My first try at posting images and links in the new forum.?ÿ Here are a couple of cropped images from a 1908 mineral survey above I-70 near Georgetown, Colorado.?ÿ The original plat had to chop the claims into two sections to fit on the drawing sheet.?ÿ While it may not be readily apparent that the mineral survey (MS 18678) is an exhortation of the riches to be had in Colorado, the claim names are carefully chosen.
The key is to attach the bottom image to the left of the top image to make a contiguous group of claims.
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Or you can read the claims in the plat description shown below.
The plat can also be downloaded from the GLO Records web site Sur. No. 18678
That guy loves commas even more than Nate does.?ÿ (No offense, Nate, but you're the most prolific comma artist I've ever encountered.)
Hey Jim, the GLO plat format was to separate every mining claim name with a comma, except for the last one (no adherence to the Oxford comma).
Great names!?ÿ Did they produce?
Ken
Great names!?ÿ Did they produce?
Ken
I don't have any information regarding their production.?ÿ The only mining improvements shown on the plat are the discoveries for each claim, so I would guess that they were/are not producers.?ÿ The claims are currently owned by Historic Georgetown, Inc.
Gene,
Just curious?ÿsince congress passed a moratorium on the?ÿpatenting of mining claims where does most of the demand come from?ÿfor the?ÿretracement of?ÿthese old mineral surveys?
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Hey Jim, the GLO plat format was to separate every mining claim name with a comma, except for the last one (no adherence to the Oxford comma).
Now I can't get this song out of my head. Check out the car and a relative of one of our own.?ÿ
Hey Jim, the GLO plat format was to separate every mining claim name with a comma, except for the last one (no adherence to the Oxford comma).
Now I can't get this song out of my head. Check out the car and a relative of one of our own.?ÿ
Gene,
Just curious?ÿsince congress passed a moratorium on the?ÿpatenting of mining claims where does most of the demand come from?ÿfor the?ÿretracement of?ÿthese old mineral surveys?
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Sorry Williwaw, I didn't notice your post.?ÿ Prior to the moratorium there were only a few mineral surveys conducted in Colorado.?ÿ Only 46 mineral surveys were approved by the BLM from 1967 through 1994 in Colorado.
The majority of my clients are mining companies.?ÿ I've had 2 clients in the last 9 years that requested a retracement survey be done who actually built a house on the mining claim.
