The Monte Vista journal., 1913-06-14
Expert Opinion on
PIat0ro District
Continued from preceding pagel

and Prospects
AT Jasper the Mizer group has the
development, which consists of approxi
mately 800 feet Of crosscut tunnel, a
2oO-foot shaft on the vein and 300 feet of
drifting from the crosscut tunnel. This
drifting shows the vein to be about Is
feet wide. 1t is mostly fair grade Of
milling ore, but there are high-gra
streaks assaying up into thousands per
ton.
All the mines Of Jasper, Sumner and
Platoro have been worked only for the
ores rich enough to stand shipment to
smelters.
There has been great deal OF work
done on the Eurydice and Nolo mines at
Sumner and considerable high grade ore
shipped from them, but most of the ore
is fair milling grade only.
The present activity was augmented
by Gilmore's strike on Middle mountain,
where he has opened VEIN from six to
eight feet wide of milling grade ore, with
streaks of high-grade smelling values.
lie is now working six men on the prop
erty
At Platoro there were thousands of
feet of development work done on the
Merrimac, Forest King, Valley Queen,
Parole and Mammoth mines, from which
high grade ore was shipped and large
bodies of milling grade ore exposed. We
havelt on good authority that recent
sampling of the Mammoth mine shows
it to have large bodies Of ore averaging
better than 50 per ton in value and there
is also large amount of milling grade
ore on the dumps.
The old books Of the Mammoth mine
are to be seen and in looking over the
records of shipments we, among others,
found the following entries to show that
there are high grade values in this re-
gion:
On Sept 5th, 1889, 206l2 lbs. of ore
settled on 277.5O OF. silver 20.9O OF. gold.
Net value after deducting freight,
S644S.74.
On Sept. 18th, 1889, %, 1856 lbs. OF ore
settled on 3O6 OF. silver, 22.5O OF. gold.
Net value after deducting freight,
S7S51.9 .93.
On Oct. 18th, 1889, 22,65l lbs. of ore
settled on 239.70 OF. silver, 1885 OF. gold
Net value after deducting freight, Sl0,.
1860.
On Feb. 9th, 1890, 22,661 OF. of ore set,
tied on 25O.7O OF. silver, 9.73 OF. gold. Net
value after deducting freight, S4469.lS.
On April 18th, 1890, 22,523 lbs. Of ore
settled on 402.l0 OF. silver, 30.42 OF. gold
Net value after deducting freight, So.
1865.
1t Is evident that the mines OF the dis.
trict are milling propositions, with streaks
Of high grade smelling ore, and it has
been recently proven by metallurgists OF
ability that the ore is amenHble to cyan
idation.
| In district that runs from north OF
| Summltville to over three miles south Of
Platoro and from four miles west of the
| Gilmore strike to east OF the camp OF
Jasper, embracing territory over X
miles long and 10 to IL miles wide, con
tanning enough room for 10000 mining
claims OF which less than 200 are pat
ented and not one-tenth part OF the bal
ance of the country staked, the chances
l.t 81 L.. 70, k..., n..NF
cred.
Future and
Conclusion
The future OF the district lies in tn,
Drawn and brains that is attracted b,
its slbilities-mining brains. Tha
kind of brains that when John Hay
Hammond said that Stratton's lndepen
dence was worked out, jumped in an,
took hold Of the property and made i
the splendid producer and dividend
payer that it is today; the kind OF brain
that when the FL Paso was flooded, tool
the upper levels and produced $4,000
per. year until Allen Burris, its presi
dent. was able to demonstrate to tn
mining world what wonderful propert
It is.
We want to say to the mining men q
Colorado and the world, and especial
10 the leaser, that this is the land q
wonderful possibilities, where you ca
own your own mines, will have no royal
ties to pay, can work your propert
when you like and where you like, an