The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-11
GREAT MOTHER LODE
In the Wichita Mountains Is
Fully Described.
WILLIAM COOLEY WRITES
Of the Area and Trend of the
Great Ore Body.

Ell Reno, o. T, Feb. 1O-To the editor
of the Eagle: Old miners have been ask
ing whether there is mother ledge in the
Wichita mountains I trust 1 viii not
be trespassing on your good nature and
valuable space to ask YOU to publish the
following article on the great mother
lode, and and the great porphgry, or car
Donate belt, which cuts its road through
the Wichita mountains
This mineral-bearing rock is situated in
the Kiowa and Comanche reservations. Tt
is the great mother lode ledge, or vein,
OF that country of which 1 will now give
full description. The great mother lode
or carbonate belt, IS the feeder of all
those veins which intersect it's ore body.
It's breadth, at this time, is unknown
AT its eastern point where it was first
discovered by the writer of this article
1t crops out 1,S00 feet in breadth, where
1 have located three claims, running side
by side, for different parties, and all along
the vein it crops out very frequently and
very bold. so that it can be very easily
and south of east about 10 degrees Ten
miles further northwest, on West Otter
Creek, it crops out again, very broad, as
much as three miles in breadth, where
have made several locations, on and
about the north and south contacts. The
rock is the same color as the eastern por-
ton of the vein, where the first discovery
was made. The Agate quartzite crops out
at its eastern and western point; also
again in the middle, or halfway between
thu two points
The vein is about ten miles in breadth
from east to west, or as far as my expIor-
atoms go on that vein, but there is no rea-
son to conclude that the vein stops there
just because we cannot see any more
groupings on the surface Natural law.
and common sense, combined with expert
ence. teaches US that the vein still con-
unues, pursuing its natural course for
hundreds of miles, and doubtless thous-
ands. But it dips and crops out again
many miles apart and in its course up-
heaves those high mountains which you
see covered over with great boulders and
rocks of all shapes and sizes, they being
the cap rock that overlies the great
mother ledge. Those white crystalized
veins Which crop out on this mother lode
and run in a southwest and northeast
course 50 degrees, will therefore, naturally
cut their road through the vein or mineral
belt in time and become almost vacent as
it were, or, in other words. non-mineral
bearing, or, again, vii mot pay for work
ing. But as long as those veins remain
within the limits of the mother ledge, they
will doubtless pay But it must be under
stood that there are richer spots in some
places than in others in the same vein. so
done deceive yourselves and expect to
pick up nuggets of gold on the surface. or
in the bowels of the earth without dig
ging for it, or without any exertion or
Gold don't grow on the surface. but it
is sometimes picked up on the surface,
after big flood, where the soil and gravel
have been washed away and left the
nuggets Of gold bare. Colonel Head of
Prescott, Arizona. showed me a nugget of
pure gold, which was worth s475. which
had been picked up after a big wash. It
is also found at the grass roots where
there is but little soil. I have PANIED out
ilNS CeHIS 10 the pan, Two ShOVelSful to
the pan, in halfway in Montana. at Silver
Bow, near Butte City, that now is.
But this is not the mother lode in the
Wichita mountains I will return and
explain to my friends and the public all
about them. 1 have no secrets to keen.
The mother lode lies in fat or blanket
shape. 1t has never been moved from
its natural bed, but in some places it has
been partly upheaved by volcanic erup-
ton, forming fat prominent points. or
Lodges. on the margins of small creeks.
The rocks is of red and brown. porous. or
honey-combed. porphgry. with yellow car
Donate white crystalized veins cutting
its great ore body. Free milling
ore gold and silver copper. lead and zinc
deposits. are discovered within it's limits |
so far as signs and colors and other fndi-
cations GO. Its breadth must be from |
i've to six miles. Ny ASSAY from one |
pound Of rock by panning. with ouicksil- |
yer, out Of a specimen of float white |
orystalized brown quartz. amalGan. Il size !
d a pea Yours very truly,
VIM COOLEY,
The old miner.