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them are the Humbug, Mount Auburn, Tiger and Pinon. These have veins and a mineral showing.
A group of seven claims lie just at the western edge of Kingston
that are the property of Burke and Skipp. They all show denned
veins and mineral. The principal ones are the Homestake, Rising
Sun and Enterprise.
The Todos Santos is south of town. It has been opened in
several places, and shows a crevice with favorable indications. NORTH PERCHA.
Although identical in formation with the Middle Percha, North Percha's mines thus far are those which belong to the quartz ledge variety, described elsewhere in this pamphlet. The amount of de- velopment upon the North Percha mines is far less than is found upon the middle stream properties. A sufficient amount, however, has been done to demonstrate that there are a number of very valu- able mines already there, and to show conclusively that there are many others destined to achieve notoriety in the role of ore pro- ducers.
The Solitaire mine, or as it was originally known, the Blacky, is at the head of North Percha properties. There are few who keep track of the mineral development of the west but have heard the stories of its wonderfully rich silver float, and of the subsequent sale of the property to Senator Tabor, the bonanza king of Colorado. The Solitaire is located along the course of a quartz ledge which runs in a general direction a little to the east of north and west of south. At the point where it is covered by the Solitaire location, the course is about north and south. The quartz of the ledge with- in the boundaries of the claim is heavily charged with silver sul- phide, chloride and bromide of silver. Originally the ledge appear- ed upon the surface to a much greater extent than now, but the glacial action responsible for the creation of the gulch which lies west of the openings on the vein, broke it over, and the consequence isthatsouthofthecrestofthehilluponwhichthemineis located the ledge is apparently broken off and lost. The ledge continues to
the north, running out of the lime and into and through a large
porphyry dyke, but "pinching" close up in its passage through it. In fact so tight is this "pinch" that it is only traceable in many
places by close observation of the pieces of porphyry float rock,