One last look at the Charley Ross mine head frame against the blue sky. There was an unique head frame, shaft house and mill building on the Jennie Mine a short distance to the Southeast. It was in beautiful shape in the late 1980s when I had seen it last. This was a patented mining claim meaning that the surface and underground was owner by a person and they payed taxes just like any other property. A goverment agency, probably the BLM coersted the owner into destroying this head frame. This is going on in many mining district. The government is forcing the owners to seal up the entrance to the mines on the owners property. This is being done under the claim of safety of people. Why should they be concerned of the safety of some one that is trespassing on private property. Trespassers have no right to be there any way.