Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-04-15
PROSPECT MOUNTAIN.
Captain FO1ey's Views Of the R,,rm,,
alton of Scct,n.

va - F""'0 '"i'oi hds Hot lett that
time honored hombre, the oldest in
habitant, or the most ~sanyuine epthu-
siast among us, the smallest chance Of
making a vain boast, or even an apollo
gy for the climathology of II mining
district. Nature in her multifarious
and varied departments works for the
general good. Those beautiful and
useful laws for the circulation of water
around u globe, for the creation of
leaf, fruit and flowers, are being much
understood, causing the flowers of the
mineral kingdom the crystals) to grow
and blossom out of the fOrmlcss rock.
supplying them with the material for
their wonderful and beautiful archi-
lecture. Notwithstanding the climatic
changes were numerous, various and
continuous, a great amount of work in
the shape of exploration is being done
in II mines, causing us to rejoice that
we have that to boast of which all are
in search of, mines and wealth, When
the sword Ut DamOcles was suspended
over the neck of the Greek mathema-
tician, he b%ethOught him of an expe-
dent by which he averted his doom,
causing him to exclaim thrice with
cxultant joy the name our camp hears.
The men who own mines on Pros
pect mountain and have 10 money to
spare III developing them, can do
much with their wi hands the COM
ing season. 1t will cost them no o
to live while at work than if they
were idle. and in most instances not as
much. There is nO man who has the
least knowledge of mining insane
enough to believe that he can tell any
thing about a lode with from ten to
twenty feet excavations; nor can it be
expected that capitalists will purchase
the mines on Prospect mountain are
being developed with such conspicu-
Gus absence of skill and common
sense, that good prospects have proved
nothing. If the mines of Prospect
ain are worked this season in a
systematic manner. until their true
character is tested, the owners of them
will have sufficient cause to eXclain
"Eureka!' as did ArchimedCs of old,
though not tor the same cause.
Water boils at the summit of Pros
pect mountain at 1909, approNinai ing
the elevation at 1000 feet above the
seas level. Whether attitudes have
anything to do with lodes Or mineral
veins, is not clearly defined. We find
them chiefly in mountain districts hav-
| ing Il high elevation above the seas
level. and connected with disturbance
of strata caused by plutonic agency,
and in the immediate vicinity Of iyne-
Gus rocks.
The fact of metalliferOus veins or
lodcs being closely allied to igneOus
rocks is evident in II large number of
eases. There is no evidence or any de-
gree of probability that metalliterous
deposits are entirely unconnected with
igncOus rocks. We have a number of
instances where mineral veins oc-
eur nearly and evidently associated
with unStratitied rocks throughout,
actually pro .eadiny from or passing
into them. Such is the case on the
eastern slope of Prospect mountain,
where abundance of ore is found in the
dolomite, but the close vicinity of
quartzite and other igneous rocks, not
far from the veins themselves, is Suffi-
cient proofOftheir presence. The eastern
slope of Prospect mountain divides
itself into three zones or belts. of crys-
tallinc, carbonate of lime, and magne-
STA granular, blue or gray, devoid of
qualification. and as far as vet known
of fossils. These belts of dolomite arr
separated one from another by heavy
b Its of quartzite and igneous schi>ts.
There are three prominent ore chan
nelS encaSed in the doloinite, evidently
true assures, courSing OH the eastern
slope, general direction about % de-
greeS west Of north, having we'll de-
fnnI Ol1nf}l rios and ShnNInU lnln1S-
taxable evi lcncc to some given law.
Where thorough explorations arr
carried on, such a at the Dunderbcrg,
JinkSvillc, PleaidcS and Connolly
mines, all the facts relative to true tiS-
sure veins are observed, such
as the occurrence of selNageS,
vuy"s, and >licken>ides along the walls.
These lodeS having similar directions
contain similar ores, sulplluretS and
carbonate. At the head of Goodwin
and New York canyons these mincra |
veins are two hundred yards or more
apart. concentrating and forming a
junction at Ruby Hill. making this II
of the greatest ore producing hills IN
the world. The mines that bear the
most encouraging aspect on the upper
lode are the Industry-a mine of great
promise Lemon, Mountain View,
Diligence, ElieSe, Lord Byron, Nalen-
tine, Santiago, Delaware, Orange,
Union, Antelope, Charleston, Ham
burg Republic. Y Y II, Ga>Sli.ht, EN-
%cclsior. Fourth of July and Julia; on
the middle lode are the Little Giant,
Ingols, Lead World, Ohio, Bell, Mag
ara, Columbia, Chattanooga, kittie
Pierce, Pioneer, e. +. Iloosac. and
many others; on the lower lode are
found the Jackson, Justice, Shoe Fly,
George Lundgren, Dunderberg, links
vile, Pleaides, Connolly, California,
Helen Mortimer, Big Blk, Hamburg
or Badger, and many others too nu-
merouS to mention. Difficulties are
encountered in tracing these lode> at
the surface owing to the decomposition
of the rocks and the covering up by
vegetable soil and where the tissurc
forming the vein has not reached the
surface. JOHN Nj. FOLEY.
Goodwin Canyon, April II, 1874.
4 NARROW E~CAPE.-One of lie
leaders of the team attached to the Ru-
by Hill stage had a narrow escape yes
terday from serious injury by becom-
- o.,lnJ 80 tina harness r,f itS