Principal Producing Cripple Creek Mines - 1898:

Name: Little Fauntelroy (Gold Hill)
Owner: Herald Gold Mining Co.
Capital:
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Vice-President:
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Superintendent:
Manager: H. Robb
Lessees:
Description: 130-foot tunnel
Employes:
Contact: postoffice, Anaconda.
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A $10,000 SALE
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Fraction on Gold Hill Brings That Amount.
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A $10,000 PURCHASE.
Reed and Hamlin have purchased another property. The property secured is a half acre fraction lapping in the Little Lord Fauntleroy, purchased by that firm early in the week. The consideration was not far from the $10,000 mark and the price is an indication of the steady advance in property in that section of the district. The fraction was bought from William Bennett, F. F. Maynard and Peter O'Connor. Reed and Hamlin also purchased one and thirteen-hundredth acres of the Prince, adjoining the Little Lord Fauntleroy. The firm now has about six acres there and a better piece of ground no one could ask for.
The fraction purchased yesterday has 150 feet of the continuation of the vein opened up in the breast of the tunnel in the Fauntleroy claim. The sample taken from the breast of the vein in the tunnel gave the following returns: $20.65; $35; $41.20; $78; $80 to the ton. There is three feet of ore in the breast and all the rock shipped so far has returned better than two ounces of gold to the ton. It is probable that the property will be put in a stock company. From the ore now showing and the indications one is justified in the belief that the property will be a big shipper in a very few months.

THE FAUNTLEROY GOLD MINING CO.

In the early part of the year 1901 The Reed Investment Company, of which Mr. Verner Z. Reed is president and O. H. Shoup secretary, adopted a policy of working the properties which they controlled by the leasing system.

They were among the first to inaugurate a longer time lease with a lower royalty, so that on all the properties which they control, there has been active development work carried on during the past year by lessees.

The Fauntleroy Gold Mining company own the Little Fauntleroy claim on Gold hill, a part of the Garfield on Mineral hill and the Mary D., south of the town of Victor.

During the past year active development work has been done on the Little Fauntleroy claim and some ore has been shipped. The principal development work on the Fauntleroy claim was done in the Ophelia tunnel, which cuts this property at 278 feet from the surface.

Arrangements are about completed to have the work resumed in the tunnel.

Denver.—A discovery of considerable importance occurred in the Little Fauntleroy on Gold hill on the morning of the 4th instant. It was made in an upraise from a drift in the Ophelia tunnel, 1,000 feet from the portal and 300 feet from surface.
The vein is about 2 feet in width and is understood to carry as high as 12 ounces gold per ton.

Denver.—The recent strike by McKelvey and associates on the Fauntleroy has been upraised on for a distance of 35 feet and the ore body now shows a width of 5 feet, giving returns of 4 ounces to the ton in carload lots.

Cripple Creek—Briggs & Waters, working the Little Fauntleroy on Gold hill have made an important discovery at a depth of 120 ft. below the Ophelia tunnel level of a vertical vein which carries high values. It is more than 3 ft. wide between walls and will ship about 2 ozs. gold to the ton without sorting.

Fauntleroy—Lessees operating this property through the Ophelia tunnel are working a large body of milling ore discovered at a depth of 275 ft. beneath the surface.
The ore carries about one ounce gold to the ton and it is expected to output about 50 tons per week.

Lessees on the Gold hill property of the Fauntleroy Gold Mining Co., prospecting through a crosscut from the Ophelia tunnel, penetrating Gold hill, have cut a promising vein, believed to be the southern extension of the vein first exposed on the Index.