Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1922-12-14
LEAD At
REVEALS.
|REAT RICHES.
|onerty of Mcknight and
|carpenter Becomes More
Valuable as Work Goes On
lsert Mine Product Better
|Tban That of Any Other
Claim in Entire District

dd;tioual information regarding
mining strike recently made in the
IL district by Joe Mcknight and
q Carpenter indicates that the pro-
Nv Is even richer than was at first
bncbt The locators have been at
Il following up the lead and have
covered ores richer in gold content
IN any like property ever found in
mining district, it is declared.
Iarpe numbers of samples have been
KEN from the property and it is the
eention when these samples, if bro
M. do not show ON the broken
les free gold clearly visible to the
ked eve. In some of them the gold
ows in large chunks. Work done on
property so far indicates the vein
pure fissure and that the ore de-
sit found is in place. So far there
nothing to lead TO the belief that
vein is a slide or that it has been
1daly broken up or dislodged by
butts Or upheavals.
IN CEMENTATION ZONE
! In the estimation of those who have
Iewed the property, the strike was
ade in what is known as the cemen-
5tion zone. This is usually found at
| depth where the surface waters have
me to rest forming what is known
the water level These surface wat
IS, usually melted snow, leach out the
brface values and carry them down
the water level, where the values
he appropriated. Tt is when these
)wer reaches are tapped that the
feater values are found. They are
ways richer than either the surface
fes or the primary rock.
Ordinarily this concentration zone
Fould not be reached until a tunnel
bd been run into the mountain side
d shaft had been sunk, carrying in
|Pth from 200 to 1000 feet. But in
bis present instance, nature had come
the assistance of Mcknight and
carpenter and they were able to
each the cementation zone at practi-
ally the surface. This is accounted
Or by the fact of the great Salmon
lyer trench, canyon said by geolo-
lsts to have the greatest depth of
ny river canyon in the world. This
lVer had cut its way through the
cart of the mountains and the water
'vel is now 1000 feet deeper than the
grounding mountains.
MOUNTAINS ONCE HIGHER
As biologists make it plain, the
fountains Of the Dixie district were
ene time thousands of feet higher
ian they are at the present time.
nese mountains, before the Salmon
yer was a reality, were gradually
round down by focal glaciers and
le wearing effects of the elements.
neSe tops were mineralized in vary
y amounts with gold and other pre-
Jus metals, and as the mountains
ere cut down the snow waters seep-
INTO the ground, taking with them
J minerals in solution. When these
L u'efalized waters reached depth
uere pressure had made the rock less
aouS tney came in contact with GER
~ chemical formations which repre-
p-0a'eu the minerals and left them
"a much more concentrated form.
-, Is now biologists account for the
Il n ,r rien ores found at what miners
! dl is this grinding down process
" 'ne formation of the concentration
-, sne Salmon river started to cut
noS 10 the sea. This was occas-
rr;o oy the breaking of the great
,w;st winch made lake of the
, al country. When this went
. oar r"e waters of the higher reaches
: s"n 10 seek common level and
: cutting process took place which
nvo n,"ne the mighty Salmon river
ens- AS this canyon was cut
ro rO ana deeper, it gradually cut
l. tne concentration zone. until
ter now far deeper than the surface
tbs naa ever penetrated. The bed
nv ro liver IS now down to the pri-
for UVh and below the zone of rich
:. RICH BODIES OF ORE an
We ega .ne belief of geologisty
IL 's,.A;amined the Dixie al
rsrs ing the huge iror., -:
"a sne mountain ID new locaCl
5 fo gg from m where che same COZ
), ) ifsspuiousdlgy' 'r rio the old locat
!, 'ne whole cer
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T ma. the eenoent3
r equally as M
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