The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-10-27
NOTED OIL sMELLER TELLS OF
STRIKING RESEMBLANCE OF IT
TO OIL AND GAS FINDING.
DESCRIBES THE VARIOUS SORTS OF
MINERALS FOUND IN IDAHO
AND THE MANNER OF MIN
ING THEM.
Promises Good Story About Big State
Fair Where a Three-T thousand Pound
Ok viii Be on Exhibition. Very
Interesting and ms
i've Letter.
Pearl Mining District, Idaho.
October 81 1ON2

1th AVu lHles IRON JHe famous mum
der Mountain "Dewey" mining camp.
There is four feet Of snow between this
camp and the Dewey Thunder. You can
iuagine how happy l feel in good camp
that is not hemmed in like a prison wall
We have porphry, tale, quartz and
placer mining, all carry gold. Porphry is
brown and found near quartz, is fine
grain and much lighter in weight. Tale
is mostly white, something like soap
stone in coal mine, or the mud we used
to use instead Of line to make home look
bright and cheerful. Tale is also found
near quartz and sometimes runs between
quartz and the wall to quartz.
When we want something permanent,
we look for quartz pure and simple.
There is white CLASSY quartz that some
times carries mica, and seldom more than
a trace of gold that we call bull quartz,
hut where you find bull quartz it is safe
20 look below for placer gold. 1t seems
that during the volcanic eruption the
quartz was too slow to cool, and the gold
all blew out. At some points along the
creeks at the foot of the mountain mil
lions of dollars have been taken out of
the sand. This is called placer. Any
poor devil can take gold out of placer
claims. Working placer is done wholly
By water; you harness stream of water
and carry it through pipes or casing as
you carry water through Clarksburg;
then they throw up the sand, which re-
sembles the sand used by meetings..
johnson and Others of your city for pas
tering; then connect hose and nozzle to
piple, | speak of, then the water comes
with the same effect and force as your
fire fighters so after fire in house, only
the placer miner turns the water on the
sand. Gold is heavier than iron, there.
fore the force of the water drives all
sands on in advance of The gold; the cold
is shovelcd UP in sleuth boxes and wash.
ed and cleaned with quicksilver, which
gathers the gold as a magnet picks ,lp
a needle; sometimes they get nuggets
OF gold out of a placer than run in value
from $50 to 500, in fact, they got mug
get few days ago that was worth 49,.
600, but nuggets so large are seldom
found Placer gold is usually as fine as
The finest gun powder,
Blue quarts carries both gold and sill.
yer, sometimes lead and link, in fact, A
real blue quartz carries lead and silver.
We have red quartz that runs high in
gold. Assays have been taken from this
red quartz that run up to thousands of
dollars per ton. Then, there is mi7ky
quartz. | mean the color of old cherry
milk after it stands over night. In this
quartz you find parties Of iron and cop.
per. When you find yellow iron in
quartz, you must surely have gold, as
iron is the mother OF gold. Indigo blue
quartz carries copper, and about enough
gold to pay for milling the copper. There
is an elder berry quartz that carries co.
bait. All the diffcrerent.colorcd quartz
Is of the same nature, as the different.
colored granite you seen used for toni
stones. Quartz has no lead link or cop
per in it and is free milling A mill for
free milling has crtisher like Mr.
Stout's rock crusher. The ore is hauled
from the mines in cars like coal from
coal mine and dumped into a chute
aud goes down and through this crushci
and then under stamps, which resemble
Il hominy morton that my father intro.
duced me 10 when l was a boy. After
the quartz is into dust, it passes through
water and down over the plates, which
arc about three feet wide and are made
OF copper. These plates are covrcd with
quicksilver. The copper holds the quick
silver and the quicksilver gathers all the
gold, and when this quicksilver is filled
with gold they clean the plates, then
they have the gold gathered. Now, these
lodges, or lcdes, as they are called. run
as true as oil belts. If you notice 0
certain mountain in the United States
You will find that all good oil fields are
seldom over a mile wide and run parallel
with that mountain. This rule works
in collaborating quartz. Ii runs as true
as You can set compass. From this
Fou can take the course from a mine
that You know is good and go miles on
level an so to work, and you are MS
sure to get mine as you are ~ on
The same line in an oil field With the
same blossom to quartz as for oil. The
miners call the main lcde that runs 50
true parallel with these mountains, tho
mother Iede, and the spurs running from
this main lede, stringers. Very faw Of
Fhe prospcctors notice this parallel rule
l.hj it works. Tracing these lodges OF
ledes OF quartz shows me more plainly
that oil and gas run in streaks parallel
across states, and the spurs or stringers
from the main pool or stream, are what