| Show GOLD CITY PROSPECT the minor miner who to is at all backward in the tb matter of applying high bieh olaaf blaso nomenclature to any new DOW place or property within the jarige of hill calling I 1 la dafick deficient nt in that branch of his bia education thus thua it Is ia that we often find ci cities as aa destitute of houses though a cyclone had swept them and with not enough population to man a freight train in beaver eaver county I 1 once traveled fifty milea through snow now which in places was wae six feet deep to reach RIe elephant city in star mining dl die a ariot triot and came very near getting pad it without finding it out it of a dozen frame houses not all of which were occupied and a population of about fifteen persons pe reone but bui it was wag a roaring booming metro lie compared with the newest thin ihlae in that line gold city fitt situated unto between the he mouths ot of the two cotton woods there are reasons for this which do not dot occur to the beholder ho however the principal ono one being that it Is so BO cluie close by and so no accessible that a more pretentious showing to la not net at present necessary with two great railroads within an hours boura drive and a atrell tree car line emerging from the metropolis metro polia and extending down dow a to even evea a nearer point so BO that the visitor can run out ano and ink again the same bame day a great place is 1 hardly to be looked for it if it were as a to in most other places that had to ga climb a steep ravine with the theano wi everywhere and increasing in depth with every step with great masses of the 91 beautiful banked upon the eyebrows of frowning cliffs and only awal tinga kind of common consent to tumble down with the velocity of light upon eveaj ever thing bo beneata neatia then would gold old city with the advertising it has ban bad be already something like its ite name in a condition of incipient but rapid growth it must not be inferred from this prefatory statement that there are no features feature of such a commencement con ai ol dering the retarding influence spoken of 9 that it is only about a month old and that the snow is ia not deep enough to walk on but too deep to walk through comfortably about a toot foot in most places the embryo town is in doing very well indeed it is situated about half bait a mile due east of where once was the lively town of emma ville and contains conta ios two structures entitled to the name of house bouse three or four frame cabins and as an many what little jiggle business there is is conducted on the quiet plan the structures are all I 1 in a a row or nearly so facing the wet tern slope of the inter cottonwood Coti onwood mountains moun talus and are land fully supposed to constitute main street by drawing extensively on a fertile imagination one can see this 4 thoroughfare not long hence swarm ing with people stages arriving and departing every hour and and all things necessary to the makeup make up of the typical western mining town where iney have struck it rich in full blast my inventive faculty Is fair to middling hardly equal to the performance jus spoken of yet equal to seeing things livelier and better very every way than they now are the regulation boom usually begins with the laying out of a cemetery and at least one PALt with a perforated i system to go start atari it with then follows in rapid succession the news newspaper peper the gambling hall ball and the various other phases of immorality incident to a place where money to is easily got and lightly valued As the song of the end man h has 0 lg it coit it aint going to happen this year v at least it seems so to the under opposite to and due east of the northern end of the lown ard ara the works of he now new state mining I 1 had been previously supplied eup plied with a pan pa from the compa company nyls office in this thia city or toe the inspection of tile the property would necessarily have been somewhat after the manner in which mark twain made the ascent of we he Matt Matter erhorn born by proxy there has baa been too much proxy representation already and a statement or laota facts obtained from actual contact with the subject discussed la Is now demanded and nothing else will satisfy aati afy if indeed that will the first tunnel Is ia three or four hundred yards from tile the toot foot of we the eminence but it is ia very steep and what with the well trodden snow paths patha bare in places where a warm BUD had been beating on them for some hours only to make a change from slippery snow to slippery elip pery mud WAD waa tar lar from easy to climb the three of us who made it had bad bellows to mend before halt bait the distance bad been accomplished and when the tunnel spoken of was wag reached we were as warm as aa though it were the middle or of july before gaining this point however a notice oon con posted ported warned us to kp keep off the grounds ground as this waon want ta in the program a messenger mee bearing aloft we the pass pa as a sort of flag of truce advanced and bold a brief parley with the foreman in charge who proved to 10 be an old time acquaintance lu in the person of archie glayton clayton everything was soon settled and we were sitting on the dump of the ing preparatory to an inspection ot 01 the premises pre the company Is not to blame in the least for adopting and enforcing such regulations if they did not they would be overrun with callers and the men at work would be devoting more time to them than to their regular business ibis tunnel is in about eighty feet and dangerously situated right at its ito mouth is an open shaft thirty feet deep M neither either oft of these liese la Is being worked at present the former being locked up stacked up midway of its length are a number of sacks containing picked ore that extracted and in this shape is awaiting shipment snip ment tote ore is nigh high grade and will go some distance toward diminishing the so far unmitigated expense of conducting operations opera oper allone ions at the upper edge of the entrance of the tunnel is s the at where probably the first pick was struck in ID it being the outcropping cropping out of the ledge or rather a ledge since there are several it is at this point ile more than an inen in width but almost immediately widens out to live five inches as shown by the easing casing from which the ore was taken and this width is maintained for a distance of about twenty feet where it breaks off abruptly and ald starts in again two feet away and as far out of line the die dic conne nedion tion being as an complete as the rails of a track the other side of which has ban been thrown throw nI to a switch this kind of thing alro afro occurs above the dislocations and disjunctions being as complete as though the destroying ying band of man instead of the haphazard hand band of nature had bad been at work on it the formation in either case and apparently lu in all cases is to and porphyry and the pay ore is easily extracted a pick being in most instances all that is in needed I 1 had bad no trouble in getting out several specimens with my fingers that I 1 brought bick with me and are considered good by those who claim to know I 1 will if desired take an affidavit that these were not placed there by human agency aud and that there was more of the same sam kind left jett where they came from I 1 the second tunnel to lg in a bout about feet and I 1 made a careful examina examination tio u of it from start to finish mr clayton and his help were in an animated frame of mind because of having an hour or so before our call broken into and gone jurugh a tac root foot velu or of ore this having a trend about ton ten degrees eake and of and south being nearly at right angles with the tunnel and about fifty teet feet vertically irom from the surface ul of the ground I 1 harvested several specimens from this find and with as much of an examination as a candle would permit became satisfied that it was well affined denned and auld have no outcrop plugs pings anywhere io in short tuat it was one of those rarities so highly prized by miners because nearly always pro and richer than its neighbors a blind lead the foremans idea was to let jet all odber holds go an and follow this thin lead unremittingly but was waiting for the arrival of eident caiton before starting tartt ng oo on bush a campaign it may extend to and boomer blast may close out its existence no one can tell one pair of eyes being able to follow it as aa far as ae any others and one mans experience being nearly as aa good cooil as any others other the patient dint and aed powders shook will tell it all and nothing else will the general impression received from the inspection is that the entire geological formation to is grid ironed with mineral bearing veins thrown into or out of place at a time when mother earth had a violon violen fit at of ague or something of that kind the character of such mine mineral raft Is as varied as an the fishes of the be son sea running all ail the why way in value from a jew sharp to a thousand dollars or more per ton there is a parent ledge or body somewhere but the word of a tenderfoot lor it it Is for far far above and beyond any place now being worked if the earth and debris could all of a sudden be removed and leave these theme veins exposed to view they would doubtless assume somewhat she he appearance pe Deara noo of a huge insect with its tentacles extended in every direction but upward I 1 question very much if any reasonable amount of development anywhere on those bills would fall fail to find one or more of those hose offshoots off shoots of greater or lose jess rich richness richweed need and there be those who seem to have taken this view ahead of me for id li there is in scarcely a foot of ground anywhere within a radius of several I 1 miler but Is there any gold there is in the question most people want answered there is in making this unqualified statement I 1 would like to have it known that I 1 am tolerably familiar wita will the fact that all tuat glitters is in not gold also is it 16 the he case came that unbelief neither creates not nor destroys anything probably nit to exceed oue one fourth of all la in exhibited as an such to is the genuine article it if even the proportion should be anywhere near so ao jarge gold in comparison with its imitations is as the planets among the fixed stars the former give forth a steady un chac charging ging ruddy glow while the latter battor twinkle incessantly it has been said that you may think you have gold but when you really have you know it this will do to say but it has too many failures connected with it to entitle it to a place among the more respected of the aphorisms of today and continued time and experience does aoe but add to the long train there Is much more to ta be said but this will do for a starter ESSAY |
