Gunnison news-champion., 1916-09-01
VULCANSMEL LTERSUCCESS
Snty6ve Cunnison Business Men Make Sociabiity Run
to See It Wosk and Are Impressed With Revival
Of Copper and Gold Belt South Of Us.

vulcsn-C Good Hops mine was In Denver
dat day.
Nearly Ill The crowd went up to -
tAs smsltes. which i quite . voodsr in
thss ~. The opsrating Of . smeltsr
cannot Be detailed hsFs. bat this
forty ton plant, . pyritie smeltsr Of
special design. built By C. H. Mace. one
Of the directors Of the company, b just
getting down to business. It was blown
in last June and has needed but few
notifications to nt conditions. From IS
TO so tons, depsnding upon whether the
ore II fine or In lumps. goes through
every day. the air blast over the coke
fire melting the rocks like water and
separating ninety per cent Of the values
which are recovered in the copper matte.
Three to four tons . day Of this matte
10 produced and It runs from SO to 500
in value. often higher. A. the initial
expenditure has not been % large -
with old style smelters. and the pay roll
IL limited to the thirty or forty men
employed, it will be seen that the Vul-
can company is on . paying basis, which
10 very encouraging to other mining
men in this vicinity. The copper matte
averages over fifteen per cent copper,
IN ounce to an ounce and half gold and
several ounces in silver. 1t goss TO .
refining company st Garfield, Utah.
Best Of all, the ore 20 far used hes cone
entirely from he huge dump Of tie
Good Hope. and there is . supply there
for 4 yeaf. besides the - carload ship
inents Of higher grsds dump stuff which
this company sent away during last win
ter before its own smsltsr vas con-
,strueted. The Good Hope mine must
have hAd some sxesllsnt ore to ship
only high grade and throw thsss values
away during former operating days.
This cd psppgty is bsiag opaasd
through ths CD. Hsps, ,ssilt rAsheg
than lsillAf ~ vuk1n a 1alAd960
ChimSsy. whiA - e36sod y eayss.
Il hss now ben unwatsfsd snd rstimb-
srsd 70 el0 feet A bsd cavern bars
the way to further exploration 70 ths
full 700 fest Of depth originally reached
just before these properties closed dawn
il the litigation Of almost twenty yssrs
ago. However. no ore was ever ship
ped from below $40 feet, and these up
per slopes are only half worked. I'm.
msnss bodies Of low grads stuff are b.
lieved TO be stored in the first stopss
made.
A drift started last week from IL
second level has already opened up high
values. A parallel drift will be run from
the fourth level and this connected With
later new Developments Of the mine q
It progresses under the management Of
J. r. McKenna. mine supt., who arriy.
Cd recsntly from Denver. Mr.. McKen.
M was foreman on the Camp Bird q
Ouray at oos time, and has had much
experience in the mining camps Of Colo.
Instesd Of raising water from ths
mine for the engines, . spring higher
on The hillside has bssn piped 70 thu
shaft house. An inexhaustable Hml
quarry nearby supplies III the fux nssd.
Cd In smelling.
Mr.. c. P. Mety Of Denver is general
manager in charge at The present time.
r. G. Ainsworth Of Denver IL pEssidsnl
Of the Vulcan Mines 4 Smsltsr Co.. c,
H. Mace, vics-prssidsnt. The other di.
rsctors are Geo. o. Bermont, lafayette,
Colo. Jshs r. n. Rowland. Younes
town. Chic; w. ". Aacs, Omaha, Ne
brsska; Chas. Lsp,sy. Fort Benton.
Mont. II. n. Gsi6lth b supsrintand
snt of trsnspoetation.
These gsntlemsn and The other stock
holders have backed thar faith IL on
Gunnison county property BY consider.
ably money and display Of commend.
able enterprise and after viewing tn
plant our Gunnison Representatives
were convinced that under modern con.
ditions and with Thorough modern man'
aGement the prospects were wonder.
fully bright for . real revival Of mining
IN the Copper Belt, once de Gunniscl
Gold Belt
There are wonderful possibilities d
this mineral AeId. and u things 70 righi
for . fsw months longer W win hasu
! III Of COLORADO looking our WY.
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