The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-01

resemble in shape the copperhearing and
gossancrested upheavals in pucktown Ten
nessee, but they are of different age and
composition. They are nearly barren and
towering above the most beautiful mes
quite prairies fringed by the finely tim
besed bottoms of the tributaries of
ked river are exceedingly picturesque.
The members of the Wichita system
as far as open to peculiar inspection
by outcrop or crosscut, making allowances
for climatic differences, correspond closely
with the lower strataS discovered at Perm
and Mansfield, but its mineral resources are
evidently more promising. Such numerous
veins of copper ore have been traced over
the SUBMITS and sides of those hills that out
of $4,000 acres ofland which the company
located hardly an 100 acre tract could be
found without ore upon the surface. The
ora crops out as for instance upon the lsbell,
Douglass, Ball and VIM leads in such
quantity and quality that the collection of
tive
1t is supposed that those ores are neptune
deposits, caused from contemporaneous
pmtonic injections, at different ages, of giant
ges metaliierous quartz, trap, or porphyry,
into the stratas underlying the permMn
rocks. The main lodeS are parallel
with the strata, but there is sufficient evil
acter of true veins, Cupriterous and tcrru-
ginous crops courses, feeders and leads of
| Manganese are often met with. A crossCut
to the depth of about fifteen feet was made
upon the lsbell lead and ten hours work
resulted in the raising of 5000 pounds of
rich copper ore, averaging about sixty per
cent of copper. This ore is the native disul-
IphWct of copper, vitreOus copper, ore or
kupierglnnz, 1t is far superior to the terro-
| sal
which ore is most generally worked for in
England. II is, in fact, more profitable than
| Me native copper as found nj Lake Superior.
| i is easily smelted, and the stratas in witch
| IS found can also be more cronom-
| tally cXcavated than any other N
which copper ore occurs. The
ltrataS drawn below the workin. lihc
Prop out in a ravine below and upon the
sides of other hills. The drawing demon
strateS the existence of other lpdeS, below
the one cut by the croSScut and shows how
| the upper stratus have sunk NJ Their out
crops nearly to q horizontal position On ac-
count Of the decompositon of powerful lodes
| beneath, Those stratas should he pcnC-
tratcd by shafts and the ore reached beneath
the disintegrating influence of the atmos-
phere. Interring from the small traces of
iron and the great amount of car
donate of copper left upon and pcnetrat-
ing the foot wall of the lode, it is reasonable
to expect rich yielding ore. The assays |
made recently of the Wichita
ores, correspond with the assays | made
as state chemist in 1868. The per
centage of copper in those specimens is be-
tween 435S9-7S3lS The ore from the Is
bell lead produce 3G0,7S per cent, some
without trace of iron. It's color is gray,
its luster shining and metallic, sometimes
with beautiful blush irisdescence. Its
specific gravity is from 5.69-5.73. Its chrys-
talization is in rhombic trimetric prismas
with parallel cleavage to the longer axis.
The ch:y sIallzation being partially oh
structe!I and its peculiar cleavage has
given it the appearance OF petriiied
wood, of which it is often n
transformation, and it has, therefore, cen
recently baptized with the name of mes
quite ore. Nickel and cobalt ores, azurit and
malachite, and considerable quantities OF
black oxide of copper, the result Of the de-
composition of the disulphurct, are also
found in the lsbell lead. and the ore owes lis
black appearance before fractured to it,
From the assays made and from analogous
observations made in Germany and Mexico
think there is strong probability that al
a greater depth those ores may be profit0bly
worked for silver | am convinced the pros.
pect is so encouraging that | can conscien-
tiously congratulate you upon the results OF
your exertions. The members of the com.
pany who have left their liresides and riskcd
their scalps in the explorations, are honored
by having their names conferred upon the
leads discovered by them, but honor, with
substantial benefits, will be showered upon
yourselves and our state from the working
OF these mines. The immense forests of the
cross timbers, and the adjacent carbonifer-
Gus formation, will invite capitalists to erect
smelling furnaces railroad companies will
find it TO their interest to push on their
roads; farmers will settle the rich wheat
so far as technicalties are concerned, per,
tectly practicable, to ship the ore directly
from the mines in proper boats, such as used
III German mines, as, for instance, at Claus
thai. The tributaries of Red river are deep,
and afford plenty of water during the wet
seasons.