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SUE AVXMLL IM-WZBU CXEJMD, San JUAN 3 OGI<M»
Ouray County , Colorado * 3Y
R* !! • Booster*
COLORADO S CHOOL OF M INES GOLDEN,COT OKA DO
K«port furnished byi Harry 8, Brail ah*
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This property is situated in the San Juan region, ^»5T Co..
'olorado about seven fsilo3 from Ouray in a south-easterly election, S t t S ! k S h ! S r t . * * . O f •• t . f o t o s l . I t 1 3 i n t h e a a « ' J o t r c t a s
•ho oeno Bird, Vireinius, Fovonuo and other groat producers| o-^ta^t Iron. the first named about two alios and froa the Bovenue tunnel per- laps a r&le.
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Ouray Is the terminal point on tho stub of the hoover 3 Fio Grando V» B. and the property is reached from this point oy wagon raid and trail®
ABBA. ETC}
Tho property consists of two patented claims, oworing no&rly two-thousand foot of the outcrop, the Birttta111et, ftf f^JundrX (1500) and seventy (470) feet in length and tho riawkeye, .ifteon hundred U.J30;
foot in length adjoining tho Bimotalllot on tho southeast cna, both olaina having a width of throe hundred (300) foot.
GEOLOGICAL ? 'AW ESi-
Xho formation traversed by tho Pinetalliat vein Is identioal rith that throughout the greater part of the San Juan region and is -nown as tho San Juan andoslte, a flow-breeola having a toi&moss of ioro than t o thousand foot in some parts of the dietrilow and p. oven aroduetiv© through this groat depth in a mntoer of tho largo producers, ictably? the Camp Bird, revenue, Tcrboy. fmsungler-bnion, o«o.
Tho Binetalllst voin is a wo 11 defined son© of fissuring, r»vitw a width of twenty foot in places, the chief voin filling boing'quarts with kaolinito resulting from alteration of the country rock, acoonpanlod by varying amounts of pyrlte, silver sulphi . s, native silv r and free gold.
Tho voin has a north-easterly oourse and dips about 75© west as shown by tho workings on tho hawkey©, and is probably the oxteat ion
in a northerly direction of tho • hool of Fortune voin, ono o* tho
earliest producers in this section} considerable ore having beon f i^ - ed from this nroperty to Del Borto (a wagon haul of nearly one hundred
i <uWir nil«n 1 before the advent of a railroad, the values in the
a,3091 of Fortune Sra W portion „f go!. to the ai*or than is shown in tho P-imotallist voin.
p-y in "'"'TT:-
The workings on this property arc shown on tho aooonpany- i„„ Shotoh.™ IS Crista of .• .haft a* a«»<>«a ^ifta a*. tanaol.
aggregating about 1100 foot.
From the shaft, which was sunk about 40 foot from the south
west end line of tho Bimetal list to a depth of 1G° ^ boon run} ono at 60 foot, mrked (drift B ) extended 200 foot in a
n o r t h e r l y e nd 4 0 f o o t i n a s o u t h e r l y d i r e c t i o n e n d c o n n o t e d f d t h t ^ o
«nrftioo bv n Short oroaocufc. °n the second or 100-foot level, marked (•0*5 wore run 100 foot northerly and 30 foot southerly from
To atopoing has boon dona abovo this level.
The shafts is a continuation of the discovery work under which this a la in was located, and was sunk on ih® ore which was taken out as shown by the otopod area on the seoonpanyins sketch mpj oro of a food nil linn grade, however, continued to tho bottom of the shaft, the mln ore shoot !»ving a rafeo to tho north and passing out of the shaft at a depth of about CO f oot,
Fevoloprxjnt on tho Hawkeye olatn eons lets of two tunnels on tho vein, shown on tho mp as tunnel «K» and drift
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8, The former Wifi an extent!on of the discovery work on this claim accord*
lag to tho t »ws of the bond and lease under which tho slain was acquired by the present owners,
frtffe was run for tho purpose of opening the vein at q deeper level and in a mere eoonecsical way than by working through tho shaft, which developed a considerable flow of water at'the bottom and required tho installation of a hoist and pumpinr* plant if sinking wee to continue. This drift Is about 6IS foot in length, beginning **
at a point 1PG0 foot aouth-wost of the shaft at ® de ath about 375 foot bolo»v tho collar of tho shaft and ••standing toward it ith tho Inten
tion of continuing to a point belo / the sly?ft and reining to tho latter gb the bent means of development, offering the advantages of drainage, ventilation end eocncny in operation besides prospecting the vein at this deuth*
1"" rxpen®* OWW Tfg
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Tho ore streak as opened by drift *D
#in pr&ctic&lly continuous throughout its length, having an "verago width of t.valve to fifteen inches and av rage v <>luo a bout fifteen dollars p r tonj assays ranging from four or five dollars to ton ounces gold and up to sovem 1 hundred ounces silver nor ton,
An examination of th • property by an engineer for eastern parties gave as the moult of his acnplnc, taken in tweoty-flvo-foat lengths 'and consisting of fifty to two hundred pounds each, an average width of ore for this drift of fourteen Inches and average value of eeventgoo dollars nor ton.
Tunnel *H* « not driven on tho oro-stroafc all tho way, but whore broken Into shows a width e? ton to twelve inches of about
fifteen dollar oro,
Fron the Firaetollist alia ft oro was chirred carrying nearly one hundred ounces gold end one thousand ounces silver per ton. The goneri 1 ratio of one ounce gold to ton of silver, holds fairly woll throughout tho property.
In drift *C* tho oro streak is exnoood for a distance of fifty or seventy-five foot and shows v -luos as Indicated y assays and a mill-run, of twenty to thirty dollars on? ton.
Frees the shaft bole* drift *3* tho last sis assays avers god
over caaoone ounce gold per ton, the oro. streak hero sho in- about one
foot in width.
The proporty was worked in a tsoall way for fear years# dur«*
lag which tiss® ore having o gross valuo of ah not sixty thousand SCO#OQO) dollars was tuctraobod# This ore was raalnly taken froa tho
©tope above the slxty-foot level and mo in part very hirJw?rafie 3 iprjonta wore made to Denver, the tot«>l exponas of raining, freight and treat raotib being about twenty-two thousand (*2?,000) dollars#
?, cony of statnont nho ing the tonnage and v lua of ohipnente tBaho from the property io attached end my bo verified when
GOdeal red#
In addition to the ehipaeuts, a nill ran was rado at Ouray f'*
on a fift© >rv.fcon lot# most of which cane fro drift *C$, the returns froo which were about thirty dollars per ton#
Tho only ore t Scon fron drift
#r* was a nill-nm of thirty five tons which crane from tha first ono hundred and fifty fo*fc of tho tunnel# Peturno from this lot gave fifteen dollars per ton in gold ami several ounces oilv r#
*. iaek of csi lllng facilities at tho proper y during its opona- lion caused tha lone of considerable low.grudo ore# part of shich ma
left in tho stapes and part thrown over the dump#
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A o ill»fiito at the foot of tho mountain in available with sufficient water for all purpose© except power#
Tho vein my bo opened at a do th of throe hundred to four hundred font beloo drift •P* fey an adit tunnel, oirht hundred to a thousand foot in length if Ooeir d#
Tldber for mining |•mrpmm my bo obtained in tho vicinity#
To attempt io mdo horc to ostin to the amount of ©re in tho property on account of the nature and limited extent of tho nork dpno#
but In consideration of tho sine and persistence of the vein# tho continuity of the ore etreaka and tha r^rfeable grade of soma of the ore ©hip od, tho rrooosUion should certainly bo an attractive one for oorc extensive dove loosest#
(Signed) I
3# Jl# Downer K# SE.
Statements of shipments of ore froa the Bissetallist Eiin»
Net pounds Oz. Cold 0z. Silver Amount
JSCS' 7760 7248
V> f iC \
* 'U W"
13725 200S5 20457 203GO 1G907 19882 22242
8. IS 10.G7 65.24 97.63
22.6211.93 11.23 29.97 22.84 22.517 f 6.15
91.6 112.3 675.03 044,52 197.8 178.6 281.37 298.41 281.35 207.65 60.85
0155.94
$6,600.01 fO,544.67 03,153,25 13,039.90 05,830.70 05,947,21 05,368.18
$1,490.08
17780 16434 18926
2081019190 20684 18451
Or© Tak©n froa Duapj 3,33
5.00 1.82 1.94 2.3 6
1.28 2,1240.2 31.0 30.0 25.6 25.2 17.7 47.4
V0662,93 0483.60 0336,07 0368.96 .£415.17 0152.97 0475.24
29307
Q— vuxua per zon V1QB.81 ^
feao.9s Shipment by 0. J, Davis
19130
