Show HOW TO FIND A POCKET first remember that the gold in the surrounding surface is the only guide to a pocket second never dig a hole on a quartz ledge with the expectation of finding a pocket unless it will prospect at the start third when tracing for a pocket if the gold is smooth leave it at once for its ten to one you will never find it fourth if your trace runs to a deep bed of clay dont lose much time in looking for the pocket fifth beware of serpentine traces most all will prospect and not pocket I 1 sixth remember fifteen afif teen or twenty colors of gold as fine as flour to the pan and an oc 1 cas ional coarse color as big as a pinhead is a better trace to a pocket than a of gold worth 1 even if it is rough single pie alece seventh the best place to to look pockets is in a coarse gold district for pockets are larger and as easily found the eighth recollect that nine of ten ledges do not crop out near the pocket poc pocket tracing commence by panning the of the ground it will prospect better there ther top to than deeper unless you are near the pocket pocket or on flat ground then go deeper even the bedrock if on descending descending to ground face fa up hill panning from right to left as far ou out as you can get gold and where you get the best prospect move up the hill from that point panning from right to left a as belo before re and move up on the best prospect keep this up until you get above the pro prospects pacts then the n go g 0 back where you got the last best prospect dig a small hole half way to the bedrock and take a pan then take one on the bedrock and if the last prospects best rest assured you are near the pocket from there trench up and if you dont find the ledge arid and prospects give out trench across and you will be certain to find the ledge if you do not find the pocket trench both ways along the ledge 0 panning every inch and you will be certain to find it unless it has been distributed over the ground you have traced by the rocks decaying and rain washes where a pocket throws throw s out a trace you will find it at the top of the bd bedrock drock if there is any left when you have taken out one pocket note the formation around it follow that and you will be likely to find another or a dozen it is not advisable to sink straight down very deep unless it will prospect or the formation runs that way which can be determined by black rock caused by fine stringers of iron and quartz running towards the ledge where they strike the ledge pockets are liable to occur pocket chimneys like those on the mother lode or any gold bearing region do not run straight down but angle on the ledge pocket shoots are often not dot more than one foot wide and even less by the time your shaft is down eight or ten feet you will have cut through your shoot and left it on the end of your shaft the same system described to find pockets hold good in locating 6 chimneys on milling lodes if the they v contain free gold or even gold bold bearing sulphur ets 4 prospector in mining and scientific press |