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The pay shoot of the Chance lode extended from a point 100 feet southeast of 
the Anchoria-Leland shaft to a little beyond the Jefferson shaft—a length of about 
600 feet. Details of the occurrence of the ore in the Geneva mine were not obtained, 
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but it appears from the mine maps to have occurred near the intersection of the com¬ 
bined Chance lode and City View basalt dike with some cross fissures of north to 
northwest strikes. 
In the Matoa lode the largest and most continuous ore body occurred in the 
Half Moon ground, northeast of the fault vein. Southwest of the fault vein the 
Matoa lode becomes a complex of intersecting fissures and the ore occurred in more 
or less isolated bunches. 
In the Maloney lode the pay shoot extended from the Chance lode into the 
Lexington ground, pitching south at a low angle. Near the Chance lode the bot¬ 
tom of the Maloney ore was about 25 feet above level 1 of the Anchoria-Leland. 
Near the Lexington line, 300 feet farther south, the ore stopped about the same 
distance above level 2. The Lexington mine was not visited, but the main Maloney 
ore shoot apparently did not extend for more than 100 feet beyond the intersection 
with the Potter lode. 
The City View lode is a sheeted zone in breccia which in some places follows the 
City View dike. It contained some ore near the surface, both in the breccia and in 
the dike. The Wardel lode also contained some small bodies of ore between the 
surface and level 4 of the Anchoria-Leland. It is a narrow sheeted zone in breccia. 
The rock is sometimes divided by this sheeting into very thin plates for a width of 5 
or 6 inches, with more widely spaced fissures on each side. Locally the medial part 
of the lode may pass from thinly sheeted to brecciated material. 
UNDERGROUND WATER. 
The first water encountered in the Anchoria-Leland shaft was 653 feet below 
the collar, or 9,486 feet above sea. As the Moon-Anchor mine, however, had been 
pumping for some time ere the Anchoria-Leland reached water, the above level was 
probably below the natural water level. The maximum flow (550 gallons per 
minute) was reached 97 feet below the level of first water. The bottom of the shaft, 
9,029 feet above sea, is now dry. 
MOON-ANCHOR, MIDGET, AND CONUNDRUM MINES. 
INTRODUCTION. 
These three mines, while under separate ownership and management, are 
so closely connected as best to be described together. They are situated on the west 
slope of Gold Hill in the vicinity of the contact between the breccia and the gneiss. 
The Moon-Anchor mine is owned by the Moon-Anchor Consolidated Gold Mines 
(Limited), of London, capitalized at £2,000,000, and comprises the Little Anna 
Rooney, New Moon, and parts of the Anchor and Anchor No. 2 claims. The prop¬ 
erty was originally owned by the Moon-Anchor Gold Mining Company and was sold 
to the English corporation in 1899. Ore was first shipped from the Anchor claim in 
the latter part of 1895, and from the New Moon in 1896. In the latter year the two 
mines, hitherto worked by lessees, were combined as the Moon-Anchor, the new 
