About a week ago an eighteen months lease was granted on the Sheriff claim on Bull hill. After working four days, the lessees broke into a body of commercial ore, and are now making a shipment.
The ore yields an average of $60 per ton.

The lessees operating the Sheriff claim on Bull hill, who uncovered a good body of pay ore at a depth of only 65 feet, this week made their initial shipment, and the returns were most gratifying, forty-five tons were marketed, the operators netting $1,000 from the shipment.
They expect to make a shipment of this size every week.

The Humphreys-Thompson Syndicate has secured a lease on the Sheriff mine, on Raven hill, and will re-timber the main shaft to the 100-ft. level.

On the Sheriff claim sub-lessees are sinking a shaft that will go to a depth of 100 ft. or more.

The Moffat tunnel heading is now in the Sheriff claim on Raven hill, one of the War Eagle group, at a distance of 1,5 miles from the portal, which is on the western slope of Gold hill about a mile south of Cripple Creek.
Development was commenced August 1 from the Blue Flag Gold Mining Co.'s main shaft, to connect with the Ophelia or Moffat tunnel, at a depth of 1150 ft., thence to a point directly under the Scott shaft of the War Eagle Consolidated Mines Co., and connection made therewith by raise. This work will be done under a contract between the Blue Flag company and the War Eagle Consolidated company, which now controls the Moffat tunnel.
With ventilation perfected through the two shaft connections, the Moffat tunnel will become a public utility and will be used for transportation and operating purposes by mining companies, mine owners, or their lessees, on properties along the line of the tunnel.

The Moffat tunnel, connecting with the Blue Flag workings of the War Eagle Consolidated Mines Co., is to be extended north-east through the Sheriff, thence to the Amanda and War Eagle. A cross-cut will also be carried from the Blue Flag through the Bogart and Happy Year holdings of the War Eagle company.