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;' <br />.~ <br /> <br />Received <br />SEP 0 71999 <br />Durango Field OHiCe <br />otvi~:=~ ~f :;;---- <br />rivic{a a GeoIo9Y <br />DENVER OFFICE <br />PUBLIC FILE COPY <br />FILE: R~~yT.~st <br />SITE:.vt-~4-~:~ <br /> <br />} ~:.: <br />~~~ <br /> <br /> <br />Just right and a bit above center, the root al a mill antl a <br />smokeslacM Irom a boiler house may be seen This is the site of the <br />Ruby Trust Mine. lust below Yankee goy nasin. Every mill that has <br />been built at the Ruby T~usl has been on the same site as preceding <br />ones antl each one has been destroyetl by an avalanche! The <br />mountain peak al top is "Kismet" which, Irom this point. Obscures <br />Mt Snellels. Ilhe mountain, not the lowm which stantls directly <br />beyond IDenvrr Pubht Library <br />Returning back to the left fork west of the tuwnsite of Sne[(els, the road <br />fords Sneffels Creek a short distance below the Rubv Trust Mine which <br />resumed activity in 1979 after years of being closed. In the t880s and 90s <br />the Ruby Trust produced some very high grade silver-lead ore with ruby <br />silver tan ore that appears to "bleed" when broken openl~ The area <br />never had a post office as Sneffels was close enough to be a supply <br />center. The original cabins and mill had been almost completely <br />cfestmved by avalanches and fires. Several new structures were built in <br />1979 and 1980. 'three men died when a snows-lide hit the mine's <br />boardinghouse in 1886. Again, in 1903 an avalanche destroyed the <br />boardinghouse and bunkhouse and badly damaged the mill A small mill <br />was set up nn the site about 1947 by F,mil Leopardi and his sons. It, ton, <br />~ u~as destroyed by a snowslide the following winter. <br />~ 133 <br />l~ ~-^'~"-~r <br /> <br />Mwet'at~ A~ysteri~s,~7'~tO~i«r O.(yss•y <br />Msrwn 6ie~e~y f P, Dw~d S,«t'~G , 148~f <br />a1.vy f~ads~ Plots , R td9 w«y <br />