(COLORADO -- GOLD MINING.) Wheeler, Hurlburt, F.L.

(COLORADO -- GOLD MINING.) Wheeler, Hurlburt, F.L. Biddlecom, and W.A. Sherman, Civil and Mining Engineers. Map of the Ouray Gold District, Ouray County, Colo. Large color-printed lithographed map of mining claims in southwestern Colorado with local business advertisement cards printed at upper border. 2 sheets of watermarked bond paper joined, 35¾x62¾ inches overall; some staining and soft creases, small damages to the margins. -Ouray, CO, 1890

Scarce plat of the gold boomtown of Ouray connected from the north by the Denver & Rio Grande railroad branch with scores of named mining claims: Hardscrabble, Mugwump, White Elephant, Big Bob, Joe Dandy, Mephistopheles, Johanna, and Perhaps, to name just a few.