Colorado Springs, Colo., March 18th, 1905.—Returns of $970 to the ton were the values received from 12 tons from the Black Bells by the Cripple Creek Gold Temple Mining & Leasing Company.
This was the initial shipment.

KEEPS ON IMPROVING.
The Black Belle on Beacon hill are showing up in fine style at present. Two leases on the property are in ore and they are reported to have plenty of pay in sight and of a sufficient grade to return a handsome profit to the miners.

The Black Bell property have so far failed to be drained by the Cripple Creek drainage tunnel, where it was expected that the tunnel would tap the water course.

DENVER, COLORADO—M. B. Burke and associates have secured a long-time lease on 17 acres of ground on Beacon hill belonging to the Black Belle Gold Mining Co. The Union Leasing Co. has contracted to furnish the compressed air.
A trial shipment has already been made from a stope at the third level of the Black Belle shaft.

A five years' lease has been secured by M. B. Burke for the Henry Adney Gold Mining Co. of the properties of the Black Belle Gold Mining Co. on Beacon hill. The Black Belle claim is at present under a lease expiring on May 1. Under the lease conditions the shaft must be sunk an additional 200 ft. from the present depth of 400 ft.
It is Burke's intention to install an electrically driven compressor and to develop the property with machine drills.

The property of the Black Belle Co. has been recently leased to M. C. Burke, president and general manager of the Henry Adney Co., for a term of five years.
Under the conditions of the lease the shaft will be sunk an additional 200 ft., giving a total depth of 600 ft. Work will be started on the property by the new lessee directly after May 1, on which date the lease, which is at present in force, expires.

COUNTY RECORDS
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From matters of record at the office of the county recorder:
Thomas G. Willis to James B. Carnes, contract and option—Dated May, 29, '95; option for 60 days to buy first party's interest in the War Eagle, Black Bell, Black Bell No. 2, Fore Paw and Noble county lode mining claims, all in the cripple Creek mining district; also all his interest in a school section, for $800000.
On back in consideration of $50 option extended for 10 days and at said time, upon payment of $75 more, have same extended 10 days and upon payment then of $75 more, have same extended to — 1, '95.

BLACK BELLE.—Lessee Price, operating the south 600 feet of the Black Belle property on Beacon hill, has discovered a good looking vein of ore in a cross-cut run to the west from a depth of 115 feet in the shaft.
Fairly good assays are obtained from the find.

BOLD CASE OF THIEVERY
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Three Men Bound Over On a Very Serious Charge.
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BLACK BELL ROBBED
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Men at the Beacon Hill Property Forced to Go in Their House.
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CAR WAS CHARTERED
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It Was the Intention to Ship the Ore Out In It.
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??? Martin and Charles Leavey were yesterday arrested, arraigned, bound over to the district court, and taken to the county jail at Colorado Springs, charged with a robbery committed no longer ago than Saturday night.
The robbery was one of the most brazen that has ever been perpetrated in this land of hold-ups and ore thieves.

The thieves first went to the Florence & Cripple Creek agent at Anaconda and chartered a car, No. 4219, and had it left on the siding at Beacon hill. Then, on Saturday night, they went to Victor and got a four-horse team and an ore wagon.
They drove to Beacon hill, to the lease of Pentland, Price, Miller and McLeod, on the Black Bell. They drove boldly up to the ore house and opened it, and began shoveling in the ore.
Two men, named Williams and Bell, occupy a cabin on the Black Bell, and heard the noise made by shoveling the ore. They started out to see what it meant, but were confronted by a man with a Winchester, who advised them to get back inside and stay there.
They got.

He stood guard while his companions loaded the ore and drove off, and kept Williams and Bell in the cabin until nearly daylight.

Sunday morning the lessees found themselves short nearly four tons of ore valued at $100 a ton. They took the wagon trail and easily traced it to the siding at Beacon hill, where they found and recognized their ore, which was piled in with about 11 tons more, which the industrious thieves had stolen from somewhere else to fill out their car.
They at once notified the Florence & Cripple Creek people not to move the car, and to notify the officers if anyone applied to have it billed out.

The car stood on the track all day Sunday, but about 10 o'clock Sunday night three fellows appeared at the station and wanted the car billed. The agent refused, on the ground it was Sunday, and they skipped out over the hills, eluding the officers.

Night Marshall Morgan of Anaconda, went vigorously in chase of the thieves, and finally came to the conclusion that he had located them in a cabin near the head of Eclipse gulch, below the Moose mine.
He and his companions found the door locked with a chain, but they drew the staple and rushed into the room.

The fellows inside had been asleep until the moment that rush was made. They found Martin and Leavey in bed, and Horn under the bed, where he had hidden when he heard the officers entering.
It was well for Morgan and his men that they had been asleep, for they had four guns in the room.

They were taken to the Anaconda jail, and yesterday were arraigned before Squire Smith. They waived examination and were placed under bonds of $500 each, and being unable to give bond, were taken to Colorado Springs last night.

Yesterday the officers went after the man who owns the team, and the driver who was on the wagon when the ore was hauled away.

Last evening Marshal Lee Martin of Anaconda went over Victor and arrested the owner and the driver, who are thought to have been implicated in the matter.

Horn, who is thought to have been the ringleader in the affair, is well known to the police of the district. The officers say he is the same who who was last fall arrested and jailed on a loathsome charge.
The others, Martin and Leavey, are lads only about 17 or 18 years of age. They used to hang about Anaconda, but have not been seen there for nearly a year until this escapade brought them to notice.
The officers state that one or more of the men has squealed, and that it will be an easy matter to send the whole outfit up for it.