The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-05-06

the Cruise Lowell sssms 10 lsavs the vsin en-
ttrely and 90 into the wall rock al the vest
Of tho vein, aAd then II bends around
again and csossss the vein near Tho end.
The Ciuss level Ii crooked there and both
wall looks are exposed"
tell him that the plan was not attended a.
q Rsolooical map. NJ oil. The professor
said: II supposed was int0ndsd to repre-
sent the direction Of the iav0i, / didu't
nave any compass with inc. but I have fol-
lowed these underground Markings 80 long
that don't very often aes turned around.
DO mistaken about the crook; l may have
been crooked myself. but ! think l wasn't.
l think Il il crooked and the vein cute
right across II near that end; that 10 the
way ! followed tho vein. and 70 followed
tho C.use level north: and it is
: !: my tn. :'1 S.osl ss'' WALL q unit. i1s .e ,s "ss
out Al this point where wa intersect
the Hopeful shaft or moline. following the
hanging wall. O.. the east side Of tho vein.
showing that that wall il n remarkably
good wall. all tho Indications Of a
fine wall. The material in the vein Is
and these cross-cuts In this incline.
scarcely n difference. perhaps a little
more minornlizod. And while on that I
might rs vel! say that the more wo went
down on this moline, The mo- the material
WAS mineralizsd. as fur AZ l could Judge;
at the surface tho rocks wore not 80 much
mineraiized as they were at the depths of
two or three hundred feet. I do not know
az there Ia any other change in the Cruise
level than that which ! have mentioned.
There is no question but what 1t is a well
defined vein. At this Joint we intersect
tho incline for tho Hopeful. We pass beyond
TO where a great. quantity Of OF has been
taken ont. ] don't know how far, and We
find the hanging wall the same. and wher-
ever VIC come to II our Indications are pre-
cisely tho same"
Next the professor explained how the
vein between tho foot wall and hanging
wall Of the thirty-foot level south oom-
the vein matter. He said it was the same
kind of material in a general way. but not
80 thoroughly minernlizsd. Al far as he
had seen ii on this or any other vein. where
the surface material 10 thrown in. it is
hlied at the surface with surface mate-
beneath to fill the vein then the Indications
are not tho same. but whe'e the vein 10
filed from the surface the greater the
depth in the surface material In the vein
the moro likely is 1t to be changed. The
professor gave the following reasons for
this: This vein where it was made. - I
explained Yesterday, BY some convulsion
of nature. was filed with hot water with
out any doubt, 40 hot that it would hold
these minerals in solution. having alkalies
that would hold all these minerals that were
in the vein in solution, | moan all except the
surface ones (and il would those, too, it it
had them) We don't know how hot, from
IL would trouble tho preachers to make it
any hottcr; but 1t IL hot enough to put in
solution all the minerals ne have in this
vein. even the gold itself. When that
water is there and filed with that mineral
matter, the water. next to the walls will DO
cooled first. and the mineral will be depos.
tied on those cooled walls. and then here at
the surface. if the great mass of matter is
thrown in here, as it was in this vein. Of
broken up rock the water will be SO cool
towards the surface that it wont melt them,
and the deeper they are down the more
they will he changed, because the water
will be hotter there. and the mineral mat
ter will be more deeply i~mpreQnatsd there:
and the nearer the surface You 20 the less
effect this hot water will have on them,
hence VI do not expect the fragments of
the wall rock here at the surface so much
changed as we do down at the Cruise level.
That ia tho reason, sir. III a few words I
have made myself plain. 1t 10 a good while
since ! have leotured TO boys on these sub
jects.
II have shown you what We saw IN the
surface, the indications of q vein unmis-
takably up to the st. Louis incline; from
the st. Louis incline there is a cut opened
to the north end of tho st. Louis incline !
think. that cut shows the foot wall all tho
incline to the north wall of the St. Louis
claim. Then from the north end of the
st. Louis claim to the Hopeful shaft. At
that time, seve al years ago, this shaft was
down SO that when I went down in there
was n little water in tho bottom. I could
tnNH th4 %A~ l.sllsr~ ~-l - -~.1s - A.
Oruse level, right below us. very plainly. l
could hear them talking. l could hear
still. This inoline had a remsrkablyy
good hanging wall. When 1 Was in tho
Cruise level the other day l looked up. and
the remaining portions which l didn't sec
years ago and saw then. they looked very
doubt but what t%hisincline connects here
what We have called the vein. whit we
called thcn. three years ago, l think IL was,
with the C:uss level. / can see no geologic
cal fallacy in that connection; the geolog-
ical facts point in that objection, and thoy
what this incline connects what was opened
here as a vein. at that time. and the Ctuse
level, and on a vein; follows the same ysiu
down., because We 800 II all the way in the
hanging WALL"
The professor was asked whether tho
changes in the matter between the two walls
in the thirty-foot levels was due TO both
the grinding process and to the chem ical
change, and said yes. Perhaps it had been
OF years grinding. He said: I'VE
know that within the last twenty years
thero have been movements in these noun
taina; and they nre going On now without
any dopbt; We don't know it. once in a
while we get indications of il. Tho first
year I came here. in 1866, I slept on the
ground nearly i've months every night,
and l frequently heard. when l was sleep
ing near tho mountains on tho ground,
some movement beneath. indicating that
these mountain range were not quiet, mud
l never lived in my country whore they
were quiet yet. ] haven't found any coun-
try old enough. There il another little
proof that these mountains are changing,
that occurred from 1863 to 1866 in tho Boul-
der valley. Some miners there had a
cabin, running cast and west. that they had
occupied for three or four years. Every
Christmas they met there and had Al little
oelebr ntion, and they had a noon mark
where the sun would come in over the
ridge south of thcnn and strike the floor.
The last year they met there was In 1866,
and the sun didn't shine in; ID was a
bright day. there had been a change in the
level; that mountain had r.ssn or the valley
had settled"
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