The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-06-28
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SymptOIuS OlI nave DcCA oSANS-
In a well being drilled on the VIM.
ODriscoll place in the Shavano val
ley locality near Montrose.
Shipments Of smelling ore carrying
high values in silver are going out
from the Blue Ridge property situated
on Columbia mountain near Lawson.
Much activity in the Brush oil fields
has marked the past week. The most
important new development is the
leasing of 5000 acres by George Eas-
ton of Denver.
A shipment Of a carload of smelling
ore was made from the Seaton mine
at Idaho Springs by the Idaho-Bride
Mining and Milling Company and re-
turns of SIS a ton in gold and silver
we're received in settlement.
Suit has been filed in the United
States court by the Christmas Gold
Mining Company against the Golden
Cycle Mining and Milling Company
or $3.23s,1S3, the alleged value OF
,re taken from the Christmas lode.
Platoro, Conejos county, is rapidly
developing into a full nedged mining
camp. A petition to the county COM
nissioners to establish voting pre-
cincts and an office OF justice OF the
peace was signed by 100 in 20
minutes.
A strike has been made in the Pride
of Cripple Creek on Ironclad hill by
Sub-Lessees Rapp and Mckinley, who
have a block on the third level and are
working under w. Morrison, the main
lessee. Just what the ore amounts to
Is not known.
Development that is being carried
forward on the Syndicate property at
Dumont is bringing excellent results
and Chas. Lerchen, the manager,
hopes to be in a position whereby
shipments OF both smelling and con-
centrating ore will be inaugurated in
short time.
twenty-five cars were shipped from
the c.. X. & N. mine last month. the
output being made entirely by Lessee
NJ. B. Rapp, who has opened one OF
the largest bodies of ore ever found
in Beacon hill in the Cripple Creek
district, on the third level Of the Mine.
Rapp has a two-year lease.
Their hearts aglow and every nerve
made taut by the alluring calls Of
the bewitching sirens of the noun
tains. promising untold riches to him
who will come and seek, $50 prospec-
tors have left Denver within the past
six weeks to seek the elusive gold in
the rocks and crags of surrounding
mountains throughout the state.
Fruita has come to the front with
claim to rich gold fields which, it is
said, will surpass Platora and Eagle
fields within a few months. John A.
Codel made the rich strike in the
mountains just south of Fruita, and
he hurried away to Grand Junction
and filed on seven claims before the
secret was out. Codel forwarded
specimens to the Golden School of
Mines and, from preliminary assays
made, expects his claim to run from
5000 to $500 to the ton.
The most important sale Of mining
property in Gilpin county for years,
consisted of the real and personal
property Of the SO Gold Mines corpor-
alton amongst which claims are in
cluded the world renowned Bob Tail
and Fisk mines, was held at the court
house at Central City. The highest
bid for both real and personal prop
erty was made by John B. Selvidge
of Denver, and was $61,500. This sale
means the reopening and operation OF
the largest and most famous of the
Gilpin mining properties.