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mining excitesssnt due to Toaaeae sai
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the Gssd hepe wss closed down whils
its ownsrs sought fortsass n keveA.
mines. DIR. Wise built mill ct Boil
frog and failed to get enough ore b
operate the mill. Finally he came back
to Colorado end he and his associates
decided TO reopen the Coed Hope.
The Good Hope had filed with wste-
to the 1S0foot level end DR.. Wise in
stalled mammoth pump end soon he'd
the water lowered 30 that the no foot
level could be entered. When the men
went down the old shaft and started
along the drift they were sstounded to
find the old railway that ran for 600 feet
along the 2O0-foot level had been dis
solved and instead of the ron rails,
little stresks of ragged copper stretched
from the ruins of one tie to another,
while the spikes had been replaced by
copper spikes. The water had dissolved
the iron and the copper had settled in
its place, the iron acting as a settler or
collector of the copper.
Great pieces of native copper a few
inches thick and twenty to thirty feet
in length were picked up from where
the iron rails once lay. A ton of native
copper had replaced the spikes The
astounded miners could hardly believe
their eyes as they gathered up native
copper bars from the floor of the old
drift and sent them up the shaft.
DIR. Wise is an experienced miner and
it did not take him long to decide that
he would accept the present which
nature had given him in his old mine
He acquainted other stockholders of the
Good Hope with his find and steps were
at once taken to collect and vat the
water in the mine and preciptate the
copper. The process is secret one,
but involves the use of electricity, and
is said to work with perfect satisfac-
ton.
Samples of the copper railroad rails
were obtained by G. w. Johnson, cigar
dealer at Ala Santa Fe avenue, Pueblo,
and will be preserved by Mr.. johnson
as one of the strangest freaks in the
history of Colorado mining. The copper
samples are pure bullion, but they are
in such shape that it is easy to see they
were produced by nature
Mr.. johnson and Mr.. Wise are old
friends. Mr.. Johnson visited the Good
Hope mine last week and gathered the
samples himself. He is secretary
treasurer of the Saw Tooth Mining
company, which owns property near