The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-03

hhu uSeu anu was 10 come 1ney
wasted no time in reaching far above
the surface level, in many cases the
flower opening right on the ground.
The joy of finding these earliest flow
ers, while nights were freezing cold
and only the short hours of the day
warm, was increased by realizing how
perfectly these little plants took ad-
vantage of their opportunities. and the
thought to US must be that where there
is will there will also be found room
for sunshine.
After several weeks trip into
Idaho j. A. Czizek of the Lost Packer
company's properties at Loon creek
reached the city again yesterday after
noon. During his absence he made ar
rangements for the building of 25
mile wagon road from the end of the
Jordan creek highway over Mt. Estes.
The work will cost about $4,000, and
MIR. Czizek expects to have il complet-
ed some time in July. He has the
promise of the County Commissioners
of Custer county that they will aid his
company in the enterprise, SO there is
every reason to expect that a large
tonnage of rich ore will be coming 70
this market by the middle of the sum
mer.
OF conditions at the Lost Packer
property Mr.. Czizek speaks most en-
Enthusiastically. In the intermediate
tunnel workings, which cuts the ledge
$50 feet below the original tunnel
workings, drift has been extended
for sixty feet through to 5 feet of
solid chalcopyrite ore that is richer
than anything ever seen in the mine
before, and there is yet no indication
of where its limits may be found.
The No. 8 tunnel, which is designed
to open the mine 123 feet deeper than
the intermediate tunnel, had just
reached the vein when Manager Czizek
left camp. While it looked fine en-
ough work had not been done to give
an intelligent idea of what the results
of development would be, though there
was nothing to indicate other than
the mine would be more than doubled
in value at that depth.-Sslt Lake
Herald.
Following is the geological report
of ). L. Hunt, of Challis, on the Belle
of Thunder Mountain mines in Thun-
der Mountain
AT time when there was much
confusion, and more Misunderstanding
of the peculiar geological character of
the Thunder Mountain ore deposits,
made a statement regarding the for
nation and position in which these
ores could be expected to be found. So
little work had been accomplished at
that time that it was impossible TO
verify the position then taken, and it
seems lately the conditions are up to
those early suggestions. Two years of
constant work in the Dewey, and more
particularly the Sunnyside mines, has
so verified those views that a short
statement of them seems to be proper
at this time.
THE mines are wholly found in eff
fusive lavas. Volcanic rocks that came
up in great voleanos, filled unknown
fissure resources adjacent to the posi-
tions in which they are now found,
and bearing on the lower land sur
faces up to the Miocene Tertiary.
These lavas are in age a part of that
great period of volcanic activity that
deluged half of America in the Middle
Tertiary time, and are in no sense local
dyke rocks as has been maintained by
others.
"The first member of this formation
is Andesite rock brown or dark gray
in color, and is to be found from three
to five thousand feet thick, filling syn
clinal basins or troughs in the lower
rocks. Succeeding this is highly
acidic rhyalite red to light yellow in
color resembling quartzite very much,
and is often taken for it.
"Succeeding these two lower memb-
ers are numerous flows of Trachitis,
basalt, and finely at depth a cap OF
scorcaceaus lava. The first two, or
bottom members, the Andesite and
Rhyalite, are the only rocks associated
with the ore. In and batween these
formations lying in almost horizontal
position gold ores of great richness
aud magnitude are found. The posi-
tion in which they are found was q
land surface of a marginal growth OF
vegetation near sea level at the time
molten rhyalite flooded the country.
st is believed the gold of this de-
posit was the original constituent OF
the molten rhyalite magnet and was
expelled in sulphide solution from
this magnet by a process of consolida-
tion and cooling, and consequent crys-
talization, and was not derived from
local deep seated assures. The extent
in which these ores are found in the
same general position proclaim the