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• County: Gilpin
• Volume: 16
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: A

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T I T Z E.
The titU•is'~~eatod=ia dehn~C., Jenkins et 1413=Ysarl~8t.~
DosTer."Colorado. .
,The'prepeity is worked Hader lease by Osoar iEilliams and
•Cempaay:of•Ceatral City, Col~rade. bSeaag6r: Osoar=lfiliiams;
Coatral City, Colorado. Het inoerporatsd. ~ -
• HISTORY .
- :=-Ths erisinal looations and openings were mado in-the
oariy ee~oatios and but a ama11•amount of development has been
done sinoe then and that by~difterent leasing oompanies. The
present lessees began operations is April. 1914.
j ~ TOPOGRAPHY •
Tho altitude at whioh the Buokeys M1ne isxsituata is
~, 8,700'. Lookout auumtain la steep and rough and deetitnte of
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'i.timber~but s good wagon road is built to the mia~~from beth-
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i Central Qity and Blaok Hawk. Colorado. Chase Guloh. a emal
meuatala stream, flows 1.000' north of the mine and the traoks
iof •the.Gilpia Tramway are one-quarter mile disteat. The dis-
'tiaoe.fxom the mine to 81eak Hawk is one miT~ and te~Ceatsal
.City is one-half mile.
..• A,good geologioal survey has been Wade of the~dletriot.
',Cho oea~utry rook Se~altered greait• and sohist and the geelog-
ioel period ie Arohaan. •
-' ORES & .ORE. BODIES .
The ore bod* is a •fisanrs •ein with the strike northeast
.and o~pt2~welt end dipping to the south. The ~nolosing reoka are
pohiat ead,granito•Bad the gangue is tale. The vein varies in
width ~rem;7.'.'Go 3' with-an awerage width of E'. Zongth b00';
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