456 GEOLOGY AND MINING INDUSTRY OF LEADVILLE. 



Soon after the discovery of this ore body, it was found by some clever 

 persons that, as not unfrequently happens in the location of claims, a small 

 triangular piece of ground in the immediate vicinity of this shaft, about 

 thirty-six feet by sixty on the sides of the triangle, was left unclaimed. 

 The shaft now called the Eaton shaft was at once sunk by these men 

 and the continuation of the Vulture body there discovered. In self-defense 

 the Chrysolite Company were obliged to buy out this little claim, generally 

 known as the Triangle, at what at the time seemed a very high price, but 

 which was repaid to them more than threefold by the ore which they 

 extracted from the ground. A still smaller unoccupied piece of ground 

 between the end lines of the Vulture and the Chrysolite, appropriately 

 called the Sliver, was similarly taken up, and was bought out by the 

 Chrysolite Company, but has thus far proved an unprofitable purchase. 

 This can be distinguished upon the map by the two shafts, Sliver No. 1 

 and Sliver No. 2, which have been sunk upon it. The ore body at the Eaton 

 and Vulture No. 1 shafts was near the outcrop of the upper iron body, and 

 therefore its limits to the westward were soon reached. It was traced east- 

 ward, descending irregularly, but at a low angle, as far as the Carbon- 

 iferous-Little Chief line. This ore body, though narrow, was extremely 

 rich and yielded the greater part of the immense returns which were obtained 

 from the mine in the earlier days of its working. Section B shows its. 

 outlines along an east-and-west line. From it were obtained large masses 

 of chloride of silver, associated with cerussite, a single transparent mass of 

 chloride which weighed several hundred pounds having been extracted. 



A second ore body, parallel to this, was found about one hundred feet 

 to the southward, which was traced in a southeasterly direction to the New 

 Discovery -Vulture line, where it widened out and then disappeared. In the 

 bottom of an east-and-west drift, a little south of this body, several masses 

 of limestone were found below the main ore body, which in early days, before 

 the character of the formation of the ore was understood, much puzzled 

 those in charge of the mine. The extent of this tinreplaced limestone was 

 never determined, but it is now evident that it is simply a portion of the 

 Blue Limestone, which existed wherever now the body of vein material is 

 found, and which, for some reason or other, had not been replaced by vein 



