The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-09-28

same tate during the open season
season which has prevailed under the
Montana law. for the last two years
had it not been for the wire fence
built several years ago from the juno
ton Of the Yellowstone and Gardiner
rivers to high bluff four miles to the
westward.
There are many varieties of vege-
tables and flowers that have seed SD
nearly alike that an expert cannot tell
them apart. However. the crops they
produce are distinguished in the mar
ket. not only the variety but the To-
caiity in which it is grown. The west
ern Rocky Ford muskmelon seed looks
precisely like the eastern netted gem,
from which the former was derived
by culture and selection. If the
farmer orders Rocky Ford seed and
gets Melted gem his crop will not bring
the high price of the Rocky Ford
melons. Western grown sweet corn
seed produces a crop of from 20 to 40
per cent lower quality than eastern
grown seed. Still much of the seed
corn sold in the east is western grown
seed sold as eastern grown, according
to report OF the department of gri-
culture. The gardener or farmer buy
ing it suffers loss in the value of the
crop as result.
Goldfie1d is a name SO associated
with strange and dramatic human
events that it must arouse quick in
terest in all who have paid much heed
to mining affairs, to investment and
fn lah
the romance of pioneer life in general
The sudden rushing together of thou
sands of men to some one little here
tofore desolate area has been n COM
mon enough phenomena i'm the west
all the inevitable accompanying con-
tention and lawlessness. But at Gold
field the usual causes of strife and pas
sion We're strangely intensified. The
hope of quick wealth has built many
boom towns" in the west, but the
early bonanzas that drew so many ex-
cited gold seekers on to Goldfield were
of unparalleled richness. Thee gamb-
ier's delight i'm keen uncertainty has
a great part i'm the lure of all mining
life; at no other place have rich de-
posits been found of such indefinite
| form and wholly unpredictable position
as at Goldfield. AS a result the de-
| velopment of the field has been a story
| of tremendous odds accepted for sue
/ cess or failure. or sharp and dramatic
| contrast of fortune. of dazzling hopes
! and heart-breaking disappointmenIs
| Furthermore. tho confusion caused by
uncertain mining laws and the special
| difficulties of protecting rich claims
I from depreciation have been greater at
Goldtield than elsewhere on account of
! the character of the deposits
Interest for the General Reader.
The United States geological survey
/ has just published a complete techni-
cal treatise entitled THE Geology and
Ore Deposits of Goldfield, New" by
Frederick Leslie Ransome 1t is in
tended, primarily. of course for the
use of the professional geologist and
the local mining engineer, yet even a
layman whose interest lies mainly in
human rather than natural history
may well find fascination in a work
that sets forth the complex means by
which nature wrought a formation so
| potent to arouse human desire and
! endeaVor. Mr.. Ransome. though a
scientist in every sense of the term.
has not failed to appreciate and bring
! out clearly the points OF human and
Industrial interest. The Introductory
chapter includes history of mining
| IN the district which tells concisely
ana wildly the events of its discovery.
settlement, exploitation and develop
ment and of the strike in 1907. when
/ federal troops We're sent to the spot
ana President Roosevelt appointed an
! investigating commission. Another
/ chapter of general interest Is headed
Inc mines: general account of their
distribution, development and OPERA
Ton, including ore treatment This
chapter includes much material relat-
ing to the cost of mining, which. aside
from its practical value to the mining
engineer. is significant for the student
of methods in public services. such as
the supply of power and transporta-
tion. and in the relations between
mines and smelters. Mr.. Ransome
points out. for example. that exorbi-
tant rates have been charged for the
Shipment OF high grade ore, though
such shipments involve no greater cost
OF responsibility on the part of the
railroads than shipments of the same
quantity of poorer ore
| Volcanic Rocks and Ore Deposits.
The geologic structure of Goldfierd
is simple. The district is essentially n
/ low. domical uplift of tertiary layas
and lake sediments resting upon n
foundation of ancient granite and
metamorphic rocks. The erosion of
this flat dome has exposed the pre-
tertiary rocks at a number of places
! in the central part of the district. and
these outcrops are surrounded by wide
/ coneentric zones of successfully
/ younger formations.
/ The most notable features of the orc
bodies are their remarkable richness
ana their equally remarkable irregu-
iarity. The ores are almost without
exception associated with craggy out
crops of silieified volcanic rock. Assoc
eiated with the silicification other pro-
cesses of locally insense alteration. es-
peciaily the formation of alunite. have
also been active. The deposits have
formed along zones of assuring. which.
Tor the most part, are very irregular
In trend.
OyIilZe1 ores haya Snrpffa.1 a ,,r,n