we all went hiking today. this mine site is at a nearby town. The story goes that a man named Heneage Griffin owned the seven thiry mine. so named because unlike other mines that started work at 6:30 am - he started his an hour later. Griffin's fiancee was found dead in his room the night before their wedding! He was a reclusive person and joined the Colo. gold rush living not in town but up on the mountain near his mine. he was an accomplished violinist so he often played from sunset to dark to the delight of the towns people below. they would stay outside and listen an applaud at the conclusion. On June 10 1887, the audience heard his final note followed by a gunshot. The miners walked up the steep trail to his home to find Griffin lying in a crude rock hewn tomb of his own digging. A suicide note asked that he be buried here. his brother put up this monument.
