The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-03-23


is being taken from the 100-foot level.
Three shifts are sinking the Corol-
anus shaft on Battle mountain, Grip
pie Greek, which is almost down to
the 700-foot mark. From that point
laterals will be run to develop the
ground.
Shipments of milling t.c H-e going
out from the Pioneer mine on Covode
mountain, Georgetown. Occasional |
shipments of smelling ore are also
made and returning $50 per ton or
more in gold.
With the coming of settled weather
the mining camps of Boulder county
will show more activity than for sew
eral 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 300-ton mill. for amalga-
nation and cyanidation. Most of the
machinery is on the ground.
The Mary Mckinney company Of
Cripple Creek shipped seven Gals of
s25 ore in February, while leasers sent
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 a dandy prospect
in newly located claim about 800
feet south of the Ben C. Lowell at
Magnolia, Boulder country. which he
has named the Apex. In doing his
original location work he uncovered
four-foot vein of quartz through which
runs a number of streaks of very high
grade ore.
Sinking of the main shaft OF the
EIkton, Cripple Creek, has been r1e
sumed. 1t is expected that lift of
100 feet can be sunk before water will
be reached. This will give about 10
feet of stopping ground on the main
vein, as the new level is down 360
feet. The vein has been drifted upon
for 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 $50 to s100 gold per
ton. A. Horstman, the lessee, is also
shipping a fair tonnage of smelling
ore running $40 to $50 per ton.
A bonanza strife has just been made
on the Seven-Thirty property, George
town, a streak of ore from seven to
ten inches wide having been uncov-
cred, that carries values of 1926 to 400
ounces silver a ton. The streak is
showing in the slope for length of
twenty feet, and as ground is broken
there is marked Improvement for
the better, in silver contents as well
as size of the ore body.
The Gold Bullion Mining COMPANY
of Boulder has inaugurated the work
which is to remodel the old Prussian
mill, making 1t 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 IS 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
heavy black sulphide is mined, return
ing $40 per ton and better. The val
ues in the Ella W., under lease to
Johnson G. Co., are found in granite
formation. The VEN is about two feet
wide. There are three producing prop
critics in this vicinity and Tenderfoot
hill is coming to the FROM as pro-
ducing section.
The Princess mill at Lakewood.
Boulder county, which has been closed
down for the past year on account OF
the poor demand for tungsten, is TO
60 into commission as soon as The
snow is off and settled weather sets
in.
The shaft on the Mint vein. George
town, is being sunk at the rate of two
feet a day and fine body OF ore fol-
lowed. Drifting is in progres through
the tunnel and a big body Of mill ore
as hnfuo FoIIoued The tpn-StamD mill
will start as soon as weather condi-