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out on a shelf rock on the side of the fault which is 3,000 feet' deep. We came across a fracture in the side of the fault. Water ran down through it into the canyon.

    "’We let ourselves down from one shelf to the next until we got to the bottom of the fault with plenty of placer sands. Even on the shelf rock were one or two feet of rich sands. Yes, there is a fault 900 feet lower than the opening I went down in (but) full of dirt washed into it for ages.’

     “Again he repeated with a slight addition: ‘I found a way to get down through 1800 feet of lime caverns... on down into a fault in granite and quartz underlying the lime formation. The lime is 1800 feet deep (with) caves down to a fault which is 300 to 500 feet wide... 3,000 feet deep... don't let them kid youl, there's gold in the caves. It all lays below the lime formation and on the shelf rock on the fault walls and on the bottom.’

     “I found Earl Dorr working as one of the half-dozen employees of a mining company operating a small pilot mill on the desert out of Victorville, California. This miniature of the giant mills used at working mines to crush and grind ore was operated for test runs on sample batches from various places to determine their values. Dorr had cut his teeth on mining: ‘I was running hoist at the age of 18,’ he said, ‘for Winfield Scott Stratton on the Independence mine in Cripple Creek, one of the richest.’ Enough said. Any miner who could boast initiation in fabulous Cripple Creek, Colorado, was presumed to know his rocks. During the period of my association with this company where Earl was a respected worker, I talked at length with him and ate with the entire personnel at one table.

     “Earl has passed ‘over the divide’ (preceded by the mining engineer, W. P. Morton) since those days of 1949-50. The validity of his personal story depends upon two factors:  Earl Dorr's knowledge of mining, of