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General Mining News
Info Source From:
The Aspen Weekly Times. Volume: 12 [XII], Issue No. 8
Info Publication Date:
February 20, 1892
Info found on page:
2
Info Title:
Blue Bell with a Big Strike
Another Big Strike.
graphic for visual presentation of text Another big strike has been made in the Blue Bell mine in Squaw gulch, which shows this property to be apparently a world beater, says a telegram from Cripple Creek to the Denver News.
graphic for visual presentation of text In the tunnel which is being run in to cut the main ore body at a distance of sixty feet under cover, a vein of ore two feet in thickness and carrying galena, grey copper, tellurium and a small amount of free gold was encountered, and the owners of this property are highly elated over the strike.
graphic for visual presentation of text A large force of men are working on the property and the ore is being sacked for shipment as soon as the roads are put in a passable condition.
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Article
Info Source From:
The Herald Democrat. Volume: 13 [XIII]
Info Publication Date:
March 15, 1892
Info found on page:
1-2
Info Title:
Blue Bell Info
According to Col. H. W. Comstock, there is no free milling ore, strictly speaking, in the district; but there is a vast tonnage, already uncovered and tested, that can be treated in the ordinary gold mills with little if any preliminary treatment. This is, of course, surface ore, and as we approach water level we may, and shall, undoubtedly, find it necessary to roast most of the product in order to save a reasonable percentage of its value, as much of it is exceedingly complex in character.
graphic for visual presentation of text While there been said that the dominating metal in the Blue Bell ore is silver, Col. Comstock said; "In the Blue Bell a thin band of galena, with which is combined some bismuth, carries more silver than gold; but an average of the entire vein matter between the granite and porphyry walls shows that gold is the dominating metal."
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Type/Category of Info:
Article
Info Source From:
The Herald Democrat. Volume: 13 [XIII]
Info Publication Date:
March 16, 1892
Info found on page:
1
Info Title:
Blue Bell Info
Col. Ed F. Browne, of Aspen said that "contrary to the general opinion, I do not find that the porphyry is generally mineralized, or that there is a second deposition of porphyry in fissures; but the fact is, there are well defined leads of quarts that pass through this massive porphyry, and it is the gangue of the veins.
graphic for visual presentation of text While there are parts of the porphyry rock that is mineralized, those parts that are rich at all are lying between stringers of the quarts, and it is easily seen how it should be mineralized, lying in such a position.
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graphic for visual presentation of text "The Blue Bell is on another well defined contact fissure, between granite and porphyry, and is the only vein that gives indications of silver, lead or zinc in the camp. Its direction points west of north about ten degrees, and undoubtedly extends through to Lawrence, a camp on the south end of the district.
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graphic for visual presentation of text "It can hardly be supposed that all the leads and fissures through which this mineralized quartz is found will ever be great mines; but it is an indication that shows great strength and permanency to the large veins that are discovered, and possibly many of these smaller stringers of quartz may lead to mines of values.
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graphic for visual presentation of text "I am thoroughly of the opinion that there could possibly be some great mines on the Blue Bell vein. I am also of the opinion that the greatest mine of this camp will be found in a locality not yet developed.
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Type/Category of Info:
Article
Info Source From:
The Herald Democrat. Volume: 13 [XIII]
Info Publication Date:
March 19, 1892
Info found on page:
1-2
Info Title:
Blue Bell With Good Indications of Mineral
A two days' jaunt on horseback took me from Rhyolite hill, on the north, to Grouse mountain, on the south, and from Pisgah, on the west, to Wilson creek, on the east, within which boundaries some four thousand claims have been located.
graphic for visual presentation of text The greater part of those have nothing more than the assessment work done upon them, and in many instances, this has been so indifferently done, and with such an utter abandon and disregard of the statues, that they cannot be held for a moment to comply with the legal requirements.
graphic for visual presentation of text But, in traversing Ennis, Globe, Gold, Bull, Tenderfoot, Womack, Mineral and a score or more of hills in the district, sources of Cripple, Wilson, Requa, Squaw and other water courses, I came upon scores of properties that were being developed with more or less vigor and intelligence, some with tunnels or inclines, others with shafts or open cuts, and the owners of each full of hope and expectations.
graphic for visual presentation of text Blue Bell in Squaw gulch is one of those with good indications of mineral, and from statements made to me by different parties I have that the Blue Bell had $30 to $40 In Superficial Workings; with $60 in Average Assays; whereas Picked Specimens gave $250, in addition to 180 ounces silver.
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Type/Category of Info:
General Mining News
Info Source From:
Aspen Daily Leader. Volume: 1 [I], Issue No. 63
Info Publication Date:
April 13, 1892
Info found on page:
1
Info Title:
Blue Bell Working Hard
The Blue Bell is running five shifts, three in the mine and two in the shaft. A large quantity of ore is awaiting shipment.
graphic for visual presentation of text The tunnel is 200 feet down.
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General Mining News
Info Source From:
Daily Chronicle {Aspen]. Volume: 4 [IV], Issue No. 184
Info Publication Date:
June 7, 1892
Info found on page:
2
Info Title:
Blue Bell Shipment?
The Blue Bell have made shipments or can with absolute safety be relied upon as a shipping mine in the immediate future.
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General Mining News
Info Source From:
White Pine Cone. Volume: 9 [IX], Issue No. 29
Info Publication Date:
August 5, 1892
Info found on page:
2
Info Title:
Blue Bell Gets Gold From Water
A dispatch from Cripple Creek says an experiment just made in the Blue Bell is causing a considerable sensation in the camp. A couple of amalgam plates were laid in the stream which escapes from the mine at the foot of the hill with very considerable force and collected in twenty-four hours a button of twenty grains of gold, thus proving the presence of gold held in solution in the water.
graphic for visual presentation of text Experiment is to be repeated with more plates of large dimensions.
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Type/Category of Info:
General Mining News
Info Source From:
Daily Chronicle {Aspen]. Volume: 4 [IV], Issue No. 335
Info Publication Date:
December 2, 1892
Info found on page:
2
Info Title:
Blue Bell Vein Uncovered
The main vein of the Blue Bell at Cripple Creek, has been uncovered for a distance of a thousand feet, the tunnel is now in 450 feet and the shaft has reached a depth of 160 feet. It is intended to connect the shaft and the tunnel as development proceeds.
graphic for visual presentation of text The present development consists of upraising and driving forward in the breast of the tunnel. The vein is six feet wide, in a granite and porphyry formation.
graphic for visual presentation of text There are many hundreds of tons of ore on the dump and in the ore house waiting the completion of the new mill which is to be erected just below, near the mouth of the tunnel.
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Type/Category of Info:
General Mining News
Info Source From:
The Aspen Weekly Times. Volume: 13 [XIII], Issue No. 22
Info Publication Date:
June 3, 1893
Info found on page:
2
Info Title:
Blue Bell Rich Strike Not Real
The Denver News recently published an account of a rich strike at Cripple Creek in which ore taken from the Blue Bell was especially rich and strikingly peculiar, in that is assayed 156 ounces silver, thirteen ounces of gold and 40 per cent lead, the vein being twenty-two inches wide.
graphic for visual presentation of text The Cripple Creek Miner, in commenting upon the item says: "All of Cripple Creek has heard about this very rich twenty-two inch vein of silver ore in the Blue Bell.
graphic for visual presentation of text It does not exist in reality, and everyone who gives the subject any attention will not be duped into paying a big price for a mining stock on the strength of an assay which showed 156 ounces of silver, 40 per cent lead and $260 in gold - on paper."
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General Mining News
Info Source From:
The Morning Times. Volume: 3 [III], Issue No. 250
Info Publication Date:
February 6, 1896
Info found on page:
1
Info Title:
Blue Bell Bought by the Ptarmigan People
PTARMIGAN'S PURCHASE
graphic for visual presentation of textThe Blue Bell Bought by the Ptarmigan People
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graphic for visual presentation of text The Ptarmigan Gold Mining company, one of the recent incorporations, has secured two valuable claims in Cripple Creek and is in a position to make things hum, which they are rapidly preparing to do. The company has purchased the Nora H., close to the Elkton on Raven hill, and the Blue Bell on Gold Hill, near Anaconda.
graphic for visual presentation of text The latter was purchased from the Blue Bell company for $7,500, one third of which was paid in cash and the balance is to be paid in eighteen months. The Nora H. was purchased from Henry and others for $10,000.
graphic for visual presentation of text The Blue Bell has been developed by a 600 feet tunnel and several shafts. About half way in the tunnel there is a vein of ore that runs two ounces gold, seventy ounces silver and twenty-three per cent lead; in the breast there are twenty-one feet of ore that will run from $20 to $30 gold.
graphic for visual presentation of text The Nora H. is also making an encouraging showing and is being prepared for a patent.
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graphic for visual presentation of text The company has ordered a plant of machinery and will sink{?] on the Blue Bell to the tunnel, at the same time the work of taking out ore from the tunnel will continue. It is proposed to ship the first 1,000 tons to the cyanide mill at Florence, and arrangements looking to a contract with the Florence people are now pending.
graphic for visual presentation of text The company capitalized for 1,000,000 shares, par value $1 each, has 200,000 shares treasury stock and $30,000 in the treasure with no debts.
graphic for visual presentation of textW. H. Jacobs, who has mined successfully in Boulder, La Plata and Clear Creek counties, is president.
graphic for visual presentation of textA. A. McDonald, the owner of the Belden mine at Red Cliff, is vice-president.
graphic for visual presentation of textG. E. Hannan, one of Denver's most popular business men, is secretary.
graphic for visual presentation of textEd. Dickson, one of the leading attorneys of Denver, is a member of the board of directors.
graphic for visual presentation of textH. J. Sisty, a mining man of wide experience, is manager and also one of the directory.
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Type/Category of Info:
General Mining News
Info Source From:
The Morning Times. Volume: 3 [III], Issue No. 251
Info Publication Date:
February 7, 1896
Info found on page:
1
Info Title:
Blue Bell lease Call On the Ptarmigan Co. Bond and Lease
The Ptarmigan company's bond and lease on the Blue Bell calls for the payment of $75,000 and the lease has eighteen months to run. The property is being actively developed.
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Type/Category of Info:
General Mining News
Info Source From:
The Morning Times. Volume: 6 [VI], Issue No. 192
Info Publication Date:
December 22, 1898
Info found on page:
5
Info Title:
Blue Bell with Lots of Low Grade Ore for Mill to Handle
THE BLUE BELL.
graphic for visual presentation of text The Soper Concentrating company, that has a lease on the Hartsell mill, a plant that is less than 100 feet away from the mouth of the Blue Bell tunnel, now has all the ore it can possible handle, and if it will pay there is enough in sight to run the stamps day and night for an indefinite length of time.
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graphic for visual presentation of text In the Blue Bell there is a strong vein that carries ore of a low grade. Almost if not quite six years ago there was a pocket of high grade mineral in this same vein, but it was quickly taken out and up to the present time water has prevented sinking upon it.
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graphic for visual presentation of text People who saw the Blue Bell when it was in pay are still staunch friends of that property, and in and out of season predict great things for it.
graphic for visual presentation of text If the low grade ore that is now being broken on its ground carries sufficient values to pay under the stamps, it is more than likely that development will open up an ore chute on the vein.
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Type/Category of Info:
General Mining News
Info Source From:
The Engineering and Mining Journal. Volume: 75 [LXXV], Issue No. 10
Info Publication Date:
March 7, 1903
Info found on page:
384
Info Title:
Blue Bell Mining, Milling and Power Co. Annual Meeting Stuff
Blue Bell Mining, Milling and Power Company—At the deferred annual meeting in Cheyenne, Wyo., the following directors were elected:
graphic for visual presentation of textCharles Walden
graphic for visual presentation of textDuncan Chisholm
graphic for visual presentation of textH. C. Shimp
graphic for visual presentation of textJohn McConaghy
graphic for visual presentation of textC. F. Rickey.
graphic for visual presentation of text Mr. Rickey was afterward elect­ed president, Mr. Walden vice-president, Mr. Shimp secretary and Mr. Chisholm treasurer.
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Type/Category of Info:
General Mining News
Info Source From:
Mining and Scientific Press. Volume: 96 [XCVI], Issue No. 2485; 10
Info Publication Date:
March 7, 1908
Info found on page:
311
Info Title:
Blue Bell Lessee Recovered Mixed Vein
G. Kurt is working a lease on the Blue Bell claim on Squaw Gulch. He has recovered the vein carrying lead, silver, and gold. In a winze sunk 40 ft. below the adit a streak 14 in. wide has been found assaying 50 to 64 oz. silver, $8 to $10 in gold per ton, and as much as 25% lead.
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Type/Category of Info:
Article
Info Source From:
Mining Science. Volume: 57 [LVII], Issue No. 12
Info Publication Date:
March 19, 1908
Info found on page:
301
Info Title:
Blue Bell Tunnel's Water
The first water of consequence encountered in mining operations was in the Blue Bell tunnel, a short distance below the town of Anaconda, in the year 1892, at an elevation of 9,340 ft. and considerably below all of the shafts which had then been sunk.
graphic for visual presentation of text This tunnel was but a few hundred feet in length and was driven entirely for development purposes. It penetrated the granite rim to the contact and was driven northerly along the contact for a short distance.
graphic for visual presentation of text I visited this tunnel shortly after the water was encountered and noticed it frequently thereafter, but never made any attempt to measure the flow. My opinion is that it never exceeded 300 gals, per min. and, perhaps, was not over 200 gals.
graphic for visual presentation of text Water was so scarce in those days that it was something of a curiosity. Owing to this scarcity of water it was considered a valuable find, and probably determined the location of three large mills that were built in Squaw gulch immediately below it during the next 2 years.
graphic for visual presentation of text The flow from this tunnel continued for about 4 years at a nearly uniform rate, but probably had little effect in lowering the general water level.
graphic for visual presentation of text The flow ceased entirely shortly after the Moffat or Ophelia tunnel cut the contact a short distance to the north in 1896.
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Type/Category of Info:
Article
Info Source From:
Mining Science. Volume: 60 [LX], Issue No. 1542
Info Publication Date:
August 19, 1909
Info found on page:
157
Info Title:
Blue Bell as a Drainage Tunnel
The Blue Bell tunnel, near Anaconda, was the first to encounter water. This, which enters the granite at 9,335 ft., or 15 ft. below the average water level, had a flow of 200 gal. per minute and the flow persisted for several years.
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Article
Info Source From:
The Engineering and Mining Journal. Volume: 88 [LXXXVIII], Issue No. 22
Info Publication Date:
November 27, 1909
Info found on page:
1062
Info Title:
Blue Bell Tunnel as a Drainage Tunnel
The Blue Bell tunnel was the first tunnel in the district. Its adit was in granite at an elevation of 9335 ft. above sea level and about 15 ft. below the original water level of the region. The tunnel had a maximum flow of 200 gal. per min., and the flow continued for several years.
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Abstracted from an article about the Roosevelt Deep Drainage Tunnel by Rufus M. Bagg, Jr.
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