Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-01-08
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of white schist; in this streak all
the gold was coarse, smooth and ola
faint green tinge. 1t was evident
that at different times three
streams from as many different
localities have flowed through the
ground on one little hill.
With the gold dust, when it has
been washed down in pan or
sluice and freed of gravel and clay,
will always be found more or less
"black sand''-mostly magnetic
iron-and with this variety of
garnets, rubies, emeralds and the
like gems of minute size, with al
so in some places small diamonds
and some grains of platinum, in
the northern counties of CalilOr-
MIA. There are different mixtures
of these microscopical gems, and
some other little stones of various
colors in the different districts,
and the old gold-buyers, who
cleaned the dust of all such mate
rial before weighing it, were able
in most cases to name the section
from which the gold came as soon
as they saw the foreign matter
that came with it. Often the
tricky miner found himself caught
by these little stones when he was
trying to sell $16 for $3.50 gold.
HOW THE AUSTRALIANS FIND 1T.
, In Australia the same peculiar
tiles in the distribution Of placer
| gold are observed that were seen
in California. In one and the same
district each gully will be found
presenting in its produce an indi-
5 vidualism in size, form and value
0 familiar to miners and gold-buyers.
In some places the dust is SO fine
!. that it is termed "paint gold,"
S while in others it is all big nuggets.
g A man may sluice for week and
f not get a "color" in his boxes,
s while the next day he may find a
# nugget weighing 500 ounces. The
d quartz veins are more uncertain
b than in California. The Austria
n lians have their 'pipe veins" that
o shoot about in various directions;
II "slab VEINS" that are horizontal
= and start and finish abruptly with
s out connections at either end
a mere tables-"stringers" rich in
d gold that promise to lead to a lode
Ii but scatter and disappear, with big
d rich veins jumping from place to
n place. The Australians have their
troubles with "mundic"-the Cor
nish name for iron pyrites. In
some places, as at Ravenswood
. mundic means failure, while in
! other districts, notably at Charters
i Towers, mundic means fortune
80 But everywhere when the "kindly
=. black slate" appears the barren
~ reef becomes fertile and the miner
10 heartily rejoices. This black slate
i, =, is of the same character as that Of
the "mother lode" of California.
N DIFFERENT CoLoRs AND MIXTURES
- OF GOLD.
lie The gold of Australia is much
e. redder than that of California
re Guinea gold is also very red; but
n the gold of the Urals, Siberia, il
y the reddest found anywhere in the
III world, though that of the AMOR
S, placers is close second. Thu
Id gold of the placers in Gold canyon
v, below the Comstock lode, contains
as SO much silver that it is only
IN worth SO to $12 an ounce. TIL,
ne gold of most of the Idaho placer
was of about the same character
In placer in Esmeralda county
New, the gold contained con
er siderable per cent of copper. Il
VII places in Central America tn
y, native gold of the placers contain
1t so much silver that it is almos
r. white. This was the character c
IN the gold found SO abundantly i
ld ancient times in the Pactolus river
ed of which so much has been sal
lie and sung. All our lives we hay
SIS heard of the Pactolus and th
as "Pactolian souls" Celebrated a
nd it has been for ages it was rattle
OF small pattern in the way of
he river, being but ten feet wide an
el- only foot deep.
he the Mormon ten-dollar piece
IN coined from placer gold obtaine
ct at Lemhi, had distinctly gree
ii. tinge when held in a certain wa
ne in the sunlight. Very thin shee
'et of gold show decided green COLI