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varying width to the surface. Near the surafce the stopes are very extensive, reach¬ 
ing 10 feet in width. On level 12 small spots showing values are encountered below 
the principal shoots. The East vein contains a few small stopes; one was seen on 
level 14, 500 feet south of the shaft. 
Summing up, we have, then, on the Victor system in Isabella ground, three 
shoots dipping at 45° NW. and three others about 90°, on the plane of the vein. No 
definite laws governing their occurrence could be found. It is true that one of the 
vertical shoots nearly coincides with the crossing of the Campbell and jClondike 
veins, but no similar causation can be adduced for the remaining two. The ore 
almost invariably pinches when dense, normal phonolite is met. 
MIXES BETWEEN TIIK 
VICTOR AND YINDICAT()It VEIN SYSTEMS. 
GENERAL RELATIONS. 
The two great systems of linked veins named respectively the Victor and the 
Vindicator both trend northwesterly and are separated by a space 1,500 feet in 
width. This space within a distance of 3,000 feet contains a number of smaller 
mines, most of which are working on veins with a northeasterly strike. Some of these 
veins continue up to the Isabella veins of the Victor system, but they are not as a 
rule productive on the northeast side of that system. The following mines, named 
from north to south, are described: Empire State, Pinto, Burns, Wrockloff, Pharma¬ 
cist, Zenobia, Mercer, Murphy, Puehlo, Wacu Weta, Deadwood, Trachyte, Pearl, 
Deadwood No. 2, and Delmonico. 
Two basic dikes, classified as vogesite, cross the Empire No. 2 and Pharmacist 
veins with northwesterly strike; one of them, the Pinto dike, has been productive in 
the Wrockloff mine and at the intersection with the Pharmacist vein. The same 
dike probably'appears in the Deadwood No. 2 mine. The veins do not differ 
markedly from the ordinary type of sheeted zones; they often carry much fluorite. 
The country rock is breccia, with irregular masses of latite-phonolite and smaller 
bodies of phonolite. No marked influence of the inclosing rock is shown in the ore 
shoots, except that the veins often become less productive when entering the dense, 
normal phonolite. The most northerly of these veins is the Empire No. 2 or Emma 
No. 2, which continues with a strike of N. 78° E. and steep northerly dip for 1,200 
feet west of the Buena Vista vein in the Victor system. The second is the Phar¬ 
macist vein, extending, with a strike of N. 50° E. and dip of 60° NW., from the 
Zenobia to the Isabella vein, a total distance of 1,600 feet. It has been very pro¬ 
ductive and is still actively worked. The third cross vein is the Wilson, which 
strikes N. 35° E. and is not known to intersect the Isabella. The fourth and fifth are 
the Klondike and Campbell veins, striking respectively due north and N. 30° E., 
both known only at the intersection with the Isabella vein. It is interesting to note 
that these veins all converge toward a point 900 feet northeast of the Buena Vista 
incline. 
EMPIRE NO. 2 VEIN. 
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PRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT. 
This vein is partly on Isabella, partly on Empire State ground; it also cuts 
through the northern part of the Pharmacist claim. The name Emma No. 2 is 
