In speaking of mines famous for the amount of ore produced, we must not forget to mention the famous Coates prospect hole known as the St. Patrick.
Famous because of the fact that there has been nearly a million dollars expended in prospecting in this mine and not one ounce of ore as yet received in return.
The St. Patrick was started about April, 1899. It is owned at present by the St. Patrick Gold Mining Syndicate, of Scotland. The shaft is 700 feet deep, with 3,500 feet of lateral work.
The mine runs regularly with a day and a night shift of eighteen men.

This property has been almost totally destroyed by fire three times, but would at once repair all damage or rebuild shaft house and soon be at work again.
If perseverance will make a success of an undertaking this mine will yet strike it rich. The St. Patrick is located in the southwestern part of Victor, four blocks from the postoffice.

The St. Patrick in the next three weeks is expected to open up ore at a depth of 300 feet in that property. The shaft is now down 240 feet and will be pushed as rapidly as possible to the 300-foot point, when a drift will be run to the east, as the ore body is believed to be on that side of the shaft.

It is not thought that the drifting will have to be over ten or twenty feet in length from the indications now showing.

The property is owned by the Gold Belt Investment company of Victor, which is sinking the big shaft—one of the finest in the camp. A three-fifths interest was purchased recently by the investment company for something like $30,000. The remaining portion of the property is being acquired by taking up a bond given by Mr. Jerry O'Driscoll.

The total price of the property will be between $50,000 and $60,000.

The St. Patrick claim in Victor, Colorado, has been sold by the Gold Belt Investment Company to the St. Patrick Mining Company of Scotland.
The consideration named in the deal has not been made public.

James Doyle filed a certificate of levy yesterday in the county recorder's office against J. J. O'Driscoll.
The levy was made on a three-eighths interest in the St. Patrick lode held by O'Driscoll.

There has been installed new pump machinery at the St. Patrick mine in Victor.

[Swedish Original]
—Nytt pumpverk har insatts i St. Patrick grufvan, belägen i närheten af Victor.

ST. PATRICK CHANGES HANDS.
The St. Patrick mine at Victor was sold Friday to the Gold Belt Mines Investment company. The deal is one of the most important made this year, and involved the transfer of the undivided five-eighths interest held by Messrs. O'Haire and Glocken, the price paid being $30,000. By the consummation of the deal all the litigation in which the St. Patrick people were involved is settled.
The claim is located just south of the Gold Coin and is considered a very valuable piece of mining ground.

John McConaghy has had years of successful experience in mining in Cripple Creek and other mining camps throughout the state, at present being employed by the St. Patrick Gold Mine Syndicate, Limited, which company is composed of the Coates thread people and well known bankers of Scotland.
Having severed his connection with the St. Patrick company, which took effect on December 1, at which time he took full charge of the Colorado Mines Consolidated Mining company's mining properties in Robinson, Colo.

W. Weston, a noted mining engineer of Colorado Springs practicing as a mining engineer in Colorado for twenty-years, is at present manager of the St. Patrick gold mine of Cripple Creek, for the Coates family, the great thread manufactures of Perth, Scotland.

Work will also be started up on the St. Patrick, by the Gold Belt Mines company, a new Victor organization, of which C. F. Rickey is president and J. McConaghy superintendent. This company has obtained a lease and bond on the property, covering a period of two years and calling for $60,000.
The property is to be equipped with machinery and thoroughly developed.

ST. PATRICK TO SINK.
The St. Patrick syndicate, owning and operating the St. Patrick claim on Battle Mountain has determined to sink the shaft now down 500 feet to a depth of 800 feet and it is likely that work will be started in a short time. In the meantime the 300-foot and 500-foot levels will be fully explored and also work will be continued in these levels while the shaft is being sunk to the additional 300 feet.
The St. Patrick company has been at work for several months, the more recent work being done in the way of crosscutting and running levels. The work thus far has not resulted in the opening of extensive ore bodies. The St. Patrick company is a Scotch syndicate.

The St. Patrick lode, adjoining the Gold Coin on the south, in the next three weeks is expected to open up ore at a depth of 300 feet in that property. The shaft is now down 240 feet and will be pushed as rapidly as possible to the 300-foot point, when a drift will be run to the east, as the ore body is believed to lie on that side of the shaft.

St. Patrick.—Considerable prospecting has been done recently by diamond drill, and it is understood that several good veins have been opened. At present the company is drifting from the 700 ft. level. The property is situated in Victor, south of the Gold Coin, and is being operated by European capitalists.