Gilpin observer., 1912-04-11
Colorado,

ent levels of the School Section mine,
at Cripple Creek, for ten years, a vein
said to be three to five feet wide, the
ore assaying from 500 to 800 per ton,
is being mined.
The Gianino lease on the Morning
Star, Ouray, on the West side, is
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,
will ship about ten or twelve cars of
ore which runs better than 500 per
ton this month. 1t is mined from the
fourth level of the No. 2 shaft, and
is said to be an extension of the main
ore body mined above.
The lease being operated at the
Capital mine, Georgetown, by Hummer
and Herber is developing into one of
the biggest paying propositions of re-
cent years in the upper Clear Creek
country. The ore body, all solid, now
varies in width from Is inches to
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 hav-
ing values Of from 500 to $40 a ton.
The Midget-Bonanza Company will
take up later the matter of a 1O0-ton
Ia To
treat the thousands of tons of ore in
the dump.
The mining camp of Cripple Creek
set the world afire when gold was
first discovered there twenty-odd
years ago, and now a second strike
of the most precious ore imaginable,
ore that assays in some places dL
s150,00O 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 low-grade ores of several
Colorado districts which have not
hitherto given successful attention to
the subject. The region around Sill
verton is one of these sections, while
it 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 have
been practically consummated where
by properties in upper Clear Creek
district will pass to Eastern capital
lists. The Waldorf Consolidated Min
y ing Company in East Argentine dis
trict, together with 1,SOO acres of
| ground has been secured. The con-
sideration is said to be s2,500,00O.
The Stratton Independence mine,
Cripple Creek, is making heavy pro-
| duction and the ore is of exceptional
grade. The output runs two cars a
day and in February the average
| grade was s31 a ton. There are fifty
sets of lessees in the mine and the
company is shipping good deal.
Operations are being carried on in
the surface workings with success.
Meldrum, Ireland & Sterrett, leas-
ing on the Clara d. claim on Gold hill,
Cripple Greek, have opened some ex-
/ ceptionally good ore, averaging $50 a
ton. A shipment is being prepared
and will be sent out at once. They
have opened a 3-inch streak of rich
ore which assays from SO to 60 ounces
to the ton. The ore is broken 4 feet
wide and makes good grade of ere
for the mill.
The capacity of the Golden Circle
mill at Colorado City has been in.
creased to 1,2OO tons, following the
blowing in of the ninth Edwards
roaster.
The Cripple Creek output for March,
as reported by the mill and smelter
representatives, is the highest of the
year. The tonnage treated at the
mills and smelters will total 76,054
tons, with gross bullion value of ST.
410.03l, an increase of 1866 tons and
s265,503 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, Universlty-Kansas, Conlcy-
Burroughs. Pease-Kansas, Kansas Bur.
roughs and Monroe mines, were leased
and bonded for s150,000.
The Sigafoos property on Columbine
mountain. Georgetown, is to receive at.
tention during the balance Of the year.
From reliable sources it has been