The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-12
around the Lincoln. northwest of Gil

around the Lincoln, northwest of Gil
lett, the properties that are in ore con-
tinue 10 ship and new ground is being
made productive at rate that should
! convince all that an important produc-
ing section has been added to the dis
trict- The King of Diamonds is out
putting about ten tons day now and
the ore sells for from $50 to $50 ton.
The last shipment from the Lincoln
went S120 a ton, but the work now be-
ing done underground in the way of
preparing for the future, and the out
put is small
Colorado Springs parties are working
the Gibbons and Abe Lincoln and few
days ago the seventy-foot shaft was
sunk into a vein that fills the bottom,
the ore running S24 on an average as
say.
c. Petit and Morgan Jones have
opened a veing in the Little Wabash
and Bessie NJ. adjoining. and are get
ting runs of from $50 to $40. They will
continue sinking to 100 feet before at
tempting to get out ore.
The Frink and Adams main shaft is
down for seventy-fiVe feet and is being
timbered up and a station cut in pre-
paration to begin outputting. The ore
body is of great width and high grade.
There are fully a dozen properties in
the section that give promise of max
ing big mines, but all are in the pros
pect stage, and it will require three
months longer for the workers to get
down into and under their ore. Ali
the rock carrying values is of the same
character, a metamorphosed granite,
occurring in what the experts call shear
ed zones. or rock that has cracked YER
tically into parallel slabs.
Clear-headed experts who think well
Of the Lincoln country account for the
values being found in the granite in
these properties by the theory of the
gaseous deposition of metals, claiming
that following the CONFUSION of nature,
which sheared the country rock, the
gaseous solution of gold came from be-
low and was precipitated in the cracks.
In fact, this theory is gaining ground
among the local min eralogical sharps
who find it better accounting for the
occurrence of gold in any manner of
rock in the district. 1t is no longer
claimed as positive that you must have
any particular form of dyke in Cripple
Creek to have gold, but the experts on
the ground are now insisting that the
values will be found along some dyke
and greater in the cleavage than any
other portion of the quartz, or what
ever rock may receive the solution;
that whereas a dyke is essential, its
composition is secondary to its presen-
ce. Certain it is that while dykes of
breccia and phonolite in the Lincoln
section seldom come nearer than 100
feet of the surface, the junctures in the
granite above them often carry at the
surface the entire mass of granite pay
ore. The developments further indi-
cate that when the dyke is reached
what has answered for a vein above it
becomes a proper and we'll ardered one
in fact, with the dyke for one wall and
granite for the other, quartz carrying
tellurium and of the usual Cripple
Creek character, the filing of the vein.
]. II. Haverly, the minstrel man,
Green, Weise &c Co., of Chicago and J.
II. Meyers are working a number of
claims on Oil creek and have had en-
couraging assays from an immense
vein in the Taylor claim. They have
just let a contract for 100 feet of tun-
melting on the vein.
Galena hill lying between Grassy and
Gillett, is being prospected by a num-
Der of companies and some promising
discoveries have been made of late
The Vanity Fair company is sinking on
a four foot vein of quartz and getting
assays ranging as high as $50. F. J.
Hale has a lease on the Homestead and
finds small pockets of quartz showing
free gold. Beshears, Tiffney & Co, are
developing the Pixies Peak No. . and in
a wide vein have four inhces of ore that
assays $40. f. 2. Waldron has the
Maggie Perry under $50 900 bonds and
is sinking on wide vein along a pho
noite dyke, getting some ore in
punches.
G. w. Bolds, a late arrival from In
diana, has Joined L. Peterson and A. w.
Hansborough in the development of a
group of five claims on High creek and
patents on the properties will be push
ed with all possible speed. The High
Park district is coming into favor with
rapid strides.