Annual report upon explorations and surveys in the department of the Missouri . tions being the lodes of silver, Avhence the river and mount-ains derive their name, and the placer deposits claimed to exist along the stream. bakers park. Passing up the valley of the Animas through the lovely part which the river watersand the Grand Canon beyond, an immense gorge, varying in depth from the summits ofthe quartzite peaks on either side 3,000 to as great as 5,000 feet, Bakers Park is reached,noteworthy for its topographical features and for the mining interests here extendsfrom the mout
Annual report upon explorations and surveys in the department of the Missouri . tions being the lodes of silver, Avhence the river and mount-ains derive their name, and the placer deposits claimed to exist along the stream. bakers park. Passing up the valley of the Animas through the lovely part which the river watersand the Grand Canon beyond, an immense gorge, varying in depth from the summits ofthe quartzite peaks on either side 3,000 to as great as 5,000 feet, Bakers Park is reached,noteworthy for its topographical features and for the mining interests here extendsfrom the mouth of Mineral Creek up the Animas as far as Eureka, 10 milesalong the river, with a general width of about £ mile. The park proper, however, isonly the lower part, where at Mineral Creek it is 2 miles wide, narrowing to the north,about 3 miles in length along the stream, containing perhaps 2,500 acres. We here pause to note this remarkable level piece of land, completely encircled bymountains rising abruptly about 4,000 feet above it, excessively steep as are all the Chifline of peaks andWd^es of the Animals watevsned,Angle H. 49°W magnetic.
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