The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-04-21
MINERAL BLOSSOMS.

MINERAL BLOSSOMS.
The important law in mining science
that relatively there is most ore or
metal in mineral vein where there is
the least possible amount of water to in
terfere with mining it economically" was
published in the Mining Review some
months ago. This law is in opposition
to the senses, as they say where there is
the most ore there is necessarily the
most water, which at the first thought
as il fact-yet the reader must realize
that this is relative law, and to be able
to fully comprehend and apply it to all
kinds OF mines, it is necessary to under.
stand the structure Of the country where
the mineral veins are found, the enclosing
clay and rocks, attitudes, dips, springs,
topography, direction and other phenom.
enon of vein. ss
This law is good from a mountain of
iron ore to the smallest lead vein, from
the smallest to the largest coal basin, and
leads to the theory that each atom of
metal whether iron, lead, copper. silver
or gold, has discriminative attraction,
elective affinity or bias, and was endowed
with this property from the beginning,
and that these metals are used success
sevely to build the structure of worlds,
which, like the oak tree, have their morn
ing, noon and night; that planets are the
result of chrystalline laws, and each atom
in the structure of the world holds rela-
lively its proper position and would hold
no other.
The senses say that volcanoes show
that the earth in the center is in state
OF fusion, yet we shall see how soon this
can be proved fallacy. We suppose
the earth to be goode, which is round,
corrugated earthly ball, hollow in the
center. formed gradually according to
chrystalline laws, and developed from a
single cell; that the earth is the same,
and its crust or shell is 1000 miles thick,
which would leave 6,OO0 miles of its cen.
ter hollow, that volcanoes are due to
electric forces which keep the electricity
that is in space and in the strata of the
earth in equilibrium, that this electric
force circulates in the outer part of this
shell, say for 200 miles. or one.fifth its
thickness, the eruptions thrown out by
volcanoes, when compared to the thick.
ness of this crust, would not be mere in
bulk than grain of mustard seed on the
surface of large orange, mere speck
compared to the thickness of the earth's
crust. Hot springs are explained by the
circulation of electric forces in the strata
so are geysers. The senses said the
sun goes around the earth, that volcanoes
are safety. valves to let out the gasses
collecting in the interior of the earth,
that the ore in iron mountains has como
up through cracks in the earth's crust,
that lead, copper, silver and gold has
done the same, that the valleys followed
by rivers have been worn out by acci.
dental water courses, yet my three laws
OF mineral fields in stratified rocks show
that water courses are marked out by
elevsting and abrading forces working in
concert, and are the result of mechanical
laws.
Inc observer of the twenty mounds Of
the Wisconsin lead fields, that rise 800
feet above the surface Of the country,
supposed the rocks to have been pushed
up by volcanic agency-yet they are
found to be the result of the elevating
and abrading forces working in concert,
and to mark points where the two forces
become quiescent, and to hold the
economical position Of water sheds for
families of lead veins. Practically they
hold the same position As the ridge of the
roof to the different floors Of house, and
stories to the floors of lead veins, each
sheds of the rain.water. Tho same can
be said of the twenty mounds or knobs
in the Missouri lead fields, which are
porphyry in southeast Missouri, and
limestone in southwest Missouri, yet
each hold the economical position of
drainage of families of veins. The strata
forming the floors dividing the veins are
imperyious, 80 that the veins, whether
coal, iron or lead, are protected from the
water in one aoor or compartment flowing
into The other aoos. In coal basins these