THE RICHEST SILVER MINE IN THE WORLD.

Dunstan Times, Issue 946, 4 June 1880, Page 3

THE RICHEST SILVER MINE IN THE WORLD.

— The Robert E. Lee mine, Lcadville, Colorado, America, has already become famous not only in the camp at Lcadville, but also throughout the country. Its production has been the largest in proportion to the amount of ore mined of any mine in the vicinity if not in tho world. Even with these facts in the mind, tho public were not prepared to hear of the wonderful production of the mine for tho past few days. The owners bad determined that they would make an effort on a particular day to see how much ore could be mined and raised, so on Tuesday morning, the 13th, the ore platforms were cleared of all ore, and at 1 p.m. the start was made for tho big run. At half-past G a cave in the drift occurred, that occasioned a delay of seven hours, but at noon the next day all hoisting was stopped and the ore kept separate by itself. A Herald reporter was at the mino for two hours on Wednesday, and saw the last bucket of ore hoisted. Tho whole lot of ore mined during the seventeen hours’ run amounted to 95 tons, and the value thereof amounts to 118,500 dollars. Five of tli 3 lots of ores already thoroughly tested assayed as follows :

Lot I ... 2 tons ... 11,830 ounces to the ton do 2 .. 4do ... 4,003 do do 3 ... 8 do ... 1,224 do do 4... sido ... 1,083 do do 5 .. S do ... SGB do

The whole amount averaging above a thousand ounces of silver to the ton, or as said above, on careful tests made from the ore still not sampled, of a total value of 118,500 dollars.

This is by far the greatest mining ever done in Lealville, or we believe in the world, and still experts wbo have examined the mine say that with more development and opening of more ground the amount can be trebled in a single day. Tire surface of the rich ore body has been but scratched. Millions are in sight in the mine, besides the untold millions that may be around an 1 beneath the present developments.