company, Cripple Creek, has been
opened at the 40O-foot level OF the
Mable NJ. shaft by lessees, who are
shooting down ten feet of vein matter
that will ship at two to three ounces
of gold to the ton. The strike is by
far the most important in year or
more. The quartz is literally coated
with heavy crystals of calaverite.
Melvin Rapp and associates, who re-
Gently took a suitcase from Frank
Galley on the Arapahoe claim of the
Jerry Johnson estate, Ironclaid hill,
Cripple Creek, is shipping about three
cars a week of milling grade ore,
mined from an old stope in the bottom
or 600-foot level of the shaft.
Preparations are being made for
sinking the Isabella shaft. Cripple
Creek, an additional 200 feet. The lsa.
bella company plans opening the big
ore bodies mined in the upper levels
OF the Lee shaft and starting the mill.
The lease option held by Seattle men,
1t is said, will expire March 20, when
the company may operate rhs mill Of
its own account. as several new
strikes of good milling grade ore have
just been made.
A production of about thirty cars
month of average ore is being made
from the Gold Dollar estate, on the
east slope of Beacon hill, at Cripple
Creek. with thirty sets of lessees work.
ing. This includes the output from
the Hustled shaft. The first car from
the new strike made in a cross.cut
which runs to the southeast of the
shaft has been shipped. Good returns
are expected from 1t.
The directors Of the Granite COM
pany have decided to install a modern
steam plant on the upper Granite
shaft, Battle mountain. Cripple Creek,