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^ <br />Title Pq Incorporation, <br />The title 03 thin proporty ie hold by Y. H. Newman <br />and 17. A. Triplett, Animas Forks, Colo. The property is be- <br />ing worked under bond and loess, by Lt. I, Arms, Denver, Colo., <br />Joo~H. SYarnor, Ltgr., Animas Forks, Colo, <br />History, <br />Thia property was located in 1904 and mining wne. <br />started on a small eaalo the samo year. There was not mush ;' ~l <br />work done until 1914, at which time the aforesaid lessees ~ I <br />began operations. 9inoo thou the proporty has boon s steady <br />producer daring the summer months, i <br />i <br />Topography, Geology and. Oro,Ocourances. <br />Thia property io situated at ar. elevation of 11,200 <br />~ feet on the slope of idilitarg Hidge. Haneamo covered this <br />distriot with hie Goologioul Survey. <br />~~ Tha ooimtry rook is andosito. There are also con- <br />siderable bodies of ryolite, wHioh are intruoivo in the ande- <br />oito, and samo lntito. <br />Tho strike of the vain is 11.}:. with a dip of about ~ ~I <br />7b degrees South Enat, <br />The oros are gold and cilvor bearing sulphides of i <br />iron, ooppor, load and zinc, intimately aasoolated in the <br />quartz, ~I; <br />That the oros of the Silvorton quadrangle wore JJ <br />deposited from aquaouo solution needs no spooial domonotra- I~ <br />tion.) U.S.G.S. <br />Dovalapmont. <br />Thera are three main lovolo, al]. oonnooting with <br />the ourfaoo by edit tunnels. <br />Above level 110,1 is u stops about 10 ft. viide, <br />100 ft, .long and 3b ft, high, whioh is praatioally all ore, <br />At ono and of the otapo an upraioo has boon driven <br />thgough to Ilo.2 level. <br />Adit No.l is the main working level and hao boon <br />roaohod n diotanoo of 3b0 ft, from the portal. Altogether <br />thorn io about 700 ft. of underground wor]cings in the proporty. <br />Slining and Timbering. <br />All mining is clone by domproosod air drilling <br />maohinoo and over hand stoping 1s the method used for break- <br />ing ore. Tho ore is firot broken in the otopes and sliovolod <br />into cribbed mill halos. Thooc mill lioios urn onrriod up <br />with the stapes 30 ft. apart. 17hon the bunk of the stops is <br />too High for the minors to reaoh the are, the walla of the <br />vain nre broken down to supply the noaooonry filling. <br />Tho ara is drawn from regulation chutes on the level <br />below and trammo8 by hand to the tram bind. It is than trano- <br />Portod over a dig bank tramway 2600 ft. in length to anotlior <br />bin by the rood aide.. It is than lauded into wagons and haul- <br />ad to the Rrisoo l.tininR P~ ~?11'11nc nn. cn iryaL nbau! ill mi9es <br />