Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-01-06
PAY CmUrEs IN LODE MINES.

We find in the Alta OF recent datt
some Suggestions on this subject
which we consider worthy Of beins
transferred TO our columns. Thal
journal promulgates a theory OF its
own, not entirely new, however
which comprises the following points;
l. The veinstone of every ricl, au-
riferous or argentiferous fissure lode Is
partly gangue, or barren rock, partly
pay ore.
2. The pay ore is no scattered about
in the lode without system.
8. Tho use by miners of the terms
"pay chute" and "pay chimney" is
not accidental or unmeaning, but is
the result Of long experience.
4. The French word schultz" mean
ing literally a " fall " or steep channel,
is the equivalent Of chimney, and the
two words are suggested by the fact
that after the rich ore has been taken
the hollow place is like the flue Of a
chimney.
5. A pay chute is a streak in the lode
running down usually at an angle OF
not less than 800 to the horizon.
6. There may be, and there usually
ia, much barren rock in a pay chute.
but there is no large body OF rich ore
outside of it in a assure lode.
7. A rich lode that has been we'll OK
pIored for more than halt y mile usu
ally shows nor than n pay chute.
8. The pay chutes in the same lode
dip In the same direction and at the
same angle, and are approximately Of
equal size.
8. If the sides of the lode show
streaks or scratches, As If the VEIN
stone had been pushed upward be.
tween the walls, those scratches indi.
cate the direction of the pay chutes.
10. There are pay chutes in pocket
lodes, as we'll as in milling lodes. A
pocket lode is one in which the gold is
found in small clusters, SO rich that
much Of it may be separated from it's
quartz in a hand mortar; whereas
milling lodes are those In which the
metal Is scattered evenly through a
large mass of rock and can not be ex-
tracted probably without a mill.
IL. Some of the pocket miners /"
in the pocket mining districts, such as
Bald mountain, Tuolumne county,
and West Point, Calaveras county,
when they find q rich pocket, near the
surface, IL they think 1t worth their
trouble to sink, examine the scratches
and run their incline down with them,
Is . guide for the direction in which
they may hope to find another pocket.
IL. The wider and richer the lode,
the longer horizontally are the pay
chutes as a general rule. The main
measure OF the size of a pay chute is its
horizontal length. All pay chutes in
assure lodes run down to q depth be-
yord the reach OF practical working.
Is. The chief business of the gold
and silver miner is to find and follow
pay chutss.
IA. The monsy spent in exploring
lodes outside OF the pay ehutes gives
no return.
10. Many millions have been so
spent in the Conetock Lode.
Is. All the dividends OF the Com
stok Lode have been paid by three pay
chutes, each nearly half a mile long
horizontally, with barren intervals of q
third of a milo between them hori-
xontally. and half a mile vertically.
II. One Of these pay chutes has pro-
duced $50. 100000, m $50, OOO. 900, and
the third may be set down with past
production and ore in sight for at least
$3.50, 0OO. 900.
Is. Each pay chute has mineral or
chemical peculiarities distinguishing
ito ores.
There il much OF sound, practical
common sense in this theory, and we
do not hesitate to indorse il a. being
borne out by the experiences of . vast
majority OF intelligent miners on this
coast.
NEWSPAPER CHANGE.-Messrs. Wal.