Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1891-10-29

true USSuJc VEIN tuot C6IttCo . WutC~
or cream. colored spar, or what is
known Ms aixbitr, frequently u strata
oi CT, st~l,izrd quartz IN the same vein,
aud in all IF m. many years of exre-
riencs in searching for TN ore l have
never found auv other ore or metal in
the vein. except in one instance in
the Black iliIls. Then l found gold
In the quartz that WAS imheddpd ~
the spar. The spar contained the
mica aud oxide of tin and nothing
else
In nearly every instance the mica is
found in books and IN. ST. hooks range
in thickness from halt IN inch TO three
inches and are lying in every conc.iv.
ahl- shape you can Think of except u
horizontal position. At the ho,tom
end Of the book YOU find a piece Of
ore which you will at once pronounce
AS iron ore aud OF no account, but
defer your ju 'pm' mt whil.; !, may
he iron aud sometimes is IRON, hut in
most cases it j. an impure TIN crystal.
HOW TO TEST 1T.
Now, Il en-. y.u need to test it. If
you think it is = tin crystal take q
pound Or W. ~ d puIv. rize it as fine
H. II is po,sihl. to get it (you ca"no,
get it too fnr) then pan It out until
the water is CT. ar and you will f'd
heavy powder where YOU would find
the gold it hunting for that metal. but
As you are after tin you work q little
different.
This powder (if it is the oxide OF tin
as YOU think it ma. by will he one OF
tive different colors. 1t NAV be a
light or dark brown, a steel gray or a
blue hla, k in col.r. After sou get
this far with 1t unless you are fully
Competent assayer, dry the powder,
send it to the best nssayer you know of.
call FIR All ASSAY for tin, send him n Is
bill, and If it is tin it is worth ten times
that amount.
In some Of the veins or lodes speak
Of there are ,"urmal,ne CRYSTALS and
tongsta,e of iron in nuggets. N+ith. r
one of these are OF any account what.
ever. The tourmai,n- crystal may be
a six or eight>sided crystal and OF a
brilliant je,-hlack colnr. very pretty to
look at, hut that Is all they are good
for. The tongstate OF iron is # n dull
grey color, bordering on black and
very heavy, but Of not much use.
Whenever you find tn. mica in
books yon will e. n ralv find the tia
81 al I'll ~ l. I,
in the spar III small minute cr> stalls;
hut when you find the mica small and
not in book form you will 6nd thu
oxide all through the vein, ant al
though the spar may look TO he pure
white in color, take glass and ex-
anime it CLOSELY and YOU will find ve,v
fine black specks all peppered over il,
and so verv f"e rs to he invisible to
the eye without good glass. After
you detect tn. specks IN the spar
pulverize a few pounds If it and pan
il out down as low as YOU can to
fine powder of ono Of thu colors !
mention. That powder is an oxide OF
tin.
THE BLACK HILLS ORB.
In some at the lud.s Of tau ore in
the Black Hills tie oxide is dissam.
mated throughout the spar. from wall
to wall. SO ,hlckly as to mske thu spar
look like n white grani,e. These VEINS
are generally the ricl ct ~ ii: and
that are twenty feet thick aid run
from 10 to Is pr cent. 10 metallic
tin.
l have even assayed the grant,
wall rock on such veins AID found |
TO ) per cent Of tin in the grnn,te u,
n depth III three inches from the unn>
que matter in the vein or lode. This
fact proves to my mi' d at least that I
the oxide was or,gi"aily in m talic
state, hut by ac'on of intense heat
WAS reduced or rather alt. red to an
OXIDE, and now has again to he re-
dnced to metal Nv proper methods.
1t will not do TO say there is no tin
in America. | have found tin during
the past six wears in the Black Hills
of Dakota. and there is enough there
to supply the world for ages to come,
and in Wyoming. Utah. Montana.
Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and
in Arizona, and l believe II, the near
future tin will be found in large qua.
itv IN all Of these places. 1t onIv re-
qares care FIJI examination of all he
veins Of spar in the granite formation L
that carries mica in the spar in any of
these States l have mentioned t. find
tin ore. In so far as INV own exp-r-
fence convinces the in the matter
there is no use t. hook FIR it in any
other form.t'on except the granite
nr where the m,caceous slate and
granite are togeth-r in place. There
may h- AMI often ar nther metAls to
b" found in true ti.sure veins in these
formations. hut where tn. mica i.
Found in the spar, eth r in book. rim
Or in small particles. there you may
very reasonably exnrtf IN 6nl III,