Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-08-08

hNkNNlH ana tNAt nuts AZ places
saw caves DO the rocks walled in with
10 s., and ! was told that al OF these
places we're the hUmgs Of men. Some
OF the hu's arc not biz enough tor %
/ man 90 stand upright within thumi and
YOU could not stand 10 the center OF any
oil them aud swing the traditional cat
The roofs Ct the hus ate illi. They
Iru Of logs, upon the top OF which dirt
hd, been thrown in order &c Keep cut
,hg rain, while Ground the foundations
dirt hls been piled Up els a protection
iiom the cold.
70 Vas 10 such hourcI that the Cripple
Creek prusplctuu uB, iycd aud such
home wap probably that OF the orig.
ual discoveries Of the Victor You
have 900 heard the uufy Ul how the
Cripple Creek mining camp originated
~ a COW pasture and how last year
more than S',coO.cul worth Of gold
was taken out OF the ground upon
which five yeats ago cattle glazed
You have heard tJa, the country locks
like farm today, and that q would not
De strangely OUT OF place e it were
dropped down in some paris OF Penn.
sy.vdnil or New York. Iais ii 80 iu
slma respects, uut Gar different iu
pasture is walled with mountains To
is more than IL mi.c and q bait Juuys
the sea. The Victor mine s ON one
%. the mountains high above Cripple
Greek, aud a'l Of o. geld hJ5 been
tasen ont at q level OF more than TWO
mile, siTuigh,up zoo the AR above New
York, Boston OF San Francisco.
now rIW yICrlr uNa wA5 DIS.
CltEEEu.
Over this mountain the PROJECTORS
went digging here aud there until at
this point they saw what they consider.
cd good indications and siabsd out
mining claim, This was, according to
government regulations, 900 feet vide
aud 1880 feet long, comprising, al told,
about tea acres OF ground. They be-
gan TO dig, and made hole ten feet
square. Alter time they got SO deep
they could not throw the dirt out hy
hand aud they rugged up rude wind.
lass inI hauled the ore on, with a
bdckcL They soon got tired OF this,
and. finding that the outlook was
hardly SO good as they hoped, they
sold u 10 othet miners Un an option OF
$4,000. These parties were working
when Motlars men offered them sos
900, which they accepted, the hbt
pafucs making their $4,000 and they
clearing $4,000 ont o: the mine.
WHERE IHE cRirpLE cRru: GOLD
coHE5 Wou.
a description OF my visit to the Victor
mine will give You du idea OF how they
get the gold rock out OF the earth. ]
asked Professor William Weston,
graduate OF the Royal School OF Mines
Of London aud one OF the best mining
engineers OF Colorado the other day as
TO this Cripple CrecS region aud how Il
came to have gold in It lie tells me
that the territory Is toa large extent vol
cauic. said he.
This is the way suppose, that the
gold came here. Imagine a great basin
ui granite abgu, six miles wide, aud the
Lord only knows how deep. This lay
here ON the top OF the Rockies, whcn al
ut once, ages ago, there came a bang
aud II burst up. a volcano knocked
hole Sin the basin and tremendous
stream Of lava OF lust about the color OF
cream flowed In. II filed up the basin
and then got solid. Then ages followed
and then there was another shake up,
and this lava was cracked IN every direC'
ton. Now, up through the cracks came
steam and gas and hot water with gold
aud quartz IN solution. This penetrated
every break ~ the rocks aud gold was
deposited on the sides Of the cracks In
the lava. The quartz went with II, aud
the stcaming quartz and gold forced is
way into the pores OF the lava nearest
II, soaking into It ike water in a sponge,
aud altering It into a rock full OF quartz
and gold.
sometimes there were two cracks
running Tor halt mile or so parallel
with one another and only few feet
apart. The gold fluid soaked from the
cracks on each side into the lava rock
between and filled It's pores with quartz
aud gold. Such q combination Is called
a vein aud the two cracks are the walls
or the sides OF the vein, II Is not true
assure vein Of ore In the proper accept.
ancc OF the word, but 1t gives you In
supple language an idea OF the veins
about Cripple Greek. In addition to
these there are other cross veins and
you ind cracks running oil Iron the
main veins containing this quartz and
gold. Then, by the action Ut the wea-
tner throughout the ages, a sol col.
lcclcd upon TIA bose rocks, the trees
ana Efh. elk .a4 INC county lDgUls !
oped 40 you now see u all about YOU" |
Tm Golden PALACES or TIm vICroR.
II was vein like the one above des.
crled that the prospectors OF tic Victor |
discovered twas great grlyish.bluc |
sandwich OF gold and quartz running |
through walls ul lava. IL had granite |
with Il, and the rock TO the |
ord nary eye when taken out looked like |
coDble stones aud broken granite In.
mensc works had to be erected to get |
the gold OUT OF the mines, and / could |
s Tue big frame buildings containing
these standing bleak and bare agailst |
the sides OF Bull lin as / drove up.
These are The golden palaces Of the
Victor They loo, more ike Pcnnsyl-
yana bank blms than anything else,
bat they represent millions, aud the
mines under them are rs carefully
watched as TO the saving OF every bl, oil
ore as Is the business Of saving the cents
IN bank or q great department store
ltiiuut easy to get access to great
gold property like the Victor. had
letters, however rom Mr.. Moilat, and
the manager OF the mine went through