CHAPTER II.-MINES OF GOLD HILL. 
GENERAL INTRODUCTION. 
Gold Hill lies in the northwestern part of the productive area. Its northwestern 
slope (PI. XXII, A), dotted with mines and with piles of waste rock and crowned 
by the conspicuous shaft house of the Anchoria-Leland mine, forms one of the most 
striking and characteristic views visible from the town of Cripple Creek. The hill 
is composed chiefly of the normal phonolitic breccia, bounded on the north and west 
by the schist and gneiss that underlie the town of Cripple Creek and on the south¬ 
west by the Cripple Creek granite. The breccia is cut by a mass of syenite at the 
southwest contact between the breccia and the granite, and by two masses of latite- 
phonolite, one near Anaconda and one in the upper part of Squaw Gulch, southeast 
of the summit of the lull. 
The principal mines are on the western half of the hill. On the northwest are 
the Anchoria-Leland, Jefferson, Geneva, and Half Moon mines, all in breccia. On 
the west are the Moon-Anchor, Midget, Progress-Gold King, and Conundrum mines, 
partly in breccia and partly in gneiss. On the southwest are the Lexington, E. 
Porter Gold King, Mint, Pointer, Accident, and Red Spruce mines, partly in breccia 
and partly in granite and syenite, while on the south is the Anaconda mine in breccia 
and latite-phonolite. 
Gold Hill is penetrated by a number of long adits. The most northerly is the 
Cripple Creek and Gold Hill tunnel, which is about five-eighths of a mile in length. 
It extends from the town of Cripple Creek in an east-southeast direction and at an 
elevation of about 9,500 feet to the Anchoria-Leland shaft. The Good Will tunnel, 
with its portal 32 feet lower and three-eighths of a mile south of the Cripple Creek 
and Gold Hill tunnel, has a general east-northeast course and also connects with the 
Anchoria-Leland shaft. The Ophelia tunnel, at an elevation of 9,268 feet, enters 
the west base of the hill about three-eighths of a mile southwest of the Good Will 
portal and extends with a nearly east course under the south slope of Gold Hill, 
past Anaconda. This tunnel was over 1J miles in length in 1903, and if carried to 
completion will tap the mines of Bull Hill over 1,000 feet below the surface. The 
Anaconda mine also has a long adit which extends for nearly a mile, in a direction 
slightly east of north, from the town of Anaconda under and past the summit of 
Gold Hill. The portal of this adit is at an elevation of nearly 9,500 feet, or about 
the same as the Cripple Creek and Gold Hill tunnel. 
ANCHORIA-LELAND, JEFFERSON, GENEVA, AND HALF MOON MINES. 
INTRODUCTION. 
The Anchoria-Leland mine, situated on the northwest side of Gold Hill, is 
owned by the Anchoria-Leland Mining and Milling Company, of Denver, incor¬ 
porated in 1892, with a capital of $600,000. The company owns the Anchor, 
Anchor No. 2, Midland, Lillian Leland, Chance, City View, and Cottontail claims, 
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