Lincoln County record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1900-1905, 1900-07-06
Prospectus & Promotion
OF THE
Silver King CIR up Of NinBS .
BY
Silver King Mining and Sm ting
Company.
Mines located in Lincoln Co.
Nevada.

Such is the heading of pamphlet
received at this Office, and as it con
tains much information ~ about how
to find mines and the manner in
which they are traced, that is en-.
tirely new to the average miner, we
publish it. The prospectus was
written by an Eastern Mining Ex-
pert who exported tile Silver King
Group of mines last year. He starts
off as follows;
We will now give little history
as to how these and other mines are
found and located. You first look
for float. Float is weather beaten
particles broken off the lodges that
have gradually worked their way
down the mountain, sometimes as far
as the base, and as soon as you have
located the vein, as best as you can
by float, then you take up the trace.
The trace is the gold that has been
washed out of the ledges and float,
then you takes bits of soil as far out
as you think the (gold) trace runs
and then you go down the noun
tains and pan it out and of course
you pan each and every one separ-
ately to find out how wide thetrace is
IA gold pan is as large around as "a
small dishpan; but not over one
fourth as deep, nude Ct steel, Then
put these bits of soil separately in
the pan and by swinging motion of
the water they separate tue soil from
the gold. The soil is gradually
washed over the edge of the pan.
The next time you go higher the
trace grows more narrow: and the
higher you go the more narrow the
traces are and when it gets four or
five feet wide you are liable to get
above it, and when you do OF course
you will not get any gold SO you will
know you are close to the ledge and
you will 60 to digging Forty colors
is good trace.
The soil runs from no soil at all to
ten feet deep. The Rocky Noun
tales have no soil at all. Prospectors
have to prospect by drilling and
but this is Nevada mining. So you
hunt and you dig until you find your
ledge and then you will have to do
$500 worth of work that is dig a
shaft ten feet deep and show up
walls and ledge bearing gold, silver,
or any metal that will pay. This ore
lies between these walls. The walls
are Of a different kind of rock on
either side the ledge.
The mine l owned an interest in,
in Jackson county, Oregon, the walls
were porphyry and slate and just so
with all mines, they have all kinds
of walls. The walls have lots to do
with mine. Some kinds of rock
are much better than others, (lime
porphyry is the best formation
known to miners.
When you get your shaft dug and
show up ledge and walls then you
tack up your notice stating the min
ing district and name your claim Il
took one up in Oregon and called it
the Illinois, but it was no good), and
measure off to the best Of your ability
1900 feet long by 600 feet wide that
constitutes about twenty acres and
stakes are SO many feet so and so,
and when you get it all staked out
then you go to the county seat and
get it recorded which will cost you a
dollar that holds your claim for one
year.
In Nevada mines are personal
property. A vein of ore never stands
perpendicular, it pitches to the
North, East, South or West. Some
times they lie in blanket form and
again they are in chimneys, and de-
posits no ledge at all. 1t is very
easy to locate a claim, but the more
difficult question is to find one that
is worth locating. You go out in the
mountains to hunt mine you will
soon learn why gold and silver are
precious metals. There are lots of
old forty-niners lin the west but
never have made their fortunes yet.
Before / left Oregon and that was in
ninety-nine, there was forty-niner
prospecting and he happe ned along
Hornbrook. Cal, that was just the
other side of the Sesque Mountains
from where l was located, and he
went into an old prospect tunnel and
thought he saw prospect of mine.
So he looked up the owner and made
arrangements and bonded it and
started to work at the end of two
weeks he was taken out $1,000 rock
that 10 $1,000. At the end of two