290 GEOLOGY AND GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT. 
The contact vein is evidently the same which is exposed in the W. P. H. mine, 500 
feet farther north, and at one point in the Jerry Johnson. It contains ore in places, 
but is not uniformly and persistently mineralized. The Damon vein has been 
traced more or less continuously for 400 feet, but is not always distinct. Both veins 
are really narrow sheeted zones, generally oxidized, and sometimes considerably 
shattered. The ores are chiefly contained in the narrow fissures and the oxidized 
tellurides are associated with a little quartz and fluorite. 
The principal ore developments occurred on the upper three levels. Very little 
ore has been taken out from the two lower levels. The Damon incline is sunk 40 
feet vertically in breccia; it then strikes the schist contact and follows its steep 
westerly dip for the remainder of the distance. The principal stopes on the contact 
vein begin near the point where the contact is reached and continue down below 
level 2; in places they are 20 feet wide. Another large stope has been mined on 
the same vein at the Jerry Johnson incline; it is 40 feet long and reaches 40 feet 
above and 10 feet below the level; the width is from 10 to 50 feet, the greatest width 
being attained just above level 2. The stopes on the Damon vein occur chiefly 
where the flat veins join it. One on level 1, at the junction with the principal flat 
vein, is 8 to 10 feet wide. The most important of these flat veins is that met just 
south of the incline on level 1, 60 feet below the collar of the vertical shaft. This 
flat starts at the Damon vein and dips 10° WSW. It has been stoped 6 feet high 
for over 100 feet westward, and the stopes extend north and south for about 200 
feet. It contains one principal and several smaller oxidized seams in very hard 
breccia. It is said that the whole thickness of this vein was ore and some streaks 
6 inches in width averaged 5 ounces per ton. Just south of the incline and a little 
below level 1 a vein is found which dips about 40° NNW. It is stoped 7 feet high, 
the stope trending northward for about 50 feet and making a considerable body 
where it joins the Damon vein. This stope extends down almost to level 2. 
At the west side of the stope, on the contact vein near the Jerry Johnson incline, 
is the top of a raise which leads down into a stope on a vein dipping 45° NNW. This 
stope extends 30 to 40 .feet below level 3. On level 3 a stope has also been opened 
on a flat vein some 50 feet west of the main shaft. 
