Williams news., 1905-03-18
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contributes to the good or ms fellow man, is benefactorP Should this article give aid to one ofthese, then my purpose has been accomplised.
 One of the essentials in knowl, edge that a prospector should pos sess is a familiarity with geological horizons with which his work is es- pecially associated.
 Useful minerals do not always confine themselves to one horizon. There are certain ranges of rocks which indicate their vicinity. There are also limits which are never overpassed by some useful minerals and experience has shown that some horizons are always sterile in ores. It is therefore useless to ex- pect to find them in paying quanti- ties in certain rocks or beyond them in certain directions.
 Gold often occurs where it will not pay to open and work the strata, as also with silver and copper. Thus how essential to know the relations of such barren regions or horizons as the strata are called.
 All rocks may be classed as igne- ous, metamorphic and aqueous Igneous rocks are such as have been subjected to sufficient heat to melt the ingredients of the rocks. Vol canic rocks are those which have cooled at or near the surface as lava.
 The color of the rocks also serve as a guide to the searcher of the precious metals Rocks of pinkish redish color alternating with rocks of deep bluish tint are generally very favorable to metallic deposits.
 Copper is indicated by greenish bluish or redish stones upon the rocks in the neighborhood of the lode. Gold being always accompa- nied with iron manifests it's pres ence in red, yellow, or brown shades.
 In my own experience here l have found a remarkable presence of iron sulphides and in every in- instance sufficient quantities of gold is associated with the iron to enlist ones further research after the gold product. Again rocks which lie more immediately over the granite and which owe their origin to a sedimentary condition, have been subject to heat, we would designate as metamorphic rocks. It is largely in these rocks that the best paying gold is to be found, more especially in the quartz veins which have intersected these rocks of which this dif '-ict is abundantly supplied.
 It will pay the mine owner or prospector to study these conditions and give something beyond homeo- pathic study of his holdings. If they be in form and place as above described.
 In one of my researches last week l came upon very promising level, well up one of the gulches running into Lynx creek. The owners hav- ing commenced tunneling into the mountain at point where the sur face was faulty or "spoony" driving over 100 feet into barren or virgin rock and from present indications lost hope and abandoned their hold ings, desiring to get the benefit of my own theory regarding the pres ence of mineral in this promising lode I acted upon the desire and within one hour at safe point, uncovered fine body of copper ore that fully satisfied one for time and labor spent. I would not be under stood from this that ignorance in the arts of locating mineral is uni versal. But I will venture the as- sertion that great majority of the holes made in these grand old mountains are made with but one future that will be associated with them, that is, a disagreement of the surface and in part destroying the >e of