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for DECEMBER 15, 1930 43

COLORADO

The Emancipation Mining and Milling Company, recently organized by the Schmitt Brothers of Wichita, Kansas, to operate eight miles west of Boulder, Colorado, has obtained a year’s lease on the flotation mill nearby, owned by the North American Foundation Trust. This mill is now being overhauled, and some new machinery is being installed. A substantial tonnage of ore is in sight, and a carload, unsorted, returned $6.10 at the Golden Cycle Mill.
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The New El Paso Mines, Inc., A. F. Woodward, General Manager, Cripple Creek, Colorado, has sufficient paying ore on its dumps to take care of expenses, and has opened ore in the Little May, that will run upwards of $30 a ton. One chunk has assayed as high as $1,380 a ton.
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It is understood that the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company will build a mill at its fluorspar deposits, at Wagon Wheel Gap. Several new deposits have been opened, and the vein, after a crosscut of 15 feet, did not reach the opposite wall. George B. Botsford, of Mineral Hot Springs, is superintending the development of these deposits.
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A carload of concentrates has been shipped from the Iowa Mill, at Silverton, Colorado, to the Leadville Smelter, and eight carloads is the shipment mark, aimed at, this month. H. A. Hanson is Mill Superintendent, and James Clamp is Mine Superintendent.
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The Texas Chief Mines Company has opened some ore in the McCartney Vein, that assays 148.2 ounces gold, and 224 ounces silver, according to M. G. DeLuche, Superintendent, Box 78, Durango, Colorado. The company’s property includes the Texas Chief, the Mountain Meadow, and the Big Ledge groups, in the La Plata quadrangle, near Durango.
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The Gold Patch Mining Company, at Idaho Springs, Colorado, Thomas McGrath, President, is completely financed for the developments planned. The shaft is down 67 feet, well timbered, and covered with adequate housing, for severe winter conditions. Sinking is slow and tedious, and ore is being saved for shipments, as the shaft goes down. At the 90-foot depth, a drift will be run to the vein, but this point will probably not be reached before 45 days. Joe Flynn is pushing the East Drift at the 50-foot Level, through a highly mineralized zone, with indications of opening two or three veins within the next 25 feet.
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Charles C. McNamèe, 446 Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, has purchased the Leidinger Group of 17 gold-bearing claims, and millsite, on the east side of Sheridan Mountain, near Idaho Springs, Colorado. Upon the completion of bunkhouses and cabins, and 700 feet of road, further development will be undertaken, and a 25-stamp mill, with amalgamation machinery, will be installed. Principal development has been through a 1,200-foot tunnel, and another adit will be driven, to cut the vein 215 feet deeper. The vein averages 30 inches in width, and assays from 4.41 to 5.96 ounces gold, to the ton. An abundant supply of water is available. W. C. Fischer, who is in charge of the Font-Perkins Mines at Idaho Springs for McNamee, will also be Superintendent of the Leidinger Group.
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The Mattie Consolidated Mines, Inc., R. H. Mitchell, President and General Manager, 340 Continental Oil Building, Denver, Colorado, is diverting all surplus funds to the development of new ore bodies, and expects to soon be able to mill 100 tons of ore daily. More than six miles of development have been done in the mine. The mill is now treating 40 to 60 tons of ore daily, and is working during two shifts. James Emerson is Superintendent at Idaho Springs.
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With A. S. Berkey in charge, power lines were placed, and a compressor installed at the North Star Mine, at Silverton, Colorado. The 4,200-foot crosscut tunnel has been cleaned, re-timbered where necessary, and renewed development is expected to open some high-grade ore, similar to that which ran its production record to about four million dollars. The ground is owned by the North Star-Sultan Mining Company, Warren C. Prosser, President and General Manager, 422 United States National Bank Building, Denver.
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In the resuscitation contests held at Denver, under the auspices of the United States Bureau of Mines, the team from the steel works of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company won first prize. The prize was a large silver cup, donated by the Public Service Company of Colorado. Every member of the competing teams was presented with an electric hand torch.
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Machinery for the new mill being erected at Durango, Colorado, by P. D. Solomon and his sons, Clyde L. and E. J., has arrived, and is being set up at Fourth Avenue and Twelfth Street. It will treat a ton of ore an hour, and if its results are satisfactory, will be enlarged into a custom plant. The chemical process for the treatment of ores was perfected by H. C. Henley, Research Mining Engineer. Two carloads of ore have been hauled to Durango, from the St. Paul Mine, on Cunningham Gulch, near Silverton, which is owned by Solomon, Lou Smith, and James Lemming, and will be used in testing the new mill.
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The Cobalt Gold Mining Company at Gold Hill, Colorado, a new concern, is negotiating further finances to continue a tunnel, driven 325 feet, to the downward extension of ore, probably 75 feet ahead of the present face. Some good ore, carrying gold, copper, nickel, and cobalt, has been opened in a 30-foot drift, from the bottom of a 55-foot shaft. The new adit will gain a depth of about 350 feet on the upper showing. The officers of the organization are: Harry S. Williams, President and General Manager; Ward Yeager, Vice-President, and Horace J. Cateret, Secretary-Treasurer.
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During October, the Granite Gold Mining Company at Victor, Colorado, Henry Christensen, Superintendent, shipped 35 carloads of ore that averaged $30 a ton. The New Market Vein is being opened from the Ninth Level of the Gold Coin Shaft, and samples across four feet of the vein, run as high as 50 ounces gold to the ton, with grab samples across seven feet of the vein averaging as high as $61 a ton. This vein has been proven from the Twentieth Level of the Ajax Shaft, 2,000 feet below the surface, to the Ninth Level of the Gold Coin Shaft, a height of 1,100 feet. The ore in the lower workings is nearly 800 feet long. Ore bins have been completed, and crosscuts will be started at other levels of the Gold Coin Shaft.
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It is understood that Albert Burch, Black Oak Ranch, Medford, Oregon, and G. F. Bodfish, of Grants Pass, Oregon, have taken a bond and lease on the Smuggier-Union Mine, at Telluride, Colorado, from the Grimes Brothers of Denver. Bodfish is in Los Angeles and San Francisco, completing financial arrangements, and will join Burch, who is living at the Belvedere Hotel, in Denver.

They plan to operate the mine under up-to-date methods. This mine has paid millions in dividends, and under the management of Bulkeley Wells, 25 years ago, an $800,000 mill was built. The Tomboy, and Black Bear Mines, adjoining, were also leased, and trains to bring the ore from each of these mines to the Smuggler-Union Mill are included in the extensive program that is planned.
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DECEMBER 30, 1930

COLORADO

Final adjustments are being made at the concentrator of the Royal Tiger Mines Company, at Tiger, Colorado, which has been remodeled to treat straight gold ores. The process has been patterned after that at the Homestake property in South Dakota, and is modern in both grinding and recovery details. Ore for the mill will be drawn from the Cashier Mine, where a large stope has been carried to the surface, and the ore is being caved. It will be hauled to the mill by electric trains, which have been installed at the Tiger workings, for some time. As soon as the machinery is turning over successfully, it is planned to increase the capacity to 350 tons a day. Seventy-five men are on the payroll. Living accommodations are good. John A. Johnson is Superintendent.
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Henry and Otto Johnson have leased the lower tunnel, of the Golden Wonder Mine, near Lake City, Colorado, from J. W. Vickers. The block of ground which they have leased, runs from 50 feet above the No. 3 Tunnel, to any depth they desire. Development has started.
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Robert H. Hastie, veteran mine operator of Central City and Cripple Creek, Colorado, has made a strike of rich gold-silver ore, on a tract of 177 acres of patented, and virgin mineral land, in the Russell Gulch District. The ore has been opened a length of 37 feet, and is from two to three feet wide. The strike is on the Florence Vein, and runs from 1 to 4 ounces gold, and from 13 to 17 ounces silver.
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The New Era Mining Company, Roy Perry, Superintendent, Idaho Springs, Colorado, has increased its crew, and is making rapid strides in development. The compressor and other machinery are electrically operated and are functioning satisfactorily.
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The Ophir Mining, the Consolidated Virginia, and the Mexican Gold and Silver Mining Companies, are working in the Pinnacle Mine, at Cripple Creek, Colorado. The latter has been operating the mine two years, and has leased part of the ground to the other companies. The Mexican Gold and Silver is mining high-grade ore from the Eighth Level, and a recent carload shipment returned close to $100 a ton. Ed. Lindsey is Superintendent of mining, and to-date, the company has shipped 138 carloads of ore. The Ophir Mining, and Consolidated Virginia Companies, are drifting on the Sixth Level. Zeb Kendall, 1108 Alexander Building, San Francisco, California, is President of the three companies.
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The New Jersey Zinc Company is said be mapping portions of the Silverton District, in Colorado, examined late last summer by their engineer, A. H. Buck. The Empire Zinc Company, a subsidiary of New Jersey, is mining and milling ore at Redcliff, in Eagle County, Colorado.
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The Kennebec Mining Company, A. E. Moynahan, President and General Manager, 241 Coronado Building, Denver, Colorado, has started a drift to gain greater depth on the porphyry-quartzite formation, in its Orphan Boy Mine, in the Alma District This drift is following the Star Vein and is expected to attain its objective within 350 feet. The Orphan Boy has produced around two million dollars in gold ore.
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Official confirmation has been received, of the lease of the Sitting Bull Mines, in Baldwin Gulch, in the Chalk Creek Mining District, in Colorado, by the Silver Queen Mining Company, to the Mines Finance Syndicate of Denver. The lessees are said to have let contracts for cleaning out the ice in the main 600-foot tunnel, and doing the necessary re-timbering. Bids on the ore trucking contracts have been received, and will be let soon. The Silver Queen Company is to receive 50 percent of all ore mined, and will use this money in developing its Matilda Mine, at St. Elmo. J. G. McKenzie is Assistant General Manager, and is in charge of mining. The program at the Matilda includes driving 600 feet of main haulage tunnel, crosscutting to open additional stoping ground, and blocking out ore to supply a 100-ton mill, which is to be built next summer. A hydroelectric plant will be installed to supply power. The Silver Queen office is 509 Central Savings Bank Building, Denver.
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A 24-inch streak of ore that carried 12.8 ounces of gold to the ton, has been located on the Lost Group of mining claims, at the head of Fall Creek, 11 miles Northwest of Durango, Colorado. The ore was opened in a 20-foot vein, and shows the presence of iridium, and other rare metals. A Henley-Roseboro mill is being completed at Trimble Springs, and will be used in treating ore from the Lost Mine. The milling process has been developed by H. C. Henley.
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Parties are interested in the Railroad Boy Mine, at Gold Hill, Boulder County, Colorado, controlled by Dr. Henry P. Schwartz, 1329 Lafayette Street, Denver, and it is probable that it will be in operation before long. Some good ore has been opened in the tunnel, and can be shipped with a small amount of preliminary work. About two weeks ago, Schwartz secured the Critic Mine, an adjoining property.
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The El Banco Mining Company, Carl Lonberg, Superintendent, Silverton, Colorado, has laid in a full supply of materials to carry on development all winter. The vein was cut 900 feet from the portal of the crosscut tunnel, and is being drifted on in both directions, with values that encourage putting on a larger crew. About 100 tons of 2-ounce gold ore is piled on the dump.
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The Vertex Mining Company at Silverton, Colorado, has suspended activity in the Red Mountain region until metal prices reach a point where they can operate at a small profit. M. B. Huston, Vice-president and consulting engineer, for the company, has departed for Philadelphia, and intends to remain there during the winter.
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Pending the completion of major construction, the United Operating Trust, Inc., at Silverton, Colorado, Thomas P. Michell, Manager, has closed its Copper Bell Mine, five miles east of town. These improvements are a two-mile electric power line; 178 feet of sidetrack laid parallel to the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, one and one-half miles from the mine; and a 500-cubic foot compressor and other essential mining equipment. Eventually, a reduction plant will be established. Whitehead Creek, and adjacent lakes, supply sufficient water to operate a hydroelectric power plant, and there is a good stand of timber on the property. United Operating Trust controls 40 claims extending east, from the Animas River, and a millsite.
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A shop and tool house are being built at the Ingram Mine, near Salina, Colorado, and a general cleanup program is in progress, according to Superintendent George D. Parks, of Boulder. The main operating adit leading from the surface to the main shaft station is being re-timbered, with 60-pound steel rails to offset any further upkeep, and a pipe line of sufficient size to take care of all surplus water, is being laid under the tunnel floor. The Ingram Group has been idle nearly 20 years. It had been in operation 32 years, and 22 years of that time, without a single idle day. The shaft is 720 feet deep and has considerable water in it. Some idea of the ore that had been produced, can be gained from the settlement returns of lessees working on the dumps, who received 512 ounces in gold, and 1,200 ounces in silver, at the Boulder Sampler. It is stated that the ore in the bottom of the shaft will average 5 ounces in gold.
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Messrs. Seerie and George Lewis, 1731 Arapahoe Street, Denver, are said to have taken over the development of the. Black Eagle Mine, at Idaho Springs, Colorado, owned by F. W. Watrous. Vigorous development is planned by Lewis, who was General Manager and Chief Engineer of the Moffat Tunnel.
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G. A. Franz, General Manager of the St. Louis Independent Smelting and Refining Company, at Ouray, Colorado, has decided to go ahead with the construction of the 100-ton mill. The work will be pushed during the winter months, and will help to relieve the unemployment situation. Arrangements are being provided so that the capacity of the mill can be doubled, and trebled if necessary. Additional men have been engaged in mine development.
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The Quartz Hill Central Mining Company, John C. Murphy, President, Central City, Colorado, has shipped its first carload of ore from the 800-foot Level of the South Vein, to the Golden Cycle Smelter. At this depth, the ore is from 18 to 40 inches wide, and lies along the footwall of the vein. Bucket sampling as the ore was being hoisted, showed between $40 and $50 per ton in gold, copper, silver, and lead. A Connersville blower, electrically operated, is being installed on the Eighth Level, and plans of development are to finish crosscutting the vein, drift west, start stopes, and gradually increase the force at that point. About 3,000 feet of virgin ground lie to the West.
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The Skyline Mining Company, at Marble, Colorado, Alfred Steele, Manager, is making arrangements to build a reduction plant at the base of the mountain, close to the Crystal River, where water is available for power and mill requirements. It is estimated that a million tons of lead ore, with some values in gold and silver, can be mined. The Eagle Vein is the main producer, and has been opened up 1,200 feet, and to a depth of 125 feet. It is from five to 25 feet thick. The Lead Bullet Vein has been followed 126 feet, and the breast of the tunnel is in solid silver-lead ore, running as high as $2,000 to the ton.

PIC Aerial view of Anaconda Reduction Works situated at Anaconda, Montana. This is the largest non-ferrous smelter in the world.

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THE MINING JOURNAL

EMANCIPATION EQUIPS MILL NEAR BOULDER, CO., FOR WORK JAN. 1

The Emancipation Mining and Milling Company, expects to be in full operation by January 1, according to D. W. Schmitt, of Boulder, Colorado, one of the operators. This company was organized not more than two months ago, to operate 10 mining claims, eight miles west of Boulder, acquired by the Schmitt Brothers, and has made rapid progress in the installation of machinery and equipment.

A year’s lease has been secured on the 50-ton flotation mill of the North American Foundation Trust, which operates the adjoining Plow Boy Claim. The mill had successfully treated Emancipation ore for less than $2 a ton, but the crushing and grinding arrangement was very crude, and the plant was shut down. A complete check up by competent engineers showed that with the addition of a ball mill, classifier, vacuum filter, and a few minor improvements, the plant would be in excellent condition.

Accordingly, improvements were started. A labor saving device has been designed which screens the dump ore to a maximum of one and one-half inches, and delivers it directly into the mill coarse ore bin, without additional handling. A carload of this dump ore, unsorted, was shipped in September, to the Colorado Springs Mill, and brought $6.10 a ton. Twelve carloads, sorted, returned $9.96 at the same mill. The supply of ore available, is estimated by engineers at 50,000 tons, that will average close to $14 a ton, but this tonnage is contingent to some extent upon the dump ore.

Emancipation Mining and Milling has a reputable operating staff. J. E. Byron, the engineer in charge, is a United States mineral surveyor, and K. E. Seaman, the mill superintendent, has had 35 years of mining and milling experience.

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CHAIN O’ MINES OPERATES NEW CRUSHING & SORTING PLANT

The new crushing and sorting plant of Chain O’ Mines, Inc., at Central City, Colorado, was placed in operation a few days ago.

President and General Manager William M. Muchow, came from Evanston, Illinois, for the event, and during his visit, will arrange to have operating personnel three full shifts. At capacity, the enlarged mill will handle 1,500 tons of sorted ore daily. Higher recoveries will be made through its operation, and the cost of handling the ore materially reduced, although it is yet too early to give any definite figures on what the plant may actually do.

Chain 0’ Mines is shipping regularly. Every few days carloads of concentrates are consigned to the Leadville Smelter, and twice a week, bullion is shipped to the Denver Mint. The gold is especially adapted to dental uses, and has sold as high as $32 an ounce. For this purpose several consignments have been directed to the Flossy Dental Company, at Evanston, and two of these shipments made last summer, weighed 457.5 ounces, and 384 ounces, respectively.

J. M. Tippett is mill superintendent. “The Patch” on Quartz Hill is the principal supply of ore. Here, it is broken by huge blasts, the last of which was fired in October, and was filmed by the Paramount News, and the Universal News, before a large crowd, who gathered at the mine. This charge was nearly four tons of powder, placed in the crater of “The Patch,” and thousands of tons of ore were brought down for milling. W. S. Parfet, is mine superintendent.

PIC The 1,600-ton mill erected by the Chain O’Mines Company, Central City, Colorado.

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THE MINING JOURNAL FOR JANUARY 15, 1931

COLORADO

It is reported that the Saratoga Metals Corporation, P. J. Ragooland, Secretary and Manager, 604 California Building, Denver, Colorado, will resume the operation of its mines, in Gilpin County. The Saratoga Mines have produced gold, silver, and copper ores, for several years.
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The West Gold Mining Company, H. E. Winser, General Manager, Idaho Springs, Colorado, has increased its crew, and in addition to mining from the glory hole, will push development on the first and second levels. The cyanide plant has been operating slightly above its rated capacity, or about 78 tons daily. A new classifier has been added in the grinding unit, which will increase the capacity to about 125 tons daily. Eight tons of new liners have been placed in the ball mill. The mill will be operated 24 hours a day at its increased capacity.
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The Crown Point Mine, at Idaho Springs, Colorado, is scheduled for operation soon, under the management of a new concern, known as the Weld O’ Line Mines Company. A. P. Bean, local man, is back of the work, and intends to work through the Big Five Tunnel, which has only a short distance to go, to connect with both workings.
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Following a short period of idleness, Black Bear Mines, Inc., at Idaho Springs, Colorado, resumed operation. Developments are encouraging, according to W. H. Stephens, Vice-President and General Manager of the company.
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The Isabella Mine, on the north slope of Bull Hill, in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, is being reopened by the Canton interests. A 75-horsepower hoist is being installed. Carpenters are repairing the surface property, and when the various buildings are put in condition, machine drills will likely be used.
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The Moon Anchor Mine, on Gold Hill, Cripple Creek, Colorado, owned by the Stratton Estate, has been take over under a lease by Henry Chapelle, of Cripple Creek, and his Denver associates. This mine has been closed a number of years, and the buildings are being placed in shape for machinery. A 75-horsepower electric hoist has been purchased from the Gold Sovereign, and compressor from the Portland Mine.
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The strike in the McCartney Vein, of the Texas Chief Mines Company, M. G. DeLuche, Superintendent, Box 78, Durango, Colorado, has been opened 400 feet, and shows material improvement. The pay streak is 20 inches wide, and assays as high as $60 a ton. The high-grade streak is from one to two inches wide, and assays 148.2 ounces gold, and 224 ounces silver to the ton.
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The Mineral Holding Company, John W. Kirkbride, Manager, Ward, Colorado, has opened ore that assays $372 in gold, in drifting from the 50-foot point in its Yellow Bird Shaft. The vein is from five to six feet wide. Some of the medium grade ore has been shipped and has brought $53 a ton. Ford Deeks, 1104 University Street, Boulder, Colorado, is an associate of the Mineral Holding Company.
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The American Development and Service Company, 619 Midland Savings Building, Denver, Colorado, organized in 1930, under the laws of South Dakota, is financing the development of the United Metals Mines Company, which operates the Gem Group of mines, at Idaho Springs, Colorado. This financing concern was organized to advance funds to recognized mining and oil companies with potential production possibilities, but whose work has been temporarily curtailed through lack of finances. Its officers and directors are: W. L. Smith, President; R. D. Mast, Vice-President; S. E. Crocker, Secretary-Treasurer; Charles S. Bonner, Assistant Secretary-Treasurer; and W. T. Michel, Jr. It has an executive office at 85 Hirbour Building, Butte, Montana. United Metals has, in addition to the Gem Mines, leased the Seaton Mountain Electric Company’s power plants A and B, located at Idaho Springs, Colorado.
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Camp Bird, Ltd., of London, England, which has held a lease on the Camp Bird Mine at Ouray, Colorado, advises that its ore production for the year 1930 resulted in a net profit of £7, 206s., 10 d., [not much, like $50] as a royalty, after taking care of all expenses.
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D. D. Pargin and associates, who recently purchased a number of claims on Fall Creek and Poverty Hill, 11 miles northwest of Durango, Colorado, report another strike. This strike is a vein of ore that will run between $100 and $300, in the Frizell Group. Pargin is building a Henley-Roseboro mill, at Trimble [Hot] Springs, in the Animas Valley, about nine miles north of Durango, and is packing ore from the Fnizell Group, and from the Lost Group, where a vein of 12.8 ounces gold was opened a short time ago. The new mill is designed to treat complex ores, and is scheduled to go into operation before January 1.
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It is reported that P. D. Solomon and sons, of Durango, Colorado, placed their mill in operation, December 24. The test run is being made on two carloads of ore shipped from their St. Paul Mine, on Cunningham Gulch, near Silverton, and if the test is satisfactory, a crew will be employed at the mine next spring.
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O. E. Nelson and Roy Tewksbury have obtained a lease from the Falcon Lead Mining Company, at Rico, Colorado. They have mined some specimens of ore, which seem to indicate a profitable venture. Falcon ores are valuable for their gold, silver, lead, and zinc [typical Red Mountain area ore; Silverton, Gladstone, etc.].
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The Mines Leasing Syndicate, H. D. Kline, Superintendent, shipped two carloads of ore from Burns, Eagle County, Colorado, to the International Smelter in Utah. Regular shipments are planned.
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The Equity Reduction Company, Inc., is remodeling and improving the Black Swan mill at Sauna, Colorado, and will operate it on custom ores. No mining will be carried on by the company itself. Howard P. Tweed, 3021 East Sixteenth Avenue, Denver, and associates, are the new operators.
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J. N. Caldwell, 620 Denver Theatre Building, Denver, Colorado, has taken over a virgin property, on Independence Mountain, in Clear Creek County, close to the Lamartine Mine. The property comprises seven claims, and the main vein is traceable at the surface for 2,000 feet. Cabins are on the ground, and water and lumber are available. Caldwell’s plans are to crosscut from the tunnel, to a parallel vein, about 50 feet, where indications hold good for opening a deposit of gold ore.
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Development at the Iowa Mine, at Silverton, Colorado, James Clamp, Mine Superintendent, is centered largely on the Melville Vein, where high-grade milling values in lead, copper, and gold, are being mined. Lead is the predominating metal in the ore. During the first 10 days in December, three carloads of concentrates were shipped to the Leadville Smelter, and the output of concentrates during this month, it is estimated, will be three times that figure.
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The Ward Gold Mining Company, and the Texas Chief Mines Company, jointly driving a transportation tunnel through the Mountain Meadow Mines, near Durango, Colorado, will use a second shift shortly. M. G. DeLuche is Superintendent of Operations. This bore will cut the George DeLuche, and the Annabeile Veins, on the Mountain Meadow, within a short distance, and it is probable that shipments will start as soon as the former vein is entered. E. H. Ward, of Ensley, Alabama, President of the Ward Company, gathered data on the flow of water near the Mountain Meadow during his recent visit at Durango, and will design a hydroelectric plant to furnish light and power for the mines.
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A scene of early mining was enacted recently when robbers stole 16 sacks of gold ore, from an underground vault, in the Ibex Mine, in Priest’s Hill, near Leadville, Colorado. The sacks each weighed 100 pounds. Officials of the company declined to even estimate the value of the stolen ore. The vault, hewn from solid rock and guarded by a steel door, is 100 feet below the surface, in the No. 2 Shaft, and about 150 feet back in a tunnel. Several sacks of low-grade ore were not disturbed. W.
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The directors of the Windsor Gold Mining Company have voted to send O. L. Stewart to Missouri, where the company hopes to locate a lead mine. During the summer, Stewart had been in charge of the company’s mine at Alma, Colorado, but the ground cannot be worked during severe weather, and it is planned to acquire a mine that can be operated, during the Colorado property idle season. Jesse Taylor of Windsor, Colorado, is President and General Manager of the company.
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George E. Cramer and company of Leadville, Colorado, continue to ship about 40 tons of manganese ore daily, from the Star Mine, on Carbonate Hill. It is marketed at the steel mills of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, at Pueblo.
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The Maid of Erin, Henrietta and Adams Mines, located west of the Leadville Deep Mines Company, at Leadville, Colorado, are working steadily, and getting out a fair tonnage. Some of this ore is treated at the local flotation mill and the remainder is shipped outside. Timothy Riley of Leadville, Colorado, has worked the Lillian group of gold mines at the head of Iowa Gulch for 20 years, and continues to take out good values.
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Among other improvements the St. Louis Smelting and Refining Company, D. M. Kline, Superintendent, Rico, Colorado, has completed its sawmill, compressor house, and mule barn. The air machines will soon be working, and real developments are anticipated. The principal development is the 6,000-foot tunnel, which will be driven into the Wellington Claims.
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The Fanny Fern Mines, Inc., Guy H. Harkness, President and General Manager, 608 Patterson Building, Denver, Colorado, has shipped two carloads of ore from the School Section property at Cripple Creek, to the Golden Cycle Mill. The ore is estimated to be worth $40 a ton, and two other carloads are being loaded. Ore is being broken in the Seeley Dike, at the third level of Block 8, that averages three ounces gold to the ton, and the heading is being continued into new ground. Above the Third, the Block 8 is being operated under lease, and is on a production basis. The ore averages $25 a ton, and at the present rate of breaking, a six months’ supply is in sight.
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President and General Manager R. R. Mitchell, of Mettle Consolidated Mines, Inc., has closed the mill at Idaho Springs, Colorado, until there is sufficient water to operate the power plant. There is good ore in the mine, and the concentrates have been giving satisfactory returns, but since the frost set in, the mill had to shut down completely at times. Considerable development will be conducted this winter, and the mill is scheduled to re-open in March.
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The Western States Mining Company, John C. Martelon, President and General Manager, Colorado Building, Denver, Colorado, intends to electrify its Centennial Mine, at Georgetown. The second unit has been added to the flotation mill so that it now can treat 250 tons of ore a day, and a steam shovel with a capacity of 2,000 tons daily has been installed to move ore stored at the surface, to the mill. Underground development is being carried on, principally at the 1,000-foot point in the 500-foot shaft level, where a stope is being raised to an excellent ore body above. The ore is principally gold and copper.
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IN OUR LETTER BOX

Buena Vista, Colorado,
December 25, 1930.
To the Editor,
The Mining Journal,
Phoenix, Arizona.

Dear Sir:
The upper valley of the Arkansas River, including Cache and Clear Creeks, has produced $50,000,000 in placer gold. The old channel, unrecognized as a gold producer, has long been used as ranch and lettuce land. In the meantime, springs rising up within this channel, cut through it on their way to the present river, exposing the old cemented gravel, to a depth of 100 feet or more, and a width of 600 to 1,200 feet. I tested my lease on 160 acres of this channel, at 35 different places, shoveling one yard in each place, through a 16-foot sluice box, and my lowest recovery was nearly twice the highest recorded recovery from the present channel.

I advertised this, and was swamped with promoters, all of whom could raise thousands of dollars immediately, but none of whom could post a cash bond, install machinery, and begin development within a stated interval. Two legitimate inquiries asked for mining engineers’ reports, geological maps, production record, core drill analyses, and “other pertinent data,” not realizing that with the money required to give them such information, machinery could be installed, production started, and profits shown.

This is not a unique experience to the prospector, but I had hoped with the actual gold panic now on, that some means of reaching men who are actually interested in mining for mining’s sake, would declare itself. If any of your readers know how to interest legitimate mining men in a legitimate project; men who wish to make their profits from the mine rather, than from stock sales, exploitation of the property, and its discoverer, I should like to hear from them.
Respectfully,
(Signed) PRESTON W. STOVALL.
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JOYCE IS OPTIMISTIC OF COLORADO MINING THIS YEAR

John T. Joyce, State Commissioner of Mines, has made an encouraging report on the mines in Colorado, for 1930, and further states that, if plans now in the making materialize, Colorado will see more mining activity this year, than it has witnessed in two decades. The supreme factors to this end will be modern metallurgy, and the almost numberless tons of low-grade ores, which Colorado holds, according to Commissioner Joyce.

He said that he had received more inquiries about mining investments in Colorado from Eastern interests, since the collapse of the stock market a year ago last October, than he had during any similar period in the history of his office. He further predicts an influx of capital to back up a mining revival on a large scale; a rejuvenation of gold mining in Boulder County, and at Cripple Creek; and a production of 10,000 tons of ore a day, in Colorado, within a comparatively short time.

Cripple Creek has to its credit a production of $400,000,000 and, on the basis of present developments, will produce $6,000,000 for the next 25 years. Another ore body that is creating considerable interest is a copper-lead deposit in Gunnison County, potentially as great as the one that “made” Leadville. This ore runs from 4 to 7 percent copper and from 5 to 8 percent lead.

The Federal Bureau of Mines in its preliminary compilation of the annual production of the mines in Colorado, during 1930, shows an increase of about $150,000 in gold, comparatively a stand off in molybdenum and vanadium, and a heavy decrease in silver, and the industrial metals, owing to the heavy decline in the market prices. But, the reports of the four mine inspectors of the state show that 345 mining properties were operated during the year, as compared with 351 during 1929, and that actual production was greater than the federal compilation seems to indicate.
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DENVER MINT RECEIPTS FOR 1930 $352,103.32 HIGHER THAN 1929

The gold and silver bullion received at the Denver Mint, during 1930, was valued at $13,402,377.96, which was $352,103.32 more than the 1929 figure, according to the report released by Superintendent Frank E. Shepard. Of this amount, $12,720,670.41 was paid for gold.

The largest shipper to the Mint, was South Dakota, with a production of $8,311,357.77, mostly from the famous Homestake Mine. Colorado contributed $3,160,255.64 in gold, and $76,549.76 in silver, to the total amount. Summit County, in Colorado, was the largest contributor from the state, according to Superintendent Shepard, with an output valued at $143,816.66 in gold and silver, and replaced Ouray County, which was the largest contributor last year with a production of $150,086.13.
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THE MINING JOURNAL for JANUARY 30, 1931

COLORADO

The St. Louis Independent Smelting and Refining Company has opened a vein of ruby-silver, carrying lead, copper, zinc, and gold values, in the Bachelor Mine, near Ouray, Colorado. It is eight feet wide, and has indications of developing to greater width. Two miles north of Ouray, the mill is being equipped to handle 100 tons of ore a day, and double that tonnage if necessary. Manager G. A. Franz has purchased a seven-mile tram near Salida, and is tearing it down now. It is to be rebuilt at the St. Louis Independent property in the Spring, and will provide conveyance to the mill, from all the workings in the territory.
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The Equity Reduction Company, Inc., is negotiating for an ore roaster and a new flotation unit for its Black Swan Mill at Salida, Colorado, and which will allow treatment of 50 tons of ore daily. Although the old machinery has been idle eight years, it has been kept in good condition, and the remodeled plant is scheduled to go into operation the last of this month. Wilfred Dennis, Vice-President of the company, will have charge of the plant, and has had 42 years’ experience in mining and milling Colorado ores. The company office is in the First National Bank Building, Denver, Colorado.
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New York men, presumably those identified with the Hamlet-Dexter Mining and Milling Company, have taken a bond and lease on the entire Gold King Property, in Poverty Gulch, near Cripple Creek, Colorado, and have bound the deal with a $1,500 payment. Development will be resumed as soon as the machinery, and the workings, are in condition, probably 60 days. An electric plant will replace the old steam plant, the old shaft will be repaired, and hoisting machinery installed. Considerable ore is said to remain in the lower workings. One of the major undertakings of the new operators will be the exploration of 50 acres lying toward the North contact, and this will be attempted through a lateral drift from the lower workings. The Gold King was the first discovery in the district, and during the last year, has been held under option for bond and lease, by L. P. LeBrun, of Cripple Creek, and William Weber, of Denver.
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A strike, showing a mineral formation over a width of 100 feet, has been made in the eastern portion of the crater, in “The Patch” of the Chain 0’ Mines, Inc., W. S. Parfet, Mine Superintendent, Central City, Colorado. A 50-foot upraise is being made from the 300-foot Level, to the surface, for the purpose of starting Glory Hole No. 4. A new steam shovel has been placed in operation in loading the Corydon Dump on trucks, for transportation to the crushing plant at the mill, and will lower the cost of handling this ore considerably. The 1,500-ton mill is operating satisfactorily, and, during December, mining and milling costs were the lowest of any month that the company has operated. J. M. Tippett is Mill Superintendent.
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The April Tunnel of the Silver Gold Mining Company, within three miles of Blackhawk, Colorado, is out 400 feet, and in another 100 feet, will reach the 200-foot working shaft, where a 12-foot vein of ore is said to have been opened. The tunnel has been following the vein, which shows an increase in width, and in gold ore. Engineers are said to be drawing up plans for a plant to treat the ore. This company was organized last summer, with B. A. Hayden, 310 Boston Building, Denver, as its President.
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The Gunnison Gold Mines, Inc., S. V. Clevenger, President, has prospected three veins, for a length of 2,800 feet along the rim contact of the Powder Horn Crater, in the Neglected District, 23 miles southwest of Gunnison, Colorado. A 120-pound piece of quartz float has been found, that assayed 11 ounces gold to the ton, and the surface values ranged from $20 to $35 per ton in gold. A tunnel has been driven 40 feet, and in another 160 feet, should reach the Main Vein 200 feet deeper than the prospect shaft. A thick mantle of soil covers the outcropping veins, and the ground was passed up by the old-time prospectors, thence the name ‘‘Neglected’’ has been given to the district.
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Every day, the London Gold Mines Company, S. J. Gateley, Superintendent, Alma, Colorado, hauls two 20-ton loads of ore to Alma Junction, for rail shipment to the reduction plants at Leadville and Colorado Springs. The cold weather has kept the highways in excellent condition, and a loading platform will be completed at the railroad within a few days, to further speed up their shipping.
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On January 13, the Buckskin Gulch Mining Company held a meeting at Hastings, Nebraska, where most of its stockholders reside, to reorganize the company and make plans for further development. Until recently, the company has been operating property on Loveland Mountain, near Alma, Colorado, under the management of M. Z. McLaughlin. They installed a new compressor, and built an 1,800-foot tramway. Walter Livingston, of Hastings, is President of the company.
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The United Mines Company, M. S. Brandt, General Manager, Boulder, Colorado, has hired a night crew to break ore, in addition to the day crew, making a payroll of 15 men. Above the tunnel, there are 300 feet of stoping ground, the 100-ton ore bin has been completed, and track laid, and everything is ready to begin shipping. Further development will consist largely of continuing the tunnel to the White Crow Vein.
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During 1930, the Boulder Ore Sampling Company, A. C. Cary, Manager, 814 Pearl Street, Boulder, Colorado, bought 800 tons of ore from the small operators. This ore returned them approximately $10,000.
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One of the principal operations which is going on through the Yak Tunnel, at Leadville, is that of the East Leadville Development Company, which has acquired a block of ground near the breast of the tunnel, including the Resurrection and Vega groups. They are working from the Resurrection No. 1 Shaft, where ore possibilities are considered good. New York capital is financing the East Leadville Company, and John Harvey is Superintendent of Mine Developments.
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Albert F. Steegman, 1015 West Tenth Avenue, Denver, Tom Sigler, and Emmett Dwer, are working the White Horse Mining Claims, at Apex, Colorado, and will ship their ore to Colorado Springs. The driving of a 100-foot tunnel will be contracted soon. This property is seven lode claims and two placer locations, developed to some extent by shafts and tunnels, and equipped with cabins and a blacksmith shop. The heavy snowfall in that district has been a great drawback.
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The Norgaard Placers in Eagle County, Colorado, have been taken over by a new company, known as the Gold Placers, Inc. Carney Hartley, Colorado Building, Denver, who is thoroughly familiar with the Norgaard Placers, and has designed gold dredges and other machines, has been made President of the company. An office will be maintained at Denver, but the operating headquarters will be in Eagle County.
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The Penn-Nevada Corporation, of Pittsburgh, has built a dredge boat on Cache Creek, near Granite, Colorado. It is understood that they have offered $50,000 for the ground, and will put up a substantial cash payment.
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The Jerry Johnson Gold Mining Company held its annual meeting in the Carey Building, Cheyenne, Wyoming, December 30. Its property comprises 35 patented gold-silver claims, on Ironclad Hill, in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado. J. W. Graham, Jr., 822 Ernest & Cranmer Building, Denver, is Secretary and Manager of the company.
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Cabins and bunkhouses have been made comfortable at the Leidinger Gold Mines, 10,000 feet up Sheridan Mountain, near Idaho Springs, Colorado. W. C. Fischer, Superintendent, intends to continue development through the winter, and will operate the stamp mill as soon as Spring opens up.
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W. A. Keys, 36 Hermosa Avenue, Long Beach, California, has been at Idaho Springs, Colorado, outlining further development for the Black Bear Mines, Inc. Among the important developments, Manager W. H. Stephens has been ordered to prepare specifications for a power plant, which is to be installed as early as possible.
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The latest strike in the Ward District, in Colorado, is reported by the Larson Mining and Milling Company, headed by P. A. Larson. The ore is from six to 15 inches, and was uncovered in a three-foot vein of low-grade ore, in a 350-foot tunnel. Ore from the discovery is being stored on the dump as fast as it is mined, and will remain there until the roads are in condition for trucking in the Spring. Meanwhile, the tunnel is being continued to the Stoughton B. and M. Vein, about 1,500 feet ahead. This vein is about 2,000 feet long, and has produced heavily where worked.
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The carload shipments consigned to the Durango Smelter, during its 10 months of operation in 1930, from mines in the vicinity of Silverton, Colorado, as follows: Sunnyside Mining and Milling Company, 1,744; Shenandoah-Dives Company, 275; Colorado-Mexico Mining Company, 76; Vertex Mining Company, 24; Altamont Exploration Company, 21; The Dresser Company, 9; lessees at the Silver Lake Mine, 4; and lessees at the Little Nation Mine, 4. All of these shipments were concentrates, with the exception of the Little Nation’s shipments, which were crude ore. This output was considerably increased by the shipments to the Leadville Smelter during the last two months of the year, and by the shipments of zinc concentrates to the Amarillo Refinery.
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We understand that the mine at Silverton, Colorado, operated since the Summer of 1926, by the Lackawanna Mining Company, and the mill built by that company, have reverted to John Wagner, by mutual agreement. Tentative plans made by Wagner are to reopen the mine in the Spring, extend the drift tunnel to cut the oreshoot exposed in the upper workings, and resume the operation of the mill as soon as enough ore has been developed.
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The Cashier Mine, at Tiger, Colorado, was given a good jolt by some well-laid blasts, and now the ore, which had been rather difficult to mine, can be delivered to the mill for about 50 cents a ton. The ore was broken, after some difficulty, by John A. Traylor, of Denver, President of the Royal Tiger Mines Company.
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In addition to the 100-ton flotation mill, which the Skyline Mining Company is making arrangements to build, at the foot of Treasury Mountain, engineers are working on plans for a blast furnace that will smelt the concentrates from the mill, into metal pigs, ready for the refineries. During the past two years, the company has driven a series of tunnels to prove its property. A blanket vein, from five to 25 feet thick, outcrops near the top of the mountain, and has been found to continue underground for nearly a mile. The ore in this vein varies from $16 to $80 per ton in gold, silver, and lead. Alfred Steele, Marble, Colorado, is General Manager.
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The Main Drift on the Hattie Jane Vein, of the Marquette Mining Company, near Granite, Colorado, has cut several stringers of ore that assayed close to $25 a ton in gold, and values are improving as the drift advances. Four development drifts are in progress, adding substantially to the ore reserves, according to Superintendent Elmer Washburn.
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A new company, known as the Argentine Gold Mining Company, has taken over seven mining claims and a millsite, from the Criley Brothers, at Georgetown, Colorado. This is virgin ground, developed principally by a 400-foot tunnel, driven westerly toward a mineralized vein, from 10 to 40 feet wide at the surface. This objective is still about 200 feet ahead of the face of the tunnel, but for the present, development will be confined to a gold vein about 50 feet north of the tunnel. The mine is ideally situated, being only two miles from a railroad, and with an abundance of timber and water, for both power and domestic purposes. It is understood that two of the Criley Brothers will work for the new company.
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Notwithstanding the depressed condition of the metal market, the Cresson Consolidated Gold Mining and Milling Company, has issued an encouraging report of its operations for the year ended August 31, 1930. During that period, the company shipped 78,570 tons of ore, having a gross value of $8.39 per ton, and a net average value of $5.01 per ton. Lessees shipped 777 tons of ore, with a gross value of $9,097.02, from which the company received $2,902.69 as royalties. Development underground during the year totaled 8,272 feet.

The 10 upper levels of the mine are being operated by lessees, and the ore house has been enlarged, to take care of their ores. Although no large reserves of ore have been developed, the present production can be maintained for several months, according to General Manager L. G. Canton.
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J. W. Magnuson, President of the Western Feldspar Milling Company, 1333 West Maple Avenue, Denver, has selected a site at Cañon City, Colorado, where a 50-ton mill for grinding feldspar will be built early this year. The establishment of this branch is to take care of the northern and western trade of the concern. Cañon City has been selected because of the large deposits of that mineral, located close to the city, and because it will solve the transportation problem.
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