The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-06

perpendicular to the exterior limits that the
owner might make a new location and would
first be entitled to do So" This PRESIDENT
scribe Of the Herald is probably the only man
lin existence who ever gave utterance to the
idea that mines are worked up from the sur
face. 1t is the generally accepted notion that
ordinary lodges are worked in the opposite
direction. At least history does not record
that any extensive ore deposits have ever been
discovered and worked in the air, and if the
Eerdld maj knows of any such cases he
ought to publish the particulars.
The next paragraph, We confess, is alto
gether beyond cur comprehension. 1t reads
as follows:
"But in the mean time the adjacent ground
might be occupied and no doubt would be
under one and another pretext Cd Our min
eral veins are often close together though
wholly distinct. If perpendicular lines are
to be established the locator might have in
cluded in his claim fractions of half a dozen
lodes none of which he could work at any
advantage. The system proposed would lead
to the expenditure of vast amounts of unre-
munerated labor in search for lodes at uncer-
tain depths. Every rich lode would be girt
about with a shaft and tunnels aimed to col
lect the rich deposits outside Of surface linn
it's"
The. Herald man holds over us, and we
must humbly request that he set them up
in the other alley. We cannot conceive in
what way s.every rich lode would be ''girt
about with or surrounded by a shaft, unless
some old shaft could be taken out of the
ground and made to circumscribe the claim
on the surface. This evidently is the idea Of
the Herald gentleman, but we seriously
doubt its practical utility. We are also be-
logged as to the manner in which
these rich lodes could be 'girt about"
with tunnels and especially if such
lodes should happen to be located Oh
low ground where tunnels could not be run
Our friend, after making a few more perspic-
uous remarks conclusively proving his thor
ough acquaintance with the subject, begins an
eloquent peroration with the following sen-
tence, for the Interpretation of which by some
man who has solved the fifteen puzzle (none
others need apply,) We should feel much
obliged:
III any SlDSle RUE HuuSs govern III case.
the law as it stands at present certainly suits
the mar "ity of cases, take the whole country
together, than the one proposed"
What does this mean, and whose grammar
system has the Herald man studied, and has
he ever studied any system, or was his profess
sor paid Chinese wages? But read the next
sentence:
"It NAV be that the law might be
modified to suit such deposits or horizontal
strdtds as are found in Colorado"
Stratas! Here is the conclusion of the
article:
Gas there are but few in Congress who
have any practical acquaintance with this
subject, it behooves us the more who have
both experience and interest to strengthen tie
hands of our delegate with an early and EN-
phatic expression of our views"
'Experience'' is good, and we are firm in
the belief that on reading what our friend
has to say about the important mining inter
ests in the Territory which Mr.. Maginnis
so ably represents, that he will at once order
twenty thousand copies to be struck off fol
distribution among the senators and repre-
sentatives of the American Congress. New
ertheless, we would with the most tender
regard for the feelings of our brother scribe
suggest that he make no further reference tc
the subject of mining legislation, and that he
%confine himself hereafter to the promotion O.
the Blaine boom, which at the present time
aid to give it success.