Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-07-21

An ola Tansz's Views Absus Maps,
BseA sharps and saeh.
We found him in . saloon discoursing
10 . gathering Of hardy. honest fellows, ali
miners like himself. and all attentive lis
teners. We instantly recognized the voice
Of an old time friend. but did not care to
interrupt his narrative until we had fully
ascertained This drift" He had travelled
all over the western slope in pursuit Of
that which gives nutriment. Nothing else.
How we wish some genius had been pres
ent to portray his enthusiasm-some poet
ical cuss to write him up and give 10 fu-
ture generations the result Of his expert
ence. Talk Of travel, prospects. abandoned
claims, fights, foot-races, played out camps,
tramps, hurdles, tiger, honest men, id
fools and Christian men and women.
Well, there never was such = medley, and
never again do we expect 10 find such .
fellow just his like. He knew everything
about mining. Baron Won R~ichthoycn
was not . circumstance. Professor Sill
man was . silly man indeed four friend
had been on the Comstock when the Pro-
lessor gave his testimony on . very impor-
tant mining case), - evidenced BY certain
Developments running counter to the the
DRY Of the Professor. He had no confidence
in Frieberg, or any other institution,
didn't care . cent for any Amsterdam
Dutchman or any other id Dutchman;
he was . miner, he was. And the
fellow who didn't believe he was .
miner might 30 that unmentionable place
not quite 20 hot - Arizona. He told III
the story Of that fellow who died at Yuma.
He was . bad man, but had to return for
upon him, and you cannot imagine his
surprise when we said, "Old boy, how are
you" He responded, Well; how in -
did you get here2 You are either my good
or evil genius, l don't know which. Boys,
let rs al take . drink; here's one Of the
old boys" Hand shaking ell around.
Having crooked the elbow sufficiently, we
adjourned to . convenient corner OF the
saloon. and there talked Of old times, old
friends (many gone to the better land),
and future prospects. Oh, he was rough
and good regular rough diamond, .
thorough cosmopolitan, one who loved his
fellow man because in his nomad life he
had found much more good than bad, and
he had lived the majority Of his years ON
the Pacific Coast. Well, we got into con-
versation about dips. spurs and angles,
lodes, veins. true f~issures, original for
nations, geological, geographical, metal
lurgical and mixed, enough to con-
fuse the most scientific rock sharp,
when we indicated to him u differ
ence Of opinion having cropped out in
the course Of the conversation) that We
could prove that we were right and that he
was wrong. He accepted the challenge,
and where do you suppose we ven for our
vindication +? To the Offices Of the Regis
ter and Receives of the Land Office Hav-
ing introduced our friend TO the officers
named, and soliciting the privilege Of max
ing such an examination Of q map entitled
+" Geological Map Of tho United States,
compiled by G. H. Hitchcock and w. p.
Blake; accompanying the report Of Rossi-
ter w. Raymond, u. 8. Commissioner Of
Mining Statistics" in order TO determine
the vexed question which might have1sev-
cred our friendship. We called his atten-
ton TO the aforesaid map, hoping to con-
vince him hat science md art would bear
us out In the statements we had made, and
in the opinions expressed. 1t il claimed
by physicians that some men are color
blind, but we were not aware that our
friend possessed this infrmity. Although
he had been drinking he was not blind
drunk. We found nine colors on the map
indicating just where metals, minerals and
stone could be found, and an explanation
Of the colors, as follows
First color-scarlct, indicating cozoic.
Second color, light blue. indicating slim
rian. Third color-blue stripes, indicating
dev0nian and lower carboniferous. Fourth
umbcr-indicating coal measures and permo
carboniferons. Fifth-pink stripes, indi-
eating ~triassic and jurassic. Sixth-grecn.
indicating cretaceous. Here we obser we'd
q singular expression on the face of our
friend. but we kept on.l Seventh yellow.
indicating tertiary. Well, here We had to
stop until our friend had given us = very
learned and elaborate dissertation upon
what he knew theoretically and practically
about the seventh color. He seemed to
be better posted on this particular color
than the fellows who made the map. We
conldn't quite understand why he dwelt so
long on tho seventh proposition, but, ''since
Ignorance Is bliss it's folly to be WISE"
we concluded to pass this color. Eighth
color-Yellow stripes. indicating alluvinm.
Ninth color-Brick red, indicating volca-
no. In the effort TO convince our friend
that his knowledge Of mining, both thco-
retical and practical, was at fault, We
pointed triumphantly to the map, but
whether the great confusion Of colors
mixed, intsrmingled and running into
each other had anything 10 do with our
failure to convince him that his PROPOSE
tons were incorrect, We were Mortified at
his statement: THAT mp Is decidedly
mixed in the west. May be all right in the
cast. Fellow had too much paint; wanted
to get rid Of it and stood of some little dis
and slapped it all west Of the Mis-
souri," After trying to distinguish the
colors west Of the Missouri. upon reference
to the figures we gave it up. The whole