Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-04

tween the clay wall and the quartzitc. |
cannot say there is net any; ihe result of an
assay, made from the surface Of he hill, YVES
from 40 to 60 cents; there is a triAe Of silver
III sea water. / have been about the White
Pine mines a great deal; there may be lodes
In White Fine, but l am very doubtful of the
lact; | would name them badded veins; a
bedded vein is a mineralized stratum, in strait
fed rock, running in qualification; / distin-
guishej bedded, from ether vein, in The fact
that the bedded veins lay according to tn,
way, distinguished by branches running M
into everything rocks; fiat veins do not havo
these branches; ! do not know that there is
any lode in White Pine; it is many years
contact form of vein in White Pine the same
as in Eureka. | am scarcely acquainted with
the Reese River District; l have bsen in
formed that the veins occur in the granite;
in the g~rani;e; l should cali it a series o.
veins; they may have cut each OH but
there is a general zone. lLineStone, aac
marked NJ This is very soft material and
may have occurred in the vein, or outside,
where the limestone was deco = posed. [Spec-
linen Of limestone, marked VI My opinion
is that this piece of limestone either cane
from the vein or near tho vein. Specimen
OF limestone, marked Nj, Such matt + as
this may be found inside the VEIN; | shou d
take it that it came from the inside of the
vein, or was metamorphosed. ISpecimcp of
limestone, marked HI SHOULD judge that
this piece of limestone came from the outside
of vein, but am not positive. Specimen OF
limestone, marked 81 This either came from
the inside of the vein or very near il. lSpcc-
linen OF limestone, marked J.J This cana
from tbs sur ace; l take it to be from he
outside of the vein. Specimen of limestone,
marked o.. This probably came from the
inside, or very near vein: | have founi lime
stone at the Bell sh #; L think it Gun be di.-
tinguishod from limestone at road or rail-
road; | have broken off rock in many places
at IDnknNt ShutT- also at man Eureka Tom
solidated shaft, recently; when l came to TIE
district, in 1853, l observed quartzite, lime
stone, and ore in limestone, and | thought at
that time it might be a contact vein, and IN
my first report described it as such. l did
not know that the vein was 500 f.. wide until
recently; it was a greater approximate width
on that side OF the hill; | found qlartzlte IN
the Richmond shaft contiguous to the 9Th
level. On tho eth level | tound ore body near
shale; don't en- Der seeing quartzite near
ore body; l know that thcy run a considsra-
bic distance through barren rock; they run
u long d stance beiore striking ore, because
the ore chamber lays to the east; the level
runs in barren limestoae; there Is q klnship
between the hanging wall Ia the II h, and
shale in tha Richmond; they are a species of
clay and clay shalc; thesc move or merge IN
ons ano her; / consider tho shale in itieh
mond in place; the clay in the Eureka Cor
so dated looks as if it was deposited by wa
ter after the formation of the vein; L consider
this a reasonable theory; think that the shale
III IL ~ tVPEAkS ~ 'ARI' hF
impression is that a rift must have existed
be ore the clay got thsre, and the reason
why | suppose thatit has not bscn disturbed
is because | find no throws. or breaks IN
il: | should judge that 1t had not been dis
t rbed since original TO- matloE; believe
that shale, ike limestone, is laid down under
water; the theory may DO dis uted; the
quartzite is laid down first; limestone second,
and shale clts thu qualification; there is no
evidence that shale is zoo 1T. thick at Rich
mond workings, though it may be possible;
if %, j. doe not folloN that C ay in the h II
and Shale in the richmond are distinct de.
positions: / woula expect to ind clay ana
snale in hanging walls oil workings on Ruby
Hill; there is n high angls of clay seam at
every point. II the shale in the Sth level OF
the Richmond ran up on the same angie al
at the 10th level OF the Eureka Consolidated,
it would come out between the engine. house
and Lizette tunnel. / examined, while IN
europe, the Freiburg d strict OF Saxony, 9nd
crossed to ore mountains IN the state " Boz
h9mia, Austria. l was never IN the Black
Forrest; the country rock at treiburg is
gneiss, the STRAIT hcati0n is sometimes verti-
cal and sometimes fat, and at all angles; It's
colors are red and gray %eneiss; the gray
gnoIss i uniformly barren; tn re are n great
many lodes in the district, and 70 sha IS in a
radius of . miles: the metals mined are
called noble and base ores, carrying silver
and very little gold: the noble ores are free
from the baser metals; / don't In
regard to the structure OF v ms; silver ores
occur in the veins; some carry ghlena. iron
~pyrites, dark and light ruby silver, arscniate
and copper pyrites, etc. | visited tin mines.
Witness here gave description OF Worklngs
of tin mines or the past 200 years, and the
me- bod OF prospecting before the chambers
Of the mines fell in, and since that period
| have visited salt and iron minesi in SaXony;
have visited no other districts that fecOllect
Limestone on Ruby Hill occurs between
sbale and quartZite.
Rsdirect-As a rule the ore chimncys in
ore channels dip to the southeast; there Isl
physical change in tho character OF "a, lims-
stone where the ore comes Ia contact WIN
the vein; the nearer we get TO the ora BODY
the softer and sander the limestone ge s, ana
discoloreo By the ore. l am tamltar with
other mines in which there are ore bodies
and country reck, with clay seam between
tho quartzito tootwall and hanging shale.
Witness here restated the water theory,
which will be found above in yesterdays
proceedings.l
Cross are a great many
veins on Prospect Mountain; | have seen at
least eight or ten: | don't think l testlDed IN
the Lemon ease that the tormati9n was tne
| same on Prospect Mountain as on Ruby HUI;
| did not testily that it was i'd snt caliy the
snms. found quart2ite to the east; am n It
certain that you come TO shale hrst; tho llm :
stonais very much metamorphosed on frps-
pnct Mountain; | consider 1t In a broad gem
eric sense a vein, but the appllcaton u too
wide: / have seen c NY seam sewage on both
walls OF Comstock; clay on the Comstock
does not contain as much lime as clay In the
X X; they find in tue Comstoek van horses
surrounded by ore, and on Raby Hill bodies
of ore surrounded by Ii limestone.
l.. q. Goliath here took the stand ana to-
tilted as follows:
Reside in Salt Lake; have lived there six
wears; before that in California and Nevada;
lived eight years in Gold Hill; by occupa ion
A minor; mined on the Comstock and san An
tonic District, Nye county. .Neyada; Lit 10
Cottonwood, Bingham and ophir Districts IN
Utah TurIitJry; | have be n through the
workings oe the X X, Eureka Consolidated and
Richmond m mes: | examined them, on Mon
day. Tuesday and Wednesday OF this, week:
commencing with the X X, l went through
the different levels Of tha mine, from the "a
to tho 9th. and found in every level ether
foot or hanging walls of what | concluded
was a well-dehned vein; the footwa | was
quartzite, tho hanging wall Of clay or shaie
with bodies of ore occurring sometimes near,
footsal, sometimes under tho hanging wall,
and in other places Irregular bodies that
seemed TO be in the interior Of VEN matter,
but detached froN either wall. In the tu-
reka Consolidated mine ] examined different
leypls from the Sd to the 10TH, and found
anartgite. or t~ootwail, in each of these Levels
and clay or shale in the 10Th level; the only
place where clay was yisible In the Eureka
Consolidated. | also examined tho Rich
mond mine, more par icularly on The 9th, ttn
and sch levels; in tho end Of tho Ith 'evei l