410 GEOLOGY AND GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT. 
Fig. 47.—Vein system on level 11, Findley 
mine; elevation 9,525 feet. 
VEINS. 
The two principal veins are the Findley and the 
Shurtloff No. 2, the latter lying 80 feet east of the 
Findley. Both form, together with the Shurtloff 
No. 1 on the adjacent Stratton propert} r , the most 
northerly extension of the 
great Vindicator system of 
linked veins. The Findley 
is the northerly continua¬ 
tion of one of the Hull 
City veins; its strike is 
N. 31° W., which it main¬ 
tains for a distance of 1,000 
feet; its dip, shown on 
fig. 47, is extremely steep to 
the west-southwest. The 
Shurtloff No. 2, striking 
N. 18° W. and also very 
steep, is first noted near 
the cross vein, 600 feet 
north of the Findley shaft, 
and lias been followed for 
500 feet northward to a 
point where it exhibits a 
tendency to split and turn 
to the northwest. Two 
parallel veins have been 
opened for a short dis¬ 
tance, 100 feet east of the 
Shurtloff shaft, and an¬ 
other lies on level 11, 150 
feet west of the Findley 
vein. An important cross 
vein intersects the Findley 
and the Shurtloff on levels 
10 and 11, 600 feet north 
of the Findley shaft; its 
trend is N. 37° E., and its 
dip very steep to the north- Fig. 48.—Cross section of Findley 
West Vein tllrough Findley shaft look¬ 
ing northwest. 
The main veins are nar¬ 
row sheeted zones, usually with one central seam, 
containing vugs coated with dolomite, quartz 
crystals, and tellurides, and several subordinate 
seams on each side, the total width being usually 
less than 3 feet. The rock is, as a rule, almost 
