The lessees on the Pike's Peak property are shipping and are now making preparations for the installation of electric machinery.

Merrifield & Co. have begun operations on the old Pike's Peak claim adjoining the Lucky Gus No. 2 claim on Bull hill; they will drive a cross-cut on the 300-ft. level east of the shaft.

Union and Colorado Mining Stocks.
4718. (Schenectady, N. Y.) Please inform me regarding what you think of the Union gold mines as an investment? What gold mine stock do you consider the best for an investment? What is a good low priced stock for a speculation?

Ans.: The Union Gold Mining Company owns 35 acres of patented ground on Bull Hill, which has produced $950,000 and paid over $84,000 in dividends. The entire property is being worked under lease at royalties ranging from 30 to 50 per cent. The company is capitalized at 1,250,000 $1 shares. The stock is very favorably regarded in Colorado, and was quoted at about 44c. on January 19.
It would be invidious to single out one particular gold stock as the best for an investment, but, among others, may be mentioned Elkton, Isabella, Portland, Vindicator, Gold Coin, etc. The same remark applies as to a good low-priced stock for a speculation, as there are a number of about equal merit, on the best selection from which probably no two equally well informed persons would exactly agree.

James Collins and Canon City friends have secured the old Pike's Peak workings under lease and work was started yesterday. Some very good ore has been mined on their portion of Union company's territory.

SOME OF THE WEEK'S SHIPMENTS.
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WEEKLY SHIPMENTS
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Some of the Ore Sent Out From Cripple's Mines.
The following shipments were made last week from the Union territory via the Pike's Peak Mine;
5 tons averaging $12.41
one ton $28.70
3½ tons averaging $67.50 per ton.

FELL DOWN THE STOPE
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Michael McIntyre Loses His Life.
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DROPPED A HUNDRED FEET
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HIS PARTNER HAD LEFT HIM FOR A TIME
IT IS SUPPOSED A ROCK BECAME LOOSENED AND FELL ON HIM
INSTANTLY KILLED.
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Mike McIntyre, a miner employed on the Union company's Pike's Peak shaft, was found dead yesterday morning at the bottom of the stope, 100 feet below where he was working.
It is not known just how he met his death, but it is thought that a rock fell on him and knocked him off the platform.

McIntyre was working with a partner in a stope above the first level. His partner had occasion to leave him for a time, and on his return found him lying dead at the bottom.
Appearances seem to be indicate that he was picking down the loose rock after the shots, and a big rock was loosened and fell on him.
The platform on which he was standing was broken, as was also the platform below on which he was throwing the ore as he took it down.
He had fallen a sheer 100 feet, in the bottom of the second level, and life was crushed out of him. He was stone dead when they picked him up.

McIntyre was a native of Nova Scotia, and was of Scotch descent. He roomed at Altman, just opposite the postoffice. He had no family. Being a member of the Altman Miners' union, that organization will have charge of the funeral ceremonies.

Principal Producing Cripple Creek Mines - 1898:

Name: Pike's Peak Mine (Bull Hill)
Owner: Union Gold Mining Co.
Capital:
President:
Vice-President:
Secretary:
Treasurer:
Superintendent: D. F. Goodall
Manager:
Lessees: Moon & Wilson, Cripple Creek
Description: 330-foot shaft; two 20-horse power Fairbanks-Morse boilers; 6x8 flat friction Fairbanks-Morse hoist; 6x8 single engine (Davis).
Employes: forty-seven employes
Contact:
Notes:

Principal Producing Cripple Creek Mines - 1898:

Name:
Owner: Union Gold Mining Co.
Capital:
President: E. S. Johnson
Vice-President:
Secretary: C. H. Morse
Treasurer: C. H. Morse
Superintendent: C. H. Huggins, Altman
Manager:
Lessees:
Description:
Employes:
Contact:
Notes: own Pike's Peak, Orpha May No. 2, etc.

Pay streaks on footwall in the Pikes Peak yield mineral from one shoot; vein is small, 12 inches to depth of 366 feet. A mud seam was encountered on the west side, two inches wide, composed of surface mud rich in angular and rounded forms of gold. Thirty pounds of gold were panned out in a few weeks. The mud followed crevices in the rock and was scraped out with knives.

The Porcupine is running a crosscut from the vein in their shaft to open up the Grouse vein which parallels the Porcupine vein. They expect to get it in about twenty feet.

The Pike's Peak mine is one of the prominent mines who still ships regularly, even when the labor troubles in the camp continues and greatly interfering with the output of the Cripple Creek district.

The latest shipment from the Pike's Peak lode was a very good one, 18 tons running 125 ounces gold per ton and 22 tons 90 ounces.