Stone cabin remains at the Baker / Homeward Bound mining site below
the cliffs near Kessler Peak - c. 2005
Copyright
2005 - Donald Winegar - Tintic Images
Location data
QUICK LOCATION PATH: Utah / Salt
Lake County / Big Cottonwood District / South Fork or Cardiff Fork / Kessler Peak
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Approximate GPS Location:
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40.37.346 N - 111.40.003 W (field) |
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Approximate Elevation:
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9913' (field)
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30 x 60 Minute Map:
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SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
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7.5 Minute Map:
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DROMEDARY PEAK, UTAH
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Mineral Survey Plat
Below is a copy of the Mineral Survey Plat for the Baker Lode Mining
Claim, Big Cottonwood Mining District, Mineral District #5, Mineral Survey #24, Lot #60, dated September 6 & 7, 1876. The
original claim was 200 feet wide, and 1300 feet long, running East to West and encompassing 5.969 acres of ground.
The Plat shows the discovery marker near the center of the claim on the East slope of Kessler
Peak near the Carbonate Claim. At the time of the survey, the Baker Claim was being worked by 1 tunnel and several open cuts.
The tunnel was in 137 feet and 5 open cuts averaged about 12 feet of workings each.
There was at least one cabin at the workings, but it was just outside the boundaries of the
mining claim. The plat does not mention the size of the cabin as others do, but having visited the site, there are now in
the area scant remains of two rock or stone cabins about 8 feet square each.
It is also worth noting that the claim of the Baker Lode overlaps the claim of the previously
located "Homeward Bound Claim", so much so that nearly half of the newer claim covers ground already claimed.
Base Plat is from original scans by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
Modified
digital map image Copyright 2011 - THRP - Tintic Images
Detail From larger 1902 Cottonwood - American Fork - Park City Claim
Map showing the location and surrounding claims. THRP - Winegar Collection
What remains
Only the stone cabin remains shown above and the caved portal of the
old workings are at this site. No structures remain standing.
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