Principal Producing Cripple Creek Mines - 1898:

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Owner: Lexington Gold Mining Co.
Capital: $1,500,000
President: John E. Smith
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Secretary: N. H. Partridge
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Notes: mines operated by lessees.

Denver.—Operations have been resumed at the Anaconda cyanide mill, situated on the southern slope of Gold hill, overlooking the town of Anaconda. The plant has been closed down for a week or 10 days to permit of the installation of new crush er rolls.
The mill is handling the low grade ores from the Lexington and dump of the E. Porter Gold King mine.

The fire which totally destroyed the shaft-house and machinery of the Lexington Gold Mining Co. on the west slope of Gold hill recently will not interfere with the plans of the company to a great extent.
The head-frame, ore-house, and trestle were saved, and the present lessee, Iver Weston, will probably hoist his ore through the shaft of the E. Porter Gold King until an electric hoist can be installed.

Among the other Gold Hill properties to become active within the last few weeks is one of the shafts of the Lexington, the claim being located just south of the Anchoria-Leland.
A 15-horse power electric hoist has been installed.

The Lexington property on Gold hill reports a very rich strike.

The shaft house and machinery of the Lexington G. M. Co. were destroyed by fire on the 29th ult. The company will probably arrange for the installation of a larger hoisting plant at the Jeff Davis mine.

Lexington.—Work has been resumed in the main shaft of this property after an idleness of two years. A new cross vein to the shaft has been encountered and the ore shoot opened for a distance of seventy-five feet. It is four feet in width and is said to run about $30 to the ton. Four machine drills are to be put in and the shaft sunk seventy-five feet deeper, giving it a depth of 400 feet.
Lessees are working the dump of the main shaft with good results. The screenings are said to average $30 to the ton, while the coarse material varies between $40 and $60 to the ton.
About 15,000 tons of rock yet remain in the dump.

AN ENORMOUSLY RICH FIND IN THE CLARA D
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The Property is Owned by the Lexington Company
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WILL BE A DIVIDEND PAYER.
News of an important discovery in the Clara D., on Gold hill, that will shortly make a dividend payer out of the Lexington, leaked out yesterday. Some days ago in the level at 158 feet, some 70 feet from the shaft a narrow vein widened out to three feet, half of which is rock that will average anywhere from 40 to 50 ounces in gold to the ton.
The moment it was found, work was started for it at the 190-foot level, and here it was found as strong and rich as above. In each level it has been drifted on for 12 feet, and it appears to improve with every shot.
This vein is the extension of the Maloney vein on the Anchoria Leland and in the chute found on that property it did not take long to extract $100,000 worth of ore.

Here is one case where lessees missed a fortune. When Horner and Black worked the property General Manager J. S. Jones begged them to drive the drift that he has since, and offered to pay them $4 a foot for the work if they would only comply with his request and this they refused to do.
If the present showing on the Clara D. holds out for a fortnight it will mean that the Lexington will become a dividend payer.

Lexington—At the 350-ft. level of the main Lexington shaft, on the Clara D. claim, Lessee Ivor Weston has opened a new vein 4 ft. in width, a trial shipment from which gave returns of $32.50 per ton.

Lexington—A 30-ton shipment of medium-grade ore was made from the 350-ft. level of this Gold Hill property this week by lessees.

The Union Leasing Co. operating on the South Clara D. of the Lexington property is stated to have entered into negotiations with the management of the Portland mill at Colorado City for the treatment of about 50 tons of its ore per day. There are large quantities of ore that will run in the neighborhood of $10 per ton in the lower levels of the mine, the width of the orebody ranging from 15 to 20 ft.
A trial shipment to the mill has given satisfactory results.

A gold brick valued at $6,000 has been shipped from the Anaconda mill to the Mint at Denver. This was the result of the clean-up after the treatment of 500 to 600 tons of dump from the Lexington property. Low-grade ore from the second level of the Lexington will now be treated for the Union Leasing Co.

Operations have been resumed by the El Paso Extension Corporation and its lessees on the Index mine and Lexington properties on Gold Hill after a shut-down due to coal shortage.

Rich surface discoveries have recently been made at the Lexington on Gold Hill.

Discoveries are reported from the Gold Hill section, on the Mary McKinney, Rittenhouse, and Lexington properties on the southern slope of the hill. Ore averaging one ounce gold per ton has been opened for 50 to 100 ft. by lessees.

The Lexington People Pushing Things.
The Lexington Gold Mining company is pushing work on its various properties in the camp. The Jeff Davis and Jeff Davis No. 2, are being vigorously worked under lease by Michael Gilmore and others. The Clara D., on Gold hill is being worked by two sets of lessees and a strong vein has been opened. The company has secured a two years lease on the Robert E. Lee and have just let a contract from cross-cutting the lode the entire width of the claim from west to east. In a day or two the Lexington company will start a drift in the Chance which they have now under lease from the Anchoria-Leland company. The drift will be run from the 200-foot level to the south side line of the Chance. Altogether the company now has twenty-five men employed. No stock is being offered on the market at present.