The Glenwood post., 1912-03-23
WESTERN
MINING NEWS
IN BRIEF

Western Newspaper Union News Service
| Colorado.
| OeA en'ei ...... ................$ .5Sh
Lead, per 100 lbs. bs............. 400
Spelter, per 100 lbs. ......,.... 6.921a
Copper, casting brand ....... 1412h
The Old Gold mine at Cripple Creek
Will be started soon by Oscar Fogle-
man, who has taken long time lease.
The company owning the Little
Matte mine, Idaho Springs, has been
reorganized. Extensive operations are
| contemplated. This mine has produced
! more than $2,OOO,OOO.
Another shipment OF high-grade ore
has been shipped from the War Dance
: mine In Gilpin county. The settlement
on the lot was $40 per ton. or SO
per cent better than the one before.
| -Four carloads Of ore were recently
shipped from the Black Jack mine in
/ Gilpin county. from which returns of
$22 per ton were received. The orc
II being taken from the 1OO-foot level.
Three shifts are sinking the Coriol-
anus shaft on Battle mountain, Grip
pie Creek, which is almost down to
the 7O0foot mark. From that point
laterals will be run to develop the
ground.
Shipments of milling ore are going
out from the Pioneer mine on Covode
mountain. Georgetown. Occasional
shipments of smelling ore are also
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more in gold.
With the coming Of settled weather
the mining camps of Boulder county
VIII show more activity than for sew
sral years past. In the tungsten field,
Sugar Loaf and along Left Hand, par
ticularly, will this be noticeable.
Empire gives promise of enjoying a
season of great prosperity during the
next few months. Many properties are
undergoing development. The Con-
Queror company will soon start con-
struction Of a 3O0-ton mill for amalga-
nation and cyanidation. Most of the
machinery is on the ground.
The Mary Mckinney company Of
Cripple Creek shipped seven cals of
!
out is cars of the same grade. The
drift on the vein off the new level is
in about 60 feet and values are holding
up well. The ore runs $50 per ton.
The ore body is three to five feet
wide
Marsh Long has dandy prospect
In newly located claim about 300
M hn ut
Magnolia, Boulder country, which he
has named the Apex. In doing his
original location work he uncovered q
four-foot vein of quartz through which
runs number of streaks of very high
grade ore.
Sinking of the main shaft OF the
Elkton, Cripple Creek, has been r.
suned. 1t is expected that lift of
100 feet can be sunk before water will
be reached. This will give about 10
feet of stoping ground on the main
vein. as the new level is down 800
feet. The vein has been drifted upon
Tor 1000 feet on the tenth level.
The largest body of ore found in
years on the Gold Dirt property,
Georgetown, is exposed on the fifth
level. The streak is three feet wide
and carload shipments recently made
returned from 800 to $1OO gold per
ton. A. Horstman, the lessee, is also
shipping a fair tonnage of smelling
ore running $40 to $50 per ton.
A bonanza strike has just been made
on the Seven-Thirty property, George
town, streak of ore from seven to
ten inches wide having been uncov-
cred, that carries values of 1926 to 400
ounces silver ton. The streak is
showing in the slope for a length of
twenty feet, and as ground is broken
there is a marked improvement for
the better in silver contents as we'll
as size of the ore body.
The Gold Bullion Mining Compa. Nv
of Boulder has inaugurated the work
which is to remodel the old Prussian
mill, making it a modern up-to-date
concentrating plant specially equipped
for treating the ore from the Prussian
and Slide mines. The force of men
now employed at the mill will be in
creased as soon as they can work at
an advantage, and in about 60 days it
Is expected that the plant will be in
operation, treating about rs tons daily.
On Tenderfoot and Womack hills in
the vicinity of the Mollie Kathleen
mine, Cripple Creek, important ore
discoveries have been reported and de-
velopment shows them to be perma-
nent. In the Emma Abbott and the
Ella w. claims the ore has been prov
en- at depth. In the Emma Abbott a
heavy black sulphtde is mined, return
ues in the Ella W., under lease to
johnson & Co., are found in a granite