The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-02-17

mount mine
1 took a cursory glance at several
prospects on my way, especially THE
Pride of the Mountain" 1t is no mat
ter of mine only in general way. but
l advise the owners of this mine and
mill to start their works and add leach.
ing to amalgamation. and achieve what
sesms already before them abundant
success
THE PARAMOUNT MINE.
With blouse and SLOUGH bat, l entered
the Paramount mine to inspect its ten
ten or twelve hundred feet of working % a..
Mr.. j. w CEemo, the original dis.
coverer and present foreman, kindly
b tcams my gniie. With tallow dip 10
hand, / started into the DO sels of the
mountain. After examining all the
workings in shafts, levels, tunnels and
stopings. / started to the outside world
again, with two facts deeply impressed
on my mind: First, that the original
aud prescott o Roers had done Very much
work iD solid rock, AMI at heavy ex
| peuss, aud had also been rewarded with
continuous. and at least fair quantities
| of z ,od ore. Secoai, that every where
| the lead was regular, aud bore the
plainest evidences of true assure veiu.
| | have never sea so much working
that shows 50 clearly both hanging and
foot walls. as res the Farm quot mine.
Toe regularity of the dip to the north
east aud toEard the cen er of the monn
tain is an important indie ,tioa of a true
vein. The h.nsing wall Is OF q lartz tie;
the foot wall is alm at Invariably OF
porphyry, Tais, again. is favorable to
trus fssure veio. Tue ore body is
not large in any oae place. but is very
regular. As d9pth is attained. there
seems less of pgrites of icon. aatimony
| ani other base metals. Taere
is also an increase of white quartz and
free milling ore. Professor Clayton
| once rem lrked to the writer. til 1t Iron
pyrites was the parent OF gold" 1t
would not thsn be strange. if, as depth
is attained below the pyrites, which Mr..
| Clayton claim sd were formed abov
what is called the water level. that gold
would increase in the Fairnount.
saw piles of ora sacks. we'll filled, on
every hand. ready for shipment to the
company's mill Ii the mine Was mine,
and if it did no one else harm l wish it
was, my frs. eff )rt would be to attain
depth. Ii a tunnel WAS run from the
deep raviue bslow the present workings
north. till it struck the vein. it would
give from two to three hundred feet in
depth. wish comparatively little work.
This would test the gold p,rentship OF
Prof .ssor Clayton, as we'll AS develop
the mine.
Well impressed With the Fairmount
niue, and Az earnest wish for the sue
cess of the company, and its most earn
est Sup srintenient. Colonsl Bael. and
his excellent wife, WHO d )es her part
IN pushing forward the enterprise,
bade adieu to Mr.. Clem), who had SO
kindly been my escort. taking sundry
specimens of excellent looking ore,
broken from time to time in my tour,
from the face of the rock.
THs BEACoNsFIELD.
My next course was over very steep
part of the monutaia, to the Beacous'
field mine. I found i. deserted, and
Jumped" it, For once found myself
IN full 90 session of q mine. Descend
lug 10 the botto OF the southern ia
cline, / struck light AMI looked
around me-. a I'd began 10 feal th 1t my
friend Mr ID ina. olIht to be there to