Id No. (Mine / 1902 map):
193
Type:
Mine
Date Located / Formed:
09.04.1892
Location:
Raven Hill
Location Map Description:
Discovery / Formed by:
Status:
Destroyed in Open Pit
Fate details:
Owned by:
- O.P. Townsend
-> 1893-10-23 [claim Map]
-> 1897-06-02 [Amended claim Map]
- et al. (and Others)
-> 1893-10-23 [claim Map]
-> 1897-06-02 [Amended claim Map]
- War Eagle Consolidated Mines Company
-> 1921-07-09 [reported As Owner]
Known claims:
Claim Links:
Location Claim Description:
Patented Date:
Mineral Certificate No.:
0
General Land Office No.:
0
Known Transportation Connection:
Extra Info/Details [Linked at One Time to the Entity]:
Known Producing Info:
General notes:
From info I am able to gather from various map sources, the USGS cartographers on the USGS 1903 topo-map messed up here and marked the Blue Flag Discovery Shaft as the Brigadier, while shafts for the Brigadier operations are further southwest.
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This is instead the Blue Flag Discovery Shaft location! Both Plat Maps linked to this lode are quite boring; the Discovery Shaft is near the west end of the claim, with three more Shafts south and east of that.
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The main working Blue Flag Mine Shaft I first found thanks to a map I got from a eBay seller focusing around the Joe Dandy, as on that map, the Main Working Shaft of the Blue Flag is shown all the way at the top and I could use claim lines to figure out which structure it was on the USGS 1903 topo-map!
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On the Amended Plat Map of the lode claim, ground is lost to both the Kentucky Belle lode and even more to the Twin Sister No. 1 lode, or possible the Sentinel lode, hard to tell for sure, except it is no longer ground belonging to the Blue Flag lode/mine.
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There has also been made another shaft near the Discovery Shaft not shown on the original Plat/map, but no structures or anything really useful is shown on the Plat Map.