Weekly journal-miner., 1915-11-10
SHOW OATMAN |S
 NOT A LOW GRADE CAMP
Ore All Over District Runs to Figures Which Prove Its Values Arc Not
 To be Thus Chased.

The Moss is located six miles north of the Tom Reed, and between the two are located number of proper ties where the average grade of the ore is considerably higher than Flow grade" The Moss mine is being op. erated under bond by the United States Smelling, Refining & Mining Company, owner of the famous Gold Road mine The latter was purchas- cd from a French syndicate for $l,- 500000. It has produced ore having a value as high as $500 per ton and is shipping monthly to mint $65,0OC worth of gold bullion. Adjoining the Gold Road on the south is the estate of the Goldroad Bonanza Mining Company where $50 ore was recently encountered at depth of 50 feet.
 Half a mile north and east of the Gold Road mine is the property of the Gold Ore Mining Company where a six-foot face of $1O0 per ton ore is exposed in the west drift on the 500- foot level. Four miles to the north and west of the Gold Ore estate and about two miles from the Moss mine, is located the Mossback mine, owned by Burlock, Garrison and associates of San Diego. Burlocl has mined and shipped a considerable tonnage of $500 per ton ore. A deal for the transfer of the property is now being negotiated at price running into six figures. Nearby the Moss and Moss back mines are the extensive Gaddis and Perry mineral holdings and the Oofty Goofty claims of the United Western Company. The lodges on beth of these acreages have given high values at surface and nominal depth. Kenneth Donnellan, one of the pioneer mining men of Goldheld, has with San Francisco associates taken over the Gaddis and Perry ground
 South End Gold Values.
 Five miles south of the Tom Reed mine and ten miles south of the Moss and Mossback mines, the Black Range and the Nellie Companies are developing extensive acreages. Ore carrying gold in the free and sampling upward of $100 per ton has been found at surface and shallow depth on both of these properties. D. C. Wright, president of the Black Range Company and formerly a leaser in the Cripple Creek district, expended SIS, GOO of his own money in the develop ment of the Black Range acreage be fore asking for outside financial aid. He recently refused an offer of $l00,- coo for his holdings in the Black Range Company.
 Two feet of ore sampling 5000 per ton were recently opened at depth Of 50 feet in the Green Quartz group. The latter is adjacent to the Black Range and the Nellie on the south and west, and was formerly owned by Louis Armil. For a number of years Armil worked the ore with financial success by means of a rude arastra. Long and McIver, the men who de veloped the United Eastern into a bonanza, now control the property. High values have also been obtained on the Black Hawk group-formerly the Murdock and Porter group-Cur- " & Alexander, Lazy Boy, Esperan- "a and other properties located in the extreme south end of the camp.
 Other North End Values.
 The Hardy mine, located north of and adjoining the Neglected group of the Tom Reed Company and the prop erty of the Jerome-Oatman Mining Company was taken over a few months ago by Fred w. Crosley, J. o. A. Carper and other former mine operators oi the Cripple Creek dis trict. The Buckeye vein on the Hardy i5 one of the richest in the camp. In former years this vein produced a considerable tonnage of high grade ere that was frcighted by team to Needles and from there transported by rail to San BcrnardinO and reduc- cd at a generous profit. A lateral is being driven 10 tap the Buckeye. vein at depth. The Jcromc-Oatman Com pany is driving its shaft to depth with the object of opening the extension oi the Hardy vein system. The new machinery is in commission and i: greatly facilitating mining operations The Hardy and the Jcrome-O Oatmar are located about four miles north O. the Tom Reed and about seven miles north of the Black Range and tho Nellie.
 Within a mile of the Jcromc-Oat man and the Hardy properties are To-