Gilpin observer., 1911-07-20
Colorado

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Lead .................... +45 % $50
opeiter .................. o.oo
Colorado.
A car OF smelling grade ore has
been shipped from the Comache
Plume, on Battle mountain, Cripple
Creek.
Joseph Broad. operating the La
Plata property on Democrat mountain.
Georgetown, shipped ore recently that
ran $S5 per ton in silver and lead.
The Welch property on Leavenworth
mountain, Georgetown, is shipping a
fair tonnage of smelling ore running
from 375 to 500 per ton in gold, sill
yer and lead.
Lessees working over the old dumps
at the Orpha May. on Bull hill, Grip
pie Creek. have shipped ore that is ex-
pected to run between $12 and SIS per
ton, little higher than the usual run
Of dump rock.
The Sweepstakes mine, Ouray, has
been leased to G. H. B. Barnhart. who
will run 2.O00-foot crosscut tunnel
which is destined to make another
AhihC koA O0Ady Souhly. AhC oWSCp
stakes has been idle seventeen years.
The strike In the Modoc, Cripple
Creek. is holding up well and to date
five cars have been shipped from the
fifth and seventh levels. The shoot
has not been found on the first level,
but the company is still prosecuting.
The lessees operating the Requa-
Savage property at Cripple Creek. are
making the usual output Of milling
rade ore mined in the lower levels.
The shaft has been sunk to the water
level and at the bottom the main shoot
was opened.
A strike has been made In the Yer
million, between the head Of California
gulch and Mineral point, In Ouray
county. of large streak Of ore run
ming 5000 in gold and silver. 1t is be-
lieved to be the most important strike
in the history of the California gulch
district
Albert Lively and N. H. Silliman.
leasers of the Argo mine at Jimtown
in Boulder cour 7. report strike of
ore running $25 gold, $3.50 silver and
$3.50 lead per ton. The vein is eight
feet wide and $50 feet from the mouth
of the tunnel. One carload is ready
for shipment.
W. L. Niles, leasing on the Little
Puck Company's estate on Squaw
mountain, Cripple Creek, has opened
an ore shoot which promises to be per-
manent, in one of the OLD shafts a
vein two feet between walls has been
encountered which shows some syl-
vanite and rusty gold.
In the famous old Ell Mahdi mine in
Bachelor district there has been op-
ened five-foot vein of beautiful gray
copper ore running from the hundreds
into the thousands of ounces in silver
per ton. This was the first paying
mine in the Bachelor district, which
WAS called into being by reason OF its
discovery.
A considerable number Of prospect
ors are going into the territory at the
head of Chicago Creek, ten to fifteen
miles southwest of Idaho Springs. A
companyo Minneapolis people have
been prosecuting work there for three
years past anu tuey uOW IcpoEl uio
coveries of phenomenally rich ore.
Assays running as high as $4,000 per
ton have been taken.
At the American Sisters mine, one
OF the most famous early day produc-
ers of the Upper Clear Creek district,
the pumps will be started soon to lift
the water from the Headlight shaft
hot ic fn
go another 200 feet when drifting will
be started from the three levels.
Large bodies of low and medium grade
ore are exposed throughout the work
ings.
Notwithstanding it has been def.
nitely denied that a strike has been
made in the east workings of the
Camp Bird mine at Ouray, one mile
east of the main tunnel crosscut, the
rumor persists and will not down. It
has been stated by several that they
had positive information that strike
of a large body of $50 ore had been
made at a depth of 1900 feet just
above Ironton. The strike is said to
have been made in the breast of the
main adit development tunnel.
One of the biggest mineral discov.
cries made in years in the Daily and
Atlantic districts is reported from the
Scotia extension property. on Young
mountain At a depth of fifty feet a
body of solid smelling ore eighteen
inches to two feet wide has been ex.
posed that carries average values OF
$35 per ton in gold and silver. There
is also showing four-inch streak OF
ore that carries $3.50 gold and 10
ounces silver per ton. This discovery
has created no little excitement and
many prospecting parties are being or