Show 9 e be lad to see any of 4 mr friends of at our office find receive from them acm say any of their pro becu anil and labors tr ira gift ICA hovd any mineral information to swe ive us a edit ca M i OF 1 irin I 1 i 1 1 OJE of daily EAST EASI LAMOS CANYON july in accordance with my promise of gh eia ing hii th aba of a an n om old upon the prospects and d promise of permanency of the mines mines si far as aa opened I 1 shall do so unhesitatingly for two reasons let I 1 do not like qualified opinion 2 bud in the next place if mistakes are arc mada I 1 06 only alico myself in n the same baine boat with oma W 1 th the elear learned ned professors who did not prove themselves prophets although c thy made their prof As to ill of if east eart canyon t tho ore tait n front froni the surface is ns as rich anil and I 1 all the ho i ali as I 1 river favorable na aa could be de desired sred none of there them lave hare yet vet been sufficiently opened to dic determine termine their character with dainty aciano aie fo co their licit icing true fia flare vilai elal di veins vein following the P 0 11 1 I 1 the elt stratifications through ul chich liell t 3 piss I 1 am inclined to believe lioy thi yare are true fissure vains if they were acre in or slate I 1 should feel fed ilia fact simply because I 1 li avi wit hia long experience in those furnia Lions and but bub little IQ in limestone however standard works on mines in europeans Europa Europe and tant many valuable faund in that formation thir richness rich is conceded tile the most moat that eon can be kald eaid klicin wil in that they cannot be tollo tul lorel weil with hc salue ai to dip and sirile ar or general direction being more liable to aiu ti I 1 should not be sur friej rift tid however if thid ibis rule were eo en i rely versed here hideen iii decd shall be disappointed cited ir if it is not for locso rea reatus tug there ard arc at least leas two heavy liel bel of penetrating the theroun conn coun tr try north ind and south fur hundred miles alternating from chlorides chloride s to base weal aul pure galena these belts are known to penetrate limestone slate and porphyry affording rih rich ores orca front all hot bolli for nl bulling ili D and smelling the summit of east canyon or horn ifill hill is feet above tile the sea pear it id i safe therefore to calculate iad thickness of the limestone at til 1 bic or feet as bit is the ca cap rock formation and dicina almost uniformly penetrate to the underlying one I 1 think thick we need not bo be greatly disturbed if thesa do 10 not enter tile der lying one if they promise us ns re te IV e work for the next hua buti dred years we can tale take the chances upon 0 hit hia coules afir that fostof most ol 01 the veins of bf horn silver II 11 1 lie below thi the back boric odthe of ahe ridge ride a few hundred feet down tho the slope the rhe droppings Crop pings a arc r or of course broken dov down a with tile the strati strata in ia which they lio lie and run ran into the hill the fiat 50 or IN feet on oa nearly horizontal lines but immediately commence to dip on getting clear of the break where v here the mountain lna bad been undisturbed whatever Wha teven the disturbing causal baase the mountain at this place waa split open with irilli a clean cleavage cleava gp leaving 0 no DO de bris bri either in the canyon or at iba il mouth the por northern thorn wall has haa broken down and Pi resents a steep slope to the sumi mit biti several gool good veins alon along u up its foce ace the south wallis nail is neall neaily per perpendicular abreast awn of ophir ir presenting but little f foot oot hold lor prospecting between the town nod and the summit the veins on the north side r are arc fifteen hundred feet feci below those of the south side now beit aag woi worked ked ill but fair to assert t therefore that they will penetrate tile lie A as jeep deep an aut law laa jual ajust been ancor liora led but little ioie riar to like ali sutro sotro tunnel in ill lui A vilh a mu ali better belter p prospect prof of in mediate ly realie inaz ID A stock company has acea formed d callad ilia east canyon tunnel co its ite initial point is below ophir ind and feet below tho the summit designed to run through la the mou mountains n bains and cut tile lull belt RD and VC veins 03 at right angles the company hate halo several veins to start with and expect to strike others at short intervals it is a bold undertaking and deserves to succeed I 1 shall visit other localities sva sim and will write you again i I 1 truly yours |