Breckenridge 1: Sallie Barber Traditional Cache
rolfdenver: This geocache has been muggled - the entire cache container - an ammo box - is gone. I can't get up to the location often anymore, so I'm archiving the cache and hope someone else takes up the cause. It's been a good run! So long, Sallie Barber! - Rolf Asphaug, Centennial, Colorado
Breckenridge 1: Sallie Barber
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This cache is located at 10,685 feet near the scenic and historic Sallie Barber Mine. It's an ammo can best accessed in summer months or when snow is minimal. Access is by foot, bike or ski/snowshoe only; that and altitude account for the higher rating. The original cache contents include the book "Mollie" written by my wife's great-great-grandmother, Mollie Dorsey Sanford; "Desert Solitaire" by Edward Abbey; a CD of Louis Armstrong tunes; and a beautiful carved wooden spoon.
Congratulations to sassydil for FTF 9/9/11!
From the Summit Historical Society: "In Australia Gulch, on the north face of Bald Mountain, sits a hardrock mine with the captivating name of Sallie Barber. Was Sallie the wife, girl friend, daughter, or mother of prospector and Missourian J.H. Johnston, who, in 1880, discovered the lode and bestowed the name? The mine's primary yield was zinc; silver also was mined. Neither was in sufficient quantity to make the operation successful.
"The Sallie Barber Mine is significant to Summit County as an example of a small but relatively long-time producer of zinc, from 1880 to 1911 and then during World War I. Prior to its abandonment after the war, the mine consisted of a shafthouse that contained a two-way bell system, a boiler, engines, a hoisting and pumping plant, a 365-ft. shaft with a manway and three levels. Farther down the road is another lode mine, the Little Sallie Barber. It had a 300-ft. shaft.
"Interpretive signage, remnants of the old mine including the headframe and tipple and spectacular views afforded by the mine's location at the top of Barney Ford Hill vie for the visitor's attention."
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