The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-07-05
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MINING NEWS
IN BRIEF
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
TREND OF METAL VALUES.
Colorado.
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Colorado.
| There are four mergers now in the
course of organization in the Cripple
| Creek district.
The Ell Paso Company is acquiring
new ground and enIarging its estate
at Cripple Greek.
Ore that is very characteristic OF
uranium has been discovered at the
| Legal Tender at Ouray.
Many OF the mines around Oak
/ Creek have shut down temporarily
and some Of the miners are seeking
work on the railroad and on the
ranches.
After a trail extending over two
weeks, jury returned verdict in the
| District Court at Central City In favor
| Of Daniel Wurts and awarding him
| $4,000 damages for the ore extracted
from the disputed territory.
Prospects Of more liberal policy
| by the government toward prospecting
has resulted in noticeable movement
toward the hills by men in quest OF
mineral, with which the mountains OK
Colorado are still we'll laden.
| A strong revival of mining in the
Gilrin county district this spring has
been followed BY the erection of a
number of new mills and shaft houses
and the reopening OF many old mines
that have been inactive for years.
| Some OF the properties sending out
ore by team at Cripple Creek are the
| Cheyenne Gsabella), Wild Horse.
American Eagle. Chicken Hawk.
Block 8, School Section. Prince AL
bert, Ingham. Ophir. Specimen and
Dillon.
| Leasers who are working in the
Portland No. l shaft at Cripple Creek
have started in following narrow
| seams on the second level and doing
| dead work which has resulted in the
opening of several promising ore
I shoots.
| Ore is being packed from the prop
| erty OF Mrs. NJ. c. Smith on the left
side OF Cascade falls at Ouray. The
vein from which this shipping ore
comes is about ten inches in width and
! the values have never run below five
ounces in gold.
Late fall will see construction work
on . new mill at the Pride Of Cripple
| Creek mine, Ironclad hill, to be put
up by Lessee a. J. Morrison and his
st. Paul associates for the treatment
of the immense bodies of low grade ore
found in that mine.
The discovery, of gold in vein of
coal in the Rollins mine, located at
the foot of Grand Mesa. has caused an
outbreak Of the mining fever in Delta
Assayers have been testing the vein
and declare that 1t will average be-
tween IS and SIS ton in gold.
News of. an important ore dis.
covery made on the 550-foot level OF
the Joe Dandy shaft at Cripple Creek
by former Governor James H. Pea.
body, lessee, has gone the rounds in
mining circles OF the district but can
not be verified, at least the former
governor refuses to give out details OF
the strike. He admits that several
streaks OF good values have been
opened up, but VIII say no more.
The Little Matte mine on Chicago
mountain, less. than three miles from
Idaho Springs. is the scene of the
geatest mineral discovery that has
been recorded there in years The
ore body is three feet wide and from
assay made upon seven inches of ma
terial returns forty ounces OF gold and
300 ounces of silver per ton were re
ported. The other part of the ore vein
shows values of ten ounces gold and
100 ounces silver per t9n.