Liquid Gold – No, the Other Liquid Gold
Today’s Denver Post has this story on the London Mine selling water to the city of Aurora, CO.
This is a photo above American Flats looking east, down the Mosquito Creek drainage. The waste piles in the left center are the North London Mine. To the left of the piles are the Mother Lode (MS 204), Emma Nevada (MS 4348) and Silver Monument (MS 15714). These claims are involved on one of the more important DoI Land Decisions, Sinnott v. Jewett (33 L.D. 91).
For those interested in the decision which cites a plethora of court cases that uphold the principle of monuments controlling over course and distance, here is a link to an article I wrote in the August 2009 issue of Side Shots. The cover is a photo of Mosquito Creek with London Mountain in the background (looking back at the above photo).
For completeness, here is a copy of the Land Decision. I appended a scan of the index card for the Mother Lode. It was surveyed in 1876 and patented in 1878. In 1907, the land owner requested an amended plat because, ‘to bring the claim as staked down to the statutory length of 1500 ft” with a reference to a GLO Departmental “N” letter (8324). Yep, the land owner got scared that the original monuments showed the claim to be 1635 long instead of the statutory maximum length of 1500 ft and requested that the Land Office permit him to “lop off” 135 ft so that it would fit the insanity that occurred during the Binger Hermann period.
An aside for Dave Karoly. Hope you enjoy the photos in the Denver Post article of one of the areas we visited during your 2009 trip.
My avatar is a granite porphyry stone that is Cor. No. 1 of the Mother Lode, which also happens to be Cor. No. 1 of the Mater Lode (insanity lode staked over the top of the Mother Lode). It is also Cor. No. 4 of the Towne Lode, the field notes of which state the other two corners are as staked on the ground, NOT as patented.
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