166 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE TERRITORIES. 



were sold for $3,500, with the agreement that a shaft was to be sunk to 

 the depth of 100 feet. 



Clarke lode. — This lode was discovered June 11, 1872. The strike is 

 northwest; dip, northeast ; angle, 50° ; width, 2-^ feet. 



Alabama lode. — This lode is below the others. Strike, north 70° west; 

 dip, northeast; angle, 60°. It is only a few inches in width, and at 

 present there is only a small opening into it. 



Bennsylvania lode was discovered June 11, 1872. This is also quite 

 narrow, not exceeding a foot in width. The strike is north 30° west; 

 dip, northeast ; angle, 65°. Assays are said to yield $54 in gold and 

 $22.75 in silver. 



Q. W. Bea lodeis 3^ inches in width. The ore has never been assayed. 



Valentine lode is supposed to be an extention of the Eberhardt. 

 Very little work has been done on it yet. 



Z. DanieVs lode. — This lode was discovered June 7, 1872. It has a 

 shaft 10 feet in depth. The crevice is 2 feet in width. The strike is 

 northwest ; dip, northeast ; angle, 50°. 



Home lode. — This lode was discovered June 9, 1872, and is one of the 

 richest in the district, the ore being said to have assayed $3,200 per 

 ton. The strike is north 30° west; dip, northeast; angle, 48°. The 

 width is 3 feet. There have been two shafts sunk on it, one reaching 

 10 feet in depth, the other 15 feet. The strike seems to turn to the 

 southwest, and the angle decreases to 45°. A three-fourths interest in 

 this lode (1,125 feet) has been sold at $900. 



Parasol lode is above the Heintzleman, and parallel with it. It dips 

 northeast at an angle of 60°. It is 4 feet in width, and has a shaft 10 

 feet in depth. 



Emma lode is above the Parasol, and parallel with it. It is 2 feet in 

 width. 



New Raven lode is on top of the ridge above the Emma, and is 18 

 inches in width. Other lodes in this district are the Glaggett, YanJcee 

 Doodle, Merrimac, Davis, Silver Grown, and Monarch. 



The Harper lode is opposite the Cherry Creek district, on the opposite 

 side of Cherry Creek, and is in limestones instead of gneisses. It is 25 

 feet wide, and the strike is nearly east and west ; dip, south. It was 

 discovered July 12, 1872. The ore is said to assay $37 in gold and $7 

 in silver per ton. 



When I visited them there were fifty men working at the Cherry 

 Creek mines, their wages being $4 per day, or $75 per month with 

 board. This is the first important discovery of silver in the Territory, 

 and there are no mills for the reduction of the ore at present. Whether 

 the ore is in ore-beds or bedded, veins cannot be determined without 

 further investigation. Some of the lodes have been traced from the 

 Madison Eiver a distance of more than four miles. The country,-rock 

 is all gneissic, and the lodes are parallel with each other. It will be 

 noticed that they are all narrow, but it is claimed that they widen as 

 we descend. The metallic silver is very apparent in the ore, having the 

 form of arborescent crystals. 



On the opposite side of the Madison we find the Silver Shower district, 

 containing silver mines, which were discovered about the 28th of June, 

 1872. It is probable that they are merely extensions of the ledges we 

 have described on the east side of the Madison, as the ore is said to be 

 much the same and occurring in the same manner in gneissic rocks. 

 The principal lodes in the Silver Shower district are the Silver Shower, 

 the Pilgrim, the StoneicallJaclcson, the Chloride, and the Cross-Key. The 

 assays are said to vary from $650 to $900 per ton. i^ative silver is not 



