A Bearing House

Gene Kooper · 2017-10-29T00:11:00Z

Many years ago when I was the PLSC Executive Director, I was asked to put together a cover for the PLSC journal Side Shots to celebrate its 40th year of publication. I decided to create a collage of the cover designs over the years. Because of my interest in mineral surveys the May 1980 issue stuck out. The May 1980 cover has two photos of a "Bearing House" located near the Alamosa River in Conejos County, CO.Side Shots May 1980 The two photos are attributed to Harry Mahoney, Pike-San Isabel National Forest. I contacted the U.S. Forest Service this summer with the hope of getting scans of the original photos. So far the photos have not been found, so I ended up scanning the cover.The bearing house is mentioned in the field notes for Sur. No. 19480, the Cliff, Surprise and Cornucopia lodes. I attached the plat (not on GLO Records web site) below. The snippet of the field notes for Cor. No. 3 of the Surprise lode calls for the SE Cor. of the Euridice barn. The log barn is shown on the original and amended plats of Sur. No. 7760, the Orpheus, Euridice and Louisa lodes. Here are the GLO Records linkshere is the snippet of the amended field notes of Sur. No. 7760 that describes the "log barn" on the Euridice lode. I do not know the age of the photos. I assume that Mr. Mahoney was a friend and collegue of Art Hipp. Close up of the scribing showing a "3" for the corner number (upper left) and "19480" for the mineral survey number. Unfortunately, the log barn and other log buildings listed in the field notes for Sur. No. 7760 are no longer standing. Here is a Google Earth image that shows a portion of the outline of the log barn (center of image). To the east and in the trees are three collapsed log buildings shown on the plats of Sur. No. 7760. The dimensions of the barn are 50 ft. NE-SW and 28 ft. NW-SE. Attached files MS19480.pdf (1.8 MB)

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It was certainly the oldest and coolest corner accessory that I have ever found. Unfortunately, the corner which it was an accessory to falls in the westbound lane of a rural State highway, so the original rock mound and post are long obliterated. I eventually found some notes from a USFS survey done in 1975 (which calls to the found grinding rock hole) where they retraced the original claim boundary, and another survey by the DOT in 1976 which confirmed the USFS positions.

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