SALE OF THE UINTAH TUNNEL
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Woods Investment Co. Purchase Controlling Interest.
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DOYLE TO BE MANAGER
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Trail Group of Mines Also Purchased By the Same Company.
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LEGAL BATTLE NOW SHAPING
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One of the Biggest Fights in the History of Mining is Now To Take Place.
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Colonel James Doyle has sold a controlling interest in his celebrated Uintah tunnel to the chief stockholders of the Woods Investment company, on a basis of $150,000, of which more than half was handed Mr. Doyle in cash.

In connection with this transaction the Woods Investment people have also purchased the Trail group of mines, or a controlling interest thereof.

This group is located on Battle mountain, extending from the saddle between Bull hill and Battle mountain, south over some of the richest territory in the whole camp. This was taken on a basis of $65,000 for the group, a great part of which was paid in cash.

The great tunnel will be known as the Uintah Tunnel and Mining company, and Colonel Doyle will remain as manager, but the officers of the Woods Investment company will form a majority of the directors, and it will be practically part of the Woods Investment company's holdings.

Work on the tunnel will now be pushed vigoreusly in two directions. First, drifting will immediately begin on a vein cut by the tunnel at a point 1,200 feet from the mouth. The vein is claimed to apex on the Viola, a claim of the Battle Mountain Consolidated company, another company in which the Woods people are the controlling spirits.

The other work outlined for the big tunnel is the cutting of the famous Necessity vein at the point where it crosses the Woods Investment company's holdings. This is the vein from which Colonel Doyle made such phenomenal shipments before the court enjoined him from working the vein, and which is expected to prove quite as rich as where cut by the tunnel bore. The Viola vein has been opened on the surface, and is said to have been found very promising. The cross-cut will tap it at a depth of 600 feet, and will doubtless find it much richer than at the surface.

The Trail group includes the Ironsides, Big Banta, Trail and Lost Fraction claims, amounting to thirty acres in all. One of the claims, the Big Banta, is held under lease by S. M. Perry, and it is thought to be the intention of the Woods people to buy his lease and gain immediate control of the whole property. It is understood that the Trail group will be added to the Battle Mountain Consolidated company's holdings.

These changes in ownership have a very important bearing on the great legal battle which is impending on Battle mountain, and still further complicates an already tangled web. It means that the Woods Investment company, having back of it the Mount Rosa townsite of 140 acres, the wonderful Gold Coin mine, the Battle Mountain Consolidated company with 130 acres of rich mineral ground, and other rich holdings, will now take up the fight for the Uintah tunnel.

Opposed to it will be the famous Portland company, whose leaders are shrewd and experienced men in mining matters.

The Strong Gold Mining company, one of the richest in camp, is also interested, through the Necessity, recently purchased by L. D. Ross for Messrs. Lenox and others of the Strong company.
Likewise, the Smith-Moffat syndicate comes in for a share of the trouble, by reason of its ownership of the Granite mine. The legal struggle will be a veritable battle of giants, and the whole mining world will watch the outcome with interest.

Lessee Wilcox, who is operating the Trail on Battle mountain, yesterday made a good find on the surface. At grass roots he has opened up a streak of 12 inches of ore which runs $60 to the ton.

WOODS INVESTMENT COMPANY.
Rushing Work on Another Good Cripple Creek Property.
More than ordinary importance is attached to the development on the Trail group of properties on Bull hill, owned by the Battle Mountain Consolidated company, which has been going ever since the acquisition of this property by the Woods Investment company.
In the lower tunnel a large force of men has been employed, and the ore bodies have been opened for over 2,000 feet, this at depth of 300 feet. Large bodies of ore have been blocked out and held in reserve, owing to the dissatisfaction with local mills and a desire to treat this ore at the Economic mill, owned by the Woods Investment company, as soon as the mill was ready to receive ore.
The Economic mill is now ready for business, and is running ore to its full capacity. The preliminary tests made last week were a pronounced success, and the mill will handle 350 tons of ore per day, the initial capacity of the mill.
Stoping on these immense ore reserves will be commenced at once, and the rock, as broken, without sorting, will be sent to the mill.
In a winze from the tunnel level at a depth of fifty feet there is remarkable showing. At this point the vein is six feet wide, and will average from one ounce to one-half ounces per ton, while a streak of sylvanite ore on the foot wall two feet wide assays as high as eighty to eighty-five ounces per ton.
It is admitted by well-informed mining men that the Woods Investment company is numbered among the heaviest mining syndicates in the United States, but few of this class even fully appreciate the extent and magnitude of the mining operations of this successful corporation.
During the month of November, 1,046 men were employed, and the total amount of the pay roll as shown by the company's records amounted to $64,388

(From the Cripple Creek Press.)
It is reported that a good strike has been made in the Trial{Trail misspelled?] property on Battle mountain. The find is on a block of ground under lease to Adams and others.

The Trail, of the United Mines Company, produces ore of two ounces gold per ton. This mine, together with the Wild Horse, Deadwood and Trachyte mines, makes the company daily produce about 135 tons of ore.

[Swedish Original]
—The United Mines Company, innefattande Wild Horse, Deadwood, Trail och Trachyte grufvorna, uttager dagligen omkring 135 ton malm. Malmen från Wild Horse grufvan är fortfarande i värde öfver $100 märket. De öfriga grufvorna producera malm innehållande två ounces guld per ton.

Denver, Colo.—A big strike has been made in the south end of the Dante. Several veins from 18 inches to six feet in width have been developed by the lower Trail tunnel. The ore runs from $18 to $80 per ton.

Cripple Creek.—Beebe & Large, who are operating several leases in the district, have made a strike on the Trail claim on Bull hill. The find was made at a depth of 400 feet, where an ore body of good dimensions was encountered.

Cripple Creek.—The large ore shoot opened recently by the British-American Mining and Leasing company in the Trail tunnel of the Dante company continues to improve. The vein is increasing in both size and value. The shoot has been opened for a distance of 80 feet and 5 feet wide. Twenty-one mine cars of ore are going out daily and extensive development work is constantly being carried on.

Denver.—The British-American Mining and Leasing company, operating the Dante through the Trail tunnel, last week paid a fourth dividend of $3,000.

Cripple Creek.—The new 500-ft. shaft of the British-American Leasing Company on the Dante is progressing rapidly. They are now working through the Trail tunnel at a distance of 3,000 ft. from the entrance. Regular shipments are being made from a large vein recently opened and returns from $30 to $35 per ton.

Cripple Creek.—B. G. Granville, who recently leased the Van Fleet sampler at Goldfield, expects to have that plant running full capacity within the week.
Granville has opened up a 3-ft. ore body in the Trail property on Bull hill which runs 1 to 2 ozs. gold. This ore will be handled at the Van Fleet mine.

The portion of the Trail tunnel on the claim of that name is under lease to B. G. Granville, who has recently opened up a good vein between 2 and 3 ft. wide. Shipments run about $25 per ton. Granville has rented the Van Fleet cyanide mill, at Goldfield, and he proposes to treat the ore from his lease. Experimental tests are now being made.

The Western Investment Co. is also leasing on the Trail tunnel and has encountered the extension of the Dante vein. The vein is here about 10 ft. wide and two shipments recently made have given returns around $20 per ton.

Cripple Creek.—The Granville cyanide mill at Goldfield, formerly used as a sampler, but remodeled as a cyanide plant, is treating 40 tons daily from the Trail mine dump on Bull hill.
This dump, made from the ore house sortings, averages close to $7 a ton and a saving of 91 per cent is reported.

Leasers operating the United Gold Mines Company's properties on Battle mountain, Bull and Ironclad hills, are outputting about 1,000 tons of ore monthly. The properties include the Wild Horse, Silver Tip, W. P. H. and Trail.

Cripple Creek—The Western Investment Co., operating on the Specimen claim and in the Trail tunnel, recently made a carload shipment of ore from each of the properties.
The specimen ore will return 2 ozs. and the Trail mineral will probably run $35 to the ton. A steady production is being made by both properties.

Cripple Creek—The Western Investment Co. shipped a carload of ore from the Trail claim of the United Gold Mining Co., averaging about $35 a ton. The shipment came from an extension of the Dante vein.

The Western Investment Co., operating on the Trail, part of the Requa group of the United Gold Mines Co., is making regular shipments of a good grade and the lessees on the adjoining block are also shipping ore at regular intervals.

A new equipment of hoist, compressor, and drills is being installed on the Trail mine by H. G. Granville, who is leasing on the property. It is stated that the plant will be in operation by Nov. 1.

Cripple Creek—H. G. Granville, leasing on the Trail mine of the United States Gold Mining Co.^*, is installing a steam hoist and 10 drill air compressor. The plant will be in operation by Oct. 25. Mr. Granville is shipping at the rate of 100 tons per month.

^* This is Most Likely a name error/mistake done, as I doubt it was a new company name; as the mine was owned by the United Gold Mines Company

COLORADO SPRINGS, June 15.—The Trail mine of the United Gold Mines Company, which is worked through the Blue Bird shaft, has entered an ore shoot in the 900 foot level, 4½ feet wide, with good values.

The Trail mine, on Bull hill, has resumed shipment after a long period devoted to development. A new ore shoot has been opened on what is believed to be the southern extension of the Dante vein, and the ore is of a good grade.

United Gold—During November, under the leasing system, this company shipped 2500 tons from dump and mine, the average value being given at $30 per ton. Twenty sets of leasers are employed on the various mines of the company, viz.: Wild Horse, Damon, Deadwood, Trail, W. P. H., Montrose, Midway and Trachyte.
A dividend amounting to $40,000 will be paid Dec. 20.

The new ore body opened several weeks ago in the lower workings of the Train property, on Bull hill, has widened with development and now measures from 12 to 14 ft. between walls with no decrease in values.
The vein has been followed 20 ft. and is giving returns of from a half to a little less than one oz. in gold.

The Humphreys-Thompson leasing syndicate is operating the lower levels of the Blue Bird mine on Bull hill, and is also exploiting the Trail group, adjoining the Blue Bird, owned by the United Gold Mines Co., by long crosscut, carried out from the seventeenth level of the Blue Bird main shaft, at an approximate depth of 1,350 ft. from the surface.
Both mineralized dikes and well-defined veins have been encountered in the prosecution of the work, and prospects for exposure of permanent ore bodies are considered excellent.

Al Pierce, operating on the Trail property, on Bull hill, has encountered what appears to be a strong vein.

Gold production from leased properties of the United company in February showed an increase of 350 tons over the preceding month. The gross value is estimated at $22,700.
The Trail mine was the largest producer.

Lessees of the United Gold Mines in March shipped 1000 tons of over 2-oz. ore from the Trail and Bonanza mines.

The Anderson & Benkelman lease at the Trail mine yielded 1250 tons of the total May production of the United Gold Mines of 1450 tons of ore worth $60,000.

The Anderson and Benkelman lease of the Trail mine of the United Gold Mines Co., one of the most profitable both to the operators and the owning company in the history of the district, has but four months to run, but it is estimated that although there remains 300 feet of crosscutting to tap the ore-shoot, the cost will be more than paid for in the first 30 days, thus leaving three months for profits even should no extension be secured.
Anderson, Benkelman, Eby, and Orrison, partners in the lease, have all made fortunes from the ore sales, while the United Gold Mines Company has secured more than $110,000.

A 100-ft. lift in the Dexter shaft, under lease to Anderson and Benkelman, has been sunk in 18 days by C. G. Gorman and associate contractors. The Gorman interests will now cross-cut to the vein and oreshoot on the Trail mine of the United Gold Mining Co., on which Anderson and Benkelman hold a lease that expires this fall.
It is confidently expected the cost of sinking the shaft and driving the cross-cut, timbering, and cutting the station will be taken out in addition to profits before the lease expires.

Gorman and associates, operating a sub-lease from Anderson and Benkelman on the Trail, are expected to make a good profit on the money expended in sinking the shaft an additional 100 ft. and cross-cutting to the vein.
The work was performed in record time.

Ore from the bottom level of the Trail mine, at a depth of 1500 ft., is reported to be averaging from $32 to $38 per ton.

The lease of Anderson and Benkelman on the Trail mine of the United Gold Mines Co. expires on January 1. Work is being rushed and in three days of the past week, shipments of ore netted the lessees $8000 after payment of transportation and treatment.
The ore shipped was from the bottom or 1400-ft. level of the Dexter shaft, and averaged better than 3 oz. gold per ton. If no renewal is granted, the company will start work on high-grade ore.

With their lease expiring on December 31, Anderson and Benkelman, lessees operating the Trail mine, through the Dexter shaft, on the southern slope of Bull hill, are producing at a rate never before witnessed from a Cripple Creek lease.
In 11 days in December, 18 cars of ore were shipped to the Golden Cycle mill at Colorado Springs, and settlement netted the lessees $24,965.
The United Gold Mines Co. was paid in royalties $8788 and 1% was further deducted in taxes, making the total value of the 18 cars $34,500.
The lease, it is understood, will not be extended and the property, controlled by A. E. Carlton, will be operated on company account. All of the interested parties in the lease have taken out fortunes and at a rough estimate the lease has cleared $1,000,000.
The property adjoins the Cresson mine and the company for some months has been operating from the 1000-ft. level of the Cresson, and is reported to have opened good ore.

Two train loads of ore making a total of 39 broadgauge cars, containing about 1400 tons, were hauled from the district on March 29 to the Golden Cycle mill at Colorado Springs.
The companies contributing shipments were the Cresson, Portland, Vindicator, and Eagle Sampling, and lessees on the Strong, Jerry Johnson, Trail, Star of Bethlehem, and Index mines.

A new and rich ore-shoot has been opened on the 14th level of the Dexter mine on the south slope of Bull hill, on the Trail property of the United Gold Mines Co. by the leasing firm of Anderson & Benkelman.
The vein, 4 to 5 ft. wide, is reported to carry rich ore. The extent of the shoot is not yet determined.