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IDAHO SPRINGS. COLO.. SATURDAY, AUGUST JO. 1907.SARATOGAANNEXEDNine Miles oftHe Underground Workings of tHe Crest Willis Gulck Mine Are Connected Witk tke Newhouse Tunnel.HAZARDOUSUNDERTAKINGGOMPLETEDA. H. I ThursdayJohn Cc city onArthurGoldenfriend?.Mrs. S. dsy evem relatives.Tunnel Deserted WKen Final Shots Were Fired st 11:30 o'clock Cast Thursday Night—Work Has Been Resumed in Tunnel.The connection between the lateral cut at a point vertically under the south from the Newhouse tunnel and the Sar-| aide hues of the Cataract claim, owned atoga mine workings was completed at by the Sternljerger brothers, of I’hila-11:30 o’clock Thursday night, at which , delpbi.i and Denver, and about 400 feet time the blast was fired in the roof of the j north of the surface side lines of the raise breaking into the tenth level west Gaston claim of the Saratoga gronp. from the main Saratoga No. 2 shaft. i Mr. Sternberger attempted to lay claim The day shift on Thursday drilled two ,to the vein, after a big strike had bten •even foot holes, the tops of which en- made in driving east some sixty feet on I Countered mud and wster indicating that the Vein. The lateral east was started |R. C. B ton, was i on husineA. M 1 his friend the Club ICommi ed countj district ylt;Rory A «n the T Denver, tMiss M noon for tives for 1the bottom of the level was close at hand and at 8 o’clock Foreman Emil Strand and three men went into the raise to com plete the drilling. The round of holea were loaded with long double fuses, giv ing the men ample time to get oat of danger. Following the shots a heavy flow of water came down into the tunnel making considerable noise and washing muck sud loose timbers along the track. The water was fully twenty inches above the track for a short time. The men came out safely and the air compressor at the portal of the tunnel and the blower operated by electricity at a point 16,000 in from the portal, was started up by switching on the current. The drsft was inward for some hours, snd later the heavy 'black damp' found its wsy out to the tunnel portal, and un til noon yesterday a candle would not burn at the mouth of the Newhouse.The undertaking was a hasardous one because of the danger from the deadly mine gas, which existed in fully one third of the owe miles of undergroundback from the vein some fifty feet to ( reach the big lode on a gradual curie, i The drilt was started on a solid iron | feeder at ttie tunnel which lay almost in the course of the curve. It was at this point that this feeder formed a junction with the vein that six-feet pay ore was found. Three feet of the streak carried values of $72-S2 and $46.05 per ton while the balance carried about $15 per ton gross Rvalue. Since ihe middle of May 19(35 the lateral baa been driven east, and has encountered ore shoot after ore shoot, some of the ore carrying values of over $.400 per ton.The original intention was to drive the lateral 525 feet east and make an upraise of 365 feet to connect with the ninth level of the Saratoga mine, but latter it was thought advisable to continue the lateral to a point directly under the No. 2 shaft which is i,o3o feet deep. At a point 1 960 feet east of the tunnel a slope was started snd carried np for nearly a hundred feet, and sev-Miss O! day eveni days in thMrs. Jo Julia Hul for a seveMrs G Mi'S Ida, residencej. s. r,are the g wife at thMrs. A| querque, ter, Mrs,Miss M here Wlt;meeting cMrs. M ing her * some wee Greeley.workings in the Saratoga mine. The eral months ago it was decided to gas being heavier than sir completely make a 'raise for connectioa with the filled the mine below the seventh level tenth level. The raise just completed is snd it was not known whether the gas 287 feet between the bottom of the would come out through the Newhouse lateral and the bottom of the tenth lev-tunnel or go np through the raise and el. The lateral has been continued east shaft. k'ine gas of the character en- from the raise about a hundred feet countered in the Sarat g 1 has no odor, and it is the intention later to connect snd its presence can only be detected by with the bottom of the shaft to handle lowering a lighted candle a few inches the ore output of the mine, into the level of the gas where it will; The raise just put through was made not burn. j two-compartment, each 2^x3 feet inOver s year ago the lives of two men sixe, and is intended merely for drain-who were lowered into the layer of age and ventilation and not for handling gas below the sixth level, were snuffed 1 ore ss is generally supposed. The raise out because they could not reach the ! follows the walls of the vein which pitch bell cord to signal the engineer to hoist 1 first to the north and then to the south the bucket. in an irregular manner.In view of the possible danger to the 1 The lateral has been timbered solid men employed in different parts of the , from the Newhouse tunnel to the raise, six snd s half miles of workings st the and there is said to be any quantity of level of the Newhouse tunnel, Manager rich ore behind the timbers all along its Geo. E. Collins issued instructions to lay course. Slopes can be started on these off all employes, and when the final shot ore shoots when it is desired to begin the were fired, not a man was underground | productiou of ore.in the tunnel, nor in the five miles of Under the agreement entered into teCaptaii came up various | terested.W. H lows, is ReynoldiUte creeMiss Vday mo where sh with relaWilliai Monday country, a good plt;Mi s latter pf I where sh ! school tflworkings of the big Gem mines, which are connected with the Newhouse tunnel.At noon yesterday miners were able to go into the tunnel with safety and the men worked in the different laterals last night. The Saratoga vein was encountered in the breast of the Newhouseiween the original leasees of the Saia-togs property and the Newhouse tunnel people, the former we*-e to deliver a tonnage of ore or waste to the tnnnel company for transportation to the amount of $15,000 within three years' time, or pay the difference between the amount of material ha ndled in cash. An exten-Col. F lesentati cotnpan) guest ofCount from En ty roads Commis!tunnel on April 5, 1905, and st the point sion of the option on the Saratoga prop-of intersection the vein was eight feet jerty wss granted some months ago. The wide. The vein matter was well miner- option calls for the payment of 1500,000 slized and a wsgon load lot, tested at for the property which consists of 19 the sampling works, gave returns of patented claims. Several weeks ago a $5.16 per ton. company was formed to take up theThe vein was cut st a point 15,165 feet 'option, the work which has been under in from the portal, and at a depth of ap- way having been done by the Saratoga proximstely 1,350 feet. The vein was Development company.Miss 1 noon tor went to eral weeJ. A. ’ property week in mining ] ested.Dr. Bt in town brother,wl (1
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