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Scene 16 Assay Room
Scene 17 Note stick from Al Winters
Outside Creede to the west
North Clear Creek Falls most photographed waterfall in Colorado
View of the Commodore Mine
  View of Amethyst Mine on right and Last Chance Mine above left.JPG - These two mines were the richest silver producing mines of the Creede District during the 1890's. The lower buildings on the right are the ore house and main support buildings of the 5th level of the Amethyst Mine. The Amethyst workings consisted of 12 levels. Silver float material in boulders weighing up to a ton and vein outcrops assaying as much as 1500 ounces of silver per ton were found at the original discovery site. Aesthetic amethystine quartz bearing ore gave the Amethyst its name. Uphill across West Willow Creek to the left are several buildings of the Last Chance Mine. The Last Chance was developed by a 1400-foot incline shaft with 13 levels. Silver ore on the Chance 6 level was more than 100 feet wide.  
Two fourteeners Uncompahgre in center and Wetterhorn to the left
 
 
 
 

These two mines were the richest silver producing mines of the Creede District during the 1890's. The lower buildings on the right are the ore house and main support buildings of the 5th level of the Amethyst Mine. The Amethyst workings consisted of 12 levels. Silver float material in boulders weighing up to a ton and vein outcrops assaying as much as 1500 ounces of silver per ton were found at the original discovery site. Aesthetic amethystine quartz bearing ore gave the Amethyst its name. Uphill across West Willow Creek to the left are several buildings of the Last Chance Mine. The Last Chance was developed by a 1400-foot incline shaft with 13 levels. Silver ore on the Chance 6 level was more than 100 feet wide.
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