The Cripple Creek Ore Sampling Company's sampling mill is nearly completed. Its location is on the Midland Short Line tracks, south of Bull Cliff, and is called the largest sampler in the district.
In the main, its work will be to sample and crush the ore that goes to the chlorination mills at Colorado City. It belongs to the same parties that control the Colorado-Philadelphia reduction works.

All the samplers at Cripple Creek are working full forces and are running to their utmost capacity. Several of the samplers have from 500 to 1,000 tons of ore on their side tracks waiting to be treated.

All of the samplers of the Cripple Creek district are now running practically full force and are having all the ore they can successfully handle.

The C. C. or Black Sampler.

The ore is taken from the cars in a wheelbarrow and dumped directly into a crusher of the Blake type, from which it is elevated to a revolving screen with one-inch openings. The oversize from this screen is sent to rolls and the product of the rolls again returned to the screen, so that the ore, as it goes to the samplers, is all reduced to one-inch size, or less.

The Vezin automatic sampler is employed.

At the Black sampler each machine takes out one-fifth of the ore, that which passes to the second sampler first going through a revolving cylinder with interior projecting arms, which serves to mix the sample. No intervening reduction in size takes place. From the second sampler the part taken out, which is now one twenty-fifth of the original, is sent to the sampling floor.

Here it is piled by shovels into a cone, each shovelful being placed on top of the cone and allowed to run down the sides. Four wheelbarrows are now placed around the pile and, going around the pile, alternate shovels are thrown into the barrows and into four piles around the original central pile. Starting now with these four piles alternate shovels are delivered to the barrows and to a new central pile.

In this manner the sample is reduced to one wheel-barrowful. This is then run through a pair of rolls set tight, and the sample reduced to about 50% of the ordinary method of coning and quartering. This is then dried and passed through a coffee mill, after which it is reduced to the required bulk by riffles and then bucked to 100 mesh.

Colorado Springs, Sept. 15. The samplers of the Cripple Creek district at the present time are handling more ore than at any time during their history and the output for the month of September will exceed any month during the past year. The Black sampler will handle 6,000 tons during the month, while the Eagle will handle more than double that amount and the Rio Grande is expected to put through its machinery very close to 10,000 tons during the month.

Colorado Springs, Nov. 2. Daily shipments are being maintained from the district at such a rate as was never before known in the history of the camp. The month of October is going to crowd the banner month of September with a nearly 25 per cent. increase.

As an illustration, the following table shows the ore received to-day by the different samplers of the district:

Sampler	Tonnage
Taylor & BrantonBrunton	600 tons
Eagle Sampler	300 tons
Rio Grande	275 tons
Cripple Creek	250 tons
Making a total of 1425 tons for the day.

The above, with that sent direct to the smelters, would reach the figures easily of over 2000 tons per day.

At the present time there are more men working in the district than at any time in the history of the camp, and more ore with a better valuation is being sent out every day.

The bulk of the ore previous to shipment to the valley mills is sampled, and its value determined, in one of the three modern samplers at present operating in the district.
The Taylor and Brunton, the Cripple Creek Sampling and Ore Company, and the Eagle Ore Company, the three present samplers, have all been recently built.
Brunton and Vezin machines are used, the ore being crushed and rough rolled generally to 1 in. and finer before cutting out the sample.
Smaller rolls and small gyratory crushers or grinders are used successively in reducing the sample for assay purposes. The district is studded with several more or less antiquated samplers which have been unable to compete with the better methods and arrangements now in use.

Two samplers now running, through which passes most of the ore mined in the Cripple Creek district, have put on night shifts to handle the increased tonnage.