Arizona republican., 1903-03-25
CORRESPONDENCE
From Mining Stock, and Agricultural
 SecriOuS
ROCK AND RELIGION
Frank Alley, Miner, Enjoys Lecture on
 Celestial Metallurgy

i Bisbec. Ariz March 2S Special Cor
 respondence of The Republcan).-i dug up my rusty long tail coat last oline. borrowed the editors shirt and
 went to church.
 It was the first break of the kind r. had been guilty of since the Republi- cans carried Texas. When I used to go to church, the preacher wore shiny <, Prince Albert and a shabby necktie but he lived on the fat of the devoted hen coop just the same. Now he blows into pCrterhouse and mushrooms and as to his raiment. Solomon in all his glory could not hold a candle to him. I was thinking about hard rock religion al; this time. 1 scon discovered the swell est carbonates of decorum and faultless shirt fronts I ever saw in all my life, not to mention vast cropping of new f1ngled hats that looked like every thing from rusty gold to crysicolis. All high-grade, however. There were two remarkably uniform breaks in the for nation, called aisles, and the foreman was exceedingly polite, only instead of conducting me through the different drifts on that level. he took me over near one Of the tunnel escapes, which seemed to be bulk-headed with glass, and chucked me down in a square set, while the superintendent proceeded to lecture. I expected him to say some thing bout rock. of course. but for awhile he rambled along on a formation never heard of before, but finally settled down to business by announc- ing that his text would be "Dieright." Now I understand malachte. syente, bcrnite. snOrite, and a dozen other ties. but I have always wanted some light on that subject called dieright. l knew it was herd layout. and it's values, if it possessed any. were always in re- bellious composition.
 Well, the superintendent strengthened
 it out till the youngest mucker around the works could understand it. He said
 that it was the most valuable property in the world That if once struck. it would lead to gold by the carload: not only gold. but gold already manufac-
 tured in the form of crowns and harps and sandals. even in the form of brick adapted to paving streets. As a matter Of fact, ! got scared with the idea of over production before he got through. If anybody runs onto good dieright
 mine. according to that mans conclu- sions. copper would go down to q chew of tobacco per carload in less than
 thirty days. Hope the government will aEm the regular army and cover all
 these dieright deposits as fast as they are discovered. On the other hand. he
 said that though it may be a coinci- .. l,- ! right. invariably runs into form of sulphur known in meta1lurigical science as birthstone. Then he got down and addressed a telephone message to what | is supposed to be the supreme authority
 on mines and metallurgy requesting him to submit all necessary informd- 1 tion he had q mind to. to each and every old erring prospector on the coast. and guide him. or in ordinary | language. steer him onto an unfailinS deposit of dieright. I know from tn. way the old man talked that his heart
 was clear bullion. 97 per cent fine. and maybe after all he knows exactly what he is talking about: anyway, wouldn't mind hitching on to about a
 six-inch ledge of that stuff. just %
 whipsaw all possibilities of running
 into 2 hot stove. with my candle out.
 After it was all over. the boys all dumped q slug of high-grade silver into
 q sample sack held out to us on the
 end of a tamping stick by fine dressed 1 powder monkey. and I leaned up against an angle brace and reflected on
 the dieright question till the whist,e
 blew for dinner. Since we were all on 1 the first level, we did not bring our ! buckets along, but drilled home for 2 l hot lunch. That superintendent is d 1 crackerjack at his business and goes
 through you like an Ingersoll drill through mud. As soon as I can get my washing out, I am going again.
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