MINEBK00134

• County: Clear Creek
• Volume: 15
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: B

Josephine Tun.-3.
ORE S & ORE BODIES- Contin.
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1' to 3', with an average width of 2', yength, 1;400';,'height,'
1,200'. There are three. ore shoots Prom 100' to 240' in,lengthl
respeotively. ,
-The oharaoter of vein 31111ng is quarts and lead and the.
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metals are gold, silver,.oopper, lead and sino,;with lead
largely predominating. dll of the ore ie of a smelting nature
averaging $3b per ton in veins and ooets nothittg Por smelting l;
on aaoount o3 the lead values. The ore is hauled on wagons to
Silver Plume, Colorado and thenoe via the Colorado .and South-
ern R. k. to .the public smelters. The. average monthly produo-r
tion is tiYty.tons.
S II R F A C E P Z A N T.. ~ `
The tunnel shed [:n1 bleokemith shop are under one root
and is built of loge and planks. It is 18' x 20! in.sise and
situate 30' east oi' the portal of the tiumel. The ohanging . ..~
house is in the boarding honsa. One boarding house,,30', x 36'.:~
and two stories high, is situate 200',:eaet oP the portal oY°._ ~
the tunnel. The otfiae building,. 20' x 24', is frame and. eituat
60' northoast of tho portal of .the tunnel. The ore bins and. ,
ore house, 400 tone napaoity, is situate direotly in Yront ot, 'I
and 1b0' distant from the portal of the tunnel. All of the
buildings axoept the blaoksmith shop are iron-covered.
No proteotion against aooidont by .tire has been provided.
$oroeene is used far lighting on the.eurfaoo. ~ ~
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E z P h 0 S I V E 8 ~,
Du Pont powdor.- 40~;.Oerman Insolol8 Fuse; 6-R oaps and ~
wooden tamping bare ass omployed. Explosives in eroeee.of one
flays supply aro not stored undorground. ~
The average amount of powdor kept, in storage ~.e 200.
This le kopt in a framo magnsine oovered with elaterite and