The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-06-21
WESTe n n
MINING NEWS
IN oRIEF
Western Newspaper Union News Service
TREND OF METAL VALUES.
Colorado.
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OIVsdo0s
r. w. Childs of Hotchkiss Is doing
some work on a property at Animss
Forks near Ouray.
Indications of oil are reported 1t
Steamboat Springs at the Tow Creek
oil well. which has now reached
depth OF $50 feet
Eagle was the scene of wild excito-
ment, when word leaked out OF
another find by DR.. w. J. Wiley. ct
silver. running $50 ounces. on Castle
mountain. north of Eagle.
Some drift mining is being done on
the old Snyder placer in the Swan
river valley. The paystreak is said TO
be about seven feet thick with mug
get-bearing stratum on the bedrock.
DR.. b. B. Slick has obtained lease
on the Sutton group on Mt. Hayden
and in company with four others hs
went up to the property from Ouray
to commence work on a good looking
shoot Of ore.
The old gold camp of Fulford. ten
miles south Of the Lady Bell prop
erty. has again come to life and .
Nv otdAP AuAAl Will DC III Op~A
alton there. with the cyanide process
added, within a few weeks.
The new duplex dump at the Coun-
try Boy mine near Breckenridge Is
handling the water that flows into the
winze from the big vein of zinc blendo
ore which the Simcoe Mining, Milling
and Leasing company recently opened.
T. H. trh AZ
Hahn's peak, twenty-eight miles from
Steamboat Springs, because Of min
eIal strike in the Poleson tunnel at
the foot of Hahn's peak. A four
inch vein of ruby silver ore running
1000 ounces to the ton was uncovered.
J. F. Thompson, California million
aire who bought in the properties OF
the Red Mountain Company at re-
ceivers sale last fall, went to Ouray
recently. and has been busy ever sincs
getting ready to start mining at the
Genessee, one of the most promising
of his properties.
The mining industry in the Breckeu
ridge district is in a very flourishink
condition. Ore shipments are In
creasing right along: new ore bodies
are being opened up in old properties;
the inquiries for properties with ore
In sight are becoming numerous, and
the gold dredging companies are max
Ing big profits.
Establishing a unique precedent IN
the mining history OF Colorado. leasers
In the Fulford mining district, ten
miles from Edwards, at the base OF
New York mountain, will drive a tun-
mel, equipped with sluice boxes, to the
bed of an extinct lake and, by placer
process, extract ore which has been
piling up there for years.
| ]. N Williams, secretary of the
Boulder Tungsten Production Com
pany and a pioneer mining man, ar
rived in Boulder from Chicago to as
sist County Commissioner ]. G. Clark
in completing arrangements for the
construction of twenty-five ton con
centrating mill and for boring a cross
cut tunnel 1000 feet into Hurricane
mountain.
Another silver strike has been made
on Horse Mountain, about 1000 feet
frcm the Lady Bell mine. The Lib
erty claim, owned by Charles hartman,
was leased about two weeks ago TO
Sheriff Marion Henry and it is on
this claim that silver ore has just been
discovered, which carried values oi
$40 ounces silver per ton. This is, by
far, the most important strike in the
Eagle mining district since the dis
covery of the Lady Bell.