MINEBK00316

• County: Teller
• Document: Manager
• Suffix: E

The Monday vein was opened in a tunnel on the Monday claim of the silver State Co, lvIr.
John T. Hawkins, formerly mining engineer of the Goode Investment Co, tells me that the vein, ae
shown in the tunnel, was two feet wide, having ou the foot walla 2-inch streak of $-ounce ore.
This vein has not been opened on the Alta Mont ground.
From the Pactolus vein the leasers are said to have shipped a few tons of ore. The vain is strong
and of a good width.
It has not been opened ou the Alta Mont, ground.
There is a diabase dyke on the Sarah Bell, which apparently branches about tho middle of the
claim, one branch continuing to the northeast and the other going to the east. I do not kuow of any
case in Cripple Creek where a diabase dyke has been associated with ore.
The Hard Carbonate basalt dyke is an encoura;,•in prospect; and well merits farther development.
It has been opened on the Alta Mont ground by a 50-foot shaft.
• About 150feet north of Hard Carbonate dyke there is a phonolite dyke, and 75 feet north again is
a vein in the granite. They are both likely showings.
On the Deadwood group there are three known phonolite dykes and one vein, as shown on the
accompanying map. They are all attractive in appearance-i. e., they are stained with iron oxide, and
their structure is to all appearances exactly like the vein matter of producing mines. One of these dykes
is developed by a 100-foot shaft. A sample taken on the 50-foot level ran 56.00, and one from the 100-
. foot level went $0.80 in gold. The width sampled was one foot in each case. The dyke is some ten
feet wide.
Of the veins which have produced ore at a profit in the neighborhood, the C. O. D. vein is per-
haps the most important. Two hundred and forty thousand dollars in dividends have been paid from
this vein, and, I am told, that its strike is such as to make it cross the Alta Mont ~~gyyroup if it continues
that far, as shown on the map attached. $B~,b'8Jr,8V
The Gold King mine has paid dividends to tare amount of TLe course of its
strongest voin is shown on the accompanying map.
The Hoosier mine has paid 510,000.00 in dividends to the owners, and probably a greater amount
to the leaser. Its course is shown on the map.
The superintendent of the Hard Carbouate thinks that this basalt dyke is the continuation of the
Hoosier vein, some basalt having been found iu the Hoosier ord.
The Molly Kathleen is a steady producer, but it is impossible to learn the amount of dividends paid.
SUIVIIVlARY.
I consider the fact that these four producing minds are all located comparatively closo to tho
groups uuder consideration of great importance; for one of the distinctive features of the Cripple Creek
district is the uniform mineralization throughout the productive area. It is this feature which has given
a high and positive value to well located acreage, and which justified Mr. Stratton's statement that any
patented claim in the producing area was worth at least 520,000.00.
More significant still is the fact that these claims lie close to the general liue of contact of tho
Cripple Creek district, the Alta Mont group on the breccia and the Deadwood group on the granite side;
in fact, this contact passes through the Hill- Top of the Alta Mont Group. I say significant for the
reason that so large a proportion of the heavy producers occupy the same relative relation to this line of
contact as that of the groups under consideration. Among these might be mentioned Stratton's Iude-
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