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i ~ <br />GOLD HILL VENTURES <br />III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII <br />P.O. Box 1523 <br />Longmont, Colorado 80502 <br />(303) 651-2985 <br />March 22, 1992 <br />Mr. William C. York-Feirn <br />Mined Land Reclamation Division <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br /> <br />NAR 2 4 1991 <br />Mined Land <br />rlpr`~^ -jinn n•. • .. <br />Dear Mr. York-Feirn, <br />This letter is my account of the events leading up to the October 25, 1991, discharge of <br />water down Cash Gulch; how the dischazge occurred; and what the probable affect was on the <br />local surrounding surface and ground water. It is written in response to the Minerals Program <br />Inspection Report which you and Mr. Stevens filed following your November 26, 1991, <br />inspection of the Gold Hill Mill facilities and the Cash mine permit area, <br />As you know from my previous written response, Mr. J. Wayne Tatman took <br />possession of the Gold Hill Mill building on October 23, 1990, on behalf of the owner of <br />record, Colina Oro Molina, Inc., a Washington corporation owned by Richard H. Fraser and <br />Gwen Tatman Fraser. <br />One of the first things COM, Inc.'s on-site Mill Superintendent and his crew did upon <br />taking possession of the Gold Hill Mill was to dismantle the 2 inch line from the Cash mine to <br />the Wynona mine where it passed by the southwest side of the mil] building. This pipe was <br />used to modify the mill circuit to process ore from a gold property Mr. Tatman had an interest <br />in that is located somewhere between Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Colorado. Two of Mr. <br />Tatman's partners in this mysterious mining operation were around the mill site during this <br />time, and supervised some of the changes that were made inside the mill. <br />On two separate occasions during the next twelve months, this water ]ine was <br />reinstalled and then removed, and the pipe used inside the mill for alterations to the milling <br />circuit for ore that was brought to the mill from properties that Mr. Tatman was associated <br />with in some fashion. <br />Early in June, 1991, I observed that a water pump had been installed behind the Hazel <br />A mine bulkhead and that water was being pumped to the mill via the existing Cash mine <br />