Gilpin observer., 1912-03-28
Colorado.

idly and it will soon be in shape for
the trial run.
The Chickenhawk shaft on Guyot
hill, Cripple Creek, has been closed
some time and the Columbia Mining
& Development Company has given up
the lease. new company will take
the property.
Work has been resumed on the
Black Prince on Green Lake noun
tain, Georgetown. In the bottom of the
thirty-foot shaft is a streak of ore ten
inches wide that carries $42 per ton
in gold and silver.
1t is said work will begin within two
weeks at the Centennial mine on Leav-
enworth mountain, Georgetown, and
that heavy development will be done.
This property was recently sold to a
syndicate of Boston capitalists for
S125,000.
Good progress is being made in driv-
ing the adit tunnel of the Sheelite vein
of the Colorado Tungsten Company at
Carrie Nation park, Boulder county,
which is now advanced about GOO feet
and IS going ahead at the rate of eight
feet daily.
Pittsburg mine, located in Lake dis
trict, is down to a depth or $50 feet,
from which point levels have been
driven east and west. A crosscut was
driven to cut the south vein on the
property where a very good grade of
ore was opened up. A shipment OF
this was made recently and gave re-
turns of s33 per ton.
The new tunnel to undercut the
shaft on the Mckinney vein, George
town, at an increased depth Of 200
feet, is under cover, and being pushed
forward at the rate of one foot per
day. This tunnel will be $50 feet long.
In the bottom of the shaft is streak
of ore six to eight inches wide that
! carries 176 ounces gold per ton.
! The Durango plant of the American
Smelling & Refining Company has re-
sumed operations after shutdown OF
nearly four months, caused by the
flood of last October cutting off the
ore supply. The smelter has been pur-
chasing and storing ores Of the San
Juan and started with bins full and
are employing a good force, which is
pleasing news to Durango and the en-
tire Southwest.
The Pride of Cripple Creek will nc
doubt prove another w. P. H., owing
to the opening of a new and rich fla
vein on the sixth level. There is every
70 hn rily will trrr
out one Of the biggest things in the
district. 1t is said the ore runs be
tween $50 and 800 per ton off the
muck pile The values are in sylvan
ite, which is plastered on all ore an'
the vein is six to eight feet wide.
The Dunkin group, on Niger hill
breckenridge, has been operated TO
years by Theo. H. Knorr and C. E
Kistler of Breckenridge and o. X
Gaymon and j. A. Summers of Den
yer, who have opened the propert.
with tunnel over 1,400 feet long; uI
raises have been driven to connec
with the upper workings, which ar
credited with an output of over 800
O00 The breast of the tunnel cuts tn
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face. 1t is being driven aheod for tn
ore shoot. A few days ago the lessee
, made forty-two-ton shipment of par
. ly oxidized heavy lead carbonate or
that returned over forty-one per cen
/ in lead, seventeen ounces silver an
over an ounce in gold per ton.
The Santiago mine in East ArgeI
tine district promises to be one of tn
heaviest shippers in Clear Creek couI
I ty this year. Twenty men are en-
I ployad and soon as it is possible to &c
ore to market more will be giv~n worl
An important strike was recent
made in sinking shaft from tn
fourth level, being a streak of heav
lead ore eight to twelve inches wild
carload lots returning $l04 net pc
ton. The company will construct a
aerial tramway next summer, tn
length to be eight miles, by which tn
;, cost of ore delivery can be reduce
IRON 81 to so cents per ton.
A. Stenneck and company. who cor
menced operations on the Galena,
l. Gilpin county. a few months ago, al
getting the levels into working ordt
Q after years of idleness. They are tal
l. ing out very nice grade of ore fro
the 400 and 500-foot levels. A shi
ment made recently of smelling ol
gave returns of 2.56 ounces gold, G.
. ounces silver and l.25 per cent copp,
value OF $3.50 per ton, and six corC
of mill ore that yielded 1.5 ounces gol
> to the cord.
Work will be resumed soon upon Il
Welsh property. Georgetown. Pre-,
!, Gus TO suspension Of operations la
+ fall. ore was being shipped th
brought $105 per ton in gold and S
YER. In the stone Is a streak of tn