Victor, Col.—The Woods Investment Company is contemplating the erection of an electric plant near the Gold Coin mine. The plant is to furnish power for the propelling of ore cars through the Columbine-Victor tunnel.
It is the intention of the company to run the ore from the Gold Coin mine through the tunnel for treatment at the Economic Gold Extraction mill, now in course of construction at Eclipse gulch.
The tunnel will be completed within four months.

Denver, Col., Feb. 24, 1896.
THE FIRST ELECTRIC DRILLING PLANT in the Cripple Creek district is to be installed in the Columbine Victor mine, controlled by the Woods Investment Company, of Colorado Springs. The contract has been awarded to the Marvin Electric Drill Company, of Canastota, N. Y.
A power station 40 x 60 feet is to be built at the West End of the Columbine Victor tunnel.

THE COLUMBINE TUNNEL.
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One of the Important Cripple Creek Enterprise.
One of the most important tunnel enterprises in the Cripple Creek district, says the Mining Reporter, is the Columbine-Victor bore that is being pushed from the west side of Squaw mountain.
The tunnel is now in about 1,800 feet, but when completed it will be nearly 5,000 feet in length and will connect with the Gold Coin mine, on the east side of Squaw mountain, within the town limits.
The depth at which the tunnel will tap the mine will be about 120 feet.

The work of driving the tunnel has been prosecuted steadily by the Woods Investment Company, which is arranging to erect a mill on the west side of Squaw for the purpose of treating the low grade ores of the Gold Coin mine.
The ore will be transported through the long tunnel to the new mill, where it will be treated and at a profit.

There is little doubt that the Columbine-Victor tunnel has already cut a large body of pay ore at some point in the mountain. The erection of immense ore bins has been started.
It does not seem reasonable to expect that they would be built at the west end of the tunnel in order to furnish storage room for Gold Coin ores, when more than 3,000 feet of the tunnel are still to be driven before it will reach the Gold Coin mine.
Ground has also been cleared for the company's mill at the point named. The fact appears to be that another valuable shipper has been added to the list of gold mines in the south end of the district, and that Squaw mountain will again soon be numbered among the valuable mineral sections of the district.

A complete plant of machinery, including air-operated hoists, has been installed on the May B. property of the United Gold M. Co. on Squaw Mtn.
This property is being operated through the Columbine tunnel.

The Columbine-Victor Tunnel on Squaw Mountain got a plant from Marvin Electric Drill Company, of Canastota, N. Y. placed in operation by H. J. Tucker sometime before he got reported surprisingly dead at Denver in the beginning of September 1896.

H. P. Dahl, of Cripple Creek, owning and operating the Coriolanus mine on Battle Mtn., has started a cross-cut from the north-eastern lateral of the United Mines tunnel to a point under the shaft, from which he will raise 100 ft. to connect.
Ventilation will then be perfected and it will be possible to operate 650 ft. from surface.

A crosscut from the northeast lateral of the United Mines tunnel has been started through the Coriolanus mine at Battle mountain. This crosscut will be driven to a point under the old shaft from which an upraise will be made of about 100 ft. to connect.
With this connection ventilation will be improved so as to allow the operation of the 650-ft. level. Good ore bodies have been shown up at this point.

On the Squaw gulch end of the Columbine-Victor tunnel the first electric plant for the operation of drills will be put in at once on a strong guarantee from the manufacturers that the experiment will prove satisfactory to the company.
Machinery has been ordered to drive an eight-drill dynamo, but for the present only two drills will be used for the work of driving the tunnel, the extra power to be held in reserve until the veins cut by the bore are to be worked.

Gold Coin—The management of the property also use the mine to show tourists through. The tourists are lowered through the Gold Coin shaft and taken through the Columbine tunnel by trolley, a distance of nearly a mile, to the Economic mill.
A charge of $1 for each person is made.

The Columbine-Victor is another tunnel that proposes to unravel the mysteries of the mountain.

THE MAY BE.
The Woods people are taking out some very nice ore from their May Be claim on Squaw Mountain. It is brought to surface through the Columbine tunnel.

Upon the occasion of the session of Trans-Mississippi Commercial congress, which meets in Cripple Creek July 16-19 inclusive, the mine owners will open the underground workings to the delegates.
In the Gold Coin mine and in the Squaw mountain tunnel the unique experience of viewing a mine by electricity will be had and the delegates will be taken down the Gold Coin shaft, and after inspecting the vast deposits of gold will emerge at the mouth of a tunnel a long distance from the point of entering, where special trains will await them.

The tunnel of the Woods Investment company on Squaw mountain, with the electric trolley, has offered the delegates during the session of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial congress, during certain hours of the day the whole congress week, the trip into the interior of the mines made by electricity with the electric lights in full blaze revealing the veins and ore bodies.
The trip for the delegates can be made with perfect safety, the shafts on all the big producers being furnished with safety appliances. There will be no more danger attached to this trip than there would be in taking the elevator of a large hotel.