Principal Producing Cripple Creek Mines - 1898:

Name: Kitty M. Mine (Gold Hill)
Owner: Anaconda Gold Mining Co.
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Lessees: Anderson & Johnson
Description: shafts, 150 and ninety feet; two 20-horse power boilers; two 6x8 cylinder hoists.
Employes: forty employes
Contact: postoffice, Cripple Creek
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During the years 1890 and 1891 Bob Womack had between thirty and forty locations in the camp. Generous to a fault, whenever one of his friends was looking for a location, Bob would present them with a claim, and thus it came to pass that some of the best properties in the district passed through his hands without his having received the slightest benefit therefrom.
Among the properties upon the claims which the generous prospector gave away were such as the Kittie M., the Lone Star, the Abe Lincoln, the C. O. D., the Rebecca, and dozens of others on Bull hill and Battle mountain.

Among the men who have leased in the district and made money is Carl Johnson. Unlike many, he took his proceeds and purchased property and developed, believing in the future of the camp.

Mr. Johnson, after several had failed in finding ore in the famous old Half Moon, encountered ore and mined close to a half a million dollars' worth of it.

His strike, which occurred in the fall of 1897, caused intense excitement in the city and stimulated development on Gold hill.

After his lease expired on the Half Moon Mr. Johnson purchased the Nada and Ouray claims, just below the Half Moon. When he had opened a good body of ore on the claims, the late W. S. Stratton commenced buying Gold hill acreage, and made Mr. Johnson such a good offer that he sold.

Mr. Johnson is now operating, under lease, the Kittie M. claim of the Anaconda, adjoining the Half Moon, and has recently opened the extension of the great ore body that he operated in the latter property.

Mr. Johnson is strong in his belief that the future of the Cripple Creek district is beyond the dreams of the most sanguine. He is a solid and substantial citizen of Cripple Creek, and is always ready to further the best interests of the camp.

Colorado Springs, Col., Feb. 20.—From development work that has been pushed on Block 5 of the KittyKittie M. property belonging to the Anaconda Company, a wonderful body of ore has been encountered and the lessees, Anderson and associates, are sanguine over their future prospects.

The lessees have been sinking a winze for some time below the Anaconda level and a few days ago broke into a rich streak of ore, and while it only measures from four to eight inches in width it is giving returns anywhere from five to thirty ounces in gold to the ton.