In the St. Thomas claim, located on the East slope of Beacon hill, controlled by Kenneth McKenzie, Lessee Charles Ridpath has been laying track and pipe and removing muck in order to get ready for work.

Charles Ridpath, according to news from Colorado Springs, has been granted a lease on the St. Thomas claim owned by the Peoria Gold Mining Co., the property being located on the east slope of Beacon hill.

A 15 h. p. electric hoist will be installed on the St. Thomas mine shaft in the near future for T. E. Keegan, who is working the property.

Charles N. Crowder has secured a long-time lease on the St. Thomas property, on the northeast slope of Beacon hill, and will begin work at once. The lease was given by the St. Thomas Gold Mining Co., the owning corporation.

At a depth of 40 ft. a flat vein has been exposed on the St. Thomas claim, north of the Mabel M. on Beacon hill, which carries $5 to $7 per ton.

A new vein in the St. Thomas lode mining claim on Beacon hill has been exposed by an adit tunnel driven by Paul Wilson. The adit is 50 ft. long and its depth will not exceed 20 ft. from the surface at any point. The vein, showing no out crop, is between 3 and 4 ft. wide.

Allen L. Burris has secured an option on the controlling interest of the stock of the St. Thomas Gold Mining Co., which owns the St. Thomas claim on Bacon hill.

Colorado Springs, Nov. 9.—Lessee Bell and associates, operating under lease the St. Thomas property, located on the east slope of Beacon Hill, have opened up a small body of ore at a depth of 150 feet from the surface. While the ore shoot is only measuring about two feet in width, it is a shipping quality and promises greater things as work progresses.

Principal Producing Cripple Creek Mines - 1898:

Name:
Owner: Little Puck Gold Mining Co.
Capital: $2,000,000
President: W. G. Emerson
Vice-President:
Secretary: D. N. Heizer, Colorado Springs
Treasurer:
Superintendent:
Manager:
Lessees:
Description:
Employes:
Contact:
Notes: own Ocean Wave mine, on Squaw mountain, and St. Thomas, on Beacon hill; leased.

Principal Producing Cripple Creek Mines - 1898:

Name: St. Thomas Mine (Beacon Hill)
Owner: Little Puck Gold Mining Co.
Capital:
President:
Vice-President:
Secretary:
Treasurer:
Superintendent:
Manager:
Lessees: J. W. King et al., Cripple Creek
Description: 65-foot shaft; windlass
Employes: ten employes.
Contact:
Notes:

A new whim was put upon the Crozler and Walsh lease on the St. Thomas yesterday. The lessees have their shaft down to 98 feet on the vein, which at this point is twenty feet wide, seven feet of which runs pay. The lessees will now drift both north and south of the vein.

Pickaninny Development Work.

The sub-lease from the Pickaninny Lease on the St. Thomas on Beacon hill, held by Powers, Jansen, G. Lindsay and others, will soon be in a position to begin shipments.
The lessees intend to sink to 100 feet before tapping the ore chute, and are now down 85 feet. A few tons of ore have been saved from the shaft in sinking, assays showing it to be worth $13 to $29 per ton.
The main ore chute is known to be seven feet in width and heavy shipments are expected when the ore is reached.

Davenport, Welsh and Lytle, sub-lessees, who have a shaft just north of the Lindsay workings, have been compelled to put in a No. 9 Cameron pump, the Lindsay people having pulled their pump, and the subs being in danger of flooding.
The lease has less than two months to run, but the lessees say they have enough ore in sight to pay them to put in the pump and go ahead with their work.
The pump was delivered on the ground yesterday, and will be in operation just as soon as the workmen can set it up.

When the contract for 50 feet of sinking on the Pickaninny lease is performed, as it will be in a few days, the shaft will be 100 feet deep. There is a vast body of ore in sight, and when the drift is run from the bottom of the shaft on the vein, the production will be very heavy.
Several carloads of ore have been shot down into a winze sunk from the 100-foot level, and it is the intention of the lessees to run an upraise from the 150-foot drift to the winze, and drop the ore down to the bottom, and so have to handle it but once instead of having to raise it from the winze.
No shipments have been sent out of late.