THE SUMPTER MINER
Wednesday, April 6, 1904
1 1
WHAT BONTA ROAD WILL
00 FOR QUARTZBURG
Zoeth Houser, of The Standard, Tells How
it Will Develop The
Country.
which was Deselected last year ou ac
couiit of the demands ou the mints
fur turniiiK out h large iimoutit of
s pec 1 11 1 silver coinage for the Philip
pluu islands. The tolnl FeliriiHry
coinage was 8117,100,850. of which
e:ir,;u:i,roo was in gold. 81,475,000
in direr iiml 8'2'2,:i50, in live-cent
pieces. For the Ilrst time iu many
mouths there uiih do copper coinage
in February, licsides the domestic
coinage, the iiiIiiIh turned out 1), 5 1T, -000
silver coins for the Philippines
iu February. Exchange.
nnlli llnuser, vice president of the will ho the milking of tin; section.
Standard compiiuy, mid also who has and why it should not receive nil tlio
liud charge of the development work , encouragement posslhle Is hnrd to
nl the mini) for tint piist few mouths,
ciinm in from tint prnpeity Thoisdny
ou IiIh way to Pendleton to visit his
family.
Mr. Ilmiser hiniight iu with him h
understand. There lire hundreds of
ledges iu the district which litis, ore
which it will pay to ship to the
smelter, hut which must of necessity
lay idle ou ncroiiut of the transput--
lino linn nt gold-cobalt samples taken tntinii d Illicit 1 1 Ids. If the loud is
from tint face of I he .Staiidaid drift I built, and I luive not the remotest
No. 1. While no nssny tests have doubt hut Unit It will he, you will
lienii niacin, Mr. llouser thinks the see the (Juartzhiirg dislilct and the
siimples will tun much higher than John Day country getioiallv, n verl
those meuli'iiied iu 'riiursdny's Miner j tnlde heehive lis fm ns itiduetry and
which went hellitr I hull 807 lo the ton activity hid concerned. It will he
iu gold. He Iiiisch his conclusion on the making of Humptor also. Sump
the fact that the present samples! tor will no douht get a branch In
show a much higher per cent outline, and even if it doesn't right
oolmlt than the foimer, and it Is the. away the road will give trauspurtn
cobalt which carries the pheuomo-i Hon for Oiiartzhurg ore to the
CRYSTALIZE0
FORMATIONS
nally high gold values.
Mr. Iliiuser is very enthusiastic
over Ilia ilontii railroad, iih ho natu
rally would lie, sluco tli'i lino will go
mi th In '200 yards of the Htandard
imlne. Itcgardiug this ho says:
"I do not think that n single
-doubt can lie urged relative to the
oiiHtruol(nti of this road. Quartz
llatrg people and mine owners are mil
Mimlly much elated nvoi the prospects
'of the ronil, since It means so much
'for their county and interests. It
smelter; and start the smelter up
mid you will not very long hear the
cry of quiet times iu town."
Mr. Ilousor says that a good deal
of work is lielug done in the Quartz
Inirg district. The Standard, of
course, Is making excellent develop
ment headway, as previous repot ta
have shown. The Uoppernpnlls is
pushing work with satisfactory re
sults, and Walling & Timet, of the
Dixie Mountain have at) enomii aging
show I tig.
KtlAIIVt PROW IN
WIDE AND NARROW VEINS
That lingo veins of low guide ote(
me not the only ones that pay to work i
has otleu hceii proven In Colorado,
.Wlvniia. California, llahnand dec
whom. The large mine, gcuctully
spenkuig, however, is more popular
with iuxestois, as It tcpicseuts quail
tity, and the tact is recognized that,
given a large quantity of oie, with
model ale valines and luctago condi
tions, a great mid claiming Industry
can he liuilt up, which, under com
petent imiueucmciit, will prove a
protltaMn enterprise.
'(heroine, however, many small
mines, thoso having moderate width
fif vein, lint iu which the ore Is of
eiich giade as to insure prollts as
largo as those derived from opera
tions of gi eater magnitude. The
mines of tlniHS Valley and Nevada
City, California, ate all of small or
niodeiato sbe, yet these mines have
proven very prntltahle for many
years.
I'h a l'',iireku-Idaho shoot, near
!niHH Valley, which produced over
925, 000,000, was a vein luit two or
three feet in width. The Houlsby
mine, at Houlsby, in Tuolumne co
unty, Calllfornla, has produced over
0,000, 000, mid Uuveln rarely
three feet wide. The Sheep Itauch
mine, in Calaveras couuty, Cali
fornia, discovered about 1870, hut
lieeti worked to a depth of 1,'JOO feet,
and Is credited with a production of
over 8:1,000.000 This vein is never
over four feet in width, and is mostly
less than two feet.
In Colorado ate veins inuumer
aide less than two leet wide, which
hate produced millions of dollars at
large prollt Small veins, when good,
ate usually very uood, hut the man
agement of a mine having a small
vein requires as much knowledge as
that essential to the operation of a
large one, for there are many ditllcult
problems iu the development and ex
ploitation of small veins, which me
almost unknown iu large oie de
posits. Among these are the faulting of
the vein, the sudden piuchtiig of the
ore shoot, the unexpected influx of
large.
volumes of water, Midden changes
In the character of the ore, besides
numerous other annoying and some
times set Ions problems, requiring au
extensive knowledge of engineering,
chemistry and metallurgy, bessidea
the faculty of handling men, some
times under conflicting conditions.
Mining and Scientific Press.
Mints Buying Coining Gold.
The coinage at the mints of the
United State iu February amounted
to half at much aa the eutlre coinage
of the fiscal year 100.1. The uuusual
activity wan due to the. sold coinage
A correspondent of the Dally Mln
itig Itecord, wires from (leorgetnwn,
Colerado:
Several promising streaks of high
grado oie have been opened In the
last two AcekH ou lodes Nor. 0 mid
10 iu the Lebanon tituuel, where
opeiations wete resumed a few mouths
ago by Maxton & Owen, of Idaho
Springs. The tunnel is near the high
bridge of Mie famous "Loop," jusl
ahoro (leorgetowu, and in early days
was one of the foiemost producers of
this uelghorhuod, but on account ot
litigation, was Idle for about four
teen years. It has requited n large
amount of labor and money to again
place the property in working condi
tion, ou account of the number of
caves and breaks iu slopes that oc
curred while the mine was idle.
An unusual format ion of carbon
ate of lime, containing a small pet
ceutHge of lead and zinc, has been
discovered iu the drift ou No. 10
lode, west of the maiu tunnel. From
au old raise and stupe above this
level, where iu early days tbouamid
of dollars worth of rich ore was
produced, a stream of water runs
down, carylug a heavy solution of
lime, with some lean and Slue, aud
probably other minerals that have uot
been determined.
While the mine has been idle, this
water has formed a coating of calclto
ou the walls of the iitlse, and thence
along the tunnel for more thau 100
feet, the deposit averaging about four
inches thick, and assuming iu place
suuh beautiful crystallzed formations
as to defy description. Ou various
timbers In the upraise, where th
water has dropped onto them aud then
Unwed around to the under side, hang
rows of stalactites from ten to
eighteen inches in length, formed in
less than fourteen years.
Iu places ou the walls of the raise
the deposit takes the form of waves
ami then of protruding columns,
much like the famous "organ" iu
the lirand caverns at Maultou.
In the formation iu tho bottom tof
the drift are, numerous "pot-holes"
a few- inches iu diameter, made by
dripping water, aud these holes are
tilled with numerous calcite pebbles,
loose liko a handful of beans.
Iu some of the pockets the beans
are smooth aud as white as alabaster,
having an irregular form, while in a
pocket uo more than a foot away
will bo others as rouud as pearls, and
about the size of ordinary peas, but
of au amber color. Other uearby
pockets contain handfuls of beaus,
white but with a rough, grating sur
face, while next to these will be
beaus of irregular shape, but with
smooth aurafce aud amber color.
Directly under the raise nud etope
the- calcite floor la bard aa a flag
pavemeut, but a few feet along the
drift It assumes beautiful crystallzed
shapes, alabaster white, and aa
delicate and gorgeous as the might
iest efforts of the frost king ever
produced on the window paues or on
the leafless trees on a cold wiuter
morning. There are numerous "dead
water" pockets iu the crystallzed
floor, with wuvy topa like overhang
ing cones of coral at the water level.
The crystals that Hue the Interior
of these pockets are somewhat larger
than teeth, being almost as sharp
and penetrating hs broken glass. The
water that flows down the drift la aa
clear as the purest artcslau, and
where it covers I ho crystal floor,
eubauces its beauty aud sparkles in
the caudle light.
LED6E AT THE
LUCY STRUCK
A 'phone message last night from
the Lucy group iu tho Oreetihorus to
Kd Sullivan, superintendent of the
property, stated that the main Lucy
ledge had been broken into, and that
from the appearance of tho oro ex
ceedingly high values may bo ex
pected. Mr. Keogh, of Milwaukee,
treafiiiier of the compauy, was there
when the ledge was encountered, and
the message stated that ho was very
enthusiastic over the results. A lino
Hue of samples will he forwarded to
the Milwaukee ottlce.
The Lucy ledgo was encouutered
on the maiu crosscut '270 feet iu.
It is tho purpose of the management,
Mr. Sullivan slates, to continue tho
crosscut for tin O. K. ledge, a dis
tance of some '250 feet. The Lucy la
ou au extension of the Morning and
it is thought will, with development,
disclose the same high character of
oie aa that found in tho former.
The ledge just encounterded will
bo drifted ou In both directions aud
the crosscut continued.
World's Total Gold Production.
The total gold production of the
world from the discovery of America
by Columbus to the year 1000 la, iu
rouud figures, 80,811,000,000. Pure
gold of this value would weigh about
10, '27 '2 tous, nad would occupy a
sluice equal to '27,0110 cubic feet,
(iraphically, this amount could be
lepreectited by a solid circular tower
of gold twenty feet iu diameter aud
eighty-six feet high. The total yearly
world's production of gold slnco
1000 would Increase tho height of
such a tower about three feet each
yeur. Iu other words, tho present
auuual production Is some fourteen
times that tepieseuted by tho average
of the previous 408 years.
Kunzite Remarkable Gem.
What la promised aa the most
remarkable gem of modern times la
the kunzite stoue of Pala, San Diego
county, California. It ia said to be
more beautiful than Emeralds, sap
phires or rubles. It has the property
of absorbing light and giviug it off iu
a lilao-tiuted gleam. After being
submitted to the action of the Roent
gen rays it will absorb them and give
them out again when placed iu a dark
room, and after being subjected to
the action of radium it will shine Id
thedarknosa with even more brilli
ancy. It la found only in a barren
mountain ridge of an Indian reserva
tion In a remote corner of San Diego
county.