The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-06-22
Colorado.

Arthur Francis has taken an option
on the Ophir mine On Raven hill. Grip
pie Creek, from Mrs. ]. J. Cone for
100000.
The Durango smelter is making
preparations for putting in two large
modern roasters to handle certain
classes OF ore at that plant.
The big Smuggler mine at Aspen
has been closed down by order of the
superintendent Every man employed
by the company with the exception of
the bumpers. has been laid off.
There is "a movement ON foot to
work some OF the properties on Bea-
con hill, Cripple Creek, through the
drainage tunnel as soon as an air line
Is put through to the tunnel and the
Ell Paso shaft is opened to the Roose-
welt tunnel level.
1t Is said that the highest grade ore
shipped from Cripple Creek at pres
ent is from the FL Paso mine, and is
mined on the 1,000-foot level, where a
distinctly new shoot has been discov-
cred. The shoot is three feet wide
and the ore runs 800 to $140 per ton.
A. J. Nickels, superintendent OF the
Mill Gulch copper mine, seven miles
southwest of Guffey is exhibiting sam
pies OF some Of the richest copper ore
ever seen there. some of it being
about fifty per cent copper. Several
shipments have brought good returns.
The shaft is down 225 feet and drift
run OF twenty feet north disclosed the
same bed OF copper ore.
There is a report of rich strike at
Parties operating the Grand Mogul
mine in the Silverton district have op'
ened up d big body of ore and are pre-
pairing to put on large force of men.
From the range between Ophir and
Silverton there is another big strike
reported 1t is said that some Hun
garians operating there have discov
cred valuable mineral.
The experimental ore dressing and
metalurgical plant of the State School
OF Mines at Golden will be formally
opened July l. Most of the equipment
is installed and as soon as the machin
cry can be adjusted trial runs will be
made. The plant will in no way COM
pete with private enterprises. The
plant viii consist of four sections. sam,
pling, cuncentration, cyanidation and
a fourth, devoted to roasting and spe-
cial apparatus.
Finishing of the Malm electro-chem-
zeal plant of the Western Metals Com
pany, Georgetown, will be started soon,
The finances have been provided and
no more trouble is expected from this
source. 1t is stated that wealthy Den
yer men have become interested.
Work on this plant was started near
ly three years ago and $4,000 was ex'
pended, but there were no funds to
purchase needed machinery. This will
cost about $25,000.
Silverton has once more come into
ner own. Reports of rich strikes, some
Of them fabulously rich, have come in
from all parts of the district within
last few days. In the Paradise group
numbers l to G, what is believed to be
continuation OF the famous Favorit:
group 1T ouplr, has DeeI ldppeu Dy
W Essley OF Silverton and Perry Da
Wis of Ophir. In the five to six-foo;
vein, which has ben uncovered for 4
dstance of seventy-five feet, there is a
rwo-inch streak of free gold. The sam
pies of this run from $4,000 to $1O0,
900 ton. The discovery was made
last fall, but not until recently has any
mixing of the richness of the strik2
| been made public.
Taylor and Elston have made re
| markable find OF tungsten ore in pros
pect gulch, Telluride. 1t is a good
grade of huebernte occurring in a
| quartz gangue in practically a free
state. The ore is devoid of other min
erals which would be detrimental to
its concentration.