MINEBK00035

• County: Pitkin
• Volume: 13
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: A

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Title.
~OWner ar Cocq-any:-The.DUrant Yining-Oompany.
;Incorporated under the laws of the State of Ohio. '
Capital_Stoek:,-~I.000.000. Shares par value:-~L OO.eaoh.
Pineipal o2'fioa located nt ~ 32 Broadway, New York.
!3ranOh office located at Aspen,Pitkin Co. Colo.
president:-David Y.Hyman:-~32 Broadway, New York.
jOen.Yanager: Walter W.Davis:-Aapen,Coio.
'Supt. John R.Chaapion:-Aspen,COlo.
;Leased:-In blocks of ground by parties of from two to four
nee.
'Dote of original'looation:-IS7g.
n n a op Oning: -I8'j~.
Altitude:-8.500.Charaoter oP surfaao:-Mountainous.
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pater supply:-Castle Creek.-?lo tinbor.-Roads:-Yea. '
There is a gaologieal survey of the diatriat:-Emmons.
~Strueture and character of country rock:-LLae.
Ore bodies.
The ore bodies of this property,aro practically worked out, f
the early history of the property it was noted Por the large
deposits of high grade silver oro that laid in the dolomite
iL~ne,but these are evidently ezhnueted,and tho proporty is
rtow being worked by email parties of leavers who arc engaged
in taking out iltae for fluxing purycaee for tho eraoltera,the
shipments producing fifty per cent lime, and not over two oz.
eilvor, i
Yining. '
:here ie no aaohinery on the yroperty,the work being done
through the Durant tunnel which extends a dletanoo of eomo
3006 teat through the different alaime,and ie connected with
the Honnybel,snd Aepon nine workings,there are a lerge tiuy-
or drifts in'the vicinity of 30.000 feet in the saine,biit no
regular system of mining is oerried on, the lonaere working
that pnCti~.n ~.i' :ItO ground that yeye there beat.
There is no scale of wages that can bs esti~aated,the shiyrsante
deyending on the deoand for the iixs product for fluxing,there
ere thirty me11 ~amkirfg alta6sthsl uyon the p'royott%.