Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-04-16
TRIP TO THE WASHINGTON.

oughbred, fiery steeds last Friday
morning and sailed for the Washing.
ton mine, arriving there before din.
ner. Newspaper scribes are famou.
Tor being 50 lucky as to always strike
a place before meal time, and with
our any premeditation aforethought.
we all slowed in good dinner at
the Washington boarding house and
then went into the middle tunnel Of
the nine, and up into the slopes
where we found trio of expert mi
ners-Wm. Tucker, lineal descend
ant OF Old Dan," James Craig and
Henry Johnson--who were betting
away at the gold vein and tumblinp
down good ore. A force of men
were at work grading and filling in
at the bottom of the gulch where the
hosting works will be set. A three
compartment shaft is to be sunk
there, and work will be begun on it
as soon as the leveling is finished.
We also climbed the mountain on the
west side of the gulch, to the loca-
tlons made by VIM. Hooton last fall.
These locations are owned by VIM.
Hooton, Walter Galbreaith and the
high grade quartz expert of the
WORLD. We were taken in on &C.
count OF our natural instinct in fig-
uring out the characteristics of a
mine, and its hidden qualities and
worth by looking 1t square in the
face, and observing its general fea-
lures, complexion, compactness OF
form, geological associatlon-in other
words, the company it keeps-and IN
this case IN was principally porphy-
ry, and mine that clings to porphy-
ry is all right, provided it carries
plenty of the precious metals, and
this is what the Blue Dick and Silver
King do. For fear that the reader
might iufer that the Blue Dick was 81
named because it is subject to fits o.
d spondency and melancholy, or thai
it is in the habit of producing tina
psychological vein between the foo
and hanging walls of the physica
construction of the owners, we will
state that such is not the case. Rich
ard, familiarly called Dick, got it
front name on the strength of it
lively blue complexion, which indi
Gates that its constitution is filled witt
silver. We dug just enough to set
tie our dinners, and Frank and Nels
cast slurs at the mine, either from
lack of a scientific knowledge @
facts, or to discourage the WORLD
expert so as to get the mine CHEAP
Frank said it was filled with chic
rides of total depravity, sulphurets c
poverty, crushing debts, etc, and ma
cacious microbes of disappointment
and high grade regret. Nelse washe
a sky blue specimen, gazed at
several seconds with great steadlnes
and a wise look, aud remarked wit
solennity and an ominous shake
the head: a find this to be toug
: formation, with indications of har
work, zinc blende-being so-oalle
because the zinc blends with the ye
low chlorides of assessments and bl'
mutbs of much work and no pay
and this yellow stuff permeating tn
specimen and perambulating through
out the entire vein, is chlorldes
general depreciation, intermlxed wit
the cleaning sulphides of the banl
rupt law, piurets of pleuro-nomone
and with unmistakable symptoms
> brown -cheatus, which will ultimatel
( at greater depth, run into the bl'
azurite and quintescenoe of que
I abandonment, sellemcheap or thro'
. emup, and hemitite of general dl
> gust and high grade, granuiase
7 metalliferous grains of blue profar
ty and milling, chlorination
i poverites of experience. Wh'
Nelse had finished his scientific dla
) nosis he wore a weary look, and t
handy use of scientific terms COZ
Il pletely unnerved Frank, who kt
r flummixed and fell in the ditch III
0 runs bv the discovery hole' tie W
e pulled out by the heels, and the go
/ effects of the ice-cold water soon
q viyed him, but he had nothing me
@ to say. Nelse had out-done him. a
Frank has kept still on quartz SIN
is that time, as his scientific output
d geological and metalliferous nugg
h. of technical mining terms ana
Lal classification in his s