The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-03-16
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All the leasers ON the Bachelor
mine at Ouray are prospering. There
is an exceptionally fine showing of
ore.
The output Of the South Burns shaft
OF the Acacia property on Bull hill,
Cripple Creek, was fifteen cars in Feb
ruary.
Good progress Is being made in
sinking the shaft at the Legal Tender
mine, Ouray. Some ore has been
found.
During the last thirty days Matha &
Company, operating the Pharmacist
mine at Cripple Creek. shipped out
five cars of $40 ore.
Measurements taken recently by the
engineers on the Cripple Creek Deep
Drainage tunnel show that the work
done during February amounted to 2O9
feet.
The Virginia City mine on Lincoln
mountain, Georgetown, famous years
ago as produce dof high grade gold
and silver ore, has been sold for
| 100000.
| AsS~ShI cpCl III tAc JO Dduuy
mine at Cripple Creek have brought
good results. The production is large
and the grade of ore better than the
average.
| Eighteen cars of $25 ore were
shipped in February from the School
Section lease on Bull hill. Cripple
Greek, and all was from the main
stope on block 8.
| Electric pumps costing $4,000, will
be Installed in the Golden Cycle mine
at Cripple Creek by June l. With
them, it is claimed, the cost OF pump
ing will be cut in half
There will be opened in the near
future at the School OF Mines, an ex-
perimental ore dressing and metallur-
gical plant. Samples of ore may be
sent there for complete testing.
An important strike has been madc
at the Gold Coin mine, Cripple Creek.
From stringer from the main vein a
car of three-ounce ore was recently
shipped. The ore has been opened for
forty feet.
| Every days development below the
fourth level in the Camp Bird mine
at Ouray, justifies the prediction that
new and distinct rich ore zone is
revealing itself at a depth heretofore
considered barren.
The property OF the Buckhorn Mica
Mining Company, located twenty miles
northwest of Fort Collins, has been
sold at sheriffs sale for $4,000. The
property was bought by representa-
tives Of Denver capitalists.
The management of the Atlas at
Ouray expects to have the additional
ten stamps dropping about April l..
The capacity of the plant will be
doubled, enabling an output OF 700
tons Of concentrates per month.
The Capital mine at Georgetown
continues to show surprises and unless
all signs fail the production for the
present year will double that of 1911.
A body of steel galena and yellow
| copper fourteen to eighteen inches
wide has been exposed, shipments re-
turning $50 to the ton in gold.
| Layers of coke, which nature her.
| ScAl NOohCo o6So o6os NOW c$SiA AcoAAN
in new mine opened by the Moffat
Coal Company, eighteen miles north
west OF Steamboat Springs. Gases es-
Gaping through molten rocks probably
| formed the coke, which is said to
burn as good as the manufactured
product.
An unusually rich strike has been
made at the La Plata property on
Democrat mountain, Georgetown, u
streak of ore eight inches wide having
been encountered that mills from 400
to 46O ounces silver to the ton with
out sorting. The shoot is showing in
the east drift fifty feet and Stopping
will be started soon.
Recent reports from Grand juno
ton that plans are being made for
construction OF vanadium reduc-
ing plant there has given encourage
ment to holders of vanadium proper
ties in the vicinity of Meeker. The
hills in that section TEEN with this
mineral and with the certainty of
market for the ore the deposit will
be developed on an extensive scale.
An offer. Of $1O9 per ton for vana-
dunn has been refused by the owners
of she Cherrington-Adams-C Campbell,
people who own the mines sixty-five
miles southwest OF Grand Junction.
The offer came from German ore
brokers'. The mine owners believe
they can make more money by reduc-
ing the ore themselves in the vana-
dunn mill which is to be built at
Grand Junction soon.
The American Eagle, Cripple Creek,
shipped out fourteen cars during Feb
ruary, the average being $50 per ton.
This is said to be thes best in any
quantity from any mine in the camp.