The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1914-12-24
cRESSON STRIKE ATTRACTS
WORLD WIDE ATTENTION

I
son gold strike is likely to be follow
ed by others. that Teller county has
only begun to yield lis great toll Of
mineral wealth and that the deeper
the famous gold mines go The better
will be their grade of ore. is-the opin-
ion of State Mine Commissioner T. R.
Henahen on returning from q visit
to the Cripple Creek district and the
cresson strike.
The strike of the Cresson Consoll-
dated Gold Mining company" said
Mr.. Henahen. is the greatest of It's
kind ever made In the world. But its
very richness and extent pale in sig
nificance beside the wealth that it in
dicates to be contained in the district
This strike at the twelfth level. be-
tween 1900 and 1900 feet below the
level of the earth. goes to confirm the
opinion of old mining men that the
deeper they would go the greater be
the quantity of gold. the richer would
be its quality.
THE strike not only is the richest
in the cresson mine-it is the richest
in the world At least three other
wo,ld-famous mines in the Cripple
Creek district. which. far from seem
to peter out. are today yielding at
depths Of 100. 1900 nd 1900 feet re-
sDectisely the very best grades Of ore
ever found in their workings.
after Cripple Creek ore had been
discovered the geologists continued
to maintain that the district would
not prove permanent and they did not
change their opinions until ten pro-
ducing mines had been developed
Now 1t seems that the earth at Cripple
Greek is barely scratched as far as
the mineral depth Is concerned.
Find Proves Wealth Lies Deep In
Ground.
'Tt u proven that the ore values In
this district 80 TO an unknown depth.
II has been An old saying among pros
pectors and technical mining man for
many years that the nrst thousand
feet in depth Of any vein contains the
richest ore values. This theory has
been upset In several mining camps
In late years. more especially in The
Cripple Creek district.
~one only has to visit some of the
deepest mines In Teller county to be-
come convinced that with It's depth the
ores increase in quantity and quality.
Il am going to make this predic-
ton: That when the Roosevelt tun-
mel is completed and the waters
drawn off above the tunnel level. the
output Of this camp will increase from
rs per cent to SO per cent annually
for many years 10 come"
The Roosevelt tunnel IL q great bore
th5s the earth and rock well below
the level of the deepest mine. con
structed by all the producing ccmpa.
nies. TO drain their properties. The
expense of pumping some Of the deep
er mines had bees enormous, even
with electrical appliances. In - l.
so0-foot mine. for instance. the wafer
would have TO be carried up : shaft
ten times as high as the First Nation
al bank building before work couid so
on. The Roosevelt tunnel drains tn
mines BY gravity.
"This strike continued Mr.. Hens-
hen. lis even greater than that thirty
years ago at the famous Molly Gibson
mine at Aspen, when the whole min.
ing world was astounded to learn that
Colorado was producing silver mug
gets weighing rs rpuch As 1.soO pounds
That mine Il still : big producef.
Like tho EolIy Gibson strike and
like all strikes, this one will encOur.