MINEBK00314

• County: Gilpin
• Volume: 1
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: A

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THE PINE C REEK DI S TRIO T.
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Pine Creek, located ei '
ght (8)"'miles`North`=west'from~Cenfral'Cityr
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the 3ates£•addit•ion to Coloradors'"Gold Campo: For °twenty years
ne Creek:~nas lieen~aperatad'for Placer'miriing~' Pith desultory 'efforts
ledge load mining, the'Yornier"sucoessfully'and"the?latter'with'-"-'
the or not `profi"t `until of reaon't"date:• 'In~the`suffiiier'rof 1899 the
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r prospectors iri'the camdevot'ed' thoir•-tame ~in locating blaima, and•~
ng no other Bark than sinking ten feet holear the result of which
deterred tho`progress of "the~District: ''Jani'lst; 1896 marke a="
era in Gilpin County`"and its'beneficiarg~rasalts~fiave'beon felt
the Pine Creek District. - '
The Plateau Mines located on Colorado Hill, is one of the Pirst
;ovaries and 'shipPors• The'shaft is down ono hundred"and twenty
)) feet and at a point ninety (90)'-feet from aurfaae a level•has
iatarted, with drifts fifty-figs (6b) foot oast anA t6ronty-fivo
rest. There is a 'streak 'of' ore` ih the east drift eighteen' (18)
ea wide and robs sixty'(~,60) 'dollars por ton.
The Harriek'Group of claims is locatefl on Mibhigan Hill and is
+ng op orated by Chnrloa E. Hayrick of Denvai• for some New York par-
~e• Their main vain boing the Josaie~which ahowa, a+itour ,f.q); foo.t
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9vice anfl twenty (20)inchea of ore that rune (x$80) flolinrs por ton.
Tho S,hult2 wonder is undoubtedly the richest find in campy Th are
afoot (q) inch etreak~of ore on foot-wail that runs X2000 pot ton,
a large crevice of medium grade o1•e.
The other ahippora era :Wolverine, Moose, Ozarinuv6eiger,

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