Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1905-01-05

tucky--is TO select the hillside.
usually with ravine or stream at
the bottom, and look for float: be.
GIN at the bottom and search up
ward; when n piece Of float ore is
found examine it, Bnd if it proves
valuable look farther up the hill
Tor more of the same kind Float.
you will remember. is a broken
fragment from a ledge, If the
fragmen. has either spar, zinc or
lead, or any other sort of ore. the
leadg will also contain ore of the
same sort. The lie lge is what you
Sant as you wend your way up the
hill. Examine every outcrop from
whence your float could have been
detached; sometimes it is we'll to
go to the summit at once and to
search downward, for the ledge is
frequently at or near the top.
If your preliminary care b
proves TO be in vain, and no out
crop is visible, then you know
your lode is hidden and longer,
more patient plan must he carried
out. The lead may be placed up
and down the hillside. in which
case the cropping may he exposed
at the bottom, where the stream
has washed away the earth; but if
il lies lengthwise you must look
foi gulches which run up a n d
down the hillside. Scratch the
gnlch for groupings; be careful
when once you have found float,
foT If it belongs TO the neiA hbor.
fhood a ledge must be there. OBJ
serve eyerything unusual in the
formation of your hillside. A
rayine up and down may be caus.
ep by a load which is softer than
the general formation; or vice
versa, protuberance or ridge
le,Ry have been caused by q lode
which is more impervious than
the country rock Dig in either
ceoe and observe. The general
formation or country rock will be
easily detected. The first thing
you see it as the contrary or diff
erent formation, which you must
examine. Not CO tho natural snaps
Of the hill, or try to form a cor
rect impression of how that how
that hillside should look If all it's
foundation was the same, a uni
form make up; there notice the
exceptions. the gulches and raw
ines These are necessarily form
cd by harder or softer water, then
that which surrounds them, aud
in these places are the doorways to
your mine.
One other very important point
| wish to speak of tc the prospec-
tor, and that is, 1t is we'll for
prospector before starting out to
consider that mine will pay.
Though small, if rich enough;
though of low grade, if large
enough. The exercise of a little
! judgement will enable him to de-
termlne the medium of the two
extremes. He must leave large
margin in determining the rels.
tive limits in size richness OF
his ore body,
Better far TO be pTejudiced
against the probability of his un-
dertaking proving valuable. if he
desires to be on the safe side. He
should not rely upon simple test
but consider that although few
assays will cost him a certain sum
of money. it is nevertheless far
cheaper to know definitely the val
ne of his ore than to spend his
time upon something it were bet
ter TO let alone, or to leave some
thing valuable and not know it to
look for something better, Let
him realize that If there is Gny-
thing in his line of which he 10
ignorant and in doubt, in the mat
ter of practical economic value,
of certain classes of ores, there
are hundreds of zen who can and
will enlighten him if he will but
inquire.
The prospactor should not con.
fine himself to hunting any one
kind of ore, out any kind of rock
out of the ordinary, of which
there appears to be less than a
mountain, should be considered
worthy of investigation, for the
mine of the future will be one that