298 GEOLOGY AND GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT. 
company declaring its first dividend in the summer of 1897, and continuing to ship 
ore up to the transfer of the mine to its present owners. 
The Midget mine, comprising the Protection, Maryland, Sunnyside, Midget, 
Cumberland, and parts of several other claims, lies southwest of the Moon-Anchor 
and is owned by the Midget Gold Mining and Milling Company, of Colorado Springs, 
capitalized at 81,000,000. The company also holds a lease on a part of the Bonanza 
King claim. 
The Conundrum mine, owned by the Anchoria-Leland Mining and Milling Com¬ 
pany, lies immediately northwest of the Moon-Anchor and Midget mines. Prior to 
1900 a little prospecting only had been done on the Conundrum claim. During the 
last three years, however, it has been developed into a productive mine. 
PRODUCTION. 
Prior to its sale to the present owners the Moon-Anchor mine produced consid¬ 
erable good ore and paid dividends amounting to 8261,000. Of late years it has 
not been so productive and has been worked chiefly by lessees. 
The gross production of the Midget mine, as furnished by the company, is as 
follows: 
Production of Midget mine, 1900-1904. 
1900 . $318,973.65 
1901 ... 121,710.01 
1902 . 77,269.85 
1903 . . 143, 9S9. 84 
1904 . 96, 932. 34 
758,875.69 
The mine also produced a little ore in 1895, before the incorporation of the 
present company. 
UNDERGROUND DEVELOPMENT. 
The Moon-Anchor shaft was a little over 870 feet deep at the time of visit. 
Sinking had been begun by the company in December, 1903, the shaft at that time 
being about 835 feet deep. On January 9, 1904, water was encountered 870 feet 
below the collar, and work was stopped. This water, however, subsequently disap¬ 
peared, and sinking was resumed near the end of the same month. The upper level, 
known as level 4, is 422 feet below the collar, which is 9,864.73 feet above sea 
level. Below this are levels 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 at intervals of 104, 103, 65, 47, and 59 
feet, respectively. The principal drifts run nearly northeast-southwest. 
The Midget shaft, 550 feet southwest of the Moon-Anchor, has its collar 9,796.2 
feet above sea level, and at the time of visit was about 800 feet deep. There are 
ten main levels. Level 5 is about 300 feet below the collar. Below 5 the levels are at 
approximately 100-foot intervals, except levels 9 and 10, which are 60 feet apart. 
The main drifts in the Midget fall into three classes—a series of drifts running in 
general north-northeast and south-southwest on the Midget lode, a series running 
east-northeast and west-northwest on the Bonanza King lode, and a series of nearly 
north-south drifts on the Conundrum lode. These drifts in general converge in the 
vicinity of the gneiss and breccia contact southwest of the Midget shaft. 
