Show IS GOING ON development work merrily proceeds GOOD WORK IS DONE A brief descriptive write up of the geological for K 1 SO S it O it i if n mation of a portion portio n of 0 of the hills the boston and gold mountain the log cabin notes and general items his it la the aim of the free lance to present occasionally britt brief descriptive WrIte upa of different properties had and t the lie geology of sections for title liia week flie inc follow lug article referring to the geological formati oti of it part of the lit ill baldy belt bell greald gre alt ot on earth lias has been bean prepared pared for abe free lance by mr J F gibbs it is 13 highly and very pert lento at at this time while capital li Is Ito oking anti coming coining this way with wilb RU an eye fur for investment from a purely geological standpoint here fliers la Is not a more interesting locality la in tile the alt allt plaidy mineral belt thau than lint flint round found lit ii tile LEO bertion group slid lid its 18 vicinity by way of preface II 11 may be wt well 11 that ballion canyon depre seats a stupendous extending aiom mhd alio very foothills fur far back into the heart of the lie range to the west the quartzite found along the past cast face or the mountain from Call california fornia gulch to gold run some 8 miles tu to the south was a horizontal beit 0 bud wair covert re iv wath ith a sheet af ulna little of varied thick ness Today to day sierra Merra nevada peak situated between BuIl bu llon loti said and dry creek rents rears lie its bristling and splintered splint eX quartzite to an all attitude or nearly feet on the north ide aide a of bullion the highest high elevation ofru or qu artalie li is scarcity more inor than feet feel the disparity in elevation represent log the tremendous or br faulting evidences of fult log laterally are everywhere present in bullion canyon and more chrly in the neighborhood otard to the ilia weal of lie lVe W chafer hater mine tile the foot wall of which la Is quartzite tylle TV to the west went Is a great belt bell of porphyry alch appears to occupy a great break par bially faulted fB which begins at tile tha adad of tan mile to tho southeast kouth east and extends in a northerly and north westerly dirton lit to gold or of it 14 malca inal 15 there is but otte one notI cabla breau break in ill the hie ison coll of aliis great isauro and twist to Is at lla its intersection with thi the great bul 1 llou liou fault where a extend slightly to tie anil and passes through tile the standard group whereon the hie east cast side it lit Is fur for W a short distance by a buld aud and dyke of diorite on the north side sida of tile he c talyna froni fron the We vetter lyster anti anil joining tob tile boun boundary dury of the great rett fla flaur fl sur ure just jutila ju dis tifa bribed ilia quartzite rises lu a bold and rugged ut rally fully SOO toot foot j lu in ort on tile east cant aide ot of the fissure sure the quartzite la its completely hurled under a n tain lain or of eruptive evidently sit an overflow from rom dia dike which oozed cozed up from the m interior aint tilled filled lie ho fissure isenora Ise iora e t it ion ea the mie eruptive ino which covers cover afie 0 section of nf thu the quartzite ju 1 s d presents an lutt lutrette resting study and WH was first ug to lo tile alie tile the writer while build lp 10 a trait trail along ltd lid southern free face and avier over tile the bikin basin to 0 o tile thu north and we 1 tho evidence it would iett gijiro deoro the overflow lit in question took frok place all ace lit he bf b the quirt alte was fult fully vas high as thu tho ia carp anieul nieul out to ift tile west of the clauro or line a great creek and about aw 00 feet feel hi erupt mountain about midway bae to summit tile tha anuth half nettling awn d wn and fu a remarkably remark abla alt or basin with A depress loa apar the lh center into which from the brink oue one looks doon don on the tolis ti ofa spens in lux profusion pro ulon lu in the lie depth of the tureen shaped hollow Uro the fault hall to the lie of tile batola a B grent great cantly and westerly tyke or known as aa tha yellow cliff ii marks marki another line of fault 1119 ln pat paral atell elt with I 1 anti about 1000 north from tile face abo of tile the bhore meu naf cionea escarpment this 1 yellow dyke marks the ho north bobu dary or of exposed quartzite which here gevea place to toan in uninterrupted araik of ert eruptive extends onward to alie north and northwest lino inlo gold mountain noine three to four nilles dist atit situated ou on tile the yellow dyke and ou on the great northerly anti southerly fout herly dyke dyk or line of faulting fro from ten mile to 0 o gold mountain I 1 in the lou vernon group of seven lode led cla clatilla tills within the dyke Is an cia utterly terly aud and wa terly vein veil fully ten tej feet wide aisle carrying ill 9 C ry stul iced lend mid galetis in t here Is IA associated good conceit concen brating values in silver and kold gold the tha it Is a heavy iron ore ur anti and which on rage auces Iu ceS S GOING OV Con Untied from tit luge there are good grounds fur for bri leving will tn in ile downward course give wa way to lo high grade copper find lenil lead which occurs in III a barong vein in ili the qu quartzite quartel artrite lu taw afew huddard feet down the mountain mount tIn aide to lie bouth the vur of the yellow dyke ii beld from tile ox of nt lead which occurs lit in arano from rum the thickness of paper to that bat of nf an all inch or so in fit the porphyry tile the vein fa tile the yellow dyle yke in vein comlos in tho north wherever opened this yein vein carries tead bliver and gold in sulphide condition aud forms forma an ad concentrating product running lo in tile lie northerly und and south irly ly dyke with strike cuts laveral other strong iiron veins anti and act ach carrying the precious metals i the development work thus f fur mr has hai of open cuts cuta mid aud prospect on the flie two veleia conditions ex existing Isling on oil thelio vernon ground unil anti within thy the surrounding country cuu point with will unerring to wealth eally to be obtained ned WWI wui 1 intelligent development and the let leo vernon grout group cover coter ing only about acres Is lively speaking a mere frao fraction tion of the nit mt mineral belt which for fir t ho he of the pric lons ma inu I 1 lil atals 1 Is l geu logically logi cully perfect per erbec fec |