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ri <br />y <br />lltl'lllll~1~ ~~:I <br />TITLE AND INCORPORATION. E <br />The title of this property rests with the Eagle Bird F~ '' <br />Tunnel and Mining Co., inoorporatad under the laws of Oolorado, g_ ~~ <br />~': n~r + i <br />1kk 66 ! ~. <br />~ with 100000 shares of anpital stack, par value .~i1.00 each. I +P~I 14TIIli!1~61I9~Fl <br />7dge. W. W. Huntington, 19 East Oolfax, Denver, Cola. <br />The property is being worked under lease and option <br />by the American Zina Company. <br />General Manager, Geo. L. Felt, Red Cliff, Colorado. <br />Superintendent, Joseph Adley. <br />HISTOP.ICAL. <br />This property was loasted in 1880 and mining was started <br />the following year, This mine is very similar to the Iron <br />1Sask Mine and like the Iron ldaek produced some good silver <br />ore in the first few years after itn'diacovery and then did <br />not do much until there was a demand for zinc ore, when the <br />property beaeme aotive again and new bids fair tb become ae <br />big a zinc mina ae the Iron Mask vrhen it is opened to the same ~r ~I , <br />i ~ 4; ! j <br />extent as that property anft the ore seemo to run a little !I~'~ ~~"I„ <br />higher on an average than that of the Iron Mask. <br />TOPOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY AND ORE OOOURANOE. <br />Thid property is situated at an elevation of 9300 feet <br />on a stoop hill-side, barren of trees, which broako off duet <br />below the property into nlmost porpsndioular oliffs. <br />I{ayflen oovere8 thin distriot with hie goologioal purvey. <br />'fhe formation from the top of the mountuin dosaonding is as <br />follows: sap porphyry, dolomite lime, blue limo, quartzite, <br />~I aohist and gruniteq <br />The dolomite and blue limo belong to the oarboniforous <br />while the quartzite is aambrian. <br />i <br />The pro ooours in contact doponite and dips into the <br />~ hill with the formation at about an angle o! a0 dograes'from <br />the horizontal. ' <br />I The oxidized zone, whiah,oxtonds down from the ourfaoe <br />from 000 to 900 feet, produaod oron oomposod of the oxides <br />and aarbonatos oT load, zino, popper, iron and manganese. <br />Tho sulphide zone produaoa pro aantnining the same <br />metals in a sulphide state aooompaniad with oidarLto (oarhonate •; <br />of iron) an a gnrrgue. <br />li <br />,~I, <br /> <br />i~ I <br />oQa <br />