476 GEOLOGY AND GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT. 
70° SW. Neither lode has been followed for more than a few feet north of the junc¬ 
tion. About 200 feet south-southwest from the shaft, near the northwest corner 
of the Dillon claim, is the Par Value vein, which strikes N. 8° W. and intersects the 
Stonehouse lode. In general there are in the mine two intersecting sets of fissure 
zones, one striking a few degrees west of north, represented by the Monument and 
Par Value lodes, and one striking nearly northwest, represented by the Kurtz and 
Stonehouse lodes. The Kurtz lode has not been identified below the 285-foot level. 
GEOLOGICAL FEATURES. 
The general country rock of the Monument is the same granite that occurs in 
the Dillon and Strong mines. The same “basalt” dike noted in the Dillon (p. 477) 
passes through the Monument workings west of the shaft, running nearly parallel 
with the Monument lode. No phonolite dikes were noted in the workings, but the 
dike which occurs in the Dillon east of the shaft (p. 477) may, perhaps, be cut in the 
eastern part of the 309-foot Monument level. No attempt was made to determine 
this point at the time of visit. 
FORM AND STRUCTURE OF TIIE ORE BODIES. 
The ore of the Monument occurs as short pay shoots in bodies which are struc¬ 
turally narrow mineralized sheeted zones in the granite. The sheeted zone of the 
Monument vein is from 3 to 4 feet wide, but has produced very little ore. The 
Kurtz lode, however, which is similar in structure, contains good ore above the 285- 
foot level and has been stoped for a length of P25 feet on the 207-foot level. It is 
noteworthy that very little ore has been found at the junction of the Kurtz and 
Monument lodes, the ore on the Kurtz usually beginning a few feet away from the 
Monument. The Kurtz pay shoot is the longest known in the mine. On the 475- 
foot level a narrow pay shoot ha: been stoped for about 100 feet on a sheeted zone 
which lies 70 feet west of the shaft between the Monument and Par Value lodes and 
strikes N. 17° W. This zone of Assuring is apparently not known on the level above. 
Near the south end of this same level another pay shoot occurs in the Par Value 
lode, extending north and south for 20 to 25 feet from the intersection of this lode 
by the Stonehouse. 
CHARACTER OF ORE. 
There was no opportunity at the time of visit for studying typical exposures 
of the ore. Although no good specimens were seen, the original ore probably con¬ 
sists of sylvanite or calaverite deposited in the crevices of the fissure zones. It is 
usually more or less oxidized. 
DILLON MINE. 
INTRODUCTION. 
The Dillon is a small mine situated near the northeastern limit of the town of 
Victor. The Dillon claim lies immediately west of the Strong and east of the Gran¬ 
ite claim. It is cut into by some of the older claims of the Portland company, par- 
