The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-07-20
Colorado.

Colorado.
The Victor mine at Cripple Creek is
shipping ore worth So per ton.
Work has been started at the Tele-
scope mine in Mill gulch, in Ouray dis
trict.
There will be erected at the Onida
mine at Idaho Springs large mill to
treat medium grade ore.
In June ten cars were shipped from
the American Eagle mine at Cripple
Creek, returning from $40 to Sl65 per
ton.
From the portal of the Roosevelt
drainage tunnel at Cripple Creek the
flow of water is now $3.50 gallons per
minute.
The Acade group of tungsten mines
in the Lakewood district has been
leased by Denver parties, the lease
price being $4,000.
The output from the Free Coinage
estate on BuEl hill. Cripple Creek, for
the month of June totaled eighteen
cars Of milling grade.
Brown Mountain Smelling and Re
filming Company of Ouray will begin
buying ore August /. The financing
of the concern has been completed.
The affairs OF the Wanakah Min
ing Company at Ouray are in very
flourishlng condition. Ore has been
discovered which averages 500 per
ton.
Every man in Bowerman, Gunnison
district, is busy now working to de
velop the mineral resources of the
camp and some CT the properties are
promising good.
The June output of the Isabella es-
| tate, Cripple Creek, was thirty-eight
cars, the average grade being 500 per
ton. Most of it was from the Empire
| State and Lee shafts.
Joseph Broad, principal owner OF
| the I.aPlata property on Democrat
mountain, Georgetown, made a ship
ment OF ore recently that brought
settlement of 23l ounces silver a ton.
In Jane the Cresson mine on Raven
| hill, Cripple Greek, shipped ZOO tons,
returning about SIS per ton. The mine
is producing more ore and making
larger profits for the company than
ever before in its history.
The Colorado Metal and Chemicals
| Company of Eldorado, Boulder county,
which recently took over the old Bal
ley mill, is installing roasting plant.
| The company has a contract for 1000
| tons of ore besides it's own.
| Ia bpr Of iS in
DeBeaue representing Eastern capi-
| talists who intend to drill for oil. Nc
Kircher has obtained several long
time leases on land and the drilling
viii begin within a few weeks,
The Union Leasing Company, oper-
| ating the Gold Sovereign on Bull hill
and a part of the Gold Dollar estate
on Beacon hill, Cripple Creek, shipped
forty-one cars in the month of June
and the values run from 81 to $2S a
| ton.
Bates mine in Chase gulch, Gilpin
county, at one time heavy producer,
Is now being operated after being iHe
| for some time. A trial shipment from
| this mine returned two and one-half
ounces gold and twenty ounces silver
| to the ton, the mill ore yielding val
ues of two ounces to the cord.
Three big mills are in operation at
| the Carter, the Raymond and the Gold
| Links mines, in Gunnison county. Car
| roll Carter of Denver, owner and man
| ager of the Carter tunnel which is in
| the mountain now nearly two thou
| sand feet, says he will have some sur
| prises soon on his recent discoveries.
| A large gold mining camp for Gun
nson county, perhaps the largest in
| the world, is the prediction of experts
who have examined the property at
Ohio City. 1t is estimated that the
property could be made to produce
10000 tons daily, worth $3.50 per ton
Ohio City is about eighteen miles
northeast of Gunnison.
The home pool operating the Alps
mine on Quartz hill, Gilpin county, are
developing the 700 and Soo-foot east
levels, where they had opened up a
streak of smelling ore from six to
eight inches in width that carries val
lies of $40 per ton This is an entire
" new shoot of ore that will give the
company plenty of ground to WORK
above this depth.
The use of electricity in mining is
becoming wider each day. 1t is eX-
pected that electric hoists for some OF
the deeper shafts will be installed
within a few months at Cripple Creek,
as several deals arc pending. The cost
of mining has been reduced by the use
Of electricity. In nearly all shallow
shafts electric hoists have been in
stalled to cut down the expense Of
mining.
The Z. P. r. mine in Gi1pin county
is keeping up a production of 100