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• <br />-DT-91 - CONVERSE MINE <br />1. Name: Converse Mine <br />2. Location: Vicinity of Paonia, Colorado, 2.5 miles north near Orchard <br />Valley Mine. <br />3. Classification: <br />Catagory: Site <br />Ownership: private/public <br />Status: unoccupied <br />Present Use - Other: abandoned <br />4. Owner of Property: <br />Bureau of Land Management <br />5• Location of Legal Description: Delta County Courthouse, Delta, Colorado. <br />6. Representation in Existing Sur <br />Title: Colorado Inventory of Historic Sites <br />Date: Ongoing State <br />Depository: Colorado Historical Society <br />1300 Broadway <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />7. Description: <br />Condition: ruins; unaltered; original site. <br />The present site consists emains of an incline chute, <br />mine dump, and mine road. <br />The original mine was a small coal mining operation of the "wagon mine" <br />variety which supplied [he local domestic market. Coal was hauled from <br />the mine by horse and then loaded into wagons by way of an incline chute, <br />the remains of which are still visible. <br />8. Significance <br />Period: 1900 <br />Area of Significance: Archaeology-Historic <br />Industry <br />Specific Dates: 1906-1930's <br />• <br />