Nevada Nugget Hunters

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Company Organized to Work Placer Gold in Colorado

The Gold Placer Company, recently organized, will work deposits on both sides of Clear Creek in the vicinity of Empire, Colorado. Rotary screens and a centrifugal amalgamator will be used to extract the metal.

Marquette Adds to Holdings
Marquette Mining has purchased the Polly mine, in the Black Hawk district of Colorado, to facilitate the development of its original holdings in that district. A tunnel has been driven to intercept the main vein, and this development is said to have struck ore carrying gold, silver, lead, and zinc.
H. Newmeyer is president of the company.
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BECAUSE of the opposition on the part of mining and other interests in Park and Summit counties, the Colorado & Southern Railroad has decided to withdraw its petition to abandon the Platte Canyon line between Watertown and Leadville, Cob. In presenting its petition for abandonment, the railroad claimed that it was losing $350,000 a year on the line. Among the organizations to file a protest with the Interstate Commerce Commission was the Colorado Mining Association.

EMJ 10 20 1928

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for MARCH 30, 1929 THE MINING JOURNAL

COLORADO

The Lehman Fluorspar Company, E. W. Lehman, president and general manager, Jamestown, Colorado, plans to electrify both its mine and mill. Constructive work will be centered on adding machinery to the present plant to increase its capacity to 150 tons of crude ore daily. Two new classifiers are to be purchased and installed and a storage bin of about 150 tons’ daily capacity is to be installed. A. C. Walker is mill superintendent. The average force employed is 17 men.
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The Grand View Mining Corporation, which is operating in Limestone Gulch, near Rifle, Colorado, under the management of J. W. Brown, reports a marked change in vein material in driving north. The formation has become more solid and the zinc value has given place to lead as the principal metallic value. It is said that considerable shipping ore has been revealed and that with further development a large deposit of ore will be opened.
Work is to start immediately on the construction of an ore bin and the working crew increased.
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Ben W. Purdy, operating near Ophir, Colorado, announces his intentions to build a tram and 150-ton mill. This is a gold-silver proposition and work is being done on a bond and lease basis from George Shoemaker, Anna Davis and O. H. Shoup.
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John Trankle and Lee Brown, lessees on the Longfellow claim of the Stratton estate at Cripple Creek, Colorado, are reported to have discovered a vein of ore three and one-half feet thick in a short tunnel run into the hilt. Streak samples are said to carry 50 ounces gold to the ton and grab samples of the broken ore are reported to be worth $140 per ton in yellow metal. This ground is comparatively new and it is probable that the vein will extend to depth.
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A road is being built from the new Chicago Creek highway to the portal of the tunnel in the Dorit-Perkias property at Idaho Springs, Colorado, and some timbering is being done. The mill is located on the Creek highway and is being repaired and brought up to date with modern machinery. W. C. Fischer of Idaho Springs is in charge of developments.
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The annual report of the Lackawanna Mining Company shows an authorized capitalization of $200,000. The officers of this concern are Charles H. Smith of Ogden, Utah, president, general manager and treasurer; John C. Brown, vice-president, and Joseph E. Storey, secretary.
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The pipeline has been completed from the electric pump in Blackhawk, Colorado, to the mill of the Chain 0’ Mines Company, and 80 minutes after the pump was started the flow reached the mill. Milling has been resumed with three shifts and the water is sufficient to meet all requirements. During the suspension in milling, thousands of tons of ore were broken.
J. M. Tippett is manager of the mill.
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The United Gold Mines Company, Cripple Creek, Colorado, Sol Cain, superintendent, started shipments from its Fairview mine early in March, and it is understood that there is enough ore in sight at the present time to insure continuous shipments for some time. The mine is to be electrified.
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The Cresson Consolidated Gold Mining and Milling Company, L. C. Carlton, general manager, Cripple Creek, Colorado, received a settlement of $48.80 a ton for a shipment of ore from the School Section mine. This was the initial shipment from that property and was mine run ore.
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The C. H. Stephens Company of New York have engineers engaged in putting the Matchless mine at Leadville, Colorado, in condition and will work the property if it shows merit.
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Ed Chamberlain, manager of the Gold Cloud mine, located on the boundary between Gilpin and Clear Creek counties in Colorado, has struck an eight-foot vein of milling and smelting ore assaying from $17 to $200 a ton. The smelting ore is two feet wide and is said to be soft and easy to work.
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Fifteen men are in regular employment at the property of the Hahns Peak Gold Mining and Milling Company at Columbine, Colorado, Harry A. Granberg, superintendent. This property produced up to 1918, when the Denver smelters shut down, and is developed by tunnels, drifts, raises, winzes, stopes, three and one-half miles of air pipes and tracks to every opening. The concentration and flotation plant on the property is of 100-ton daily capacity. Henry 0. Granberg, 3 Algoma Building, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, is president and general manager of the company.
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The Mountain Plains Companies Inc., J. G. Clark, manager, Boulder, Colorado, intends to sink the main winze in its property at Wallstreet another 100 feet. Drifts are to be run at that depth to the intersection of known veins of ore. Twenty-two men are engaged in mining and milling at the present time and the ore is concentrated in a mill of 50-ton daily capacity, using the amalgamation-flotation process in the recovery of the gold and silver values in the ore. A. A. Jekel of St. Louis, Missouri, is president of the company, and the operating officials include: A. H. Jekel, general superintendent; 0. P. Pherson, mine foreman; W. 5. Dwyer, mill foreman; F. A. Fair of Boulder, consulting engineer, and H. K. Lid-stone, chief chemist.
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The Peerless Clay and Minerals, Inc., formerly known as the Metalloid Corporation, is treating siliceous clay in a small plant having a capacity of about five tons. It is crushed, dried and pulverized for filtration and bleaching. Nearly 20 men are employed. 11. E. Brookby, 58 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, is head of the organization; J. M. Broan, 721 West Third Street, Pueblo, Colorado, is general superintendent and does the purchasing for the company, and B. A. Birdsey is mine superintendent.
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Tunnels are being opened up in the North ‘Star Sultan mine, near Silverton, Colorado, and the ground placed in shape for regular production. Warren C. Prosser of Denver is general manager and S. M. Weir is assistant general manager in the work. O Schwartz is foreman at the mine.
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The Guston Development Syndicate at Ouray, Colorado, plans to repair the old workings and do about 800 feet of drifting and 100 feet of upraising, according to F. L. Ross of Denver, general manager for the company. Financial support comes from the East. George T. Tillotson, 80 Broad Street, New York, is president of the company and Peter Carlson is mine foreman. Eight men are employed.
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The Vertex Mining Company, a subsidiary of the Tonopah Mining Company in Nevada, is drifting both ways on a gold-silver vein in the Buffalo Boy mine at Silverton, Colorado, from the bottom of the 400-foot winze. The drift will continue about 2,000 feet to definitely determine values. Charles Mayotte is superintendent for the Vertex Company and Jack Claibourn is mine foreman.
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Arrangements are being made to erect a new 150-ton selective flotation mill on the property of the Silver Queen Mining Company, in the Hotchkiss Mountains, near Lake City, Colorado. L. M. Snow, 509 Central Savings Bank Building, Denver, is general manager of the company.
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The Atlantic Gold Mining Company, Martin LeBow, president and manager, Empire, Colorado, expects to install a compressor in April. Three men are working at the mine now and hand power is used in development. W. H. Marquette, 2214 South Broadway, Denver, is consulting engineer for the company.
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The Tip Top Gold Mining and Investment Company, organized the latter part of last year, plans sinking a shaft to a depth of 100 feet and doing some drifting. The company owns one claim at Central City and four others leased from William 0. Jenkins, valuable for their gold, silver and copper metals. Claude R. McKay of Central City is president and manager; Ralph Sweeny of San Francisco, secretary, and Nicolas Sweeney of Portland is a director.
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The Kennebec Mining Company, A. E. Moynahan, president and general manager, 241 Coronado Building, Denver, Colorado, has installed a compressor at its property at Alma, known as the Orphan Boy lease. The old steam plant will be held in reserve. Development will be carried out with the use of electricity. Carl Mohr is mine superintendent, and between 10 and 12 men make up the average crew.
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A hydroelectric plant is under construction at Hillside, Colorado, by the Cloverdale Mines Company, W. P. Porch, secretary and general manager. Plans have been made to install a 100-ton milling plant, either selective flotation or cyanide, but further tests are to be made before final decision is reached. Last fall the company completed seven miles of motor road, but the workings were closed by snow on November 25, 1928. It is now planned to resume work about April 15, and the company is in the market for 1,500 feet of 12-inch and 14-inch riveted pipe, used or new. Harry A. P. Smith of Shawnee, Oklahoma, is president of Cloverdale Mines; Frank Homan of Canyon City, Colorado, is chief geologist, and William Kleine is mine superintendent.
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The Silverton District, Colorado, has been very active regardless of the frigid winter. Shipments during January totaled 205 carloads of concentrates. The Sunnyside Mining and Milling Company’s mill at Eureka turned out 124 cars of zinc that went to a refinery at Amarillo, 60 cars of lead and one car of middlings that went to the Durango smelter. The Sunnyside appears to be carrying out its resolution to outdo the work of 1928.
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On March 1, deeds transferring the entire Paradox Valley holdings of the Standard Chemical Company to the United States Vanadium Corporation were filed in the county clerk’s office at Montrose, Colorado. Title includes 225 mineral claims, several millsites and other property, making a total of more than 4,000 acres in western Montrose county. Radium is found in this section and it is understood that the Standard has spent large sums in its development. The United States Company has a mill and considerable land in the Rifle district. B. O’Shea, 30 East Forty-Second Street, New York, is president of the United States Vanadium; B. S. Blitz is general manager at Rifle; Blair Burwell is mine superintendent, and W. L. Anderson is mill superintendent. About 185 men are employed.
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The New El Paso Mines, Inc., Cripple Creek, Colorado, has made the final payment in the purchase of its property and is full owner. It has started on company account, driving on the fifth level into new territory. At the next directors’ meeting, Carle Whitehead and Floyd F. Miles, of Whitehead and Vogl, attorneys, Patterson Building, Denver, will be added to the directorate.
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The Climax Molybdenum Company at Climax, Colorado, had a cave-in from the roof late in February and as a result there came in the mass about 60,000 tons of excellent molybdenum ore. General Manager Coulter saw that the roof was “working” and ordered all men out of the way so that nobody was injured.
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Ben and Max Grimes of Denver, Colorado, purchasers of the Smuggler-Union mine at Telluride, say that the property and machinery will not be dismantled for a time at least.
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Future plans of the Wasatch Colorado Mining Company, George Rowe, superintendent, Silver Plume, Colorado, include sinking the shaft to new lower levels and adding flotation machinery. The mine is a producer of lead, silver, gold and zinc ores, and has good ore bodies developed and ready for mining. The company is not operating at the present time.
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The Lincoln Gulch Metal Mine. Company, Aspen, Colorado, plans to continue the upper and lower tunnels, which have reached lengths of 550 and 450 feet, respectively, according to President and General Manager, J. J. Yeckel, 1616 Glenarm Street, Denver. Samples of ore taken from the lower tunnel in September, 1928, assayed an average of .12 ounces gold, 72 ounces silver, 20 per cent lead and 18.5 per cent copper to the ton. The company plans to make shipments during this year. Five men are engaged in present operations.

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THE MINING JOURNAL, APRIL 15, 1929

COLORADO

In March, the Golden Cycle Mining and Reduction Company at Colorado Springs, Colorado, disbursed a dividend of $60,000. Payment was made at the rate of 4 cents quarterly.

The Hinsdale Mining, Smelting and Milling Company, operating in Cave Basin in the San Juan District, has been running a tunnel 7x6 feet, on a silver-lead vein and is ready for more extensive work with the opening of the roads. Ore values in the tunnel have increased with depth and run from $12 to $300 to the ton. Enough ore has been opened to keep a 100-ton mill going this summer. The officers of this organization are L. M. Maitland, president; C. A. Harshbarger, vice-president, and Riley Harshbarger, secretary and treasurer.

Bernard Noon, mining engineer, has made an inspection of the Green Mountain copper mine in the Cañon City district in Colorado. It is understood that this property is to be financed and developed by Philadelphia persons.

A transmission line has been built from Durango to the property of the La Plata Mining Company in the La Plata district. Both the mine and mill are equipped for more extensive work.

There is some talk of a merger of the Champion, North Star and Little Dora mines, near Silverton, Colorado, for the purpose of reducing overhead. A drainage tunnel can be built common to all properties.

Some consideration is being given to the reopening of the Swamp Angel mine in the California district, 17 miles northwest of Durango, Colorado. This mine is owned by H. E. Hutchinson and only the higher grade was removed during former operations.

The Western States Mining Company, which has been operating the Centennial gold mine near Georgetown, Colorado, for several months, has filed articles of incorporation. The incorporators are J. C. Martelon of Denver, N. P. Bush and C. O. Baker, and the capital stock is $1,250,000.

Cooper and Hoskins, who are leasing a block of ground from the West Gold Mining Company at Idaho Springs, Colorado, have shipped some ore during the past month. President J. A. Hinds of the West Gold Company is rushing to completion the new mill.

The Funeral Dike ore-shoot in the property of the Cresson Consolidated Gold Mining and Milling ‘Company, L. G. Carlton, general manager, Cripple Creek, Colorado, has been opened from the seventh to the fourteenth levels, and from the thirteenth level some of the best ore has been secured. Sixty feet of shipping ore, bringing from $50 to $75 a ton, has been opened and it is said that there is enough of this ore in the ore body to last for several months.

The Consolidated Mining and Milling Company has let a contract for the development of the Magnolia Mine in the Fairplay District in Park county, Colorado, and will treat the ore obtained in the mill remodeled by J. H. Liebrick.

The Silver Spoon Development Company entered into a contract March 1 with Roy E. and August Zobel, owners of adjoining mining property in Big Evans Gulch, near Leadville, Colorado, the Silver Spoon agreeing to continuous working of the property and to drive at least a 300-foot drift into the Monitor claims. By this move, it undertakes a thorough development of the Monitor lode mining claims Nos. 1, 2 and 3.

The ‘Continental Divide Development Company has placed a night shift on development in the Cowenhoven Tunnel in its property in the Aspen district, Colorado, J. C. Jensen, 220 Felt Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, is manager of the Continental Divide.

Articles of incorporation have been filed by the Lily “B” Mining and Milling Company, at Colorado Springs, Colorado, by F. J. Brown, P. V. Pooge and L. N. Mills. The capitalization is $20,000

Mining in the Mountain States
Short items of interest covering the mining industry in
Colorado. Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming.

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THE MINING JOURNAL for JUNE 30, 1929

COLORADO

The Mexican Gold and Silver Mining Company, A. D. Myers, superintendent, Cripple Creek, Colorado, has placed a new 40-horsepower hoist in operation, and the shaft is being sunk from two and one-half to three feet a day. The old hoist is being removed to the Ophir-Consolidated Virginia company’s five-year lease on one-third of the 50 acres in the Pinnacle property. The richest ore has been found on the 450, or lowest level, and has been followed 185 feet.
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The El Banco Mining Company, J. W. Wayman, manager, Silverton, Colorado, has purchased a two-stage compressor, electric motor, drill sharpener and other operating equipment. The company owns the Lead Carbonate and other claims in Cement Creek. C. C. Hanson and F. A. Drexler, the latter having superintended mine operations last summer and fall, are expected at the mine in a few days.
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A strike, assaying 316 ounces gold, has been made by the West Gold Mines Company, J, A. Hinds, president, 516 Denham Building, Denver, Colorado. The streak is two feet in width and is widening with development. According to Mr. Hinds, work is coming along nicely on the new 75-ton mill. The cyanide tanks are ready for installation and the filter and presses are expected to arrive shortly.
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The Virginia Mining Company, operating property near Idaho Springs, Colorado, has been reorganized and, refinanced, according to J. N. Caldwell, 620 Denver Theatre Building, Denver, secretary and treasurer to the company. A crew is working now and milling, suspended during the winter, is to be resumed. There is said to be enough mill feed for steady operation.
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The Chain O Mines Company, Blackhawk, Colorado, J. M. Tippett, mill manager, has shipped, about 290 ounces of gold retorts to the Flossy Dental Company of Illinois. The milling plant is of modern machinery, designed to handle 1,500 tons of ore a day and mill feed for several years to come can be supplied from “The Patch” deposit.
This deposit is oval, 950 feet in length and 400 feet in width, connected with 11 levels and with the La Crosse Tunnel at a depth of 800 feet. An airplane was used recently in mapping the ground.
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M. F, M. W., and L. L. Lomer, have incorporated the Specie Mining Company, which organization will develop the Specie Payment Mine on Bellevue Mountain, near Idaho Springs, Colorado. Capitalization is $50,000.
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B. P. Bailey and company of Austin, Texas, have taken over the Calliope group of mining claims on Dexter Creek, in the Ouray District in Colorado. The agreement is a bond and lease and operations are scheduled to start promptly.
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The United Gold Mint Company, Cripple Creek, Colorado, L. C. Carlton, general manager, is breaking ore across a seven-foot wide in the Fairview Mine. The ore is shipped in carload lots without sorting and is running upwards of $15 per ton.
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The Oklarado Mining Company has a good showing of ore in the Paris and Excelsior properties on Mt. Bross, in the Alma District, in Colorado. Ores of medium grade will go through the company’s own mill, while some of the high grade will go to the smelter direct.
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An upraise is being completed in the Hock Hocking mine at Alma, Colorado, B. W. Radford, manager1 for the economical handling on a deposit of ore uncovered last fall. George Logan, 509 Exchange Building, Denver, is one of the principals interested in this mine.
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The Buckskin Gulch Company, Alma, Colorado, is erecting an aerial tram between its mine and loading station in the gulch. As soon as this arrangement is complete, shipments will start.
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The Gold Dirt Mining Company, H. L. Shattuck, president and manager, 812 Security Building, Denver, is treating ore in its 100-ton mill at Empire, and two carloads of ore, that return $50 per ton, are being shipped daily. The average force is six men.
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The St. George Mine, on Douglass Mountain, near Georgetown, Colorado, has been taken over by a group of men from Maine and is being operated under the name of the Colorado-Main. Company. George Leece, who handled the work for the St. George concern, continues as manager. Considerable ore has been blocked out and two shifts will be maintained in the mine and mill.
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The East Butte mill at Silver Plume, Colorado, Barney Cartney, manager, is being operated during three shifts, and driers, and some other machinery are being installed. The new equipment is expected to effect a lower cost of handling and a higher recovery of ore values.
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The King Solomon Mining Company, Frisco, Colorado, has started work on its No. 11 vein and expects to get on the list of shippers shortly. Henry Heckman is superintendent. If development warrants, additional men will be engaged. S. H. Alexander, 896 South Franklin Street, Denver, is president and general manager of the King Solomon.
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The Marquette Mining Company, Harry Newmeyer, manager; Blackhawk, Colorado, has opened an oreshoot 150 feet below the bottom of the old shaft in the Polly Tunnel. The ore shows ruby silver, and lead and gold values.
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Lomer brothers, leasing the Specie Payment mine on Bellevue Mountain in the Idaho Springs District in Colorado, have purchased the Scanlon five-stamp mill on Clear Creek, in the western part of the district. Ten tons of ore are being run daily and the percentage of recovery is said to be high.
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A group of engineers, said to represent a large smelting concern, have visited the St. Louis group of 25 patented claims in Saguache County, Colorado, near Bonanza. The mine has not been operated in recent years, but yields a refractory ore of gold, silver, copper and zinc. It is understood that the engineers were favorably impressed with the group and plan to erect an electric smelter in the event the mine is taken over. There is not enough power in the district to support an operation of this nature, and, if the deal goes through, an additional power project will have to be launched.
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There is understood to be considerable activity in the Alma district in Colorado, where 80 men are working the South London mine and seven four-horse outfits are hauling the high-grade ore to the railroad for shipment to Leadville. The South London Extension, which owns a half interest in the South London, paid its regular dividend of 10 cents per share on the common stock, May 28.
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The Grimes brothers of Denver, who purchased the Smuggler-Union mills and property at Telluride, Colorado, have recovered approximately $15,000 in gold from sweepings and amalgam from the mills that fell to the floor, and stuck in sections of the machinery, while the ore was being smelted. They have paid a quarter of a million dollars for the property and expect to recover a half million. The Smuggler-Union has produced 50 millions in precious metals. It has not been decided whether the property will be worked or sold to eastern mining interests.
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The recent showing made by the New El Paso Mines, Inc., A. F. Woodward, general manager, Cripple Creek, Colorado, is on the second level to the south and near the “jewelry shop” stope, at a depth of 810 feet below the surface. The vein is more than three feet wide, with a main streak of high grade assaying $26,840 in gold per ton. Already over 400 pounds of the high-grade ore have been sacked.
Miners are stoping to discover the extent of the ore-shoot, which is widening at the top, with sylvanite and calaverite still much in evidence. Some winzing has been done at the bottom of the drift, and disclosed sylvanite as far as the winze extended. Until the size of the oreshoot is determined, miners will drill ahead before mining any great quantity of ore. The drift on the sixth level of the mine is making good headway and its face is in smoky quartz.

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THE MINING JOURNAL for SEPTEMBER 30, 1929

COLORADO

The Cain Leasing Company, Sol Cain, manager, Cripple Creek, Colorado, has entered ore, assaying $6.40 a ton in drifting, at the second level, in the Solomon Mine, of the United Gold Mines Company, at Midway, which it is operating under lease. The finding of ore follows three months’ development. On the first level, the leasing company has mined out an oreshoot 60 feet long and some of the carloads returned better than $100 a ton.
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The mill building of the Shenandoah-Dives Syndicate, Charles A. Chase, agent, Silverton, Colorado, is completely enclosed and it is expected will be ready to receive ore by November 1. A new five-story hotel is being erected at the mine, and will be ready to accommodate the miners, by December 1. Foundations are being laid for the tram, which is to be 10,000 feet long with a capacity to carry 80 tons an hour.
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The Vertex Mining Company, Silverton, Colorado, Charles Mayotte, superintendent, is receiving machinery, which is being installed in its new mill. The American Wire Company is rushing construction on an 8,500-foot tram-line, connecting the mill with the Buffalo Boy Gold-Silver Mine.
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The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company will resume production at its fluorspar mines at Wagon Wheel Gap, nine miles from Creede, Colorado. G. W. Botsford, superintendent of the Orient Mine at Villa Grove, has arrived at Creed to look after the work. Between 30 and 50 men will be employed and from 100 to 150 tons of ore produced daily. The mill will require eight men to operate it, and will be run one shift daily at the start. These deposits were purchased by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, in 1924, and operated until the spring of 1927, when they were closed because flux for making steel at the Pueblo plant, could be produced elsewhere cheaper.
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It is understood that a rich vein has been opened, in the Mountain Lily Mine, near La Plata, Colorado, by D. P. Eddy, Byron Eddy and Dave Muir, who are leasing the ground. The vein is said to carry good values across its entire face, with a streak of high-grade four to 14 inches wide, carrying from 11 to 98 ounces silver, and upwards of 35 ounces gold to the ton. This mine was located in the ‘90s, and during its early operation, yielded more than $100,000 worth of ore. Due to the high cost of transporting the ore over the mountain trails, some means of milling the ore will have to be provided.
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The Newlife Mining and Milling Corporation intends to build a new dam to conserve water, and to construct cabins on its property, at Rollinsville, Colorado, according to General Manager Walter E. Burlingame. In mine development, the shaft is to be lowered 200 feet further, depending upon the results encountered.
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Plans are to install a power plant, with Diesel engine, at the Legal Tender mine, according to Charles W. Lerchen, Box 566, Idaho Springs, Colorado, general manager for the company. Drifting and upraising are being done well in advance, of stoping ore. About 1,100 feet of new road has been built to 100-ton ore chutes at the dumps to facilitate truck transportation from the mine to the main highway and railroad. This will permit handling low-grade as well as high-grade ores.
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The Santa Eulalia Mines Company, Pressley A. Phillips, general manager, 1024 East Nineteenth Avenue, Denver, Colorado, intends rebuilding an old road so that equipment can be hauled in to drive a transportation and drainage tunnel. The work has been temporarily held up on account of lack of capital. As surveyed, the tunnel will be 1,600 feet in length, cutting the lode at a vertical depth of nearly 600 feet and opening three well-defined seams of ore exposed near the surface.
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The Windsor Gold Mining Company, Jesse Taylor, president, Windsor, Colorado, is patenting its Pirate property, about 10 miles northeast of Leadville, Colorado, and at the same time, is driving a tunnel to open an oreshoot exposed in the prospect tunnel at a depth of 50 feet below the tunnel. This concern is organized under the laws of the State of Colorado, and only a small amount of treasury stock has been sold. Most of the stockholders are local.
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Arrangements will be made for building a 50-ton flotation plant at the property of the Midnight Mining Company, F. D. Willoughby, president and manager, Aspen, Colorado. On August 19, final connection was made with old stopes in the Midnight Mine, from the end of a 6,700-foot adit and raises totaling 360 feet. All workings were found in fine condition, ready for production. It is estimated that 50,000 tons of lead-zinc-silver ore, averaging $15 per ton, are available. A crosscut is to be run at the tunnel level and next level above to intersect an ore body on its downward extension, so that ore can be taken out for the proposed mill, and for shipments direct to the smelter.
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The Quartz Hill Holding Company, Robert H. Sayre, general manager, Idaho Springs, Colorado, is un-watering the California Mine, at the rate of 750,000 gallons in 24 hours, to see if the ore is as good as it is said to have been when the former owners quit working, on account of being drowned out. This is the only mine that has been worked below the tunnel level, which cuts it 1,700 feet below the surface. The California Mine is about 2,248 feet deep and will be un-watered below the tunnel, by pumps.
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During the last four months the Argo mill has been working two shifts and within 30 days it is planned to be milling 24 hours daily.
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The Le Clair Mines Company, John Tait Milliken, general manager, Colorado Springs, Colorado, is considering plans for building a flotation-cyanide plant to accommodate the needs of the mine. The mine was opened and production started on March 4. Developments will be centered for the most part in the Anaconda and Ophelia tunnels, or north half of the property.
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Machinery, including a compressor and air drills, is to be installed at the Gray Eagle Mine, according to Manager James Sweetser, Cripple Creek, Colorado. Plans are to crosscut about 40 feet from the 60-foot level of the No. 2 shaft to the granite contact. The No. 1 shaft is 60 feet deep, and is to be sunk another 100 feet, and lateral development done at the 150 level. At this depth the vein is believed to be 60 feet from the shaft.
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The constructive program of the R. D. Webb Mining Company during the past six months, has been centered on the building of one three-story bunkhouse, to replace the buildings destroyed by snow-slides last spring. In mine development, ore will be developed in the Edna Tunnel on the San Juan Group, in the Jack Pot Tunnel on the Owens group, in the Big Blue Tunnel on the Big Blue Mine, and in the Sunny Chief Tunnel of the Sunny Chief group of claims. H. S. Brown of Canon City, Colorado, is general manager.
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Rawley Mines, Inc., Arthur N. Sweet, general manager, Bonanza, Colorado is building 3,000 feet of flume. Several long crosscuts have been started and a tailings dam is being built.
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Leasers are working the property of the West Gold Mines Company at Idaho Springs, Colorado, but the company will begin work as soon as the 75-ton cyanide mill, now under construction, is finished. About 150,000 tons of telluride ore, averaging $10 a ton, are broken and on the dumps. It is planned to sink a shaft to tap a new vein encountered on the second level. This shaft will be of three compartments, and the ore can be taken directly to the mill. J. A. Hinds, 516 Denham Building, Denver, is president and manager.
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The Ophir Bondholders’ Committee is considering the building of a mill at its property, near Ophir, Colorado. S. D. Rogers, 445 Milwaukee Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is general manager of the organization, and C. R. Wilfley, C. A. Johnson Building, Denver, is consulting engineer.
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The Emma Development Company, George E. Ward, manager, Dunton, Colorado, has been remodeling its mill, from stamps and tables, to flotation. A new water flume has been installed. Ore, carrying commercial values in gold and silver, has been opened both above and below the tunnel. Percy Krantz is mining engineer and assayer for the company.
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The Chain O Mines Company. J. M. Tippett, mill superintendent, Blackhawk, Colorado, made a shipment weighing 845 ounces gold, representing last month’s production, to the Denver mint. It was worth $17,000. This gold was caught on amalgamation plates below the ball and rod mills, and in the trap, before the pulp passes over the plates. The remaining gold goes with the concentrates, which will be treated later by cyanidation. A recent shipment of two carloads of lead concentrates was shipped from the mill to the Leadville smelter for treatment.
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The Lombard mill, of the Swift Sure Mining Company, is ready for operation, which will begin in a few days. An important feature is that entire handling and milling of the ore will be by gravity. The Lombard property, located nine miles from Idaho Springs, Colorado, has contributed largely to the fortunes made from mining in the state, and the No. 4 tunnel cuts these same ore bodies at a depth of approximately 1,150 feet from the surface. Sufficient milling ore is available for continuous operation. Charles S. Ripley is general manager for the Swift Sure Company, and A. V. Dickson is mine superintendent.
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B. N. and Moody Ramsey, owners of the Gladiator mining property on Hotchkiss Mountain, near Lake City, Colorado, have opened an ore body, assaying 200 ounces silver, 4 ounces gold and 30 per cent copper to the ton. The ore was found in an outcropping vein, near the surface, and the vein is six feet wide. A tunnel has been started into the ore. The Ramsey brothers expect to store the ore in bins, until the railroad to Lake City is repaired of the damage caused by wash outs.
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Golconda Mines, Ltd., Lake City, Colorado, is operating under the management of B. T. Leach. This is the mine in the Lake City District from which Jensen Brothers took out some rich gold and silver ore about 15 years ago.
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Regardless of the threat that the Colorado and Southern may discontinue its Denver-Leadville line, mine owners and miners alike in Park County, continue work. Possibly the railroad will find it advantageous to continue the line. If not, it is expected that Alma will be connected with the Denver and Rio Grande Western at Buena Vista, a survey being made, or that Alma will connect with the old Colorado Midland at Hartsel and have a direct route from Hartsel to the Golden Cycle mill, at Colorado Springs.
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James T. Burns of Denver, Colorado, has uncovered a two-foot vein, running 77 per cent lead and 13 ounces silver, or about $94 to the ton, at the head of Burns Gulch, in the Silverton District. The gulch is named for his father, who discovered the Smuggler-Union Mines at Telluride, and disposed of them in 1882 to Aidsip and Skull of Philadelphia.
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The Cresson Consolidated Gold Mining and Milling Company, Colorado Springs, Colorado, L. O. Carlton, general manager, has declared its regular quarterly dividend of 2 cents a share, payable October 10 to stockholders of record September 80. It will call for $24,400. Company officials are considering plans for the construction of a tramway from the Cresson orehouse dump, to its loading station at Eclipse, with the intention of milling the entire dump in the Golden Cycle plant. The dump is said to contain about 250,000 tons of low-grade ore and a production of 200 tons daily is planned. One plan is to build an aerial tram and load the ore from the dump into hoppers by a steam shovel.
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Sam Dowell, working the Excelsior mining claims in the western Durango district, Colorado, has uncovered a four-foot vein, which carries gold, silver and copper, worth about $40 a ton. The vein is a true fissure, the ore found on the contact of the lime and granite.
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Since the landslides on the Rio Grande Southern railroad wore cleared, the Rico Argentine Mining Company, Rico, Colorado, has shipped 750 tons of ore to the Salt Lake City smelters. There are about 3,000 tons to be shipped yet. Fred Price, 589 Atlas Block, Salt Lake City, Utah, is general manager.
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The Quartz Hill Mining Company, Idaho Springs, Colorado, is milling ore in the Argo Mill, at the portal of the tunnel. This plant is treating 125 tons of ore a day and expects to be milling 250 tons daily before the end of the year, according to Robert Sayre, who is in charge of operations. A strike in the Argo Tunnel, has been developed 150 feet in length, and is six feet in width. The ore varies from $20 to $100 per ton in its gold, silver and copper content.

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THE MINING JOURNAL for OCTOBER 15, 1929

COLORADO

The sum of $60,000 was disbursed by the Golden Cycle Mining and Reduction Company, Colorado Springs, Colorado, during the month of September. Payment was made to the shareholders at the rate of 4 cents a quarter.
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The King Lease, Inc., Joe. King, general manager, Ouray, Colorado, operating the Camp Bird Mine, has ordered mill machinery, although it is probable that the plant will not be set up until spring. Ore is being hauled to Ouray, daily, and, now that the freight service has been restored, shipments are being made.
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The Mountain Top Mining Company, G. H. Beebe, general manager, Ouray, Colorado, is dismantling its mill and mov ing it to the Treasury Tunnel. It is planned to run the Yankee Girl dump through the mill and to handle custom ore after the expansion is completed.
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The Mikado Development Company, composed of Detroit capital, has purchased the Morgan group of 16 lode mining claims and millsite, at Montezuma, Colorado, for about $40,000. Charles C. Latham is president of the company, Thomas M. Scannell is vice-president, and Fred E. Peters is secretary and treasurer. Through three tunnels, this ground has been opened about 3,000 feet. The main ore body shows pay rock across a width of 18 inches to two feet that returns 50 per cent lead, 40 per cent zinc and 11 ounces silver to the ton.
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The Summit Mining and Milling Company, William Bergren, manager, Montezuma, Colorado, is sinking a winze 400 feet from the portal of the middle tunnel in the Bullion Mine. At a depth of 40 feet there is a foot of heavy lead-silver ore with three feet of copper sulphide, said to carry 7 per cent copper, 30 ounces silver and .5 ounce gold to the ton. It is planned to mill the ore, probably in the Bollivar Mill near by. This company is a subsidiary of the Mikado Development Company, and Charles C. Latham of Detroit is vice-president of the Summit Company.
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A strike has been made by the Marlin Mining, Milling and Power Company, Montezuma, Colorado, that shows a streak of galena, one foot in width, in the 800-foot tunnel. A 25-pound sample returned 65 per cent lead and 15 ounces silver to the ton, according to Walter Head, who is in charge of the work.
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Since August 1, more than 10 carloads of ore, have been shipped by the Kelso National Mining Company, O. B. Willmarth, general manager, Georgetown, Colorado, and two more are ready for consignment. Of these, two were shipped to the Argo Mill, five cars to the Georgetown Mill and the remaining three to the smelter. The mine is in high altitude and will have to be closed this month.
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The Royal Tiger Mines Company, John A. Johnson, superintendent, Tiger, Colorado, is putting in a coffer dam where the Blue River Canyon leads from the “Goose Pasture.” Day and night shifts are working. The dam will be able to supply about 2,500 horsepower of energy to
operate a power plant, to be built at the pit on the south end of Main Street. From the dam, the water will flow through a new pipe line about 4,000 feet, to connect with the Gold Pan pipe line, which was originally built for placer operations, and is 60 inches in diameter.
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The La Plata Mines Company is shipping concentrates regularly from the Gold King Mine in the La Plata district, Colorado. A large body of low-grade ore has been proven. Wind breaks have been constructed with the hope of preventing the snow from blocking the road and, if successful, the company will work all winter.
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The Republic Metal Mines Corporation, J. W. Belco, manager, which has been developing the Gold Cup Tunnel in the eastern end of Taylor Park, has the bore in more than 3,000 feet, with about 100 feet to go to reach the Gold Cup vein, w hich produced about $2,000,000 during the ‘80s. The tunnel was in 1,909 feet and 350 feet deep when Belco and his associates took it over.
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Following a 60-day shut down, the Rose City Ore Company resumed work in its Ada Bell Mine, on the south side of Raven Hill, in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado. J. T. Milliken of Colorado Springs, is supervising the work and will sink the shaft down to 300 feet. Surveys show that the ore has a downward trend.
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Penrose Mines, Inc., J. F. McDonald, general manager, Leadville, Colorado, has lowered the water 340 feet below the collar of the shaft, removing an average of 2,000 gallons per minute for four weeks. This mine is 875 feet deep and has nine levels. The unwatering of the Penrose shaft has also unwatered some other mines in the district, proving that there is some connection, evidently bored by the water. Sam Sherman is in charge of the pumping.
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Fire, of unknown origin, destroyed the tram house, ore bins, and washhouse, at the May Day Mine in the La Plata District, 20 miles northwest of Durango, Colorado. The loss is estimated at about $25,000.
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It is understood that the 200-ton flotation plant is in operation at the Ute and Ulay Mine, Lake City, Colorado, and there is enough ore to keep the mill in operation for several years. M. B. Burke, owner of the mine, has been in conference with President Pyeatt, of the Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad, regarding putting in the section of the railroad, washed out by cloudbursts. Other mines are working in the district and it is believed that together they can supply enough freight to make it profitable for the railroad.
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The Quartz Hill Central Mining Company, Charles L. Gage, president, Central City, Colorado, is making daily shipments to the Argo Mill at Idaho Springs, Colorado. Some of the cave-ins in this old mine have been cleared and ore, running from $45 to $70 a ton, has been opened on some of the levels. An ore bin is being erected where the ore will be dumped and loaded into trucks by gravity.
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The Climax Molybdenum Company, W. J. Coulter, general superintendent, Climax, Colorado, is boring a new tunnel and will erect an addition to its mill. The new tunnel will be connected with the old workings by a winze. The ground is so heavy that 12x12 timbers are required to hold it in place. Hamilton and Gleason have the contract to build the addition to the mill, which will have a capacity of about 2,000 tons daily.
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The Manhattan Leasing Company is developing the Manhattan Claim of the Commodore Mining Company at Creede, Colorado, adjoining the Bachelor on the south. A compressor will be installed to speed up development. The company, unincorporated, has been organized by Charles F. Hollister of Creede, president; W. F. Drake of Pueblo, vice-president, and C. A. Pennebaker of Pueblo, secretary and treasurer.
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The Guston Development Syndicate, Frank L. Ross, general manager, Ouray, Colorado, plans to enlarge its orehouse and bins, cover the track, from the portal of the tunnel to the orehouse, a distance of 400 feet, and install a hoist and portable compressor. During several months, development has been confined to reopening the old workings of the mine by connecting the sixth level with the Joker Tunnel, which passes through the property, and rebuilding a manway and ore chute to the fifth level, then to the fourth and third. Drifts will be run northerly from the fourth and sixth levels.
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The Revenue group of mines, near Ouray, Colorado, has been taken over by D. W. R. Kinney of Tulsa, Oklahoma; K. Clover of St. Marys, Ohio, and E. H. Kennedy of Tulsa. Mr. Kennedy has charge of cleaning out the tunnel, repairing ventilators, and installing wires for light and power. Upon the completion of this work, equipment will be installed and it is planned to have everything ready for work before winter sets in.
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The Ute Gold Mining Company, John H. Turner, president and manager, Como, Colorado, is pushing the development of its placer property, and expects to reach bedrock, before the winter sets in. On the Ute fissure vein, the tunnel is in 300 feet and recent assays have shown about $19 per ton in gold and silver.
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It is understood that litigation in which the Silver Leaf Metals, Inc., has been involved has been settled, all bills paid, and the company may resume the development of the Bluebird Mine, on Bull Hill, in the Cripple Creek District in Colorado. E. N. Goodlett, 527 Temple Court Building, Denver, is general manager of the company.
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A carload of concentrates is ready for shipment to the Durango smelter, from the Highland Mary Mine at Howardsville, Colorado, according to E. A. Hayett, manager and one of the owners. The mill has been running on ore from the dumps. During former operations, ore running higher than $50 was shipped from the workings, but there are still available on the various levels, many tons that run at, or below, that figure. Power is furnished by a hydroelectric plant on the company’s property.
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Work has ceased in both the mine and mill of the Lackawanna Mining Company, Silverton, Colorado, following the visit of President C. H. Smith of Ogden, Utah. Lack of funds is said to be the reason for this move, and it is hoped that it will be but temporary. Since Utah capital took over this property three years ago, more than $100,000 has been spent in development and mill construction. Two carloads of lead concentrates, averaging 50 percent lead, 20 ounces silver and $6 gold to the ton, were shipped to the Durango smelter recently.
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Manager Edward Butts, expects to start shipping from the Griffith Mine, at Georgetown, Colorado, within a few weeks. The Griffith Vein has been opened more than 100 feet, and is from 10 inches to nearly four feet wide. Lead and copper are the principal values.

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GOLDEN CYCLE PUTS IN FLOTATION MACHINERY

Of major importance in Colorado mining circles is the new flotation plant being placed in operation at Colorado Springs, by the Golden Cycle Corporation. This is the first unit of a larger plant, erected at a cost of more than $80,000, and has a capacity to treat 200 tons of ore daily.

The process evolved in milling is the result of many months’ research on the part of the staff of the corporation and the mill directorate. Much of the new machinery has been developed in the company’s shops by employees and shop rights have been obtained, while the remainder has been furnished by the Denver Equipment Company. More than 10 months were required in purchasing or forging the various machines and setting them in place.

This plant has been constructed so that additional units can be added as needed and means the reclaiming of millions of dollars from ores that have, up to this time, been of too low grade to handle profitably.

Due to the decline in tonnage in the Cripple Creek district in recent years, other sources were looked for. One of the first outside districts to send its ores to the Golden Cycle plant was the Leadville district. Later came silver ores from Creede camps, and now through improved metallurgy, it is possible to handle ores from nearly all of the major camps of Colorado, including not only Cripple Creek, but Boulder, Telluride, San Juan, Idaho Springs, Leadville, and others.

The annual payroll of the Golden Cycle Corporation is approximately $300,000 and is likely to be increased as units are added to the flotation plant.

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THE MINING JOURNAL for OCTOBER 30, 1929

COLORADO

The Leadville Deep Mines Company, George 0. Argall, manager, Leadville, Colorado, is hoisting 10,000 tons of ore monthly from a depth of 1,420 feet. The ore is mostly low grade, but it is being handled at a profit.
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William G. Rock of Denver, Colorado, and associates, have taken over the Victor Mine, on the east slope of Bull Hill, in the Cripple Creek District, and will equip its main shaft with an electric hoist. The shaft is in good condition, except at the collar, and this will be retimbered.
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The Continental Dredging Company, C. A. Kaiser, general manager, Breckenridge, Colorado, placed its dredge at the two-mile bridge, north of that town, in operation early in October. Water is plentiful and enough ground is ahead for several years’ work. Twelve men are employed by the Continental company, under Superintendent Trevor Thomas.
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Thirty-five tons of ore have been shipped from the Little Annie Mine, in the Summitville District, near Del Norte, Colorado, operated by J. C. Wiley and Jack Pickens. The gold content of the ore varies from 7 to 40 ounces to the ton.
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It is understood that a group of New York men have taken a bond and lease on the Omega group of 18 patented mining claims, on the east end of Prospect Mountain, near Leadville. The property is owned by the estates of J. J. Brown and S. D. Nicholson. No work has been done in this ground for several years.
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During September, 15 carloads of ore were shipped from Ouray, Colorado. The shipments included: 10 carloads from the Camp Bird Mine; two carloads from the Guston Development Company; two from the Beaver and Belfast mines, and one from the Yankee Girl Mine.
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Waggoner and Hayes, operating the Idaho Bride Mine, in Virginia Canyon, near Idaho Springs, Colorado, have opened a two-foot width of ore that averages 80 per cent lead. Ore bins and loading chutes are being erected at the mine.
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The Precious Metals Mining Company, Frank E. Wire of Denver, manager, has opened a body of ore 150 feet from the portal of its main tunnel, in the Empire District, and at the intersection of two veins. A streak of ore was opened and in four feet of drifting widened to 10 inches. While no assays have been made yet, it is a lead ore with associated values in copper, iron, gold and silver.
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Mattie Consolidated Mines, Inc., R. R. Mitchell, president and general manager, Idaho Springs, Colorado, is said to have opened ore assaying as high as $1,000 per ton at a depth of 1,100 feet. It has been followed 60 feet and varies from six to 12 inches in width.
The $100,000 mill destroyed by fire has been rebuilt and each of the three shifts are taking 5 ounces of gold from the plates daily. Rougher concentrates, assaying from $300 to $2,700 per ton, are being shipped, and large quantities of float, running from $70 to $200 per ton, are being placed in bins. James Emerson is mine superintendent and has 25 men at work.
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The Master Key Mining Company, P. D. Alsdorf, president and general manager, is making arrangements to resume work at its property, one-half mile north of Columbine, Colorado. The ground was held for 35 years by Thomas Kleckner and is developed mostly by a shaft. A. H. Staples of New York City is to finance proposed developments and is at the mine now.
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The Mountain Cross Granite Company, S. S. Sherman of Denver, manager, is working 25 men at its quarry in the Federal District on the Chaffee-Fremont County line, and expects to increase this number as soon as road conditions are improved. The company has a dressing plant and mill at Salida, 15 miles northeast. Mail is received regularly at Federal from Salida, and an effort is being made to establish a postoffice. The public school there has an enrollment of 12.
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It is understood that the Bjorn Placer Mining Syndicate, Joseph Bjorn, president, is operating a dredging machine of 1,000 tons daily capacity at McCoy, Eagle County, Colorado. The separator was invented by T. W. Ainlay and C. E. Gish of Farnam, Nebraska. It is bowl-shaped, lined with riffles following the curvature. When rotated, the gold is retained in the undercut riffles and the sand and gravel are thrown out over the edge. The gravel is delivered into the hopper by means of a scoop. The machine is used only on gravel assaying more than 25 cents in gold per cubic yard, and the cost of treatment is from 10 to 12 cents per cubic yard.
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During a recent visit to Silverton, Colorado, Dr. F. L. R. Mattern of Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, acquired a bond and lease on the Silver Fleet group of mining claims, in Cement Creek. Mr. Mattern entered into the contract with Andy Bostian and John Lind and intends to resume work under the supervision of Mr. Bostian.
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The Empire Zinc Company, Russell B. Paul, manager, 301 Harrison Avenue, Canon City, will build pockets at its underground mill on the Eagle River, near Redcliff, to hold ore from the Newhouse Tunnel. The mill is about 100 feet above this tunnel and is expected to be in operation before the end of this year. A three-mile tailing flume has been built to Aster City to prevent pollution of the Eagle River. The Public Service Company has the contract to furnish electric power.
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The Vertex Mining Company, Charles Mayotte, superintendent, Silverton, Colorado, expects to place its new mill in operation about November 1. Eleven towers support an 8,500-foot tramline, connecting the Buffalo Boy mine. A building, 30x70 feet, is being erected to house the ore crusher and other machinery. A recovery of $10 to $15 per ton is anticipated.
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Because of fire which destroyed the Terrible Mine, near Ilse, Colorado, about a year ago, the post office at Ilse has been closed. Practically all of the miners have gone to Lake City. The Terrible Mine is owned by Robert D. Webb of Louisiana.
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W. S. Bruner, Vic. Porter, G. Caster, and W. A. Collins, have leased the Colorado City shaft of the Portland Gold Mining Company at Cripple Creek. They will build a shaft house, install a hoist and expect to be shipping in a short time.
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A deed transferring the Tomboy mining property at Telluride, Colorado, from Gio Oberto to J. H. Moore, has been filed with the county clerk. The deed covers all of the properties conveyed to Oberto by the Tomboy Gold Mines Company, Ltd., on April 26, 1927.
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The Continental Divide Development Company, Aspen, Colorado, D. P. Rohlfing, manager, has opened a large tonnage of ore, averaging $14 per ton. Several carloads of high-grade ore were shipped to the smelter at Leadville, and the low-grade ore will be treated in the old Brown mill, which is being reconditioned. Continental Divide recently took over the McVeigh properties, adjacent to the Brown, and comprising 153 acres, giving it more than 1,000 acres at its Aspen camp. An offer has been made to lease the Hyman properties, which are under the management of W. H. Anderson.
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The Butte Mining Company, B. M. Cartney, superintendent, Silver Plume, Colorado, operating the Dives-Pelican, and the Seven-Thirty mines, are working three shifts a day, 25 men employed. Sufficient ore has been opened up to keep the mill going throughout the winter. The ore will not be exposed therefore will not freeze. J. H. Warner, 1016 First National Bank Building, Denver, is president and general manager of the Butte company.
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The Martin Syndicate is erecting a three-story boarding house at its camp, three miles from Eureka, Colorado. Housing will be erected to take care of a 1,500-cubic foot compressor, and upon its completion, a 9x13-foot double track tunnel will be driven. The objective of the tunnel is a system of parallel veins, ranging from three to 80 feet in width. London and New York men are financing the project.
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Two shifts are blocking out ore for the Hahns Peak Gold Mining and Milling Company, H. A. Granberg, superintendent, Columbine, Colorado. During the past summer the mine was unwatered and satisfactory progress made. The Hahns Peak is one of the companies favoring smelting facilities at Denver. At present the Denver smelter is treating only vanadium ores from the United States Steel Company, but additional units are being added so that custom ore can be taken care of.
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Two strikes have been reported recently by the Cresson Consolidated Gold Mining and Milling Company, Cripple Creek, Colorado, A. H. Beebe, superintendent. One is an eight-foot width of mineralized rock at the 1,400 level that for the last 25 feet has averaged $100 per ton from grab samples. A test shipment of this ore was sent to the Golden Cycle mill. The other strike is northwest of the shaft, at the ninth level and, while of lower grade than the former showing, has indications of being extensive.
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The Pittsburg-Notaway Mining Company, J. T. Macey, president, 711 1/2 B. & C. Building, Denver, Colorado, which has been crosscutting on the 900-foot level of its property, near Central City, has opened into the East Notaway claim. Considerable water was released and is draining into the Pittsburg sump, where it is being taken care of by pumps. Development of the Notaway vein will be undertaken as soon as the ground is dry.
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Mill Superintendent J. M. Tippett is treating an average of 175 tons of ore daily in the plant of the Chain 0’ Mines Company at Blackhawk, Colorado, and expects to increase that tonnage to 800 tons as soon as the other water line is laid, and some additional machinery is installed in the crushing department. All the derricks for the aerial tram, which will carry the ore from the La Crosse tunnel, to the mill, have been completed, ready for stringing the ropes.
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According to A. S. Sharp of Leadville, Colorado, owner of the Hilltop Mine, negotiations are under way in New York City, to raise finances for the development of that mine, and the Granite property. The latter is nearly 3,000 acres of gold placer ground, extending from the Lake County line, into Chaffee County. The principal development of the Hilltop, is a 500-foot shaft, from which four million dollars is said to have been produced in the past from gold-silver-lead-zinc ores. Pending the result of financing, a tunnel will be run about 3,200 feet into the Hilltop ground, from the Leadville side of Mosquito Range, to cut the contact.
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It is understood that the Big Cross Mining Company at Silverton, Colorado, and a syndicate of lessees, are considering building a mill of about 250-ton daily capacity. Dr. S. G. Dowdey of Lamar, trustee and treasurer of the Big Cross company, intends to continue development with a small crew until cold weather sets in.
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Wigton and Long of Okmulgee, Oklahoma, owners of the New York group and the Weagle lode at Montezuma, Colorado, expect to resume operations. Three shifts were employed before the shutdown.
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E. C. Strickler of Montezuma, Colorado, is in charge of work at the Fisherman property at that place, owned by Thomas Dougan of Denver. Six claims make up the group. The crosscut tunnel is in about 1,100 feet and the shipping ore is worth $100 a ton.
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The Consolidated Extension Mines Company, Harry J. Newton, president, 312 Jacobson Building, Denver, has driven the Little May tunnel, 400 feet into Newton Hill, in the Cripple Creek District, in Colorado. Thirty-five feet of that distance has been in ore, worth as high as $880 per ton.

The East Argentine Development Company, J. W. Old, general superintendent, Georgetown, Colorado, is making steady shipments from the Santiago Mine, in the East Argentine District, to the Argo mill, at Idaho Springs. Although this mine is at an altitude of 13,000 feet, plans are being considered for all-winter development. W. L. Stites, 527 South Bannock Street, Denver, is president and general manager.
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At Cripple Creek, Colorado, the Queen Exploration Company, Inc., J. T. Milliken, manager, is shipping at the rate of three carloads daily, from a stope 85 feet across and carrying good values. The Pinnacle Mine, on the north contact, operated by the Mexican Gold and Silver Mining Company, A. D. Myers, superintendent, continues heavy production from the Mitchell oreshoot. To date, the latter has a record of shipping 80 cars, averaging $6000 a carload.
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Judge Jesse C. Wiley, in the District Court at Creede, Colorado, has rendered judgment for $48,000 in favor of the Commodore Mining Company, against the Bachelor Mining and Milling Company. The amount was based upon the value of ore extracted in 1923, from the Archimedes claim. It is said that the Bachelor will ask for an appeal.
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Warren Prosser, Exchange Building, Denver, has resumed the management of the North Star Mine at Silverton, Colorado, and is negotiating for finances to reopen the mine, and equip it with flotation machinery. During the last eight months, the mine was under the management of S. M. Weir.
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Night and day shifts are working in both the mine and mill of the Commonwealth Tunnel Transportation Company, C. G. Breitenbach, president, Georgetown, Colorado. The recent installation of a compressor and some other machinery has speeded up underground work. The mill is now running on ore from the Kelso Mining Company, which is developing in the same district. Percy Williams is superintendent, Leon Shay is master mechanic and Theodore Swanson is in charge of the compressor and blacksmith shop.
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Inclement weather has delayed the moving of machinery to the property of the East Euclid Mining Company, Mancos, Colorado, Clay Williams, manager. Lou Wigmore is working on the main vein, which has a width of about seven feet and is heavily impregnated with minerals. The stoping depth on this vein is nearly 50 feet.
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Samples of ore cut at a depth of 85 feet, in the winze on the main vein, by the P. & E. Leasing Syndicate, assayed 355 ounces silver and 42 per cent lead to the ton. The vein is from three to four and one-half feet thick. Sinking is slow because it takes a day to muck after the shots are fired, and only five feet of depth is gained in three days. Herman Emperius, of Alamosa, is president of the company, and his associates are P. T. Poxson of Denver, secretary to Governor Adams, and J. D. Fisher of Colorado Springs, engineer. The P. & E. Company has a three-year lease on the Pittsburgh, Last Chance, Del Monte, Aspen, and Ruth Elder properties in the Creede District.

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for NOVEMBER 30, 1929

COLORADO

The St. Louis Smelting and Refining Company, Rico, Colorado, D. M. Kline, superintendent, is shipping an average of 150 tons of ore daily. The ore is a heavy sulphide, carrying as high as 50 percent lead and zinc combined. Transportation from the district has been handicapped by the disuse of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad, which was covered for several hundred yards, last spring, by the Ames slide. All of the ore is shipped to Utah by way of Durango, making the haul about 600 miles farther.
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The Manganese Mines Company of America, John N. Kerr, manager, 1046 Vine Street, Denver, has made financial arrangements for the future development of its property, near Hall’s Siding, Gunnison County, Colorado.
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A three-foot vein of ore has been uncovered in the Alaska Tunnel of the Ward Consolidated Mines Company, E. H. Otis, president and general manager, 1307 Josephine Street, Denver, and is gradually widening in the drift. Further development includes the installation of control power, a compressor house, and ultimately, a mill of about 100-ton daily capacity. The Alaska Tunnel, one of the biggest projects in the Ward District in Colorado, has been driven 2,435 feet. Its objective is the Modoc Property, about 3,000 feet ahead of its face, and during its course, will cut the Wolcke silver-lead, and the Homestretch groups. It will provide drainage for the mine, and gravity transportation of ore out of the mine.
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The Silver Queen Mining Company, L. M. Snow, 509 Central Savings Bank Building, Denver, has taken over the development of four mining claims in Chaffee County, Colorado, near St. Elmo, owned by Preston W. Stovall of Denver, and William H. Plummer of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Development has been continued in virgin ground through two tunnels, and has revealed assays as high as 128 ounces silver and 70 percent lead to the ton. Negotiations are under way for a custom mill, built several years ago, and it is intended to build a 1,800-foot tramway, connecting the mine aand mill, and install a compressor, machine drills and other machinery.
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Boston capital is said to have secured control of the Mexican Gold and Silver Mining Company, operating the Pinnacle Gold Mine at Cripple Creek, Colorado. Under the management of A. D. Myers of Los Angeles, exploration of the Pinnacle Mine was started in 1928, and 91 carloads of high-grade ore were shipped to reduction plants, between January and November 5, of this year. Regular shipments are from four to eight carloads monthly, and have a gross value of from $183.76 to $1,373.16 per carload. A recent discovery of sylvanite ore in the mine has stimulated activity and is expected to result in an increase in the working force, which is seven to ten men.
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A recent discovery, in one of the two tunnels of the Lincoln Gulch Metal Mines Company, J. J. Yeckel, president and manager, Aspen, Colorado, shows values of 28 ounces gold, and 36 ounces silver. During the last three summers, development has been continued in virgin ground. The company has 320 acres of mineralized land in Lincoln Gulch, eight miles from the highway, and 18 miles from Aspen.
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The Euclid Gold Mining Company is developing property on the North Fork of the West Mancos River, in a small way. A small mill that can treat between eight and one-half, and nine tons of ore during 24 hours, is on the ground. Its machinery includes a crusher, ball mill, a three-cell Sub-A flotation unit, and a Wilfley table, driven by a six-horsepower gasoline engine. Clay Q. Williams, P. 0. Box 412, Mancos, Colorado, is general manager of the company and is operating on his own capital.
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The P. & E. Leasing Syndicate, Herman Emperius, president, Alamosa, Colorado, has shipped two carloads of ore, and a third is nearly ready for consignment. The ore was mined from the Pittsburgh and from the Ruth Elder claims.
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Messrs. Waggoner and Hayes, have installed a power drilling machine, at the Idaho Bride Mine, in Clear Creek County, near Idaho Springs, Colorado, and are extending air lines to the Brighton Mine. The recent showing of high grade is maintaining its width of two feet.
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The Chain 0’ Mines Company, J. M. Tippett, mill superintendent, Blackhawk, Colorado, sent a gold retort, weighing 241 ounces, to the Denver mint. The mill is running three shifts daily, and the shipment was free gold, caught on the amalgamation plates, as the ground pulp passed on to the separation tables. It represents only a portion of the gold contained in the ore, which will later be treated in the cyanide plant. The tram from the La Cross Tunnel has been completed, and will be placed in commission in a few days. The crushing capacity of the plant has been doubled so that enough mill feed can be supplied for the cyanide units, which are nearly ready for milling.
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The Rico Argentine Mining Company, H. S. Worcester, superintendent, Rico, Colorado, has established a raise connection between the Log Cabin Level and the old Tom Walsh Stope, from which, a fortune was mined from the surface to a depth of 300 feet. Walsh stopped work when he struck a step-fault and drifted in a barren limestone. The raise has given access to the No. 5 ore body, where five and one-half feet of lead-zinc-silver ore are available. Production of the company during the month of October amounted to 50 carloads, or 1,250 tons, and even higher output is anticipated during this month.
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The shaft of the Master Key Mining Company, Percy D. Alsdorf, president and general manager, Columbine, Colorado, has been unwatered, and arrangements are being made to operate three shifts daily during the winter. The objective of development is the lower contacts. Coal is being hauled in to insure a winter supply and the shaft house is equipped with modern machinery.
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The Cloverdale Mines Company, W. P. Porch, secretary and general manager, Canon City, Colorado, has closed its property, near Hillside, for the winter.
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A vein of milling ore has been opened in the property of the Sarsfield Consolidated Mining and Milling Company, Jack Flannery, general manager, Alma, Colorado. Through this vein, there is a streak of high grade from 6 to 10 inches wide. The Sarsfield property is at the head of the Platte River, above Alma.
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The new flotation mill of the Empire Chief Mining Company, H. S. Brown, manager, Lake City, Colorado, is turning out a first-class concentrate. Ore from the mine is being transported over an aerial tram 3,600 feet long. Mine development has resulted in the opening of lead, silver, copper and gold values, to a depth of 1,500 feet below the surface. In the No. 4 tunnel some of the ore disclosed recently is worth more than $50 a ton.
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The Sutton Mill, near Ouray, Colorado, purchased last month by G. S. Burtis of Chicago, and associates, has been placed in operation. Its resumption of milling is reflected noticeably in mining conditions in the district. Shortly after being placed in commission, a breakdown was experienced, but it was replaced with machinery from Denver. Two trucks are hauling ore from the Guston dumps, and filling the bins at the mill. Enough ore is available from this source to insure milling for several months, and it is expected that the Sutton Mine will be reopened.
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The Red Raven Gold Mines, Inc., William G. Haldane, president, Western Security Building, Denver, has secured a one-half working interest in the Shurtloff Dump on Bull Hill, in the Cripple Creek District in Colorado. The dump is estimated to contain 150,000 tons of ore, which assays from $2.50 to $32 per ton. The Red Raven is also getting ready to work the Black Bell Group on Beacon Hill, in the Cripple Creek District.

The Red Elephant Mining Company, at Lawson, Colorado, has sold out to New York men, who have organized the Red Elephant Mountain Mining Company. The deal includes 50 patented mining lodes, a 50-ton modern mill, and some town property at Lawson. R. C. Lane, president of the old company, will remain as vice-president and manager of the new company, although these organizations have no connection with each other. Production of the Red Eleplant Mine is over $5,000,000, and Mr. Lane’s company, has invested more than $500,000 in improvements. W. A. Cluff, former president of the Mason Tire and Rubber Company of New York City, is president and chairman of the board of directors of the Red Elephant Mountain Mining Company, and his associates are all prominent eastern men.
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The Mountain Flower Gold Mining, Milling and Prospecting Company, recently organized under the laws of South Dakota, has taken over a property in San Miguel County, Colorado, near Telluride, and is arranging for further development. About $150,000 has been spent in the development of this property, and a 1,325-foot tunnel has opened five veins of ore. Water and timber are available fof work. T. G. Sorter is secretary and treasurer of the company.
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The Delaware Mining Company, Albert Z. Megede, president and manager, Silverton, Colorado, has moved a compressor plant from the Black Prince Mine, to the head of Maggie Gulch, and is making connections for electric power. Development will be started, upon the completion of this work. A 50-foot extension of the crosscut is expected to expose the main vein, which will be drifted on.
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The Western Colorado Power Company is constructing four miles of power line to the Golconda Property of the Golconda San Juan Mine., Inc., located eight miles north of Eureka, Colorado. A. J. Faerber, 208 Kohl Building, Davenport, Iowa, organized this company to work the Golconda, the Empire State, the San Juan Chief, and the Crater groups, embracing 75 mining claims.
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Schmitt brothers of Wichita, Kansas, have opened an office in the Continental Oil Building, Denver, and will act as financial agents in the taking over of the Wano Property, at Jamestown, Boulder County, Colorado. The Wano has been a good producer. H. M. Williamson of Denver is interested in the mine.
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The Altamount Exploration Company, has taken over the Pride of the West Mine and Mill, at the head of Cunningham Gulch, near Silverton, Colorado, where work was discontinued about four months ago, on account of financial difficulties. Miners are breaking ore and it is planned to start milling by the last of this month. The Altamount Company has been organized by Denver, Grand Junction, and local men.

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