Page 28 - Vol. 1 Walks In The Black Range - 2nd Edition

West Slope of North Wicks Canyon
The mine workings along the west slope of North Wicks Canyon (other than the Wicks group and the Morning Glory) are typically adits and trenches, like the ones pictured at the right. Photographs in this description, which depict the west slope of North Wick’s Canyon, were taken on August 5, 2016.
George T. Harley, in The Geology and Ore Deposits of Sierra County, New Mexico describes these workings as “on the east side of the long ridge which separates Wicks Gulch and Ready Pay Gulch on the west. Some ore was taken from these workings in years past, but except for sporadic reopening similar to that of the Morning Glory operations, these mines have been idle and are largely caved.” (p. 158)
The photograph to the right shows two of the workings on the west slope, at the top arrow the working is the same as that pictured at the bottom of this page. The photograph immediately below is the working indicated by the lower arrow.
The photograph at the top of the following page shows North Wicks Canyon as seen from Black Peak. The ridge which starts at the center right of the photograph and extends almost to the center left of the image is the west slope of the canyon (east slope of the ridge).
The two workings shown in the photographs here are just barely discernible about a quarter of the way in from the right edge of the image. The Morning Glory Mine is about one quarter of the way in from the right edge of the image.
Mine Workings on West Slope of North Wicks Canyon, East of Hillsboro