Gilpin observer., 1912-02-01
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MINING NEWS
IN 3 BRIEF
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
THE TREND OF METAL PRICES.
Colorado.

In the White Pine camp, Gunnison,
there are thousands of tons of mill
dirt with no mill to mill it.
An eight-inch vein of 2OO;ounce sill
yer ore has been opened up at the
Sunnyside mine, in Gilpin county.
The Cory City and Wisconsin
mines, at Georgetown, have been sold
to H. c. Reno of Denver for s175,000.
The Buell. mill at Central City is
running two shifts with plenty of ore
in sight to continue for an indefinite
time.
The ore from strike recently
made on the second level of Strattons
Independence, Cripple Creek, is worth
$50 per ton.
The Ocean Wave mine on Battle
mountain, Cripple Creek, has resumed
shipments OF ore and the grade of the
output is improving.
There is being taken from the
Ninety-One property in the Russell
district some nice looking yellow cop
per and sulphurette ore.
John Eade, at Georgetown, has
broken into another rich ore shoot
eight to twelve inches wide, carrying
800 per ton in gold, silver and lead.
! Boston and New York parties have
| purchased the Spar recently, in the
Gunnison district, and work on
| large scale will begin in the spring.
The first car of metal from the
| tenth level of the Strong shaft, Grip
pie Creek, has been sent out. Work
men are preparing this level for ac-
tive mining.
Leasers on the Denver City prop
erty in the Gunnison district are ar
ranging to drive a tunnel to
| quartzite contact, where they expect
to find good ore.
From the Smuggler mine at George
town there were shipped out few
days ago some ore that brought re-
turns of 53S ounces silver per ton and
As per cent lead.
Heavy shipments are being made
from the Aetna mine at Georgetown,
the production of smelling and con-
centrating ore being between $4,000
and $4,000 per month.
Over the ownership of the Ramsdell
property, on Lincoln mountain,
Georgetown, there seems to be con-
troversy, nevertheless development
work is going steadily on.
The National tunnel, below Black
Hawk, shipped recently three tons of
| first-class ore that yielded returns of
1.9O ounces gold, 16 ounces silver per
| ton and 8 per cent copper.
/ Work on the West Point property,
in the Gunnison district, has reached
point where big strike is expected
at any time. There are fine speci-
mems of high-grade everywhere.
| A mill of fifty tons daily capacity
will be constructed at once on West
| Clear creek near Georgetown, and
will be equipped with a new method
| of ore extracting cyanidation.
McKirihan & Co., at Georgetown.
are shipping smelling ore that re-
turns s45 net per ton in gold and
silver, while from 300 to $50 tons of
mill dirt are sent to the mills monthly.
Within a short time a large cam
paign of development will be put un-
der way at the Terl1pIe-Dunderberg
group of mines on Brown mountain in
the Georgetown district. AS the Ter
rible is surrounding rich ore at
depth of 1,400 feet it is reasonable to
| presume that the ore shoots will be
good.
The Bill Short property at Gunnison
has been put in working condition.
There are bodies of ore six to ten feet
across, but it must be milled before
the smelters can handle it.
Mining in the White Pine district is
livening up, despite the fact that
winter usually affects the industry.
tunnel is being driven on the Lily
| property, the bore having gone 900
feet
superintendent Fuller of the drain
age tunnel at Cripple Creek reports
nearly ten thousand gallons minute
running out. The cost of driving the
tunnel per month averages about
! $4,000 and the company has $4,000 in
the treasury, all of which indicates
that the work will be continued for
some time.
At the Santiago mine in the George
town district. twenty men are being
employed and thirty to forty tons of
smehing ore. worth s45 per ton in
gold, silver and lead, are broken daily.
In the bottom of the winze sunk from
the fifth level for 125 feet a streak
of ore 12 to Is inches wide has been
followed twenty feet that mills $s5
per ton in gold, silver and lead.
At the Michigan mine in Gilpin
county, on the west side of the shaft.
a level has been started showing a
vein Of smelling ore six inches to one
foot wide and a shipment from this
streak gave returns of $50 ounces
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