All About the Dolly Varden.
The strike in the Dolly Varden reported in The Times yesterday was fully confirmed today by a visit of a Times reporter to the mine. For some time past most of the work at the Dolly Varden has been dead work and most of the efforts of Manager F. Wright have been in the direction of putting the mine in good shape and getting ready to take out the ore which has never been a doubtful quantity.
The mine is developed by a main tunnel running east and west along the vein and is now into Raven hill a distance of 275 feet. Another tunnel eighty feet in length opens from the main tunnel to the north slope of the hill.
A shaft has been sunk 100 feet, about fifty feet north of the vein, and drifts run which will soon open into the main lead which pitches to the north. The late strike was made in the breast of the tunnel that has been following the vein and has reached to within about fifteen feet of the side line of the Morning Stars.
The depth at this point is about 100 feet. The vein averages three feet in width and assays across the entire vein showed values ranging from $14 to $95 per ton and a shipment now at Victor is expected to bring average returns of $50 per ton.
The Dolly Varden, Morning Stars, Christie, Oak and Squaw Gulch belong to the same company. Two sets of lessees are at present working on the Christie and shipping ore has been struck at a depth of fifty feet in one of the shafts.
A new hoist will be put in in a few days. The properties were never looking better than at present.

The Dolly Varden, Morning Stars, Christie, Oak and Squaw Gulch belongs to the same company.

Two Cars From the Dolly Varden
Two carloads of ore have been shipped from the Enterprise company's Dolly Varden this week. One was high grade smelting ore, and will probably average between $200 and $240 per ton. The car sent out Thursday was low grade, with a probable average of $50 per ton.
The chief work of the company at present is the cross-cut to the north under Squaw gulch at a depth of 310 feet. The breast of the drift is now 100 feet from the shaft and is already beyond the apex of the vein, but the vein dips sharply to the north and has not yet been cut. A force of only ten men is employed on the property, most of whom are working the crosscut from the Dolly Varden shaft.

Principal Producing Cripple Creek Mines - 1898:

Name: Dolly Varden (Raven Hill)
Owner: Enterprising Mining and Leasing Co.
Capital: $800,000
President: A. M. Ripley
Vice-President:
Secretary: J. A. Wright, Colorado Springs
Treasurer:
Superintendent: T. Cass, Anaconda
Manager: E. A. Colburn
Lessees:
Description: 300-foot tunnel; 16-horse power boiler; 6x8 cylinder friction hoist.
Employes: twelve employes
Contact:
Notes:

Cripple Creek Gold Exploration Company—The tunnel being run in the Dolly Varden claim of the Enterprise Company starts in to Gold Hill a short distance below Cripple Creek, runs through Gold Hill and into Raven Hill, where the terminus is at pres­ent. Several leasers are working on different proper­ties through the tunnel.

Gold Exploration Tunnel.
Work is being pushed, and good progress made. The breast is now in Enterprise ground. The tunnel was originally started by D.H. Moffat and associates, and afterwards sold to Eastern men.
It is being run for drainage and transportation. J.M. Parfet, of Cripple Creek, is in charge. A number of lessees are working various properties through the tunnel.

Cripple Creek.—E. A. Colburn and associates, who have a lease on the Dolly Varden on the west slope of Raven hill, are installing new machinery, including a compressor. This property has for a number of years been idle.

A vein of ore several feet in width has been opened upon the surface of the Dolly Varden on Raven hill. This ore is said to average nearly $100 per ton.

Cripple Creek—From the Dolly Varden on Raven Hill, ore is being shipped that returns $97.75 to the ton.

M. B. Rapp, of Cripple Creek, has secured a 12 months lease on Block 2 in the Dolly Varden mine on Raven hill.

The Squaw Gulch Leasing Co. has purchased the hoisting plant at the abandoned shaft of the Golden Wedge claim and moved it to the Dolly Varden mine.

Dolly Varden—This mine, under lease to T. A. Colburn, of Denver, is being unwatered, with two pumps going, and will be actively worked again.

SQUAW GULCH GOLD MINING CO.
Room 910, First National Bank Building, Denver. Colo
W. C. Benton, President
A. F. Carper, Manager
INCORP: in Colorado
MINE: Victor. Colo.
PROPERTY: Dolly Varden mine, 4 patented claims, 29.6 acres, in Teller county, Colo, near Victor, showing gold and silver; developed by 865' shaft and approx. 10,000' of laterals.