190 ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF SILVERTON QUADRANGLE, [bull. 182 
drift was run nearly GO feet in solid ore and 100 tons were extracted 
in running it. During this year some 60 tons of ore were shipped 
carrying from 50 to 60 ounces of silver and 25 to 27 per cent copper 
The gold varied from a trace up to about one-fourth ounce per ton 
A road was built to the mine and a great production was looked for 
When the shaft had reached a depth of 350 feet the mine building; 
were destroyed by fire and the mine has since lain idle. In all abou 
2,000 tons of high-grade copper and silver ore were shipjDed. 1 Fron 
the accounts of Mr. J. S. Hough, who operated the mine, the ore bod^ 
seems to have been an irregular impregnation or replacement deposi 
alongside a fissure. The country rock is a fine-grained, soft, tuffa 
ceous sandstone, probably of andesitic origin. Near the ore body i 
is hardened and impregnated with pyrite. This material, when throwi 
on the dump, weathers to a soft, crumbling mass, stained with th< 
carbonates of copper. The strike of the fissure is N. 23° E., and tin 
dip, according to Mr. Hough, about 45° to the west. 
Judging from specimens collected on the dump, the ore of the Franl 
Hough consists chiefly of chalcocite, often intimately intergrown witl 
quartz, associated with a little chalcopyrite. There is possibly sonn 
tetrahedrite present with the chalcocite. 
Palmetto wine. — This mine, about 1 mile northeast of Enginee 
Mountain, is on the continuation of the Polar Star lode, which hen 
has a strike of N. 23° E. and a dip of 75° to the southeast. It wai 
originally owned by J. S. Hough, who stated that the ore in the ol< 
workings, near the surface, resembled that in the Polar Star, and con 
sisted chiefly of argentite and ruby silver. It sometimes ran as hig] 
as $500 per ton. Several carloads of this rich ore were shipped abou 
1878. He subsequently sold the mine, and a vertical three-compartmen 
shaft was sunk east of the vein to a depth of 400 or 500 feet, with thi 
intention of cutting the ore body at a depth of a few hundred feet 
The ore from this shaft contained much iron pyrite and was lo\ 
grade. In 1882 a 15-stamp mill was erected on Henson Creek, a mil 
below the mine, and the ore treated by chlorination. The mine durinj 
this year was working five levels, and produced $14,840. It shortl; 
afterwards closed. In the Mint report for 1891 it is credited with | 
product of $0,566, which, if true, indicates a temporary resumption o 
activity in that year. The total output is not known. The mine ha 
been idle several years and the mill is dismantled. 
Specimens of the ore and vein matter obtained on the dump resen 
ble some of those from the Polar Star. It has been brecciated at lea& 
once and healed with comparatively barren white quartz. Small vug 
lined with quartz crystals are common. The country rock is andesit* 
and is evidently considerably impregnated with pyrite and chalc* 
pyrite near the vein. 
Dolly Varden lode. — This prospect, situated in Dolly Yarden Gulcl 
1 Oral communication from Mr. Jas. W. Abbott, a pioneer mineral surveyor of Lake City. 
