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A short distance west of FR-157 the remains of the Barnes homestead can be found (D). See Spell of the Black Range on the Black Range Website.
Just west and north (on the hillside of Bald Hill - marked C on the map at the beginning of the article and shown below and on the following page) is the Ingersoll Mine referenced in Spell of the Black Range. The Ingersoll had an adit run of about 1500 feet. The ore was mostly silver, polybasite, and
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chalcopyrite in a vein 3” to 8” in width. The rock strata is rhyolite from the Pliocene (5.3 to 2.6 Ma). At one point Barnes was the owner of the Ingersoll and then sold half ownership to others. What all of this meant to a family living in the Black Range in the late 1800’s is poignantly described in the book.
