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VICTOR — In a scrubby gulch populated by the crumbling remains of mine works that created fortunes a century ago is the closest thing Wayne Tease will ever have to a grave.
Tease died 25 years ago when he fell down the old mine shaft where he remains entombed.
Now, his family says modern mining is taking away the place they go to remember him.
Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Co. says it needs to expand, and it wants to build a leach facility on land it owns in Squaw Gulch over the old Mary McKinney mine and Tease’s remains.
The company has offered to build a memorial to Tease nearby along Colorado Highway 67, but that’s not where he died and not where he is buried, his family says.
