The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-09-11
Colorado.


The dividends paid by Cripple
Creek mining companies during the
month OF August total $4,000.
BY stipulation, the suit in the fed
eral Court between the Portland Gold
Mining Company and Stratton's Inde
pendence, Limited. has been settled.
One of the richest bodies of copper
ore ever encountered in a Routt coun-
ty mine has just been opened at the
De Laurence. on Storm mountain.
four miles east of Steamboat Springs.
Ore going as high as $4,000 in gold
to the ton was opened at Cripple
Creek between the 400 and 5O0-foot
levels of the C. X. and N. property on
Beacon mill and operated under
lease by M. b. Rapp.
The Cripple Creek districts output of
gold ore for August approximated S5.-
aS1 tons, carrying gross bullion val
ue of s1,251. .S09. These figures differ
but little from the production of the
previous months, but show an in
creased tonnage over August, 1912.
The operating department of the
smelling and refining system of prac-
tically all the Western Hemisphere
will be directed from main headQuar-
ters to be established in Denver af-
ter October 5. 1913, by former United
States Senator Simon Guggenheim.
The regular quarterly dividends of
the Utah, Chino and Ray Consoli-
dated Copper Companies, owned prin-
cipally by Colorado Springs capital
lists. have been declared. The Utah
and Chin5 Companies pay seventy
tive cent quarter. or at the rate of
SO a year, and the Ray Company 37h
cents quarter. or $1.50 year.
A strike of great Importance to the
section tributary to Dumont has just
been made on the Lucky Boy vein of
the group owned by the Firemans
and Conductors Mining Company.
The ore body Is twenty-five inches
wide and assays made upon samples
taken from clear across the streak
show values of $40 a ton in gold and
silver.
To satisfy a Judgment obtained in
the District Court at Denver in favor
Of George E. Armstrong. trustee for
the mortgages and noteholders, in
the sum of $7S.S10. against the
Hoosac Tunnel and Mining Company.
all of the property of that corporation
was sold by Sheriff A. f. Straub OF
Idaho Springs for $4,000. The pur-
chaser was Samuel T. worley. repre-
sentative of the trustee.
One OF the biggest strikes OF high
grade mineral made in any of the
mines of Gilpin county for years is
now showing in the Calhoun mine in
Leavenworth gulch. two miles south
Of Central City. The crevice measures
from five to six feet in width. in the
center OF which is from twenty to
twenty-four inches of solid copper
ron that assays from $125 to $3.50 per
ION. nearly all the values in gold.
An important discovery for the
Victor Gold Mining Company has been
made by Rufe Jones Of independence
and his associates operating block
Of ground at the eighth level. $50 feet
from surface. At this depth the
lessees by crosscut have exposed
what is believed to be the East Victor
vein. the most important and heaviest
producer of the Victor system. which
is credited with the major portion Of
the output made up to 1900, recorded
at $2,216,d00. The vein, as in the levels
above, carries a steep northwesterly
dip, and while but little developed.
shows great strength and richness. as
says holding at from four to five
ounces gold or from $50 to 800 to the
ton for nine samples.