Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-07-15
FROM TOQUERvILLE.

EDITOR RECORD write you this
time from this place as I am domiciled
here experimenting the erection of an
s-stamp mill being put up on Ash Creek.
one mile below. 1t is to be run by water
power, with plenty of water all the year
round, and 40-foot fall, which can be
utilized to 60-horse power. 1t is my
intention at this time to give you only a
brief letter, conhning myself mostly
to the
SHEPHERD AND LEMON MINE,
Which is now all the rage here, and is
indeed the chief of the camp. I write
you particularly of this mine because it
verifes my theory of the geology, min
eralogy and veinology of this district.
You and your readers will remember that
theory as it was published in the RECORD,
the gist of which was that by reason of
the great covering of sand and sand
stones that once OVERLAND all this coun-
try, being cut out and carried down the
Colorado river, or swept away from here
into some other place, that 1t left this
land of Dixie denuded Of the great bur-
den of those sand bills, and in many
places exposed the
GRANITE BED RoCK,
That on the top Of this granite bed rock
is formations of quartzose, trachyte,
porphyry and baryta. all distinct forma-
tons from the sandstone or even the
belts of lmestones; that by reason of the
denudation of the sandstones and sand
hills the bed rock of granite, quartz or
silicious rocks in which the ore veins ex-
listed. these metallic ores become so near
to the surface that oxidation took place
and the metals thus sublimated or VIOLA
tilted, and in gaseous form sought the
surface through the seams and crevices
of the coarse. granular and fragmentary
trachytes, porphyry aud baryta forma-
ton. and cooling off as they neared the
surface deposited in these seams and
crevlces, and upon the leaves, fossils,
petrlfactions and carbonaceous remains,
and thus remained until the coming
man of Utah" the miner with his pick
and shovel disturbed them. Also that
thus formed, my theory was that these
veins coming thus to the surface would
LEAD DOWN TO THE FIssURE VEINS
Ia the granite or sillcious rock ben cath
where would be found the true assure in
the solid encasements which fed and
from which We're made these surface
veins and surface outputs. Well, it
seems that Joe Lemon and his company,
Shepherd, Shirley and John -,
thought 30 too and went to work on that
hypothesis, not fearing sandstone. soap
stone, grindstones. nor any other stones,
even if the scientific ssvans did not
believe there was any value to these
mines. Their mine is on the white reef
which has continuous output of the
vein, for a distance OF at least six
miles. This reef slopes to the west,
on an angle of about 80 deg. below a
horizontal, the output of the vein being
at its crest on the eastern verge. These
parties went to the foot of the hill, over
200 feet from and below the output of
the vein and then sunk q vertical shaft.
At depth of As feet they struck the
vein and now have o.
FIFTEEN FEET OF SOLID ORE.
This ore will all run from $50 to 800
per ton at the mill. Que streak of it, of
varying width from 2 to feet, will
sample $l70. This is known, because
they have been shipping from there to
Phoebe and such are their returns
Specimen samples assay as high as
$500 and the whole vein will pay
we'll for milling here. The vein is
regular. with pitch to the west and lies
between
TWO SOLID WALLS,
Which are becoming harder and 6rmer
IS the shaft goes down, with more the
the appearance of quartz. porphury or
granite or other silicious rock. 1t is
evident the vein is running down into
the granite bed rock and is part of the
great fissure from which all the out.
puts on the white reef are fed or find
vent to the surface. The character OF
the ore is also changing. having now
more of a
QUARTZ, Oh sILIc1oUs GANauE
And begins to resemble more the ores OF
the Raymond G. Ely. This again goes to
prove the great value OF these mines.
Let no longer science with her crusty
| notions deter sensible men from giving
credit to the worth of our horn silver
grindstones. Old miners are apt to be
like bigoted sectariaps, who having been
raised in one religious faith, can never
respect any other. And 30 with the
miner. The ideas he obtained the first
time he learned to flourish a pick, will
die with him. The scientific cusses
never yet discovered mine and never
will, and are like the old school Allopath
Doctors. who would bleed for all and
every case eleven hundred times in a
thousand, no matter if they died. 1t
was Providence who did it, and they adj
hered to their books. So after the prac-
teal miner has discovered, delved and
proven up his mine. the scientific sharps
comes around, and resting his chin on