Favorite.—Messrs. J. K. and J. W. Miller have purchased from Messrs. J. H. Dolan and John Horgan a half interest in the Favorite lode at Cripple Creek.
The consideration was $12,500.

Principal Producing Cripple Creek Mines - 1898:

Name: Favorite Mine (Bull Hill)
Owner: Favorite Gold Mining Co.
Capital: $1,200,000
President: H. A. Devereau
Vice-President:
Secretary: J. K. Miller, Colorado Springs
Treasurer:
Superintendent: C. E. Frice
Manager: J. K. Miller, Colorado Springs
Lessees: Trenholm Mining and Leasing Co.
Description: 325-foot shaft; 25-horse power upright Mine and Smelter boiler; 6x8 cylinder Mine and Smelter hoist.
lease: 150-foot shaft; 20-horse power upright boiler; 6x8 Lidgerwood hoist.
Employes: eight employes
Contact: postoffice, Altman.
Notes:

Work will be in in a day or two on the contracts let by the Favorite company to sink a main working shaft on its Bull hill property. The shaft will be sunk 100 feet with a privilege of continuing it to a depth of 250 feet.
The leases on Favorited ground all expired on February 13.

The 1897 production was approximately for the Favorite 1,213 tons.

COUNTY RECORDS
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From matters of record at the office of the county recorder:
The Favorite Gold Mining Company to A. Hemenway, et al, mining deed—Dated Aug. 7, '95; consideration $1, part of the Favorite lode, Cripple Creek mining district.

It is rumored that $180,000 has been offered for the Favorite, belonging to the Favorite Gold Mining company and the offer was refused.

Mr. James F. Beattie, M. E., formerly manager of the McFerran coal mines, at McFerran, Colo., has been transferred to the position of superintendent and mining engineer of the Favorite Gold Mining Company, at Altman, Colo.
The Favorite property is located on Bull Hill, near the city of Cripple Creek, and right in the famous gold belt of that region. The president of the McFerran Coal Company, of which Mr. Beattie was formerly manager, is also president of the Favorite Gold Mining Company. Mr. Beattie informs us that the Favorite mine produced about 175 tons of ore for the month of October, the net value of which was about $7,000. Three grades of ore are shipped, the values per ton running from $20 to $90.
Mr. Beattie was made superintendent of the property early in September, and four weeks after his appointment the stock of the company increased fully 100 per cent. in value. Previous to going to Colorado, Mr. Beattie's mining experience, some thirty-four years, had been exclusively in coal mines, and he attributes his success in metal mining as largely due to the knowledge gained through the Metal Mining Course of The Correspondence School of Mines.