Gilpin observer., 1912-06-27
RAILS COUNTY
SINKING SHAFT

Sinking on the Rails County mine
Is being pushed with all possible
+, speed and the record being made by
the miners is a credit to their ability
and gratifying to the management
Sinking was started the 10th of this
month and already the depth of the
shaft has been increased 80 feet
When this work was started the
shaft was down a little more than
700 feet Three hundred feet will be
added to this depth.
The bottom of the shaft shows a
crevice four feet in width. The values
are increasing with depth and every
indication points to the encountering
of ore lower down equally as good
if not better than the values of the
shoot in the east 50O.foot level. AS
this shoot is pitching to the west,
it is a foTegone conclusion that be-
fore the depth of the shaft reaches
the 1,000-foot point, this ore will be
struck.
A month or so ago in extending
the 700 drift east, 225 feet from the
shaft, and just as a wide crevice of
ore was encountered, an old stope
was holed into. This stope was work
ed out by the Egyptian people. The
Egyptian mine end lines on the Rails
County and from the manner in
which the Rails County has been
worked by it's neighbors, has been
a big factor in creating the wonder
full record the Egyptian enjoys.
Holing into this old stope was
sore disappointment to the Rails
County company. The ore they struck
in the level just before reaching the
stole gave them complete idea and
painful knowledge OF that which had
been theirs, but had been extracted
by others. The crevice is Az feet in
width and fully IL feet of this is
solid iron and as pretty a streak Of
high-grade ore as one would expect
to see. Six fest Of this was gone
through when the big opening was
reached. The iron on the hanging
wall assays close to $4,000 a ton
and foot and half of this kind
of ore piles up money rapidly.
This old stope is a monster in size.
Rails County 700 and 80 feet below,
up 220 feet. From miners who work
ed in the Egyptian it is learned that
the ore in this stope was mined near
ly 80 years ago. 1t is next to i'm
possible to estimate the enormous
wealth that was extracted from this
e ground but some idea can be had
from the statement made few days
ago by an old miner that the iron
went as high as $4,000 to the ton
to the cord.
In the discovery of this worked
: out ground, the Rails company not
only suffers disappointment and loss
of money expended in reaching this
point where the ore should exist, but
it is a situation the county deplores.
Any mining camp desires to see cap
> ital rewarded for the money invest
= ed in its mines. In this case the
u claims always made about the Rails
being a splendid property are fully
i borne out and in any assurance the
Rails County company have given
their people that the mine contains
big bodies of ore. their position has
been fully vindicatei. The worked on
ground proves conc,usively that tbs
. mine has been a wonderful producer
but of far greater importance IS the
assurance II gives OF greater ore
& bodies to be found lover down. The
= majority Of mines on Quartz hill are
l. lower than the present depth Of Tx
g Rails County and made their big pro
d duction at greater depth than thS
bottom OF the worked out stope.
The Rails County company can fin'
consolation in the fact that-thet
whole mine Is not worked out Jus
'e because portion has been gutted
:" When they sink their shaft en'
II. strike the ore shoots continuing
down. they will give the big stop
in the 700 little thought and will JUS
'N conclude that the ore which belong
ed to them and was appropriated
~ by their neightor in no sense I'm
% povishered the operators OF the Rail
:! County, but Just enriched the ops
~ ators OF tire Egyptian.