Vein Opened Up on the Robert Burns.

Three and a half feet of fine looking granite quartz and talc have been opened up on the Brown and Bartlett lease on the Robert Burns. The claim is located on the west point of Guyot hill, in a locality where no paying proposition has ever yet been opened up.
The shaft is now down 40 feet, and the ore looks better with every shot. At a point near the surface the talc assayed $40. The quartz is just coming into the shaft, and gives very fair promise of running pay.
The claim is owned by Verner Z. Reed and others of Colorado Springs, and is under lease to Brown and Bartlett for twelve months from August 10, 1897.

THE ROBERT BURNS MINING COMPANY.

In the early part of the year 1901 The Reed Investment Company, of which Mr. Verner Z. Reed is president and O. H. Shoup secretary, adopted a policy of working the properties which they controlled by the leasing system.

They were among the first to inaugurate a longer time lease with a lower royalty, so that on all the properties which they control, there has been active development work carried on during the past year by lessees.

The Robert Burns Mining company own the Robert Burns lode and mill site located on Guyot hill and the Jay Bird and the Maid claims located on Bull hill. During the past year the Jack Martin Leasing company has been actively developing the Robert Burns claim.

They began their work where the company stopped some time ago, when their treasury funds gave out, and have continued the drift in a southerly direction for over 350 feet, expecting to cut some of the dykes and leads known to exist in that section. In doing this work they have employed on an average of four men a day.

The leasing company seem well pleased with their showing and expect to encounter pay ore within a reasonable time. On the Bull hill properties of this company there is a lease in operation. The recent strike on the War Eagle claim is not far from the company's property.

Denver.—The Robert Burns Leasing Company, working the 300 level of the Robert Burns claim on Guyot hill, has cut a strong vein, believed to be the main one of the El Paso.

The Robert Burns mine on Guyot hill, adjoining the Katinka Gold Mining Co.'s estate, has been leased by Newt Wilson, manager of the Robert Burns Mining Co., to George Hawkins and associates of Cripple Creek, and the Jay Bird and Maid, two fractional claims on Bull hill, containing about four acres, adjoining the War Eagle and Ramona mines, have been leased to R. G. Harrison, of Colorado Springs.
The leases on both the Bull and Guyot hill properties cover a two-year period and the lessees will pay a graded royalty of from 15 to 30% on all ores marketed.