The C. O. D. mine, originally owned by the Rebecca G. M. Co., has been leased for 2,5 years to H. P. Reiton, Cripple Creek operator, and work has been resumed through the main 3-compartment shaft.

The plant of the C. O. D. mine, in Poverty gulch, was started Thursday by the Frank Thomas Leasing company. The mine, owned by the Rebecca Gold Mining Co., is reputed one of the oldest of the district, and has produced close to $1,000,000.
The main shaft has been sunk 900 ft., and the total development to date comprises about 7,500 ft. of laterals, extending for the most part to the north of the shaft.
The ore shipped in the earlier days was of high average value, and ore was encountered in one of the lower levels running as high as 850 oz. silver and 5 oz. gold per ton.
The lessees will use machine drills and prospect the different levels and upraises in an exhaustive manner.

C.O.D.—This mine, in Poverty gulch, has reentered the ranks of producers, lessees having recently made two shipments of ore of fair grade.

J. E. Jones and associates, leasing the old C. O. D. mine in Poverty gulch, recently made a shipment of ore mined near the collar of the incline shaft that assayed about $25 per ton.
Considerable prospecting work is being done in the mine and shipments will be made regularly in the future.

Recent developments by lessees on the C. O. D. mine, in Poverty gulch, have brought this old producer back to the shipping ranks. The ore body which was exposed near the collar of the inclined shaft is about 3 ft. wide and runs about $25 to the ton.

Gus Arnold, secretary of the Mine Owners' Association, has secured a sub-lease on the C. O. D. property, at the head of Poverty gulch, and is now engaged in prospecting.

Cripple Creek—Some heavy shipments of low-grade dump ore have been made recently from the dumps of the Anchoria-Leland, El Paso, Pueblo, C. O. D. and Gregory mines. The values range from $7 to $15 to the ton.

The missing parts for the compressor on the C. O. D. property have arrived and the machinery will be in operation by April 1.

Henry Dahl is putting in shape the shaft house and machinery of the C. O. D. property which he expects to start up as soon as repairs are completed.

Henry Dahl and associates have taken a lease on the old C. O. D. property, adjoining the El Paso-Gold King mine in Poverty gulch. It is developed to a depth of 900 ft. and was an important producer in the camp's earlier days.

Cripple Creek.—Work on the shaft of the C. O. D. mine, under lease to L. A. Hayden, has been completed to the 1,000 foot level. Arrangements have been made with the Gold King people to have them drift south on their tenth level to the C. O. D. line, and if the ore continues thus far then Mr. Hayden will crosscut from the bottom level of the C. O. D.

Denver, Colo.—Tillery and associates, working the C. O. D., at the head of Poverty gulch, have uncovered 18 inches of excellent ore in a winze sunk from the ninth level. It is valued at $100 per ton.

The C. O. D., at the head of Poverty Gulch, one of the shippers of early days, has been operated by an aggressive leasing company, which has made a resolute fight against the deadly flow of carbon dioxide and nitrogen gas, which is a most serious handicap to deep mining in that vicinity.
A high-grade vein has been opened and a good tonnage of ore will be marketed when connections are made with the adjoining Gold King to relieve the difficulty of "bad air."

Colorado Springs, Col., Feb. 20.—Of such quality is the shoot undergoing development at the hands of Tillery and associates in the C. O. D. mine, on Gold Hill, that a return of $5000 or more is expected of the last carload, moved within a few days.

C. O. D.—Shipments of ore from this property will be very materially increased within the next sixty days. The lessees have determined to drive a crosscut to provide additional ventilation, which will dissipate the foul air which has been frequently encountered in the property.
There has been sufficient ore at hand to warrant a considerable increase, but working has been difficult because of the bad air. On the tenth level there is an ore body ranging in width from twelve to twenty inches of superior quality.
When it becomes possible to work continuously in the drift it is expected that the output will be raised to three or four carloads per week.

A good illustration of the permanency of the ore shoot has been in the Gold King and C. O. D. mines, up Poverty Gulch. In the former property a barren, lean zone was encountered, but the management, with pluck and will, went ahead, knowing that the riches had to come from below. They sunk through that portion, which at times was loose, porous and hungry, and after a time the formation became tight and hard, and with it came values, until now the ore they are breaking in the bottom beats anything found above.
That same condition was encountered in the C. O. D. mine, adjoining. Now in the bottom level of that mine is showing a rich ore streak averaging between two and three inches wide that has so thoroughly enriched the ground that the rock is being broken over four feet wide, making screenings which average around two ounces in gold to the ton.

Lessee Tillery and associates operating under lease A block of the C. O. D. property in Poverty Gulch, have installed machine drills and are now pushing work in the tenth level some 700 feet northwest of the shaft, where they have a good-looking vein which is returning values better than pay.

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.

The C. O. D. mine operations are using the new "Chicago-Schmucker" Rock Drill from the Chicago Pneumatic Tool company. This machine is a combination of a pneumatic hammer and pneumatic drill.

C. O. D. IS IN IN A RICH ORE STREAK
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Old Chute That Excited the Camp in the Early Days Has Been Encountered.
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VEIN IS FROM THREE TO FOUR FEET WIDE
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New Find Runs From $75 to $100 to the Ton, and There is An Immense Quantity of It in Sight.
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The C. O. D. is in good ore again. After a space of over three years, the old producer will again be on the list of shippers and the machinery will run as of old.
The new find was encountered 280 feet north of the main shaft.

That part of the property is under lease to the Pittsburg Gold Mining and Leasing company, who has been working there since October 1, 1898. Their lease is for a period of three years, so they have yet eighteen months to run.
Since taking hold of the property they have done some 800 feet of work and this is the first ore they have encountered.
The vein just encountered varies from three to four feet in width, and from ten to twelve inches of the ore averages between $75 and $100 to the ton in gold.
From present indications the property will be in the position to make regular shipments within a very short time.
The air compressor is to be started again very soon and every effort in the world will be used to take out as much ore as possible.
After the expiration of the present leases, the company will work the property. That information has been given out definitely.
Not so very long ago the Gold King property adjoining, made overtures to the Rebecca company to lease the C. O. D.
The Monitor, adjoining the C. O. D., and owned by W. S. Stratton, is under lease and is being worked through the C. O. D. shaft. Sometime ago a good body of ore was encountered in the property but how it runs at present cannot be learned.
So that they could more profitably work the property through their shaft, but the Rebecca company would not consider any proposition whatever, so the present lessees know that they must take out all the ore possible from the workings during the life of their lease.
The property is located almost with in the corporate limits of the city and lies between the Gold King and Abe Lincoln.
The stock of the company is held principally in Paris.
It was sold for an enormous sum to the Frenchmen and right after the sale, was closed down.
At one time the mine was troubled with water to such an extent that the greatest cost of operation was in pumping and in the bottom of the shaft a large station was cut and one of the largest and costliest pumping plants in the state was installed.
Immediately after the installation of the pumping plant, the water disappeared and since then there has hardly been enough water to fill the boilers to make steam for hoisting and so far as the compressors are concerned, it will cost all of $300 a month for water to run it.
With the C. O. D. starting up and a few of the properties that W. S. Stratton has recently purchased in Poverty gulch, that section of the camp will be as of yore and have the life that all wish to see there.

Principal Producing Cripple Creek Mines - 1898:

Name: C. O. D. Mine (Poverty Gulch)
Owner: Rebecca Gold Mining Co. (Ltd.)
Capital:
President:
Vice-President:
Secretary:
Treasurer:
Superintendent:
Manager:
Lessees:
Description: two shafts, 250 feet and 325 feet; steam; two 120-borse power, 1 80-horse power and one 45-horse power horizontal boilers; 75-horse power double flat friction hoist, and 10x14 cylinder hoist; five pumps.
Employes: twelve employe's
Contact:
Notes:

In the C. O. D. the ore-shoot is 125 feet long, pitching south with slickensided walls.

The C.O.D. mine is one of the prominent mines who still ships regularly, even when the labor troubles in the camp continues and greatly interfering with the output of the Cripple Creek district.

A good strike is reported in the C. O. D. property in Poverty gulch, Cripple Creek, Colo. Some ten days ago a shaft through the wash for twenty-five feet came upon a seam of good mineral.
When first found it proved to be two and a half feet wide. In sinking a strong vein has been opened up, with walls well and distinctly outlined.
The distance is three and a half feet between walls and it is all good ore. Assays from $60 to $750 have been had. In this ten feet of development a car load has been taken out ready for shipment that goes $100 a ton.
A ten-inch seam in the vein is worth thirty-five cents a pound, as shown by a number of careful tests. The gold is fine and thoroughly diffused throughout this vein , filling from the strike of them, as indicated by the present exploitation.
It extends for 750 feet within the lines of the C. O. D.—Denver News.

[Telegraph]—C. O. D. is a property located in Poverty gulch that only the other day was turned down as barren and worthless. Today it records the biggest find of the season. Demonstrating the fact that below Globe hill and northeast of town, there is at least one well defined vein of handsome pay.
Some ten days ago a shaft through the wash for twenty-five feet came upon a seam of good mineral. When first found, it proved to be two and a half feet wide. In sinking ten feet on the ore a strong vein has been opened up, with walls well and distinctly outlined. The distance is three and a half feet between the walls and it is all good ore.
Assays from $60 to $750 have been had. In this ten feet of development a car load has been taken out, ready for shipment, that goes $100 a ton. There is no other claim that can show a record anywhere to compare with this.
A ten inch seam in the vein is 35 cents a pound, as shown by a number of careful tests. The gold is fine and thoroughly diffused throughout this vein filling, which is rather out of the common, as in most instances the gold lies between small seams and in bunches.
Such is the development that the C.O. D. records at this time.

When the Gold King stopped work Poverty gulch was given out as a back number and that a better name could not have been selected for that immediate locality. The knowing ones quite generally agreed that it was so. Now, exactly in the bottom of the gulch, where nothing but disappointment and poverty—1000 fine—were to be found, the best discovery of the season, as it promises today, is brought to light.

The C.O.D. is a patented claim, belonging to the C.O.D. company, which is incorporated with 500,000 shares. The stock has been selling of late from one and a half to two and this find ought to make it jump upward in a handsome way. Here is another illustration of the manner and suddenness apparently worthless stocks become of value.
Manager Charles L. Tutt was the locator of the claim and under his direction last season a shaft was put down 160 feet and from the bottom eighty feet of drifts were run without finding mineral in pay quantity.
The present find is a considerable distance down the gulch from the original workings. From the strike of the vein, as indicated by the present exploitations, it extends for 750 feet within the lines of the C.O.D.
P. E. C. Burke, a well known mining man of Aspen, is in charge of affairs at the mine and is entitled to a large share of the credit of the discovery of which there will be many chapters more to relate.