MINEBK00356

• County: Teller
• Volume: 14
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: C

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T I T L E
Vested in The Rittie Wells G.N. Co. inoorporated under
the laws of the state o P Colorado, with a oapital stook
of 1,250,000 ehares,of the ~:ar value of one dollar esoh
Prinoipal office located at Colorado Springs, Colo.
C.S. Wilson, President, Hoilywood, Calif.
W. A. Thomas, Secretary, Cripple CreeK, Colo.
Leased to ~Y,A. Thomas, Cripple Creok, Colo.
Could asoertain nothing as to history.
T O P O G R A P H Y.
Surface mountainous,ti~ith an altitude of 10,000 ft.
I{o streams; no timber; wagon road $o Cripplo Creeks
G E O L O G Y.
There is a good Zoological survey oP the distriot;
oountry rook irreueia. Geolop,ioal period tertiary.
Veins are fissures, with 2 veins, otrike of vein N, 35
deg. Eeat,; dip oP vein 45 deg. to Ylest; voin vridth 2 ft.
length 400 ft. height 230 ft, one ore »hoot; walls and
enolosing rook Irreooia; Ores milling. Metals golrl and
silver.
NO SURFACE PLANT:
Hoisting plant windlass and huoketa; one ore
hou»e 18 X 30, frame
E X P L O S I V E 8.
Dupont 40p; fll»e Inaoloid. Wooden tamping bar a are
provided for employes. Explosives are stored in magazine
provided for that purpose alone and is looated 200 ft.
from shaft or tunnel; average amount kept in storage 5o11e.
bagazine la a frame 10 X 12. t~1ne 1» provided Frith a hot
water boater for thawing powder.
PINING: Pain opening a 4 X 8 shaft, 200 ft. deep,
timbered with 3 X S oribbing. Hoisting i» done try
windlass, a diytanoe of 75 ft.