The silver star., April 08, 1897, Image 2

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SILVER STAR.
(Published Weekly.) .
R. B. HAWKINS, .............Bditor
DOLORES, =T COLORADO.
Terms: $2.00 Per Year.
It does not takc iong ivr proiuse
apologies to become a nuisance.
There is suspicion that the Mayor of
Baltimore, who vetoed a high hat bill,
may have been the victim of feminine
coercion.
The crowded jails, penitentiaries and’
lunatic asylums should teach us that
Wwe are not doing all that we ought to
do for mankind.
The man whom Blondin carried on
Ais back across Niagara is still alive.
The fool killer has really been dead
longer than we thought.
Some tobacco raised in Wisconsin
from Cuban seed developed such an
oxcellent leaf that the Wisconsin peo
ple In talking of it can hardly avoid
speaking Spanish.
Roads are so bad in Connecticut that
& funeral procession there had to take
to the trolley cars. The older states
are apparently as neglectful of roads
@8 some that are further west.
I Texas should take it into her head
to burn a negro just now, it's safe to
say some New York paper would have
& “commissioner” on hand to take a
singed statement from the victim.
_—_—
Li Hung Chang's Grand Army
badge is a sight more ornamental than
that old yellow jacket and bedraggled
peacock feather the Chinese Emperor
took away from him some time ago.
Mrs. Besant, theosophist, is quotea
as saying that offerings of burnt butter
to the gods might produce an electric
current that would bring rain. It
might pay irrigation committees to
look into this.
An unemployed man in Chicago sup
ported two persons beside himself, and
sometimes three, for three months, on
$lB. The bad times are teaching hard
lessons of economy, some of which may
“be useful in the future.
Labouchere’s instance of a woman
naving been cured of kleptomania by a
good whipping is something of an in
dorsement of our late Delaware whip
ping-post. The record of Delaware re
forms is not, however, at hand.
The Duchess of Fife is an ardent de
votee of the wheel. She has recently
purchased a very handsome one made
of black walnut mounted with }/
and although it is 100 yep=afu.
Onds it in emuegv.m;fifi‘ condition.
_g.x‘%'m-' Wheel she spins her ows
y which she knits into golf stock
ings fpr her husband to wear when
he dons the kilts. From an industrial
and domestic standpoint at least the
Duchess seems to be all wool and a
yard wide,
Our judges often enunciate sound
principles in morals as well as in law.
In the New York Supreme Court Jus
tice Pryor lately gave his opinion of
marrying for money. A lawyer said,
“Admit that the man was after this
woman’'s money to better and elevate
bis position in life. Is there anything
reprehensible in that?”’ The justice
replied, “It is infamous to marry a
woman simply for her money.” So
far as is known an appeal from this
decision was not taken.
There is a national, “almost a patri
otic,” movement in Japan to induce the
people to become eaters of meat. The
Japanese are intelligent imitators of
Europeans and Americans, and it
seems that many of them think be-
Cause of its general use by other na
tions that there is promise of physical
and mental improvement in the sub
stitution of flesh foods for rice and
other cereals. If a favorable result fol
lows this change of diet, the meat
eaters will be hilarious in proclaiming
it against the vegetarians.
—_——
The British Post Office Savings Bank
lately completed thirty-five years of
existence, and a summary of the re
sults *eached is given in the Pal] Mal
Gasette, which ten years ago gave n-}
sccount of the progress of the systgm
for the quarter century completed in
1886. The journal in question sKowed
that, beginning in aivery modest way,
only 435 deposits, amounting to £951,
baving been recelved on September 16,
1861, the first day on which business
was transacted, there were during 1885
6,474,484 deposits, amounting to £15,-
084,604, and on December 31 of that
yoar the sum of £47,697,838 was stand
ing to the credit of 3,636,650 depositors,
ia addition to whigh 30,697 depositors
held government stock of the nominal
value of £2,462,252. These figures bore
ample testimony to the thrifty habits
of a considerable proportion of the in-
Sabitants of the United Kingdom, and
to the facilities for saving afforded by
the post office.
e ——————————
James Sheakley, governor of Alaska,
ia his annual report to the secretary of
the interior, says: “There is great en
ecouragement in the outlook for the '
Alaskan gold mines. During the year
eading the first of this month $3,300,-
000 in gold bullion bas been taken from
the mines, the greater part being the
product of low grade ores, much of
Which yielded less than §4-'per ton. Al
most any grade of gold ore now can
e worked at a profit there. Confidence
18 Alasks as & gold producing country
Inoreases with the developmint of lier
COLORADO BRIEFS.
sdjutant Genoeral Moses has been re
appointed. X
Colorado College Is to have a new athletic
park this year.
« L. O, Dana has been appointed-postmaster
at Colorado Springs.
Adalr Wilson, of Durango, has been ap
pointed chief justice of the Court of Ap
peals.
As a result of the incipient bullding boom
at Denver the price of lumber and brick is
being advanced.
Dr. A. L. Bennett, who has just graduated
from the State University, goes to Africa
as a medical missionary.
Rev. M. Sents, of Springfield, Missouri,
| has been called to the pastorate of the Cen
tral Presbyterian Church, Denver.
Burglars entered the house of W. B,
Wright, at Colorado Springs, on the 24th
and stole diamonds valued at $3,000.
J. J. Elllott, ot Idaho Springs, Is prepar
ing to erect a new fifty-room hotel at a cost
of $25,000, to adjoln his Schiller House there.
The twelfth annual sesslon of the County
Superintendents’ Assoclation of Colomd(:
will be held at Colorado Springs May 4, 5
and 6. 3
Chancellor W. F. McDowell and Rev. T.
H. Malone, of Denver, have been appointed
on the State Board of Charities and Cor
rections.
A number of Colorado towns are figuring
on putting In creameries this senson and the
majority of them are going to succeed. Some
of these places are Salida, Montrose, Del
Norte, Monte Vista, Delta, Loveland, Gol
den and Brush.
Midland Rallway officials have discovered
that pay checks are being successfully
raised by means of erasures with acids and
new amounts written in. The ralsed checks
have been passed on merchants and dealers
at Glenwood, who have been warned.
The Interest derived from the funds of the
county deposited in banks may be used by
the county treasurer, according to a de
cision handed down by Judge Butler of
Arapahoe county. The text of the decislon
states that the Interest upon county funds
is an emolument of the treasurer’s office
which can properly be used in the payment
of salaries of the treasurer, his deputy and
clerks.
At a meeting of the State Land Board the
Denver Union Water Company’s application
to purchase outright 320 acres of land in
Jefferson county for use as a storage reser
voir site, was granted. The land lles among
the foothills about two miles from Platte
Canon station, on the South Park Rallroad.
The proposed reservoir Is to be used for the
storage of water, which will be conveyed In
pipes from the Platte river, near Dome
Rock. It's purpose is to increase the water
supply furnished to Denver.
For nearly three months the coal operators
in the Trinidad coal fields have been dis
cussing a discrimination pgainst thelir terri
tory by the transportation lines,. which, it
has been clalmed, has worked a pecullar
hardship upon the mines of that district,
and has resulted practically In a division of
the territory east of Colorado between the
Union Paclfic and Santa Fe Rallroad sys
tems, the latter controlllng the Wyoming
and the former the Canon City coal fields.
The greatest sufferers from this condition
of affairs are the operators at Agullar, Las
Animas county, who have been compellled to
shut down. The coals near Trinidad are of
the coking vartety, and while they have
¢ their markets in Kansas, Nebraska and
S ‘hey have some compensation In
}:::".‘;:\vv to manufacture coke. But the
Agulla.: cofl m-nomtd¥ng and can’only B
used for domestic purposes, and consequent
ly those mines have been shut down for
nearly two months, the only rates made
during that period being a few carloads to
fill the limited local demand.
For some months past Major Bracken
brough and J. B. Dickenson, agents of the
general land office, have been Investigating
reports of timber stealing that had been
going on upon the government timber reser
vations In Colorado. One result of thelr in
vestigation already published was the find
ing of several Indictments by the federal
grand jury on charges of illegally cutting
timber on the government lands. While
sleuthing after the depredators on federal
timber reserves Major Brackenbrough and
Mr. Dickenson discovered evidence that tim
ber was also being taken unlawfully from
school lands. This discovery they communi
cated to Governor Adams and the other
members of the State Land Board. Major
Brackenbrough submitted statistics showing
that in Montezuma county depredations onsa
wholesale scale had been made on both fed
eral and State timber territory. He spe
cifically cbarged that Barnes & Co., a lum
ber firm which operates sawmllls at Mancos
and other points in southern Coborado, had |
cut 8,008,000 feet of timber from United
States reservations in Montezuma county.
After some discussion of Messrs. Bracken
brough and Dickenson's revelations, the
land board decided to go after Barnes & Co.
and any other depredators on school timber
lands agalnst whom evidence may be found.
It was voted to send Land Appraiser David
How Into Montexuma county for the pur
pose of nvestigating further. When he has
computed the value of the timber appropri
ated by Barnes & C 0.,, a blll will be pre
sented therefor to that firm. If it is not
pald the'land board will at once Institute
legal proceedings against Barnes & Co.
——
They are having a hot campaign In Chi.
cago. In the matter of candidates the cam
*lgn Is one of the most remarkable on rec
oré. The Republican nominee for mayor s
Judge Bears, of the Clircult bench, who owes
his prominence entirely to the machine
leaders. The choice of the Free Silver
Demccrats and Populists s Carter H, Harri
son, son and namesake of Chicago's mur
dered mayor. The Gold Democrats have no
nominee, but there is an Independent Re
publican candidate in the person of Alder.
man H. Harlan, son of Justice Harlan, of
the Bupreme Coutt, and an Independent
Democratic candidate In the person of Post
master Washington' Hesing, whose whis.
kery have made him nationally famous,
Harlan's campaign s directed entirely
against the boodlers, who have overwhelm
ing control of the city councll, and Ignorey
all other insues. Harrison Is against the
continuance of civll service, and in favor of
wide-open saloons, gambling houses and
pool reoms; or, as he himself puts it, *“ln
favor of throwing OChicago wide open.**
Postmaster Hesing I 8 nlso opposed to oner
ous restrictions on the saloons.
———
Two of the anti-trust bills framed as a re
sult of the recent legislative Inquiry at Now
York City passed the New York Assembly,
The first gives power to the attorney genern)
to apply to courts for wubpoenas and to
prosecute thowse engaged In ulleged trusts,
and the second bill is Intended to compel
!-I»fllz:‘n cprpornlonlltu observe the same reg
ulntions as now apply to the domestic .
rations. e Soivo
A duflw:‘hw the London limes from Vi.
enna says that owl
feit at I’t Pa!oru!mr:'n‘om' b:h:mo;nnlcl:::{-
in tg- near future at Constantinople or in
the Vicinity, the Cxar has ordered the con
centration of 200,000 troops in Iw!our ROV -
eruments of South nu-'n. The Russinn
volunteer fieet s Bow srgliavie to' trausport
troops whevever requl
ORATORY WON THE JURY.
The Fact That the Priconse Had No
. Wamily Had No Weight.*
John McSweeney of Ohio, chiet coun
sel In the famous “star route™ triale
in Washington, was one of the'-most
eloquent pleaders who ever practiced
at the American bar, says the Pitts
burg Dispatch.: His success in jury
trials was phenomenal and he rarely
falled to capture the jury with hie
eloquence, no matter how adverse the
evidence might be. On one occasion
Mr. McSweeney was engaged aAs coun
sel for the defense in a California mur
der trial. The case looked hopeless.
There was not a link missing In the
chain of gullt which the prosecution
had welded. To the surprise of every
body Mr. McSweeney submitted no evi
denoe for the defense, Believing that
the trial was won the state’'s attorney
made only a few perfunctory remarks
in conclusion, and the great Ohlo
pleader faced the jury to make the
concluding argument. He began in a
quiet, friendly, conversational tone,
such as one might use in discussing
the weather. No reference was made
to the murder, even indirectly, but the
boyhood of the prisoner was quietly
and rapidly sketched with a master
hand—his school days, his embarka
tion in business, his love aflalr_l. hias
‘courtship and marriage, his struggles
to earn a little home for his wife and
his family. The jurors were deeply
Interested and were following the nar
rative intently. Mr. McSweeney stepped
closer. In a manner which seemed al
most confidential he drew a vivid'word
ploture of a pretty country cottage,
with a dooryard bright with flowers
and roses climbing over the porch
Within he showed a faithful and lov
ing wife preparing supper—the table
partially set, the teakettle steaming
and singing on the stove. On the door
yard gate three ruddy-faced young
sters were swinging and looked up the
road to see who should be the first tc
catoch a glimpse of ‘“papa” coming
home to supper. Suddenly the speak
er stopped. Drawing himself up to the
full height of his splendid proportions
he exclaimed in a tone which startled
the whole court room by its explosive
vehemence: ‘“Gentlemen, you mus|
send him home to them!” The effes!
was electrical. A roar of applaum
followed and one old grizzled juror
brushing away a tear, blurted out with
an oath: “By —, sir, we'll do it
too.” 9
Mr. McSweeney instantly stopped
and sat down. The jury brought in 2
verdict of acquittal without leaving its
seats.
Foremost among those who pressed
forward to congratulate the eloquent
Ohian was the prisoner himself, who,
with tears streaming down his cheeks
wrung his counsel’s hands and thnked‘
him again and again. But between his
sobs he managed to say: ‘“No othe:
man in the world could have done that!
Mhy, ez, 1 have go wife Yor-chfiuren;
I never was even married, you know.”
The Children’s Organ-Grinder.
The Boston Herald tells a story of
two little children living near Boston
and their special hand-organ man.
Every Friday afternoon the Italian ap
pears under the nursery window, and
just as regularly two blonde heads bok
up, and little hands are waved in re:-
ognition. After several visits of this
North end troubadour, the small audi
ence made acquaintance with him
and would frequently beg him te
play this or that tune, and ask all abouf
himself and his family. Had he any
little boys and girls? Why, yes, indeed.
And then the children enlisted mam
ma’'s good will, and nice cookies were
sent to “the organ man's little boy,”
and after a while bundles of clothing
and toys were waiting for the man;
and all were received with the warm.
est of thanks. On the day after Christ.
mas, when the organ began to tune up,
the children were still in the midst of
‘their hollday, but everything was
dropped to welcome the Italian, and
to give him his share of Santa Claus'
bounty. Then the poor fellow, in his
turn, handed out a letter which his
wife had sent to the childrem and
their mother, thanking them in the
qQuaintest terms for all thelr goodness.
She could not write herself, the letter
sald, but her son was writing it for
her, and she hoped every blessing
would come to such kind people, wha
had made them all 0 happy. It was a
most touching epistle, though a good
deal solled and almost llegible; and
its unexpectedness was not the least
part of the pleasure that it gave the
two children.
“I¢ Micht Ha'e Been the Horse.”
An old farmer and his plowman were
carting sand from the seashore of St.
Andrews. They were behind the target
on the rifle range, but hidden by a bank
of sand from a party of volunteers who
were then on foot at practice. A stray
bullet struck the plowman on the leg
and he immediately dropped, exclaim
l ing: “I'm shot!"” Without more ado the
farmer scrambled up the bank and,
waving his hand at the volunteers,
shouted: ‘Hey, lads, stop that, will
ye! You've shot a man and it micht
ha’e been the horse!"—Osborne Mags
sine.
The Pirst Man Dressmaker.
As far back as 1730 there was in
Paris & man dressmaker, and probably
the first of his kind. His name was
Rhomberg, and he was the son of
Bavarian peasant from the neighbor
hood of Munich, He owed his success
to his genius for concealing and rem
sdying defects of figure. He drove a
boautiful oarriage on the boulevard,
and had an escutcheon in the shape of
A pair of corsets and an open pair of
scissors painted on the panel of each
door. He left u large fortune to hiy
Yelrs,
Volcanoes and their Re
lotion to Ore Deposits.
¥From the New Road.
The lecture given by Prof. Arthur
Lakes at the Miners’ National Bureau
of Information was listened to by a
large audience. The subject was
Volcanoes and Their Relation to Ore
Deposits. The lecture was lllustrated
by charts, making the talk more inter
esting. Owing to the amount of valu
able information given The New Road
prints the same in full, which i» as
follows:
- Most of us in our western reflonn live near
%o or within sight of some kind of old vol
canic eruptions.
All nloni the borders of our Rocky Moun
talns we have lan—cnp&ed table lands. In
the hgdn of the mountalns vast areas are
occup! by lava sheets, and evidences of
g‘ut igneous actlvity are on every side.
'hese eruptions are of two classes: one
where the molten lava came uP through
fissures In the earth and poured in streams
over the then surface of the country, or over
the bottom of the sea or inland Inke. 'l‘?m
eruptions were through fissures or openings
that may have been surmounted by craters
long since washed away by erosion. An
other class or form of eruption was where
the igneous forces below, not having power
to overcome the great heavy mass of over-
I&lng gedimentary strata, found partial rellef
r thelr energies by intruding wedge-like
sheets of molten matter between the bed
dh"i planes of the strata, or b{ raising them
up into an arch and fllilng the vacuum 80
caused by a huge body of molten rock. Such
intrusive sheets and thick masses of buried
intrusive luva are called laccolites, 1. e,
stone cisterns. When some of these gmt‘
buried masses of lava have been uncovered
by enormous erosion tlm{ mn{l constitute
considerable mountains like the Spnnlnh‘
Peaks, Elk Mountains, La Plata Mountalns
and others in Colorado. |
In Colorado there are few visible remalns
of actual n:mlerllf though volcanle dykes,
flows and laccolitic sheets and lntrulive‘
lavas abound. These volcanic emanations,
both effusive and Intrusive, both those
poured out on the surface and those which
originally never saw the light of day, have,
in mnnl cases, an important relation to our
metalliferous ore deposits, as well as to cer
taln portions of our coal beds, chln"ln.
part of our lignite coal into one of a bitu
minous and coking character, and even, in
limited areas, into anthracite.
DEFINITION OF A VOLCANO.
What I 8 a volcano? In hn{lnh days wn‘
might have answered ‘“a burn! n{, mountain,
vomiting forth fire, smoke and brimstone.’ ‘
A volcano need not be a mountain at all to
start with. In its early days It began as a
hole in the ground, which might be in the
middle of a plain, r(-rhnpn the site of a lake
or pond. For It is not untll after it has
l-ruy(fll for some time that it bullds around
\ts hole or throat materials enough to form a
conical hill or mountain. Again it is pot a
“burning” mountain, as_we ordinarily un
derstand combustion. Nelther flame nor
smoke are common characteristics of an
erurllum The fiery appearance seen at
night 1s but the reflection on the cloud of
ascending steam from the molten mirror of
lava In the glowing crater below. And the
“‘smoke’ is of wreaths of steam mingled
with volcanic stones and dust.
Voleanoes are more properly steam vents
than fire vents. Even the fiery looking mol
ten lava is so highly charged with contalned
molsture, that it Is more llke hot porridge
than molten slag from an iron furnace.
Once more, snlphur or brimstone {8 not pe
cullar to voleanoes, nor vomited directly
from them like lava, but is a secondary re
sult of eruption caused by the influence of
acid gases upon certain Kinds of rock and
from chemical precipitation.
THE PHENOMENA AND CAUSE OF AN
ERUPTION,
The phenomena explanatory of an ordl-
Mr{ eruption have been graphically de
scribed by Professor Judd ,fu the case of
Stromboll. Stromboll rises 3,000 feet above
the sea level. Its base is 3,000 feet below
that level. The mountain mass is thus 6,000
feet high. The island I 8 a heap of cinders
and slaggy material like the dump of an iron
furnace. At night a mysterious I|ow of
light 18 seen above the mountain, going and
cmnlug‘ Ilke the flashlight of a lighthouse at
sea. he crater is a circular depression, 100
feet below the summit. Before an_ ‘out
“burst; weeatha.of. yanar ascen(
on the sides and bottom. Within the walls
of the fissures lava is seen slowly heavin,
up and down. The agitation increases flntfi
ually, till a z|n§annc lava bubble or blister
18 formed, which bursts and a rush of steam
follolws, carrying fragments of the lava
scum high Into the alr. Every time a bubble
bursts a fresh glowing surface of incandes
cent material Is exposed. So the mysterfous
flash light Is ex[)lulm-d. The great masses
of vapor above the pit are lit up by a ruddy
glow, as when we open the door of the fur
nace of a locomotive and the vapor fromn the
eu?’lne is lit up. ' Each bubble of lava as
it bursts sends yp h round cloud of bubble
of steam; these collecting form the great
vapor-cloud of so-called *‘smoke'’ overhang
ln% the mountain,
he conditions for a volcano appear to be:
Cracks communicating with the earth’'s in
terior, highly heated matter beneath the sur
face, great t!nnnllllel of Imrriuoned water,
which eu'nr ng as steam five rise to the
rrlnclpnl phenomena of this steam moun
ain. The bolllng lava is agitated h{ a
whirling up and down movement Impelling
it upwards till it Ali‘pmnchu the lips of the
crater, when vast bubbles are formed, the
sudden bursting of which produces the erup
tion. Under the prodigious pressure of thou
sands of feet of rock, water Is retained In its
liquid form n the molten lava. On relief
of pressure l)rv the opening of a fissure or
other cause this flushes into steam and an
eruption takes place. Similarly the water
charged lava on reaching the surface, gives
off its imprisoned molsture In the form of
steam, hence the lava flow Is at first llke
nnmin‘ porrlnlrn. and later, when It has
cooled, the surfuce scum is full of little
steam holes, llke a sponge—the so-called
scoria or pumice. It in the lava froth float
ing on top of a lava stream.
BIRTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF A MOD
ERN VOLCANO.
How a voleano begins and 5""" up is
shown by one born, bullt up and finished in
less than a week before the eyes of nu
merous spectators. On the border of the
Bay of Naples 1s a_conical hill 440 feet th'L
In anclent times there was a lake here In
stead of the Monte Nuovo, or New Mountain,
as It 18 now called, During one week in
1538 A. D, this hill was bullt up by ma
terials ejected from a voleanic vent, For
two years previous the country was anffected
by elrlhqunh-n‘ lncrm-lnf in violence and
frequency, tlll the 20th of Septembep, 1538,
when a depression was noticed on the site
of the future hill, from which hot water in.
sued. Four hours later the ground swelled
up like an earth bubble and opened, form
ing n {n[vlnl fissure full of molten matter,
From this, large masses of rock, miugled
with mud and Jmmlre. were thrown to a
great height, and falling on the sides of the
vent, formed n great mound. This ejection
of materinls continued two days and night;
on the third day a large hlll was seen to
have been formed around the orifice I:{ the
f-llm fragments; the t-{m-llnnl nn ually
cen and this great hill was bullt up b‘
!l;e' 'lnnerm- cjected In two days and
nights, S
Voleanoes change their shape after aif
ferent eruptions. ~ After a period of lour’
quiet, steam finding the lava na&nr ha
to move, may blow off the whole top of the
mountaln and lre-ta' nnurm the orlfln-l
wize of the crater, fthin this amphithea
ter a smaller cone grows, and by successive
‘ eruptions the structure of the mountain be
comes one of cone within cone. I.%vn in n
crater h{ nl{ht n:rnn white hot, but n‘n
idly chills to a dull red, and by day Is
black. By dn( A lava stream is like a mass
of rough cinders mllln& llolf with a rat.
tiing sound, At nlgu o Incandescent
material np?nrl neath the lava scum.
’$ gows rapldly or very -lnwl{. according
w_ temperature; a slow flow n‘ stream
rolls itself up In curlous itupu like colls of
rope, whilst in a rapld full of mn.
the lurnmll covered with mu’h ry
honeycom manses, plled up In chaotie
" confusion. f.ava belnl a _bad conductor of
heat. whd? buried by other llu- n” retain
its t for a very lonm me, Of other
tions beslden lava, steam IJMN t
abundant, aud with this, are hydroehloric
an cle acld, unlglmnn hydrogen,
carbonie aeld and wuch volatile jnetals ad
arsenic, ant! lnons and mamar{. hose lat.
ter are mmlz' amud in the mrlod of
solfataric action .& follows in the wake
of the n&mnl orts of volcanie net;vltr.
}ufllh tnnuuulmnnb{mm
u mynlive ne an mu of the rodo‘n
voleano, Have we anything at all like it in
Colorado?
OOLORADO VOLOCANORS,
Yes, but kh’uln few visible examples
as we have sald of anclent or more .;
ouu'n. At Dotsero, near the junction of
the Fagle and Gr o rivers, betwoel X
ville nnd Glenwood, close to the trael t
Rio Grande Rallwag, is a genulne and com
’ recent voleanic crater, whose flow
Df Aiared pumice like lnva spreadiug out en
the modern meadow was arrested u Its
progress and frosen by the waters of the
n'.?lm stream F lasl- river. The llv:
stream ls easlly traceable to a narrow gulc
descending from & conical hill formed of
ejected materials from a distinct crater, into
which we look gon the summit of the cone.
The erater Is about 300 yards wide by about
800 feet deep, with the bottom covered by
sage brush. There is no visible outlet. At
the south end we can see where the heavy
lava broke through the friable material
forming the cone and rushed down through
a narrow ravine and spread out in a sheet
on the river f%eudow-l:mlowi‘ like the empty
8, m & PO
'nh%‘h.ll-tf)ry of the reuption briefly 1s; At
a time probably within the memory of the
human race, commotions of steam took &llt‘t‘
below this area; the steam forced or found
for itself a vent, up through the granite,
into and through the sedimentary rocks of
paleozoic and mesozoic age. Repeated ex
‘p‘uhu carried volumes of the material of
of the rocks thtough which the steam came
up iato the alr, which, descending llke that
we_ have described, in showers around the
orifice, bullt up,the crater cone. After the
\ explosions ceased, lava began to rise u’ in
the crater and broke through portions of the
closely comrcud wall and sound as we
have seen, down into the meadow, Whether
this eruption was succeeded by great solfa
teric action IMI"IMI‘ we have at present
no evidence. A shaft in search of mineral
has been put down In the bottom of the
crater, !m!I 80 far, we belleve, without en
| countering mineral of Importance. The lava
is basalt, and very honeycomby or scorin
ceous, showing the .l"nr:i' character of the
eru hon. We have heard of a crater near
Bnlflil. and one at Trnpger‘u Lake, and one
or two In the San Luis Park. Over the bor
der In New Mexico and Arizona compara
tively recent craters and lava flows aré not
uncommon. In none of these, however,
have we as yet heard of any notable diacov
erles of ore. As these craters are mostly of
basaltic lava, It appears to illustrate what
we mentioned in our previous address, viz:
the observed general barrenness of the
basalt as an ore-bearing form of lava.
These few crater occurrences are of little
consequence compared with the vast bodiex
of eruptive rock we find from one end of
Oolorngo to the other, either spread out over
the surface of the rocks llke the basaltic
flows of Table Mountain, Golden, and the
Raton Peaks, Trinidad, or floodlng the re[lon
of southwestern Colorado, from the San Luls
Park to the La Plata Mountains and ‘}he
boundaries of Utah and Arizona, or the del.
uges of andesite lnva covering the n‘lon of
the San Juan and from Cripple Creek west
to the Arkansas canon and north to the con
fines of South Park; and again patches and
dikes of lava erupflon occur in North and
Middle Parks, to the boundary line of W{u
ming. These surface eruptions are mostly
of gnnlt and andesite, the latter being
sometimes a gold-henrlng lava; with these
are also surface flows of r! {ollte and trachyte
of more limited character. The basalt
and andesite are generally dark colored,
heavy lavas; the rhyolite and tnch{u gen
erally light colored and light in welight.
These we refer to are surface effusive
lavas. Before we speak of the great oc
currences of the other form of eruptive man
Ifestation in Colorado, viz: that of the in
trusive character, let us call attention to on¢
or two striking examples of the relation o’
these crater or surface eruptions to the oc
currence of ore bodies.
THRE CRIPPLE CREEK AND ROSBITA
VOLCANOES,
In the' case of Crlgplo Creek and Rosita oy
Sliver Cllff, although nelither of these locall
ties show exlutlng cones or typical craters
there is little doubt but that the ore-bearing
lavas came from orifices of this kind. Ir
both cases we have ample Prool' of violen!
explosive action, Implylnl he existence o)
craters whose surface appearances havs
been carried away by ero-?on. leaving only
the roots and necks for our examination.
The region of Cripple Creek, as well as Ro
sita, Is_covered by sheets of lava breccla
and tuff of just such fragmentary materia)
a8 we have described as occurring from
craters and explosive vents. Donbfieu a
Cripple Creek there once occurred much of
the phenomena we have described at Monte
Nuovo, Stromboll and Vesnv'us, the cr.ck
Ing open of the ground after protracted
earthquakes, the fissures diverging from one
or more central vents, the grand aasd re
peated explosions of steam, the steam
cloud filled with its foreboding storm, which
finally descended in awful cloudbursts of
mud and inundated and covered up the sur
rounding region of :nnlto hills and nl‘l:.yl
with mudfiows of adobe, formed of andesite
me”;‘t. Ind llll.flt. Later, nner' :Il Was com
paratively quiet, & secondwdisturbance oe
curred, whigh, finding the old ven oked,
stel [ 0 IC] Cl C
the whole region for miles and fllled '.b’
'new fissutes so formed with a nr form o
lava, called phonolite. Later, solfateric ot
hot spring action set in, and the whole lna
steamed with hot spring emanations an
with dluhnrfi of varlous gases, amongst
which that of fluorine gas was conspicuous.
| These g-«m- influences daeomfiuotl the
lavas, both andesites and phonolites, and
'drew from them the gold-bearing minerals
‘ther contained and deposited them in the
maultitudinous - cracks, llnuru‘ voleani¢
' necks and other orifices oq_encd y the pre
vious eruptive agencles. he condlitions at
Rosita were nnll‘ron-. varying but lllci.l‘llx
Jnfll{.;:l:fnwl enc:‘olt-| .erl:-ofllt
sitle ons, some osive, others quiet,
one 'msndn‘ breccia pnnd tuff, teh ?mm
solid lava flows, and instead of phonolite
lava we have rh?me and trachyte. In that
region, too, we have the neck or throat of
one of the craters filled up with fimmo
robblu. worn by volcanic or steam attrition
In the throat. ~ These gunlta pebbles
cemented together with a paste fo
largely of various metals :rrrylu extraor
dinary richness, both in silver and gold—
“golden .'1"“ onl{ the shell, rather than
the egg, is the most valuable. A somewhat
analogous circumstance occurs at Cripple
Creek In the Portland and Annie Lee group,
where the shaft follows down venlc‘ll{ .
volcanic throat full of little lava ‘whhu.
cemented together by a paste carrying syi*
vanite gold-gearing ores. As at Crlnlz
Creek, 80 at Rosita, the most nrlklnf an
important feature, from a mining polnt of
view, is the solfateric action that
the eruptions, dleol:s.dnc the rocks an
A e Wo U S
avallable fissu; other openin| 0o
means of the orthodox nmu"'tmf.'hf. as
we have, described, in_every natural weak
xlnm available, even between the pebbles
lling & zolncfi:‘k .v'ent: in 'l:'l. th:.‘ solutions
Aarose an 'ery sort Cra crevice
or space that was open for it.
INTRUSIVE ERUPTIONS,
Time will not allow us to do *:nlu to that
other and equally Important form of p
tion I have alluded to. known as that m--
trusive bodies and sheets of lava called lac
colltic—one of the striking examples of
which is the Spanish Peaks. The camps and
regions which illustrate bn} the laccolitie
and Intrusive sheet form of eruption, are
those of Leadville. Bouth Park, the Mosquito
range, Kokomo, Red Cliff, the La Piata re.
gion, Hahn's Peak and Aspen, In the lead.
ville and South Park region we find numer
ous onornmu-l, thick laccolitic sheets of va
rious kinds o pofllh‘r’ intruded between,
and omh:f up, the leaves of sedimentary
strata, and sometimes following g‘elwnn
the bedding rlnnn In comparatively narrow
sheets for extraordinary distances. 8o much
%0 that at first sight such narrow and par
allel sheets might readily be taken for suc
cessive effusive surface flows alternatin
with _and covered over by sediments; bu!
flour examination shows them to be trul,
ntrusive. to have been forced in or wedn‘
in and flown between the bedd| la
of stratified rock. The proof of n'.'fl. lg lm
they have abundantly fauilted. the sediment
ary rocks lylni above them, as would not be
the case had they been surface flows quletly
covered by sedimentary beds. The lava, too,
is massive and crystalline, showing mo
scoriaceons If“‘ such as_ accompany sur
face flows. Hut little evidence of heat on
the strata nthovo or below the lava is shown,
Rkt RIS A B 7T
AT e, e P arcl
the -tnfl' which they make, ?fi- with
& vertical diameter of several hund; y
and upoflnf ont "‘(‘: shape r! el end,
prove conclusively laccolitic intrusive
character of these mhyfln A
strata had heen lald n. To account
:M lneu‘r. thin, continuous sheets lave
ntruded between the nl‘t‘l for it
hul'nnnunud that the lava eruption
and intrusion took place eohm.‘onmulll
with the folding up and faulting .the
g‘m, which might open lines of wea!
ween the strata as between ves
lfolddnnbuldhook.!:l!ut o
Seee by eion 24 88 tee %
:-o 18 t’u Chse W ua.m‘ % of dlo
te 1111-htbo pof Val at
e Tuceolitie Sheet, From stbichs e’ orsile:
accolitic which the .
ing lm%t:rr rfi- have been
" parphyries. o ore. dep
rusive porph; org ts )
nown. Anal l& show n“z nt g
ng -hmln ina k
mfl.aoe ent somet!; s
bl.o ntioch mine, ai ne of ¢
it, to work ry t ¢
vorite receptacie t! from
tl Hv,y on in ma uJy At the con.
lu l“‘o'.!:.-; with ¢ o.uz orlflu'llw.-
| atone ernous- 9 In
limestons. 7
ONE MORE U FORTUNATE.
One more Idol flfi«l'l{.’ #
One more -crl{m put olosp
He who was no con-oa S
Now Is rated small an Jis
it o 4
Proud on high his banner . Y
Flghtins forcn was, what .
xll "r'go came to fight gy
Lay the erstwhile warrior low
A
€& 80!
Pass bim up ng -umnr"‘lfil"
The Largest Reservoir in the Werld.
The Metropolitan Water Commission
about to mfi° the |l3flt storage
in the world, its capacity bd.n%n
65,000,000,000 sallons—enough
dx of Boston for three ai ;
and four times as much as
et ey s Sapacity 1o twice =
city. Its capa
that o(’thn newpcm{on nnrvx
York: thrice that of the six
Blm|n‘h-m. England; thirty <
the Cochituate, and twenty-five
of the Hobba Brook of the Cam
tem. It will hold more wzt.er we.
barbor of Boston. This dam t
at Olinton, Massachusetts, ludogo vast %9l
ume of water, covering over 4,
be entrapped and retalned by &
feet '°':f (or twenty feet shorter
Croton dam), 127 feet high above
and 158 feet high above its rock
This, however, is not as high as a
her of others which retain much I g
The Croton dam has a hel"hot of t
above ground and' 225 feet above —En
gineering Magazine,
The Coin of the Realm.
A cngtuln in a n{lment stationed in Na
tal, when paying his comrny o.n
chanced to glvo a man a Transvi 3
crown, which, as one would batu ox
pect, bears “‘the image and sv| o
of President Kmefer.
The man brought it back to the ry table
and said to the cnguln: “Please, sir, you've
given me a bad half-crown.’’
The officer took the coln, and, t
loollu: at ltl rang it on the table,
remarked: ‘lt sounds all right, r,
What's wrong with It?*
“You luke at it, sir,”” was the nrly.
The captain glanced at the coin, Hel“:
;‘lt'-”lll right, man; it will pass in .
een.
This apparently satisfled Bagster, who
walked ‘off . makiog the remark: it o
say it's a’ right, sir, it is a’ right; but it's
the first time I've seed the queen Wwi'
whiskers on''—Answers.
Mr. McKinley’s Alde-de-Camp.
Captain Heinstand, of the army, who
nctmr as a volunurl aid to President Mc-
Kinley at Canton for several months and
was ordered to report at the office of the sec
retary of war, and has bees lldg‘ld to
duty ‘at the White House by Becre z Al
aer. as a special IIGMMD%W the
ent of the United States. is du are
not defined, but he will be ex 0 a8
sist in soclal matters, look after the
dent’s private affairs and make
otherwise useful. There has not been any
such official at the White House since the
administration of General Garfleld. Mre.
Heistand is expected to continue &8 &
cnmwlou to Mrs. McKinley, to whom she
has n devoted during the last summer,
Thus far Mrs. Porter, the wife of the Pres
ident's secretary, has been acting in a a
flar capacity for Mrs. McKinley, recel 'g
and answering her notes and mdl.a
hundreds of letters that are coming the
President’s wife. They contain all sorts 1
requests and *suggestions, and veg fow of
them are deserving of attention. ut l‘r'
body has got to look after them, and Mrs.
Porter enjoys it. It is not belleved that a
social secretary will be empln{od for ln
McKinley. Mra. Porter is fully up in ti
customs and etiquette of Washington of
ficial life, and with Mrs, Heistand’s assist
ance can do all that is necessary.
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The Minlster's Mistake.
In a rural parish in the Mearns the other
week an Aberdeen divine, who had det
over in a hired vehicle, occupied the pul
Onl{ one person attended service, and
minister apologized for the length of bis
discourse. His audience signified his ap
proval of his preaching, and the nlnldtn‘
continued. Guess his consternation when he
discovered his audience consisted of 3]_:
driver, who had been engaged by the bhour!
Edinburgh Dispatch.
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