(From Colorado Telegraph.)
CENTRAL.
The lessees operating the Happy Year property of the Central Consolidated company, are employing a comparatively large force and are prosecuting extensive work.
As depth upon the ore is attained the ore improves steadily. The manner in which the values are going down promises well for the future. Shipments are being regularly marketed with a steady increase in their values. Sinking is progressing in the winze from the tunnel level. Besides this work, an upraise is being driven to the surface and a shaft has been started from the surface.
When completed the lessees will have a working shaft to a depth of from 150 to 200 feet. A plant will be installed and the shaft will be put down to a great depth, besides doing the lateral work to prove up and produce the ore.
The progress in the connection with the surface is necessarily slow on account of the bad air resulting from upraising and sinking at one time.

(From the Cripple Creek Press.)
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CENTRAL.
The lessees operating the Happy Year property of the Central Consolidated company, are employing a comparatively large force and are prosecuting extensive work. As depth upon the ore is attained the ore improves steadily. The manner in which the values are going down promise well for the future. Shipments are being regularly marketed with a steady increase in their value.
Sinking is progressing in the winze from the tunnel level. Beside the work an upraise is being driven to the surface and a shaft has been started from the surface. When completed the lessees will have a working shaft to a depth of from 150 to 300 feet.
A plant will be installed and the shaft will be put down to a great depth beside doing the lateral work to prove up and produce the ore. The progress in the connection with the surface is necessarily slow on account of the bad air resulting from upraising and sinking at one time.

After several years of operation, the Happy Year claim of the Central Consolidated Company has been productive. In the 500 foot level of this property, lessees have uncovered a big vein of ore that will give returns of $30 per ton, and steady shipments are being made.
This claim has for neighbors properties of large and regular production.

By agreement entered into between the Peoples M. M. Co. and William Fulton, trustee in bankruptcy of the Central Consolidated Mines corporation, the first named corporation, in consideration of $1000, agrees to release all claims to the two acres in conflict between the Gold Leaf lode and the Happy Year and Josephine lode mining claims owned by the Central Consolidated company.

The properties are on the northwesternwestern slope of RavenBull hill.

A prospecting permit, with lease option, has been secured by local mining men on the Happy Year group, where large bodies of low-grade ore are exposed in the tunnel and shaft workings, and should a lease be taken it is probable that a mill will be constructed on the western slope of Bull hill below the Happy Year tunnel.

R. G. Harrison recently shipped the first lot of ore from the Happy Year mine that has been sent out since the mine was shut down several years ago. It is estimated the ore will average $15 per ton.

Plans and specifications are being prepared for a cyanide mill to be constructed on the property of the Happy Year M. Co. on Raven and Bull hills for the local treatment of low-grade ore.

The raise at the Happy Year mine cut a vein that assays from $60 to $100 per ton. The company is shipping five cars of milling ore per week and will now commence shipping smelting ore. A. B. Whitmore is superintendent.

After being closed down four months, the Happy Year on Bull hill, D. O. Darnell, the lessee, has resumed operations.

The Moffat tunnel, connecting with the Blue Flag workings of the War Eagle Consolidated Mines Co., is to be extended north-east through the Sheriff, thence to the Amanda and War Eagle. A cross-cut will also be carried from the Blue Flag through the Bogart and Happy Year holdings of the War Eagle company.