The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-04-13
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MINING NEWS
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After being exposed on eight differ.
enc levels OF the School Section mine,
At Cripple Greek, for ten years, vein
said TO be three to five feet wide. the
GRE assaying from $40 to $50 per ton,
IS being mined.
The Gianino lease on the Morning
star. OuTay, on the West side, ii
showing up satisfactorily. The ore
body being developed and mined is not
large, but it is comparatively high
grade, and appears to be leading TO a
big body of ore.
Edwin Gaylord, operating the Dante
property on Bull hill, Cripple Creek,
VIII ship about ten or twelve cars Of
ore which runs better than $50 per
ton this month. 1t is mined from the
fourth level Of the No. shaft. and
is said 10 be an extension of the main
ore body mined above.
The lease being operated at the
capital mine, Georgetown, by Hummer
and Herbcr is developing into one Of
the biggest paying propositions of re-
cent years in the upper Clear Creek
. NRAH Lt+ O4 uObs, ali SOl4A4i NV
varies in width from Is inches TO 3
feet, the average value of the product
exceeding $50 a ton.
The company lessees. operating in
the tunnel of the Midget-Bonanza
Cripple Creek, are shipping ore har-
ing values of from $40 to $40 a ten.
The Midget Bonanza Company Will
mill TO be constructed at the mine TO
treat the thousands of tons OF ore IN
the dump.
The mining camp Of Cripple Greek
set the world afire when gold was
first discovered there tweuty-udd
years ago, and now a second strIhe
OF the most precious ore imaginable.
ore tl1r assays in some places al
$l5O000 a ton, bids fair to turn the
eyes OF the startled world toward the
Teller county camp once more.
Much interest has recently been
manifested in the application of cyan
ide to the lows grade ores of several
Colorado districts which have not
hitherto given successful attention to
the subject. The region around Sill
ysrtou is one Of these sections, while
II is only within the last year that
much advance has been made in this
direction at Idaho Springs.
Mining transactions involving hun
dreds of thousands of dollars hare
been practically consummated where
by properties in upper Clear Greek
district will pass to Eastern capital
lists. The Waldorf Consolidated Min
ing Company in East Argentine dis.
trict, together with 1900 acres OF
ground has been secured The Goa.
sideration is said to be s., 100000.
The Stratton Independence nine,
Cripple Creek. is making a heavy pro
duCtlOn and the ore is of exceptional
grade. The output runs two cars a
day and in February the average
grade was s31 ton. There are fifty
sets of lessees in the mine and the
company is shipping a good deal.
Operations are being carried on in
the surface workings with success.
Medium, Ireland & Sterrett, leas-
ing on the Clara d. claim on Gold hill,
Cripple Greek, have opened some ex-
cepuonally good ore, averaging $50 a
ton. y shipment is being prepared
and will be sent out at once. They
have opened 3-inch streak of rich
ore which assays from So to 60 ounces
to the ton. The ore is broken feet
wide and makes a good grade of ere
for the mill
The capacity Nof the Golden Circle
mill at Colorado City has been in,
creased to 1,200 tons, following the
blowing in of the ninth Edwards
roaster.
The Cripple Creek output for March,
as reported by the mill and smeiter
representatives, is the highest of the
year. The tonnage treated at the
mills and smelters will total 16,U54
tons, with a gross bullion value of ST.
410,031, an increase of 1866 tons and
s265.5O3 in valuation, is shown over
the February report. An increase is
also shown in both the tonnage and
average value of the smelling ore
shipped.
A mining deal which means rejuve-
nation of the Central City camp
through the drainage of scores of good
mines now idle because of water in
their shafts, was closed when Fred
Berger and Robert Sayre of Denver
took over the Kansas and Kansas Bur
roughs groups on Quartz hill These
groups, which include the Phoenix
Burroughs, University-kansas, Conlcy-
Burroughs, Pease-kansas, Kansas Bur
roughs and Monroe mines, were leased
and bonded for s150,OOO
The Sigafoos property on Columbins
mountain, Georgetown, is to receive at