Gilpin observer., 1912-02-29
Colorado.

From the Roosevelt tunnel the flow
is about $500 gallons minute.
The Kalamazoo mine on Bull hill,
Cripple Creek, is the scene of a rich
discovery.
The deep drainage tunnel at Grip
pie Creek was advanced ninety-one
feet during the first fourteen days in
February.
Shipments of ore will be started
soon from the Little Giant mine ON
Red Elephant mountain, Georgetown.
The shaft is now being unwatered.
At the Vindicator shaft at Cripple
Creek water has receded almost to
the fourteenth level and work has
been commenced on the big ore body
recently exposed.
High-grade ore is being mined from
the Six Points at Cripple Creek and
1t is expected that the main vein will
be cut in few days, when they will
have 200 feet of stopping ground.
At the Anchoria-Leland mine on
Gold hill, Cripple Creek, conditions are
improving since new ore has been
opened in various blocks. The prop
erty is active and the leasers are
prosperous.
An active campaign of development
on the Alec property on Saxon noun
tain, Georgetown, has been inaugural
ed The cross-cut tunnel that has
been driven $50 feet will be continued
into the mountain.
The Yankee Girl mine at Ouray is
the scene of the richest strike in that
region. A streak about three inches
thick and as near pure silver as can
be found occurs in six-foot body of
copper-iron ore. 1t is expected ton
and a half day will be taken out.
At the Scott property on Republi-
can mountain, Georgetown, there is
awaiting shipment fifty tons of solid
Ger that carries sixty-two per cent.
lead and fifty ounces silver to the ton.
This mine is making one of the best
showings in the Upper Clear Creek
district.
At the Paymaster mine in East Ar
gentine district there is a big i'm
nrovement. The ore body now meas
ures three feet wide for the entire
eighty feet, length of the stope. On
an average three tons of ore are bro
ken daily and shipments are going
cut regularly.
Ore assaying s12 per ton in gold is
being taken from the Aetna vein at
the Capital mine, Georgetown. Heavy
shipments will soon be going out. On
the hanging wall Of the vein is
streak of yellow copper six inches
wide and assays show S65 per ton in
gold and silver.
Heavy shipments are going out
from the Pioneer property on Covote
mountain, Georgetown, the ore being
high grade and returning better than
S100 per ton. Stopping is in progress
on a streak of solid ore nine to twelve
inches wide. Shipments of mill ore
are also being made.
Sinking at the Harsh mine in Gill
pin county has been carried on for the
past few months and as depth is being
gained the vein in the shaft is show
ing a marked improvement. This vein
is considered the strongest in the
Leavenworth Gulch district, but has
not yet been thoroughly prospected.
A body of solid lead and zinc, ten
to fifteen inches wide, has been un-
covered in the drift being run from
the Victoria tunnel level on the Men.
dota vein, Georgetown, tests showing
thirty per cent. lead, fifteen per cent.
zinc and forty ounces silver to the
ton. Heavy shipments will start soon.
The Bellevue Hudson mine on Co.
lumbia mountain, Georgetown, will
soon be classed among the heaviest
shippers of high-grade ore in the up
per Clear Creek district. The shaft
will be sunk 100 feet. In the bottom
of the shaft there is showing a streak
OF solid ore that is from eight to
twelve inches wide and from car
load shipment that was recently made
returns of 700 ounces silver and three
and a half ounces gold per ton were
received. The company is contemplate
ing putting up 100-ton concentrating
plant during the coming summer.
The Michigan mine in the Hard
Money district, in Gilpin county, is be-
ing brought to the front as well as the
district, which has been neglected for
number of years. A shaft has been
sunk to a depth of seventy-five feet
and levels have been started east and
west from this point and are now in
distance Of twenty-three feet, show
ing streak of smelling ore from six
to eight inches wide. carrying values
OF 500 ounces silver to the ton. When
these levels have been driven a dis
tance OF fifty feet 1t is the intention
to sink the shaft to q much greater
depth.
New Mexico.