Weekly journal-miner., 1915-10-27
MINE IN THE
 OATMAM DISTRICT SOLD
Prominent Cripple Creek Operator And Associates Close Deal and Begin
 Work on 0ld- Time Bonanza.

| pleted and Managing Director George Long informs me that the machinery for both plants has been ordered The milling plant will have an ini- tial capacity of 200 tons of ore per day and Is to be so constructed that other units can be added as needed. Crushers are to be used instead of stamps, the ore going from the crush CTS to the tube mills and thence on to the cyanide solution The mine machinery will be electrically driven and will have working capacity to a depth of 1000 feet It includes an Ingersoll-Rand 9OO-cubic foot com pressor, jack hammers, drill shapener and an Allis-C Chalmers double-drum hoist
 Ample Water Supply.
 The United Eastern Company has developed its water right in the 'Sil- yer Creek section to a daily supply approximating 6OOOO gallons and will have the water piped to its mining estate by the time the new mine and mill plants are in operation. The ob- jcctive of the new three-compartment shaft is water level, which, in the opinion of Mir. Long will be reached at an approximate depth of $50 feet It is the intention to utilize the mine water for drilling purposes and there after to conserve a certain quantity of the Silver Creek supply for domes- tic use.
 The ore already in sight in this re- 1narkable mine which has been de veloped from prospect into bon anza within the last nine months, is estimated by competent mining en- gineers to have a value of $10,000,000. And this estimate is acknowledged by all of the examining engineers to !! be conservative. The northwest drift on the 565-foot level has for the last 50 feet sampled an average of $500 per ton and at times the entire face las carried ore that sampled an aver age of $700 per ton. The break of the orc across 30 feet on this level is $40 per ton, the vein having an en- tire width of 43 feet and sampling pay milling grade its full breadth.
 North Drift on 465-Foot Level
 The north drift on the 465-foot level has at this writing length oF GOO feet. The ore shoot therein has a length of $50 feet At the shaft this shoot has a breadth of 40 feet and an average value of $3000 per ton. Two hundred and fifty feet out from the shaft it was again crosscut, disclosing width of 28 feet of S35OO ore. After driving 50 feet farther the shoot was again crosscut, with similar results. Fifty feet farther on yet another crosscut was run through the orc, disclosing average values O: 5000 per ton. Having passed through the shoot, the drift was ex tended still farther to the north and now appears to be entering another shoot.
 Black Eagle Workings.
 Superintendent Dover of the Black Eagle workings of the Tom Reed Company is following the ore opened several months ago at a depth of 400 feet and appears to be entering shoot of dimensions. Recent de velopment work disclosed thirty-two feet Of pay milling ore. At the pres ent time the break of this ore body is $2000 per ton, with fourteen feet or the ore sampling close to $3OOO per ton.
 Luck Boy Busy.
 Early this week operations were | started on the estate of the Lucky Boy Mining & Milling Company, ad- joining the property of the Telluride | Company. A 25-horse power hoist, | jack hammers and other mine equip ment are on the way to the property | K. A, Watson. formerly prominently | identified with the mining industry i al Manhattan, Nevada, is in charge | of operations. A shaft has been started and will be lowered a depth Of 500 feet, at which point the 40- foot ledge that shows at surface will be intersectcd and proved up.
 Boundary Cone Values.
 Five feet of ore that samples an average of $1OO per ton is the show ing in the lower level of the Bound ary Cone mine. As development work progresses vein and values are hold- ing strong under mineral conditions that indicate a widening of the shoot as the drive is advanced. The Boundary Cone has produced con siderable tonnage of high grade orc in the past, some of which carried generously that mincralogical rarety --crystalized gold Now that pay ore ! has bcen Oupned af -urcafer deDth if