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1 TELL YOUH GEOCEH 1 | TO SEND YOU THE SAME ? I AS HE USES IN HIS I OWN HOUSEHOLD I HINGUtUK pThe Gilpin Lumber Cofl J SUCCESSORS TO - ' | THE QUIGLEY LUMBER CO. | |> Carry a Complete Stock of- r/ 1 ROUGH LUMBER, CHICAGO SIDING, CEILING, SURFACE T( LUMBER, DOORS, WINDOWS, BUILDING PAPER, ETC. K IN OLD TURNER HALL BUILDINGjI t "" GILPIN AND CLEAR CREEK DISTRICT HAP = FREE With a year's subscription to the Observer. The maps are here and can be seen by calling at the office. Don't let this opportunity of getting something for nothing slip. I The Observer and Map i 1 | Half Fare jj t For the 1908-9 Holidays, we will sell tick- j| t ets to all state points for one fare j j + for the round trip. !! • • Sale Dates: Dec. 24, 25, 31 and !! 7, Jan. 1. Return Limit Jan. 4. !• (i < > MIDLAND ROUTE i! ■ i! ;; Sleepers, Dining and !! i! Observation Cars. • ■ * * ; j -YOTO OWN -A-a-XUSTT, OB— J j u C. H. SPEERS, G. P. A., Denver. ] | i! <! •+•+•+•+•+•+•+•»•+•+•+ •+*+•+•+•+•+•+•+9+9+*+ Subscribe For The GILPIN OBSERVER ABOUT THE CITY A Kansas paper gives an account ot a teacher who was trying to teach her young pupils a small amount of history ol their country, asltcl who was the first president of tho United States? “George Washington,” was the prompt reply in chorus. “Who ran against him?" she ,i3kod. For a time all was silent, then ono little girl piped up: “Eryan.” A young married man sauntered into the Observer office ono day this week with a downcast expres sion on his countenance and feeling most dejected. We asked him what the matter was and he said: "My wife is mad at me. Last night she had a pain in the back and asked me to rub it with arnica, i rubbed it and next morning discovered that 1 had substituted a bottle of red stain I had been using on the leather furni ture. i don.t see anything to get mad about —it stopped the pain and it takes a beautiful polish. William A. Angus, the genial rep resentative of the Mergenthaler Lino type company, who is located in Den ver, has made frequent trips to the city the past week installing and placing in operatioon the new ma chine in tho Observer office. Mr. Angus is an expert machinist and understands every part of the lino type thoroughly. If the Observer ma chine ever gets out of order he will be expected to drop everything and come to Central in all possible haste. The home of Mrs. Therza Trevi thick has been the scene of much social gaiety the past week. Christmas she entertained her sons and daughters with their children: also John Williams and Wm. Gumma, boys residing at the house. A spread, such as only the hostess can serve,was partaken of by the guests. On the 27th, the anniversary of the birth of John Trevithick was cele brated at the home of his mother and it goes without saying that ail who were fortunate enough to be pre sent had a fine time. According to Richard Trevithick his brother is no longer a boy, having passed the quar ter century mark, and he can now be regarded as a full-fledged man. A well-known newspaper man tells of the time when he conducted an "Answers to Correspondents” column tor a newspaper. For the conven ience of each subscriber as wished personal replies to their queries the editor would send responses direct when stamped envelopes were en closed for the purpose. One morning the editor was in receipt of two com munications requesting personal re a very anxious and worried mother questing personal replies, one front who wrote touching the proper rear ing of twins, tthe other from a far mer who asked for a method of get ting rid of grasshoppers. The editor, out of tho fullness of his knowlsdge, wrote the two replies, but in the press ot business got them in the wrong envelopes. To the mother of twins went this interesting recomen dation: "Cover them carefully with straw and then set fire to it. After jumping in the flames for a few min utes the little pests will be speed ily done for.” The man who was troubled with grasshoppers was bid den to: ‘Give castor oil regular ly in moderate doses and rub their gums with a bone.” Phillip Curtis, the well-known mu sician of Russell Gulch, has taken a lease on the Armory Hall and will conduct the same from now on. He Intends to run the hall its a skating rink three times a week—Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, with a dance every Friday evening. For skating music will be furnished by the Central band and an orchestra composed of from five to eight pieces will render the music for the dances. The dances will be conducted on the check syßtcm, viz., five cents will be charged for each dance. A grand bnll will bo given by the new man agement on January Bth. Notice of Stockholders’ Meeting. Notice is hereby given that the an nual meeting of the stockholders of The Jonklns-McKay Hardware Com pany will be hold at the office of the Company in tho City of Central, in the County of Gilpin and State of Colorado, on Tuesday, tho 12th day of January. A. D. 1900. at 8 o'clock p. m. for the purpose of electing di rectors for tho ensuing year, and for the transaction of such other bus iness ns mny come regularly before the meeting. JOHN C. JENKINS, Secretary. First pub. Dec. 3!st, 'OB. Last pub. Jan. 7th, 'Oil. Don’t ruin your eyes reading by a coal oil lamp. Use electric lights. Let us point out the difference to you. The Gilpin L. H. A P. Co. List of Advertised Letters. Tho following list of letters re mains uncalled for at the local post office for the week ending January Ist. Unless called for tho same will be sent to tho dead letter office. When requesting same please say "advertised:” Harmon, C. E. Mackay, Alex. Reeder, Miss Louise Snmitier, Leon Scott, Miss Pearl Scizburt, Mrs. Alice Weitzcnncgger, Fred. Working on the Buell. Since the first of September,work of unwatering the Buell mine has been pushed and the mine was com pletely drained the fore part of this month. At the commencement of pumping the water was up to within 170 feet of the collar of the shaft, which is 800 feet deep. The levels have been cleaned out and the old timbers have been replaced with now wherever necessary. Very little work has been done In the Buell below the 300 foot-level, which allows a vast amount of virgin ground to bo worked. This will be opened up with machine drills, nnd develop ed and worked on a heavy scale. The production of this property is over a million and a halt dollars. This record can easily be doubled as the mine is located In the richest gold yielding territory in the county. A heavy output can be handled as the arrangement of the mill in con nection with the mine eliminates the transportation of mill ore. The Buell mill has been one of the busiest in the county during the year. A night and day shift have been worked steadily. The results the plant has been giving have been the moans of crowding the building with ore from one month to another. The Wellington Group. Operations on the Wellington group in the Russell district, own ed by the King Bee Gold Mining & Milling company, are being vigorous ly pushed both on the surface and through the Newhouse tunnel. De velopment done during the past year consisted of drifting aggregating up wards of 3000 feet. No stoping to speak of has been done and what shipments that have been made was taken out in the course of sinking and drifting. The Iron Duke shaft, now down 310 feet, be sunk to a depth of 500 feet before any time is devoted to stoping. When the depth ot 500 feet is attained a short crosscut will be run to Intersect the vein. Crosscutting and drifting at 200 and 300 feet Indicates that no less than four veins will be found to have merged into one large vein, at a point just above a depth of 500 feet. This work will be accomplish ed by March Ist, from which time on. a steadily increasing production may be expected. The Iron Duke shaft, which is ver tical. and is about the finest shaft in Gilpin county. It 4 1-2x9 feet in the clear, divided into two compart ments and designed for the use of cages of modern construction. The shaft will be continued downward to connect with the Newhouse tunnel, which will be struck at a depth of 1556 feet, allowing for water grade of six inches to the hundred feet. A lateral will have to be run to make the connection, which will be perhaps 2400 feet in length. The connect ing the lateral is being driven from the tunnel end on a vein known as the Wellington No. 6. This lateral is now in 360 feet, and shows a nice streak of smelting ore. Some work has been done on this vein from the lateral, seventy feet both ways, and up and down. The Wel lington No. 6 is one of the few veins cut by the Newhouse tunnel, in which pay ore was found at the point of intersection. Shipments aggregating several carloads of ore have been made from this vein, the ore run ning better than six ounces gold to the ton; also containing splendid values in silver, copper and lead. Assays of the streak made daily show an appreciable increase, indi cating that the lateral on the vein is entering another zone of high grade ore. On the Compensation lode, the company has done considerable work in sinking a hundred toot shaft. A shaft of 200 feet has also been sunk an the Waterloo and other shafts of lesser depth have been sunk on the group. For the limited depth attained the shaft showings are good. Operations were started on thfc Wellington group less thnn two years ago. At that time there were no top improvements of any kind and no de velopment work had been done to speak of. Large buildings with fine equipment now mark the barren hills >f two years ago. The group is iplcndldly located. When properly opened up the vast area of the '.ions group will afford unlimited operations and from present indica ions, with what prospecting has been lone, the Wellington group will de velop Into one of tho biggest dlvl lond payers in tho entire Gilpin county section. Fifty Gold Mines Corporation. When carried out, the plans for development and enlargement of ac tivities of the Fifty Corporation, will make that proposition one of tho largest dividend payers of the rich producing gold mines of Colorado. These plans will bo placed in exe cution during the coming year. The Cook shaft is now down 1400 feet, but on account of new discoveries at lower depths, sinking will be pros ecuted to n depth of 100 feet or more to open up new ground. The Fisk vein, which was lost up until about six weeks ago has again opened up at a depth of 1400 feet nnd Is very strong. It Is five feet In width and carries good milling values, with smelting ore just com ing in. Tile Bobtail vein lias been opened up at a depth of 1400 feet and has been In ore for more than 490 feet. There is between seven and eight feet of an ore body in the drift and considerable stoping has been done above the level. A winze lias been sunk 50 feet below tho 1400 level and shows the vein to be continuous. The now discoveries recently made in the Fifty properties make the out look for a heavier production bright er than it has been in years and the mines are in good pay dirt at several points. During the past several months the production has averaged $20,000 a month. The daily produc tion is 90 tons of ore, of which 80 is milling and the remainder smelt ing. Arrangements are being made for the installation of new electric pumps, which will mean a big sav ing in the handling of the water. Electric motors have been put in at the 1400 foot levels, which pump the water to t the 1100 and from there It goes to the Gregory incline and Is then handled by steam pumps. Included in the development con templated during the coming year is the driving of the Gregory crosscut from the 1400 Cook level to tap the Gregory vein at a depth of 325 feet below its present workings. The Gregory vein for a length of 1500 feet and 800 feet in depth produced six and one-half million dollars. Noth ing has been done on this vein for a period of fifteen or twenty years. It is estimated that It will be cut by crosscut within distance of 400 feet. Plans arc being arranged for treating the low grade ores of the property and the low grade product of other mines of the county will also be handled by the company mill. Ad ditional equipment is to be added to the plant, which will make this the best mill In the district. Celebrated Hubert Mine. The Hubert mine, one of the most productive properties in the county, after a long period of Inactivity re sumed operations In June of this year. Having been idle for some time, It was necessary to repair the buildings and machinery in order to resume work. The shaft also need ed repairs down to the present water level, which Is 700 feet, which work has all been completed and work re sumed in a number of the levels from the 700 up to and including two levels at the 300. Ore Is being shipped from a number of the levels at the present time. This is of a fair grade and is found in consider able quantities. Within fifteen months of the present time, this pro perty should be tapped by the New house tunnel, which will give 500 feet of virgin ground which there is every reason to believe from the past record of the mine will yield immense quantities of ore and un doubtedly furnish employment for from 75 to 125 miners. Newhouse tunnel which will inter sect the Hubert vein, Is given the past production of the mine. The Hubert lode was discovered in the early 60's and was worked most of the time until 1900. The Hubert pre sents a parallel case to numerous other mines on the line of the New house tunnel which arc closed down on acconut of the enormous expense entailed In handling the water. An exchange says: We heard the other day that they found an edi tor In Heaven. How he got there is not positively known, but It is con jectured that he passed himself off us something good and slipped in unexpected. When the dodge was discovered they searched the beauti ful realms of that cttyln all Its length and breadth for a lawyer to draw up the papers of ejectment, but they couldn't find one, and of course they let the poor editor stay. All kinds of changes are being brought about in tho newspaper flold in Jefferson county. A. W. Arm. strong, deputy county assessor for a number of years nnd an old news paper man, has purchased tho Ar vada Sun. The Press, published at Ooldcn, announces that after the first of tho year It will become tho offi cial paper and will be enlarged to an eight page odltlon. Judge Chas. McCall Is president of the company publishing the Press. The Anchor Group. Tho Hearno Gold & Copper com pany, operating the Anchor group of mines in lower Willis gulch, has ac complished a great deal ot develop ment' during the year 190 S and big bodies of ore are blocked out ready for shipment. The shaft has been sunk 100 leet and levels have been driven east and west at the 200, 300 and 400-foot points and the mine is looking good. A fine electrically driven air compressor has been in stalled and ore bins built. A tele phone system has been put in with conmfttion throughout the workings. The most important improvement, however, is the tram extension, which has Just been completed. This spur runs from the Saratoga to the Anchor, enabling shipments to bo made over the line direct from the mine to the mills in Black Hawk. Shipments since the tram track was laid have been steady and the local mills and sampler are furnished with an average of five tram cars of ore a day. Operations of the Aztec Mines Co. Among the outside corporations carrying on most extensive opera tions In the county is the Aztec Mines company, owning the O. K. mine on German hill, which they are working, together with the Granite, Homer and Old Bullion claims, run ning parallel and to the south of tho O. K. The latter lodes they hold under lease and bond. All are being worked through the O. K. shaft, which is down a depth of 735 feet. During the year 1908 the mine has shipped about 800 tons of ore to the mills and smelter with satisfactory results. Most of the work has been done on the O. K. vein on the sth and 6th levels east and west. A crosscut has been run on the 2nd level south to the Homer-Granite vein a distance of 150 feet and work is now being done on these veins . The mine is equipped with air drills and the water is handled by an electric pump from the 6th level. All ore and concentrates have been shipped to the C. & D. Ore company at Black Hawk and the milling has been done by the Fifty and the Buell plants. The work at the mine is In charge of Henry Eilman, who is rendering most satisfactory services. H. Ir ving Jones Is manager for the Aztec people and says that during the com ing year the company Intends to put in new equipment and sink the shaft another 200 feet. Crosscuts are to be run at the lower levels to develop the veins to the south. Besides the properties mentioned above the Aztec company is operat ing the Bench and Defiance In Rub sol Gulch. They took possession of these mines a year ago and have made extensive top improvements dur ing the year, consisting of a large shafthouse and the installation of more machinery. The shaft has been sunk 100 feet, making a total depth of 220 feet. Levels have been run east and west and regular shipments are being made from a stope east of the shaft. Work is in charge of John Mellow, of Russell Gulch. The Pewabic Consolidated Gold Mines Company. During the year 1908, the Pewab lc Consolidated Gold Mines Company has mined and shipped from its dif ferent mines 1676 cords of ore,partly to it's mill at Black Hawk, and partly direct to the C. and D. sampling works and the Argo Smelter at Ar go. which amounted to 5078.76 tons in concentrates and smelting ores. The entire ore production since the mines were purchased from the Republic company, August 1904, Is $449,348.69. Considerable Improvements have been made at the mines, under ground by extending levels and sinking shafts. A crosscut is driv en south from the 300 level of the Iron mine to open up the territory lying to the south of the two main working shafts. The new surface Improvemens con sist of the installation of two new 125 high-pressure boilers, made by the Stroehle Boiler works at Black Hawk, equipped with the Western Furnace device, insuring perefet combustion of fuel; saving over 35 per cent of the former cost of fuel. A spacious new boiler house and coal storage blnß have been provided with the new steam plant. At the New York mill, an entire section of stampß has been rebuilt modernised and it Is the Inten tion to likewise modernize the other section in the spring. One new boil section in the spring. One new boil er, 126 H. P. pressure, Is ordered at the Stroehle Boiler works, which will also be equipped with the Western furnace and nn automatic self feeder. When visiting Denver stop at the new Hotel Alamo, corner 17th and Market streets. Strictly modern, with elevator service. Public and private baths. Rates SI.OO per day and up. You will not And a more complete line of groceries in the country than the Hawley Mdse, company carries.