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Table 4. Mining claims in Lake Valley district.
[ac, acres; —, no data. To convert acres to hectares, multiply by 0.40]
Mine name/alias
Annie P
Apache
Arizona
Bacon (Francis Bacon)
Carolina (originally Lincoln)
Columbia Compromise
Comstock (Looney shaft)
Emporia
Good Luck Jim Finch Last Chance
Little Boy Little One
New Era
North Carolina (originally Stanton)
Plata
Sierra Grande millsite
Silver Reef (Silver Rut)
South Carolina Stone Cabin Strieby (Bella)
Size
19.67 ac —
18.71 ac 18.29 ac 17.733 ac
13.65 ac —
8.08 ac
17.04 ac
—
— 20.14 ac
18.46 ac
no application
— 19.74 ac
20.42 ac
4.9 ac patent
17.94 ac
19.99 ac 18.741 ac 12.93 ac
Ownership
Lake Valley Mines Co. (estate of Lucius G. Fisher)
Lake Valley Mines Co. (estate of Lucius G. Fisher)
Lake Valley Mines Co. (estate of Lucius G. Fisher)
Lake Valley Mines Co. (estate of Lucius G. Fisher)
Lake Valley Mines Co. (estate of Lucius G. Fisher)
Lake Valley Mines Co. (estate of Lucius G. Fisher)
Lake Valley Mines Co. (estate of Lucius G. Fisher)
Lake Valley Mines Co. (estate of Lucius G. Fisher)
Lake Valley Mines Co. (estate of Lucius G. Fisher)
Central Mining Co., Santa Fe (1960) D. S. Miller ptd, F. H. Perry (1947)
Mineral survey No.
532A 894 717C 892 657
893
1810
717E
717H
— 1746 717F
717D 134
246 656
717A 532B 717B 658
425, 1122 717G
Patent Date patented No.
14982 5/17/1889 22958 5/13/1893
A paleochannel filled with poorly consolidated gravel cuts across the mining district and overlies the Bridal Cham­ ber (Creasey and Granger, 1953). The gravels, as mapped by Creasey and Granger (1953), lie in the present-day topo­ graphic low that generally follows the contact between the Alamogordo and Nunn Members of the Lake Valley Lime- stone. Clasts include pebbles and cobbles of jasperoid, rhyo­ lite, and limestone; porphyry near the base of the paleochannel may be part of a large boulder or a flow. The lower part of
the gravels is locally cemented by calcite and silica. The deposits in the paleochannel were described as an igneous
“porphyrite” by Clark (1895), who noted a spatial relation- ship between the “porphyrite” and underlying ore. Creasey and Granger (1953) mapped the unit as an early Tertiary con­ glomerate that predated Eocene volcanic rocks, but Jicha (1954) mapped the unit as Quaternary gravels. We consider the paleochannel as younger than the Santa Fe Group and deposited about the same time as nearby Quaternary terrace (Qtg) and pediment (Qpy) gravels (Chapter A, pl. 1). The gravels probably extended southward and were continuous with pediment gravels on the southeast, but the intervening gravels have since been stripped by erosion.
42 Geologic Investigations in the Lake Valley Area, Sierra County, New Mexico
Lake Valley Mines Co. (estate of Lucius G. Fisher)
Lake Valley Mines Co. (estate of Lucius G. Fisher)
Lake Valley Mines Co. (estate of Lucius G. Fisher)
—
W. C. Hadley-Lake Valley Mines
Lake Valley Mines Co. (estate of Lucius G. Fisher)
Lake Valley Mines Co. (estate of Lucius G. Fisher)
Lake Valley Mines Co. (estate of Lucius G. Fisher)
W. C. Hadley-Lake Valley Mines J. H. Winslow (1967)
Lake Valley Mines Co. (estate of Lucius G. Fisher)
Co
Co
— 22385 17027
22959
832415
—
—
none 654504 —
—
none
none 17028
18945 21009 — 16976
— —
11/20/1891 2/19/1932 1/10/1891
5/13/1893
11/15/1921
11/20/1891
11/20/1891
— 11/25/1918 11/20/1891
11/20/1891 —
— 1/10/1891
11/20/91 4/23/1892 11/20/1891 12/26/1890
— 11/20/1891