| Show PORPHYRY i f gELT t LT THE MAIN N LODE i Knotty Problems in Old Pioche Camp Are Solved o v d REGION NOW SURE TO BOOM BOOMI I WABASH BEGINS WORK IN LEDGES OF PROPERTY That a a boom bm is i to hit old Pioche and ad make of it I a bigger er anti and richer producing ing camp than It ever eer was wag i In the palmy i days yS of the 70 7 and nd ell estr SOs Judge Judg John W Burton who has j St returned from there ther Is certain T done and the prospecting lias been ben car carried er ried rieti on OI during the Ule last year yer or two i lia resulted In the the practical r unraveling f the knotty geological and mineral problems that to t baffle bate the th and und nothing now re remains remains remains mains but to pout pour pU in n the thC money moe tUa tUt t twill will wi be necessary to make mako the mines mInesT T The peculiarities pe of the great mineral one aone clear ilear through from the Raymond Haymond 8 Ely and Meadow Medow Valley Valey to the Yuba and ami Tub YUb Eat East En and on to Stampede Gap is l I now as B well wel under understood understood 1 stood Judge Jud e Burton reports as a a are ar the theT T zones z w In the Park City m or other of the nearby districts to Salt Lake Ll t re no longer loncer a doubt said Judge Burton that the great grant get belt bel of ot porphyry that runs west wot from tom is to Stampede Gap eight miles mUes away the th mother lode of ot the district This lode has has now been prospected pro d all aU the theay vay ay its is identity is established e and its Is i elation to the fissures Is established Practically all aU of the theun uncertainty un r of ot mining along its Is strike IP ir if therefore eliminated and work can hereafter be prosecuted intelligently This porphyry belt bel has hu been ben prospected S at various points through the property of ot the vada Consolidated Con and amI at every point pint it I is found to be identical with the twine same une formation at Gap five and miles TV yest est I You have heard herd of ot the strike that 4 made at Stampede Gap GapA b A W iV V Scott and C IB l Rive Rivos Here I is some of the ore It I is identically the th same character of chloride ore that I made the Yuba famous and it i comes conies from a fissure in iii the property just as did cUd the Yuba ore This his rock carries crrie t ti ounces ounce In silver siver 10 in gold and 25 I per cent cent lead per ton After Clearing on off a few tew feet teet of the debris debri or or wash washa ot I a fissure containing three or four foul inches in J of ot rich ore wa WiS vs struck When I left they had sunk about abut eight el ht tet and Ind had twenty inches of ot Ju jut just t this kind of rock rolt It I looks as 8 though it was waa wa going to develop into a bonanza The ore Is sacked for shipment as a it I is Ii taken out At the Consolidated Judge Burta says the t e vertical shaft hatt is isrow isLOW row LOW down feet the last of ot it i In as well wel defined a contact be bI tv en er lime on the te north and shale on 01 I th Houth fouth the latter later being the hang hanging I ing Ir wal vall all The ledge l e dIps dip south and pst vest and und the strike is Ia 11 nearly nerl east et and west The same quartzite hn In I which the Ely and Meadow Valley Valey figures f occur has been found in the Plot he ground and Mr Ir Burton is of I 1 hf h opinion that It i will wm be encountered ii H fifty fe tet feet t or o so s To T the north of the shaft shaf some feet is the por pl dyke for tor which crosscuts will willbe willbe m be bl run when the proper time comes ome The rein yein In the bottom of the shaft shafts is s more m re than six feet wide and for tor the thelast thelast last eight teat feet there has been bean beEn exposed e three feet of the richest kind of galena ore ort The formation is very ver regular and nut hu and nd the expectation is that some big bodies of ot fine fn ore will wl soon n be opened o ened up UI u |
