422 GEOLOGY AND GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT. 
good ore has been found on level 12. Another, the “ Jumbo,” is very large and 
contains much quartz as filling and replacement, but no values are encountered 
(fig. 51, p. 419). 
DETAILS OF SOUTHERN VEINS. 
The Christmas or La Bella vein can not be followed far northward from the 
boundary of the Christmas mine. It has been stoped in the Vindicator practically 
from the surface down to a depth of 500 feet from No. 6 shaft, though the stopes 
are not more than 100 feet long; they connect with Christmas workings. The vein 
has also been opened and stoped on levels 8 and 12. On level 8 the stopes are 50 
feet long and 6 feet wide. On level 12, 750 feet below the surface, the rock is very 
hard and tight and the small stopes are located close to the Christmas line. 
The Sigel and New veins have no surface workings, but are opened by a cross¬ 
cut from No. 6 shaft on level 5, 350 feet below the surface, and continue into Golden 
Cycle ground. The strike is here N. 60° W. On level 8, in the main shaft, the 
veins are narrow, but with well-defined walls. The central seam of the New vein, 
which lies 80 feet southwest of the Sigel, contains 3 ounces per ton in places. On 
level 12 there are important shoots, the Sigel being stoped for 130 feet from tne 
Golden Cycle line and 160 feet high, while the New vein, which here branches from 
the Sigel near the boundary line, is stoped for a distance of 100 feet. The veins 
are here partly oxidized and show a narrow central seam with several tight par¬ 
allel cracks. Galena and zinc blende, with quartz and calaverite, coat the seams. 
The stopes are 4 or 5 feet in width. The screenings which constitute ore contain 
about 3 ounces per ton. 
On level 14, 950 feet below the surface, both veins are again opened and the 
New vein stoped 5 feet wide. It consists of a narrow, partly oxidized seam with 
tellurides and coated with dolomite. 
CHRISTMAS MINE. 
Between the Vindicator and the Golden Cycle mines lies the privately owned 
Christmas claim. Although a small property, with the only vein thus far produc¬ 
tive confined to the southwest corner, the mine has a reported production of 
$330,000. It is opened by a main shaft with eight levels, the lowest 605 feet 
below the collar, which has an elevation of 10,159 feet. Fig. 53 shows the posi¬ 
tion of the veins near the shaft, according to surveys of V. G. Hills. The drifting 
is confined chiefly to the southwest corner of the claim, though there is a crosscut 
250 feet long northeast to the Lillie line and a longer crosscut due east to the same 
line on the 514-foot level. The mine is now worked on a small scale by lessees. 
On the surface a narrow northeasterly trending belt of breccia separates an 
area of latite-phonolite on the southeast from the Vindicator area of syenite on 
the northwest. As shown underground the breccia contains a large amount of 
latite-phonolite, and the contacts separating it from this rock are very indistinct. 
The stations at the 239- and 515-foot levels are in breccia. In the upper level 
breccia continues northeast through the 250-foot crosscut and is cut by a narrow 
