SILVER AXD GOLD. 



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is situated near the junction of Saguache, Ouray, and Hinsdale 

 counties, and some ten or twelve miles from Wagon Wheel Gap. 

 There is a great development of igneous rocks as well as of Car- 

 boniferous limestone, but the veins as yet developed are in the 

 former. They appear to be fissure veins and have quartz, in large 



PIG. 52. Geological cross sections of strata and veins at Newman Hill, 



near Rico, Colo. After J. B. Parish, Proc. Colo. Sci. Soc. , April 



4, 1892. See also Figures 5 and 6. 



part amethyst, with some manganese minerals as a gangue, and, 

 with these, oxidized silver ores. The mines are on two moun- 

 tains, Bachelor and Campbell, which are on opposite sides of Wil- 

 low Creek Canon. 1 



1 E. B. Kirby, " The Ore Deposits of Creede and Their Possibilities," 

 Engineering and Mining Journal, March 19, 1892, p. 325. Rec. T. R. 

 MacMechen, "The Ore Deposits of Creede," Engineering and Mining 

 Journal, March 12, 1892, p. 301. Rec. 



