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TOPOTOPO=gy
<br />The propsrty has an altitude ranging from 12,000,
<br />to 13,000 ft,, the surface rising quite rapidly to the north
<br />west, thus affording a good opportunity to exploit the Kentucky
<br />Belle hcde in an sconomic manner, by a system of adit levels,
<br />which is at present being carried on,
<br />There is no timber in the im!uediate vicinity, as the
<br />propertyy is Some dists:nce above timber line,
<br />Y'hers is e small lake Gt the base of the mountain,
<br />same beinb fed from springs, The stream runninf; from the
<br />above mentionec lake, joins another stream from the east,
<br />at i3illsite, thus affording ample 1-a`r.r ~'or a corcentrati::~g
<br />mill of moderate capacity,
<br />A gocd wagon road extends from 41ma, to a point
<br />about one and one half miles south east o.' tiie ~ropcrty, and
<br />:with the expenditure of a. c; ,all aa:nou~zt of money, care could
<br />be extended ¢p to the i.!ili.site,
<br />r?ol,or>>: ,
<br />The character of the countr,* rock consists of e.
<br />gneissic, or bonded granite, intruded by diY,es of porphyry,
<br />At this point, (saddle) the overlying c!~.>.artzites aild limes,.
<br />similar to those at leadville, have been scored away by
<br />erosion, thus leaving the granite, The grzartzites and li:-;e
<br />measures ma.y res.dily be seen on both sides of Buckskin Gulch,
<br />even ht a higher altitude than that of the property,
<br />VEINS, The principal vein here in consideration,
<br />is the Kentucky Belle, same being a fissure, hsving a general
<br />strike of norm 50° i+. and sipping eli~htly to the 5, ,r
<br />. vary-
<br />inS in width from 3, to 18 ft„ with a general average ,of 4 ft,
<br />4'he vein filling consists oY a quartzose and feld-
<br />spathie mixture, impregnated with iron and copper pyrites,
<br />while in places, it consists almost entirely of a „ray porphyry
<br />carryinir cub ea of iron pyrites, with some copper,pyrites,
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