296 GEOLOGY AND GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT. 
lessees’ shafts on the Chance lode all passed through a barren zone, extending from 
75 to 100 feet below the surface, before they reached the top of the ore (fig. 26). 
The Maloney lode exhibits a similar barren zone near the surface, and contains no 
ore below level 2 in the Anchoria-Leland mine (fig. 27). In the Lexington mine, 
however, just south of the Anchoria-Leland, the ore is said to have extended to 
greater depth. 
