, 1900-07-05
MINING NEWS.
Items of Interest Gathered
From the Different
Camps around
Saratoga.
A LINE CAMP.
An Interesting Letter from J. B. Drew
on the Prospects of that Camp.
Everything Hustling.


State Line Camp, June %.
DEAR EDIToR:-Prehaps you and
your readers might wish to know
something about our camp, now
that it is getting famous Is a cop
per and gold district, and also
how it was first found.
There has been considerable
prospecting for gold around here
for many years and prospectors
could always find gold in the de-
composed quartz, iron periphery
and other gold bearing rocks, but
not. in sufficient quantities, the
rock running from 81 to So per
ton.
In the formation there are mica,
granite, periphery, diorite, trachite.
gneese, hornblend, cambrian quart
zite, blue q%uartzite, iron quartz,
and many more of the mixed ig-
neous rocks. We have huge
dykes of granite q%uartzite and
'diorite all near mineral leads.
Nearly all of our leads are vertical,
usually running southwest and
northeast, and are frequently
! cross-cut by other leads.
In the spring of $50 an old pros
pector from the Black Hills, Wyo..
carried the mail from Collins,
Wyo., to Pearl Colo. The snow
was Sc deep that he had to walk
over the mountains consequently
he studied the formation of the
country very closely, and when
the snow left in the spring he dis
covered that he was passing over
mineral of some kind and pros
pected some for gold but without
success. He then began to look
for silver and copper and found
copper without much searching
AS soon as his mail contract ex-
pired, which was in June of last
year, he returned in company with
a good miner from Cripple Greek
and did the assessment work on
some claims. In January of this
year Henry Lippert, an old pros
pector from Deadwood came along
and looked over the ground. He
found what he thought was semitic
granite, but which proved to be
iron quartz and carried copper
of two kinds. He located the
claim but owing to the weather
was compelled to leave. He did
not get back. before the time ex-
pired on the claim and VIM. Ru-
dolph, who was over here, seeing
the claim located it for himself
and G.. o. Elms. After this Mr..
Lippert returned and they agreed
to go into partnership on several
claims These claims have prov
en- to be wonderfully rich in cop
per and are improving with depth.
They have been examined by
mining experts and have in every
instance been pronounced the
best prospects yet found so near
the surface. The copper is found
in the iron quartz that crops out
on the top in several places. The
ame of these claims are: Pearl,
Garnet, Hill Top, Bonanza and
Ruby. This group has been sold,
In the State Line group OF
claims copper is found in quartz
and iron quartz, all showing very
fine. E. H. McCleland and Henry
Henderson, two experienced min
ers, have a couple of fine pros
poets in the Globe and Globe No
2. Both of these claims show
plenty of copper in white quartz
at 10 feet.
Pat Burns and Perry Jester have
an extremely good showing in the
Lizzie group, which carries cop
per glance.
W. r. Hunter has some fine
claims in the Bon Airie, Copper
Plume, Copper Mask and Ere
mont. The last shows copper
from the grass roots.
Il. H. Dickinson has two fine
claims, both showing copper from
the top. Geo. Bohwer and VIM