Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-01-09
origin of Mineral Veins.

ocean at one era was 5000 feet below st.
Louis; that the lower silurian strata
were first laid down as sediment on the
oceans floor, then the upper siurian,
then the devonian, the -carboniter
Gus and lower, middle and upper coal
series. These are all in place under the
grand praries Of Illinois, Kansas, Ne
braska and Oak ota, and are 5000 feet
thick. These strata were laid down be-
fore the river system were formed,
which are due to two forces-elevating
and abrading-these working along the
same lines and with corresponding de-
grees Of power. These forces mark out
the lines and have abraded the valleys
followed by the rivers and their thou
sand branches. Along the Mississippi
| River from st. Paul to Memphis from
800 to 600 feet strata has been cut way.
At the heads Of the Missouri and Ar
kansas, 1000 feet at the heads Of the
Ohio, 1000 feet, and along their courses
! from 300 to 500 feet
The laying down Of stratified rocks
and elevation Of the mountain ranges
takes the place before the ores are Fl led
in veins, except coal, which is due to
carbonizing the plants Of the coal era
The repetion of the iron, lead, copper,
silver and gold fields is the last work
| done by the economic laws prior to the
advent of man on the planet. If the
reader would have Il practical idea of
| how these ores are filled in veins, he
may suppose that the world at one time
was cell in the nebulous matter or COS.
mic dust Of space, and this cell was en-
dowed by the Great Architect, with the
life principle to grow world by crystal
ization, with its mountains, valleys and
veins as we see at present. All metallic
atoms were primarily created with an
elective affinity, discrimnative power
of attraction and bias. Ideas come un-
der the same law, and each are in
destructible. They change their posi-
tions relatively, but never lose their
identity an atom of iron, lead, copper,
gold is always an atom. 1t NAV be filled
in an iron mountain or other mineral
vein, may be carbon locked in a coal
vein, be an idea that Lad been used by
the orators of Greece, Rome or in the
United States senate, and will be used
by coming statesmen. The iron atoms
in our present iron mountains in Mis-
souri,, Wyoming, Old Mexico in time
will return to their original cosmic dust
and be used to build up other planets
| by the same cosmic laws as this was
build on which we live.
The world, a geo e, hollow in the
centre, with crust 900 miles thick,
has developed from cell by adding
constructive elemen :. these being re-
placed by the fe principle Of the planet.
Primarily the architect Of the world
saw in ideal the world, with all it's river
systems, iron noun ins, metallic veins,
and coal basins before the world was.
Atoms have sex, and are dual, and
move according to their afinites. Elec-
tricity is not force, but the vehicle that
moves force, which primarily comes
from an inherent property in matter to
aggregate in antagonistic centers. When
this antagonism has reached its maxi
mum, the two centers then strive to
form mediation it may be two clouds,
two churches, or political parties, or two
individuals the law is the same. This
planet will have its morning, noon, and
night the same as animals, blades of
grass, or tree, and eventually will be
cremated by spontaneous combustion,
As the thirteen stars were that have
gone out of existence since the
Chaldeans watched the stars, when
Babylon was a great commercial city.
Astronomers tell us that these stars
were last seen as fiery red spots and
then became extinct.
/ stated some months ago in the Min
ing Review that the important law in
mining science had been discovered,
that ali ores had been filed in the veins
with direct reference to their drainage !;
that it might be an iron mountain, or
smallest lead, silver or gold vein, the
law was that relatively, the greatest
amount Of ore was, when there was, the
least possible amount Of water to inter
fere with mining the ore economically.
That this was the law Of all minera,
fields, coal fields of Illinois, lead fields
of Wisconsin or Missouri, native copper
veins of the lakes, or great silver and
gold belts of Rocky and Sierra Nevada
Mountains from Alaska to Panama
This law includes the water on the sur
face and that circulating in the strata,
and the fact that it is so shows that each
metallic atom had direct relationship TO
each atom Of water One man said to
me: "Why that brings the geology Of
mineral fields to an exact science" l
said "yes, but is the time not to come
when the vein system Of mineral find
will be understood and seen in the ideal
before the ore is mined, and mining be
lifted out Of the hands Of emperies, and