MINEBK00659

• County: Summit
• Document: Manager
• Suffix: A

u~ridge Gold Belt,
RS AND LODE MINES.
~. of the Continen,;d divide eat
d its estevsiu^-;Le Illuc mn
!ge gold Lelt, tLo great placer
Le valle3's drained L}' thu L'IUC dt '
is lode mines of .old, sih'er, I
In Y11P. 111118 :11111 Itlnn^1:11118 q'~
:dited n'ith a prodncLup of m
ors' cvortL of Fnhl si^ce their
le lode mines L:nr produced Issued by
realer portiov of rLe gold taken
it
"' passenger Department
euuv
Peak esc
cuuro frow
old belt, of a'Licii We prineiVal ~. Leadville & Gunnison Railway Company
.. Gold Ito^. _luiericau. Gen; ver,
Denver, Colorado
:nch. Fig er. Dilu,nF,
F \htto. ]i
re, and TnLn D:w) sore. and
to 1•ieer. All ^1' tLuse placernn -
Irtace to bedrock, m~ a$ derv set
crude appliances.
fine Fold ut•e still f^nud in tt
orated :mnuatlc ;n ; good pmOl.
ricL plueus testa iuuutl in tl;u
rs. n•LicL \\'Crl t':IlhKl "puckeL.'•
gIllFF • WRS :IPplled tU nlpv'B d8
n11n0. n'Ll(11 IIt'Ud^,'Pd t\Yl'I}'C U[ G
Sap to the man. '1'Lc miuiug o;
ere confined to w'urkiuF frith rmt
:nose Pm•tions of thi• sn~enws nLA
~eP could be secured w prm~W¢
mater[ul. ternlen tailins: tli¢;
cer ground duuLtless still rewa@
ream vcas too Nat fm' sluiciup ;ui
great to admit of PruliWLlr n','
ecitL tcindluss :uul barbels.
Le district iv those days ;^ in
les; some of tLem haciuu a s
SW to 1n:ltlU. "I'UI'1 \lm7 ll'
'at llnmld) rind 1$1'lit'lll9. ^r IhC • .
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I: oi'ps ^ 1o-slump mill Las}' ou sindl;u arc. The I. X. L. Ix
:; ." a nh non I ;~ p .,'t ~~ a ;md Lucps a WII Lusy on h•nn t..
nod uh',r nr,•
In ;Ids ...r Ilan tI; , •'u ; unlnl' Frod pr ,xpects which onlc ;~~
n•qn Lv~ thu os pro=o of a t~nv thous;uul dollars fm' mills mul
dm'rlupmer^ lu m;d<e slcndy di ridcnd pnyfug annex.
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MINES \\'IST OF Tt1E GLUE RIVER. -
Uu rLe west side of thr Blur ricer, oust. below Brechme
ridge. i. SLurl: Lill. wLieh shuo's n hwn'c. Ii;:hM_olorud
limn utucrup whw'o the Ica you rood a>vends the hill. Less
th:u1 n uu:u'tar oP ;t mile uortL from tLt•rc is a gtcat Icdgc ~:\
of ;old uud silccr LearinF qu:n'tzioe. .Wont $Sd,01R1 wnr[h
o[ Lnlliun was pounded ottt of this rocky 44dge in a couple
oC pears with the -irstnmp will ou the Brools-Snider prop-
ertc without Fortin:; eighty feet Crom tLc grass roots. A
similar unlcrop oC ,Pnlrtzitc (a1 the l;u:u'v )Annuaiu-Smn-
mit Fronyi ,vn~i'rs tLc sontLcrn slope of Iowa Lill lust across
CitcuulLYr gulch.
On tLC hruund ]log, loeuted iu rLe caller LeCw'een the
two hills, a Foud bode uC ¢old bearing lcul Carbonate ore
Las been opened L~ a sLatT less tLau dClp Pec[ deep. find- -
ins carbonates at rLis poini and iu Ule Iron ]Iasi: ou the
noriheasteru slope nC SLOCk Lill, seenix to indicate that a
c:¢bon;ne or snlpLide LcarlnF sttanuu exists a^der tLc
Blue ricer caller, reachitr~ frmu Shock mid Iona Lilla over
to Quartzite hill It Le um'thenl ,par o[ Gibson Lill); at tLc
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La sn of w'LieL. Lla nl:et reins oC carbonate anti sulphide ores
bare Uecn r,punod in ffie Sultana :tad otLCr mines. TLis
portion of the blue rlllep tvotild be u desirable field for ;
core-drill ProspeclinF.
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OPEN GROUND FOR PROSPECTORS.
SorIL Prow L'artotis FulaL and tLc month of Swan
Tlrl'1'. COlrtpnl'atlr C'ly IIft1C ])1'OapCCtlilg and mllllflg La\'l'
'! been done on citLta' side of t1)e ricer luntil Frisco and Dil-
lon are reacted/, and there is Tots of ground open to lode
location. The some foratntion is noted aC intervals, w'itL
outcrops of grunll e, red sandstone lime. etc.. in the foothills °.~
along U,e Blue. Frmn Dillml to hock crech (ten miles
nortL o[ Dillouj, and in t11e AImltezumn :old Snake ricer `r;
disU9ets rLe fm•u)atiou is more facmnble for finding stns :~
copper, silccr-lead mid iron ore mines, mid a large number Li
Lace been discovered there. Gold mines undoubtedly are
also to be fmuld There, as rLe gulches show• gold in the
gravel Lms of the sn•rams; eery ]idle attention Las, Low-
ever, Lee11 F1ccn to looking for gold there. IC will also /
probably Le found in LLe iron oxides ;uul sulpLides if ttsn ,
Ill's. Ilnldc.
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