New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-07-10
IOWA.
LEAD Is IowA--THE VEINS AT GUTTESBgRG-THB
BUEEA VISTA MISUNDERSTANDING ExCITENESrs.

BURMA VISTA MISUNDERSTANDING ExCITEMESTs.
from Special Correspondent.
DUBUQUE Iowa. June e. 1865.
At Gutenberg IL Iowa, the makes in horizontal
openings dry ridges These openings filed with ochre
clay AID sand and are discovered along the sides the
I'D ses aud drifts small wooden railroad laid and
car and rub carried in 10 hold tho dirt and which
out and dumped down the side OF the hB AT first dr PEN
eirates the bill nearly straight ne from this dfs
opened out atoray and the opening followed in all parts Of
the hill The lead lies IN the form OF broken Strained
yen IN natlix OF oeher sand ana cay lucy
have at intervals pillars Of rock that support me ro which
IS solid gray Limestone, interaid with tnt Inc loot was
also roch OF similar character the space @ ne =,
walls or top and bottom OF the opening being rom hree 70
sand ochre, and caunk lead ore.
The veins In these kinds Of grounds vary greatly IN men
qgasttes and aesn viii be e asd The opening barren Of
The lead miner works out the rich spots and then pros
ally has hope largely developed expecting be paid when the
vein Increases IN richnesand the pcrseyerug worker u
atthe natural cubic form of the has the angles cut down
or 5n @ 80 % 70 % M mas pee aa "s sa y Is
used to split rock and called by miners CAD The Gut
tenbcrg having the cubes largely truncated supposed
caused by dtIic, being the edge OF the lead
nCd and the oreproducng action weak compared 70 the
more central parts the eadfeld where the cubes
perfectly formed six eight inches "a diameter and the ore
found IN vast aud nest veins.
Ten miles south OF Gutenberg is Buena Vista dggngs
Hore the country formed Of high steep dry fint riges
the making In east and west veins about hallway up
tie ridges, what knogn to miners rs Tint opening
The first orc discovered az this point in 1852 by settler
hunting lie down TO rest along the side OF ridge
%St Re sa~osd was o 6 s rue co%@o6csd o
hammer IT, it, breaking proved 10 be large mass OF
lead Tho spread miners locked m and several
valuable discoveries were made rom 100 10 GOO yards
sHt halfway M the side Of the ridges aud 10 make in
and west pipe veins that penetrated the ridges with
gt from the valleys The lead measures IN his district
have din Of from degrees from Tie water
ard large valleys the ridges forming series OF basins Ihe
los ed by driis small wooden railroads, aud toe ocher sand
clay, ard out The ground being 90 seeP pans
bottom Of the hl and there taAen " tue ead 'o40
TIE mining excitement lasted some months at this place
Some twenty madehese being 81 item Of
Ld g ss Ss Me- ridges About this time some
being nude at some new pGnt the uers
except those working veins left and but little mining LAS
been done at this place last years II VIII be seen
Gutenberg and this place the ore vas hgl ABOVE ".
water and no capital except labor needed to prospect Tor
and work the mines This district also Is along the border OF
lead field. and only valuable of the ladyda! uiher 70
cop or edge system Of be found ahead and In the
A. Elzbsh INV miles south Of the ast.named place,
or what at that time Qs45 known Lower Apple RIVER
Diggings a great mining excitement Lead ores mao
oes TsI "a; their pick. and spades docEei
In aud 10 prospect ms district was III inc
ley Of Apple River surrounded with ridges some three uo
red feet ligh. These ridges were formed OF Niagara LIZ
stone (see halls Survey OF lowa) which occurs ABOVE a
eoi altitude above the river the country being small &
water Ino clay was from ten 70 twenty eel uesp
In The course Of weeks number Of east and west and
] uDr
rvces crossing each other RIGHT angles the ore stand
inc w lie cav hs filed tho creyices in the form of yeFti'
cresces were what miners called open creyice' that Is
filed with clay from 10 three lee VIDE Inc ven was
filled in the of this clay and al the top branchel IN
he or four branches that penetrated the clay from two TO
ioar feet level Of the rock Tue clay apou tae p
av ten OF twenty distant and known 20 miners as
ccyce clay and when discovered by sinking through the
deep clay the chance OF hn1ng eIeFce
I and lead ore
These veins were from 25 100 feet apart and made in
] ovfva
fifty or hundred OF land crossed Dy numerous VEINS
Of he same general character and much enef the manner OF
cnt ore were raised from these veins vein one inch cs
IN his kind II erevicc would pay largeyl much as
or pounds per day from Tie labor OF SIX miners ore
tson Sc for $40 per worth si0O sx'nch vein
was fortune for the diseoyeTer In few nonthswould yield
worth Of day rom the aDof OF ten
ThaTe was considerable litigation and trouble here among
the first dscovcrcr about who owned the veins Sometimes
party working north and south Yen say ~ or % .e
would east and west vein Also worklng tle
;r Ss he ct TOOK the ore hi: applied to
an veins crossing each other right angles also to VEINS DTS
covered in linear direction at distant points ana
Which could the time be established as the same cTeVce
or vein. Sometimes the miner as soon Us ms visfI's
covered its fully known would luI nlsAet OF
m one 10 prospect along line This rue led great
erton part Of the miners When the ore was found IN
large paying quantities the mines were worked right ana day
Ike parties race each TO see who should nrst meet
the others drf.
fhe veins being worked OO feet ~ engh as general rule
However they were much shorter and cut OFF BY cross
1w down ron 100 to 100 feet deep-at which point tie
water n power pumps were put mp and the
ore In few places traced little deeper In going down the
crsyces closed pnched hard between the wall
rocks and the vein below 100 feet weakcned and
a ab.nionod But work has been done at these dig
engs since $50 The ahcal poson Of ths district
Is In the southern border OF the lead field aud the veins
making m tins forn-prooaby Cue TO The locality being far
moved cutting Of the lead nedWhich distant some
miles north aud that this Is the ou.cop or hr ore
10 be mined great system % vein not yet discovered These
ere poperly cash they limited TO strata OIL
lead about hundred feet thick and the deeper
Or will evidently make IN another typo OF VEINS
We viii 80 miles south, in the moro central pert
OF the lead fold ON the sHsinaNa creek ~ Tie south part
County WIS., boy hShluS IN 1872 along creek,
about deep and two feet wide, tie district being
prairie three miles wide and rich farming districts some
ore WIS noticed in tho bed Of the the boy went home
aud told his lhes who miner and he came and examined
i for the purchase OF TIE farm, an. commenced
mining bed II the creek found % D. l OF lead ore
This discovery tne house. AZ depth OF three iee
This cubic formed ana lay 90 the form OF an un3tral
20 feet wide. and running east and west some
/ 81 an east and crevico, was washed down some
% below bed OF the creek and 100000 pounds OF
| raised. worth, nov, $4,000 Going east and west
| the appeared deeper, and was abandoned
found; about The distance two other cfeYees
carving iUuud north Of The rstnamed 200 yards
auOtc the these cTeYce made In cAmteys ana was
H. these places ct wide in weighing 20 90 ana
loo tun, Zach Some 10000 pounds Of mined from
crevcc no low cost less than % per cent on the value
Of making very large ledge OF east and
west gosh veins Tho ground was ~e anu mines we
worked individuals and when the ore OF most easy access
had been mined abandoned. lao explanation OF thls
large class Of being unl IN this district IS mat tue iead
me an in place. AMI are found IN sns, and shls
discovery made IN the central part Of the baslI'
ILLINOIS.
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