MINEBK00628

• County: Montrose
• Volume: 14
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: A

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S T A T I S T I C S.
Gross tonnage 600 tons this year.
Total. number of feet in Tunnels 500. Cost par foot 7.00.
Total number of feet in drifts 200.Cost per foot 7.00.
Total number of feet in cross cuts 200. Cost per foot $lo.oo.
Total number of feet in ilevelopement 900.
Average assay valea per ton x,125.00. Cost per ton ~Eining
of ore.x25.oo.
Cost per ton transporting ore ~y35.oo.
I1 E N E 1E P L O Y E D.
18 Miners
6 Ore as:sortera
2 Foreman
1 Superintendent
3.0o for eip~ht hours
3.00 "
3.00 u u n
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GENERAL R EMAR_Y.=.
Iio person under thc- age of 12 y•~ar: is employed in the ~11ne.
Strangers or visitors err- not rllosve:i under ground unless
accompanied by a competent Suide fam111ar vrith the Ltine.
All accident: have been reported to the Flurcau or' lrinoo.
The management is ::uPPliedwith b1anY, reports, and i:, familiar
with the statutes relatin~~ to the operation of metalliferous
mines. There are no building3 near the Tunnels.
Surface transportation is done by wan on and pack trains.
This is anew country and very little more than asneusment
worlt bars been done on any of the claim:,.
There Ss Vanadium and Uranium Tor twelve miles squar.s, so tar
as is known. All that 13 needed Ss a railrlad, then it will
be one of the best mining; camps Sn the State of Colorado.