MINEBK00400

• County: Clear Creek
• Volume: 17
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: A

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The title is vested in tho Comstaok 131ning.and,Milling
ICompany,inoorporated ender the laws.oY the State.oY.Colorado..
ICapital.stook•$1,000,000 shares, par value,oP ~l eaah..Prinoi-
,pal oYtioe boated at International Trust Hldg., Deaver, Color-
'ado. Secretary; Clyde N. Turnbull, International Trust Bldg.,
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,Denver, Colorado. ,
The property ie worY.ed under lease and option to purchase
by giehsrd 1•.,Staley ai Idaho.Sprinns. Colorado.
H I S T O R Y'.
The original locations and openings wore made ±n tho early
eixtiea. Tho property has nover boon abandoned bet has boen worl:-
ed at irregular intervals by diYterent companies and individiutle.
gp:;work has bean ftor}e since 1904 until presont operations were
started by the loesee in.Siaroh, 191b.
T O P O G R A P H Y
The ComQtock group oY mines is eittutite about mldway oY the
Laouth slope oY Pewabio mountain and at an altitudo oY 9,1bG'.
This mountain is rough and eteop and destitute;or timber and
,streams pr oth4r water auppliee. A good wagon road it3 built from
the mine to ldaho Springs, Oolorado, u distanoo oY threo m11ep.
O l O L 0 0 Y.
A good guologioal aurvoy has boon marls o~ tho district.
'Pho .oharaotor of country is porphyry and granito and tho•geo-
,logical poriod is. Arohoan,,
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Tho oro bodice arc true Piseuros. 'd'hero arc two known
'.veins, both similar in ohuxaoter, Uut,nll,work is oonTined to
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;the CometooY. vain, Tho otrlke is xorthaaot and southwest and the
dip is to the north 4Y.o, The anolosing rooks arc por'DhyrT~~nd