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ed, Legit follows the vein up the the surface, or an adit level cut in and the the surface, or an adit level cut in and along the vein a distance of at least ten feet. At the end of the adit, a perpendicular face of at least ten feet should be gained. (See text of law elsewhere.)

mountain a long distance, to satisfy himself that no locations have been made which will come within the one he proposes to make, and Prospect takes a look down the vein, and neither discovering any prior locations, George pulls his knife from his belt and commences to whittle, as smoothly as possible, one side of a stake, upon which he writes:

NOTICE!

Within ninety days after location, a location certificate must be filed in the office of the Recorder, in the county in which the lode is situated, which should be in the following form:

TERRITORY OR STATE OF COLORADO,

COUNTY OF

SS.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That......the

A. D.

undersigned, ha... this.............. day of.........., ... ... 187..., located and claimed, and by these presents do locate and claim, by right of discovery and location, in compliance with the Mining Acts of Congress, approved May 19th, A. D. 1872, and ALL subsequent acts, and with the local customs, laws and regulations,

.feet, linear and horizontal measurement, on

the.................. Lode, along the vein thereof, with all

its dips, angles and variations, together with.......
feet on each side of the middle of said vein at the sur

We hereby give notice that we have this 4th day of July, A. D. 1876, loca- | ted this, the Centennial lode. We claim 1,500 feet in and along the vein, linear and horizontal measurement. We claim 1,200 feet along the vein, running in a northwesterly course from discovery shaft, and 300 feet, face; and all veins, lodes, ledges and surface ground running along the vein southeasterly from discovery shaft We also claim 150 feet on each side of the vein from center of crevice as surface ground. GEORGE LEGIT, NATHANIEL PROSPECT, Locators.

Parties locating a lode are entitled to all the dips, spurs, angles, variations, and ledges of the lode, coming within the surface ground, and may take the unnecessary precaution to write it upon the stake giving notice of discovery; it is useless to recite all the mining rights which follow location in the notice given.

within the lines of said claim...............feet, running ..from center of discovery shaft, and...

feet running.......................... .from center of discovery shaft.
Said discovery shaft being situate upon said lode, and
Mining

within the lines of said claim in...........
District, County of.............., and Territory of Colo-
rado, and further described as follows:

Said Lode was located on the......day of..............A. D. 187...

ATTEST:

Date of Certificate......... ...A. D. 187...

IF you desire information in regard to passenger fares on trains by the great Kansas Pacific Railway, address BEVERLEY R. KEIM, General Passenger Agent, Kansas City.

Within sixty days after discovery and location, at least a ten-foot shaft must be sunk, or an open cross-cut cutting the vein at least ten feet below Only sixty-five miles from Fort Garland to Del Norte.

TABLE OF DISTANCES.

The following table gives the distances from principal railroad towns in Colorado to different points in the San Juan mines, reached by wagon roads:

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TABLE OF ASSAYS.

The following is a list of assays

made from mines in San Juan, as Golden Eagle.................

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Colorado Springs the delightful Watering Place-buy Ticket via the Kansas

Pacific Railway.

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The assays given in the foregoing | times the mineral runs through the table have this significance only: they entire gague formation, but not oftshow the presence of rich mineral in en. Such ores are best treated by the mines from which the samples as-stamp mills or concentration works sayed are taken. Much mischief is before smelting, and are known as done by reporting assays and giving milling ores. Now then, suppose you out the idea to the public that they find in some portion of the vein a piece are in grade about equal to the pay- of native silver or sulphuret of silver streak found in the vein.

-which usually runs high-you have an assay made, and it runs at the rate of $2,000 per ton.

The pay-streak is generally a very small part of the vein. A vein four feet wide may have a pay-streak-ore There is no quartz or gague matter -four inches or two feet thick. The weighed with the piece the assayer rest of the matter in the vein, called has tested, and of course you can form gague (gag), is usually quartz. Some- no idea as to what a ton of the ore The Kansas Pacific-the Favorite Route for Shippers of Cattle and Machinery.

40 WHAT DO REPORTED ASSAYS MEAN?-SMELTING AND REDUCTION WORKS.

would run at the smelter. It seems to-day. Why get an assay from such

almost superfluous to make this statement, and yet miners as well as others are continually talking about the high assays of different mines, as though it was a matter of transcendent importance. It is undoubtedly a good indication to get a high assay. Old miners will bear me out in the suggestion that this continued harping on the high assays of mines should be stopped, for the good of the mining interests in San Juan.

It is not necessary that a mine should be run high to be valuable. Milling ores running $25 per ton can be made to pay largely in San Juan

ores, running $300 per ton, to induce capitalists to take hold of this property? There are a number of mines. in that country which will smelt over $1,500 per ton. The owners are rich; it does not make another man rich because he can get an assay of that value from a four-inch pay streak.

The mines are good enough when we understand the bulk value per ton and the width of the pay streak. They have no equal in the world, so far as known, and will receive a fair share of the attention of capitalists, when the practicability of their being worked at a profit is demonstrated.

SMELTING AND REDUCTION WORKS.

The following are among the more prominent operators in ores:

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Pennsylvania Lead Co., Mansfield,

St. Louis Smelting and Refining
Works, Howard Station, Mo.

Preston & Merrill, Boston, Mass.
Pope, Cole & Co., Baltimore, Md.
E. J. Schwartz, Mansfield, Pa.
Wyandotte Smelting and Refining
Works, Wyandotte, Mich.

Morey & Sperry, New York.
Omaha Smelting and Refining Co.,
Omaha, Neb.

Denver Crushing and Smelting Mill,
Denver, Col.

N. P. Hill, Black Hawk, Col.

Golden Smelting and
Smelting and Refining
Works, Golden, Col.

Talcott & Co., Brighton Course, Ill.
M. C. Kelley & Co., Smelting Works,
Chicago, Ill.

Lone Elm Mining and Smelting Co., Joplin, Mo.

J. J. Crook & Co., New York.

SMELTING FURNACES IN SAN JUAN,

Greene & Co., Silverton Smelter; daily capacity twenty tons.

Rough and Ready Smelter; daily capacity fifteen tons

Mexican Smelter, Silverton; daily capacity two tons.

Edward Innis, Cunningham Gulch

Miners going or returning take the Kansas Pacific Railway.

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