MINEBK00804

• County: Boulder
• Volume: 12
• Document: Inspectr
• Suffix: A

Alton - 2,
T I T L E,
ghe title is vested in the Alton ttini~ and Pilling
Company inoorporated under the laws of the State of Colorado:
Capital stook. $500.000 shares, par value of ~yl snob,
'• Principal offioo boated at Boulder, Colorado.
Branch oYfioo boated at Cardinal, Colorado.. •'
President, H. R.•Burna, 1353 High St,, Denver, Colo.
Vice Pres., John Pnraell, Cardinal, Colo.
Seo., Treas. k Managor, ~. A.~Bnrke,•Bonlder, Colos
The property is worked by the owners.
R I S T O R Y.
Date of original loeations, lyOU to 1505. Date of original
oponings, 1900. The property has never boon abandonod but
has been worked aontinnously.
T O P O G R A P H Y.
The wharaoter of tho surPaoe ie riat and the eltitnde
is B,b00 Yeet. There are no streams or timbor•enpply in the
near riolnlty oZ the shaft that can be easily utilized. 6t
the month oY the tnnnal, which is two miles distant from the
~H
~, shaft. is a small stream called Caribou Creok. A good wagon jE
i : 1. t
~- road and also tha Denvor~ Boulder and northwestern h. R. ~
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Snrnishos an outlet Zor transporting ores from the mine to ,,r"'
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Doth Cardinal. Colo, and .Boulder, Colo. ~
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G L O L O G Y.
A. good geologloel survey has been made of tho district.
Y'ho character of country rook is eneiee and granite and the
geplogloal period ie archaic.
O R E S & O R E B O D I E S.
4he character oI ore bodies la =ieearo reins. Eight
reins bare been opened np Sa the tunnel sad twaat9 rains on
the surface. There is one lens. ?he stziYe o1 the aalphide