The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-02-21
Colorado.

SOIOi aOO'
The Rico Wellington company Is
driving a crosscut tunnel east on the
Rico-Princeton group for the purpose
OF developing the territory lying south
Of the Wellington group.
From present indications ii is more
than probable that Leadville will have
a zinc smelter early in the summer.
1t is reported that a sale is pending
for the Mount Campion mine, near
Leadville.
AT Idaho Springs the Combination
mill will be the first plant in Colorado
TO be equipped with a Motter furnace,
and inside of sixty days the improve
ments will be made and the furnace
brought into commission.
A lease on a portion Of the Song
Bird mining claim, which is trayersed
by one OF the rich veins OF the Enter
prise group of the Rico Mining Com
pany, has ben taken by F. o. Withrow,
Alex. Hay and Eddie Baer.
What may probably be a heavy Grip
pie Creek producer is reported under
development at the 40o-foot level OF
the Ajax mine. on the famous Block
l., close to where the Ajax territory
joins the Coriolanus mine, owned by
the Aloha Gold Mining Company.
In Leadville good progress has been
made lately toward unwatering the
downtown mines and it begins TO look
that all preliminaries will be settled
early in the spring. Sufficient capital
has been pledged to make the enter
prise success.
January tonnage from block s of the
School section. located in Grassy
gulch, on the northeast lower slopes
of Bull hill, Cripple Creek, reached
total of twenty-five cars, or about S7l
tons Of shipping ore. Production came
from depths OF 25o and G50 feet.
one thousand tons of low-grade ore
that averaged about s3.55 per ton was
put through the Wild Horse mill in
January and resulted in the produc-
ticn Of a gold bullion brick weighing
fourteen pounds and five ounces. The
aprroXinated value OF the gold is
placed at s3,l00.
A rich mineral find has just been
made at the indicator property, stu
ated on Gold hill, near Idaho Springs.
In extending the east drift on the Tom
Tuck vein, intersected 900 feet from
he portal Of the corsscut tunnel. a
body OF chalcopyrite ore has been un-
covered and ASSAYS show values OF
from $50 to 800 d ton in gold.
The Kalamazoo mine, on Bull hill.
one of the Alert Gold Mining Compa-
ly's properties, where for years very
title in the line of steady production
1as ben noted, is quite likely to again
N the near future become consist
ent shipper as the result of a recent
discovery made by Goldsworthy and
others at a depth of about 200 feet.
The Hull City mine of the Vindica-
or Consolidated Gold Mining Compa-
ny, active under lease to Charles NJ.
Smith of Cripple Creek under recent
developments gives promise of pro-
iuction in keeping with its earlier his
.ory, the property between January,
1901, and January, 1904, having pro
iuced ore of the gross bullion value
of s999,17i.
In Cripple Creek district the Ajax
Sold Mining and Milling Company.
which has entered the field as buyer
Of custom ores for treatment at its
large cyanide mill located on the com
pany's estate on Battle mountain, has
It is reported, obtained 4 lease on the
Coriolanus mine, which joins the Ajax
territory on the north, and will con
acct the properties by crosscut.