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Show HAKRISIJURG. A List of Hie Kicli Klines in Hit1 llisirirt. Niit't'r's Theory as in (lin Formation For-mation of tho Wonderful Counlry. Horn Silver (iriinlsionr Not a Joko. A. HTAMP MILL, (Speciul Con p.suoiitlencu.) Towuiiiivii.i.E, July 9, 1876. The gal-lo-rious Centennial Fourth is past, aud we still live. It wan ccl- eniaun in a proper manner at ai. George, Washington and Toqnorville. The only institution that exhibited any disloyalty oa the grond occasion, ivus the thermometer, which got "on a high" that overlaid everybody. A more quiet and orderly peoplu nover swaated through tho first week of July than those of this counlry. The only fracas heard of south of the rim ol" I hu basin, was that of Jack Kirhy putting a respectable head, with butcher shop ornaments, on J. S. Ferris ijull timks ' , still continuo among the horn silver i grindstones. Thene dull times aro not caused bv anv discouraeim' viawa of tho camp, but tbo renult of a scarcity ol funds, means and men to carry on the business of the enmp, and properly develop the mines. You must remember that this is A SELF-SUSTAINING CAMP; that it nover had a dollar from tho onih.de wc.lil to bring it forward; that all it now in, and promises to bo, tins been brought foith by its own resources, re-sources, by the sale ol the ores produced pro-duced from its mines. No capital has been brought here; no mines sold; no companies organized with capital to develope; no men with means have come in and partners on tliu outaide to lurnisb funds to open lie mines. All that lias been done naa neen none oy the mines, or rather by the products of the mines, and this has been considerable. THE ADVANCE SHOWING of this district has been from the very beginning the best 1 haveever known. 1 was in E;ist canon, Opbir district, in its early days, and never did that camp present an equal showing to this iqual iu point of rich ores, of the number of good claims, of thu amount of pay ores, of the value of ores shipped, and of the prospect of more to be produced. The extent of territory is also great, which will bo readily seen, when we consider the number of mining claims, and consider con-sider that each of them is fully up to the maximum of the law, being 1.5U0 feet in length by GOO feet in width, making 20 66" 100 acres. I believei with thfl PTfontinn nl nnlv tarn ntUon, I have located the only claims that fall below the maximum. In considering consid-ering the weath ol this district we cannot depend so much upon claim pretensions as upon rROFITAULE ORE SHIPMENTS; and under this head I will detail a little. It is well known that Barbeu'fl TecumseU miue has yielded him largo profits; I do not know how much, but would put it at from $30,000 to $i0,-000. $i0,-000. Besides this mine there are many others that have done well for their owners, such as the Du flirt mine, owned by I?aac Dullin; the Morning Star, owned by B-igley Brothers, Mer-ido Mer-ido Willis and Ben Bo wen; the Susan mine, owned by Jack Kirby, John Pymtn, Benj. Paddoclc and William Crawford: the Bonanza, owned by J. S. Ferris & Co: the Silver King, owned by Dodge ec Pinkham; the Toledo lode, now owned by Col. Dupaix and the subscriber; sub-scriber; the Buckeye, owned by Solon Foster & Co.; the Willis mine, owned by Gipford &. Co.; the Lough ery lode, owned by Dupaix, Spicer, Loughery and Chinn, and last, but not least, the Shepherd & Lemon mine, owned by Joe Lemon, Shepherd, Shep-herd, Shirley & Co. Other mines may have made profitable shipments, but I do not think of them at this time. ORE ON DUMPS that will not nav shin merit but which will yield ail the way from $50 to $100 per ton, is largely in excess ol that which has been shipped. As I have frequently written, it is only a very few ol the mines that produce the high grade ores, and even then it requires vary close assorting at considerable con-siderable expense to bring the grade up to the standard of $150 and upwards up-wards that is required for shipment, and hence many dumps are heavily laden with quantities of such ores $50 and upwards that is held awaiting await-ing a mill in the district. Among the mines of this class containing such ore on the dump I can mention all those I have before enumerated, together with the Silver Glance, of Hawks, Averelt & McDonald; the Emily Jane, Mathew and Joseph Coschino; the McMullin, Spicer &, Dupaix; the Silver Flat, W. T. liarbee, and the Silver Point and Butte, Barbce, Lusk fc Mi-Kolvy; the Steele, by Steele fe Co.; the Riverside, Hanks, Averett and McDonald; the Barbee, by W. T. Barbee, and many others I cannot now think of. Besides these there are many which have ore in sight in the mine, but none or very little on the dump, such sb the Maggy, the Walker, Gisborn, Last Chance, Lo-lomi, Lo-lomi, Hancock ,fl Pet, McKelvy, May-nard, May-nard, McNally, Shake.ya, Luna and many ulhers. PREDICTIONS VERIFIED . I hve often given the Herald as well as some Other papers, my ideas of the geological formation and make up of this country, as wall as the theory of its mineralogy aud vein-alogy, vein-alogy, and predicted that time would demonstrate the correctness of my theories. The timo was not long coming. Its efllux has already verified veri-fied my theories; and as it has bo demonstrated, allow me space to again make thorn aud point out the proof. The theory I advanced was that in post ages of the f arili's geological geo-logical history all this country south of the basin was a great sea or ocean, and that the ebb and flow of its tides and the rivers flowing into it, carried into it the sands that now make the sandstone hills of the country; thai the oscillation of the waterB of thii sea distributed these sands in strata and layers over ils bottom, as we now see the seriated strata and layers ou the sides and abrupt laces of these sand hills: that these sands distributed distri-buted themselves according to their specific gravity, the heaviest barytas (heavy spar) oh the bottom, wiih tho limestone and porphyry materials ma-terials following or lying below each in iu order upon the old granite bed rock. Then came great physical causes in nature that occasion d upheavals up-heavals and abrasions Irom the bid rock upwards, and thus an outlet wa,-: formed that drew oil this sea into the Pacific ocean by Ine way of the Gull uf California. At Ibi limn the bottom bot-tom of this hi 'ii was nil a level or piano with the ti p ol the Kauarra mountain moun-tain and the tupt of the m my Ioiik. high, ll.it mi'.vif. that We see all over thu counlry. The departure of the waters of this nea curried with it a great vnluni" of the null mind and soft A.unUtoiit a I mm the hnttoin, cutting cut-ting out and sweeping it away into tin) Gull of California, thus forming those naud marshes and Hand deserts (hat exist at the head of said gulf. By this action of water all this land of Dixie wan formed as it now is, leaving it from 500 to 2,000 feet below where tbo level or piano of the bottom of the sea once was, anil bringing the Bur-1 face of tho country down lo where it 'now io, and the baryta, trachyte and porphyry elilfc standing on edgo on an aimle real ine upon the granite bed rock as wo now find Iheni. The result re-sult uf this was that the metallic ores that existed iu tho granite bedrock CUIIIU bu hi;, ii DiiiMLto ii mi. oxidation took place, the metals volatilizing, volati-lizing, becoming gaseous, ascended through their granular rocKs, the veins and seams therein and deposited near tbo surface, forming these, the veins and deposits we all have been working on. My theory uid method was to follow down the-ie veins or seams, and they would lead, to the true figure vein in the granite I bed ruck. Messrs. Lemon, Shepherd and Shirly, OK TIIE SHEPHERD i LEMON MINE, thinking as I did, went down to the foot ol ilia hill on which their vein was found at the top, tho hill sloping at an angle of about 30 degrees below a horizontal towards the west, and at a distance of over 200 feet from . the outpost of their vein, and there Hunk it vprtie.al khan, iij.d at a dis tance of forty-livu feet only they struck Iho voiu. Continuing down on Ihi they have opeued up A VEIN ElFrEES FEET THICK of solid ore. The value of this ore is such that it will all run from $50 to jt 100, while one stratum of it from two tn five feet wide, varying in thickness, is so rich that it sells for $170 per ton in Pioche, while specimen samples have assayed over flo.OOO per ton., As they go down the formation is I changing to a pure silicious rock, probably a quartz, qunr'zite or por-1 phyry belt in the granite, and therein ores are changing to a quartz gangue, much like the o-es of the Riymond A: Ely niineB at Pioche. This proves thu whole theory I have advanced from tiie first, and everybody sees it, and as a consequence everylxily having hav-ing claims on that reef, the white reef which U about tvye'vo miles long, are now sinking vertical shafts. The output of the vein ou this reef for at least fix miles is alt the way the panic as it was on the Shepherd and Lemon mine, and every reason exists that all will strike it the same as they have. I am fully satisfied that a majority of tlitttn will, and then hurrah lor the horn silvr grindstone disuict! THE MOUNI.NG STAR MINE, on the eastern side of the district near Ihe Virgen river, is turning out much like the Shepherd and Lemon, only they nave an incline shaft fullowiug down on the ore, but I have not space to write that up this time. Two stainn mills are on thpir miv hither, and thirty days is the time set to be pounding out silver bullion from the grindstones of Dixie. Spices. . |