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timony and zinc blende, or "black jack," and iron pyrites are also found in the ores. Brown iron oxide and oxide of manganese pre-
vail in many of the veins, the latter being particularly plentiful and
forming the outcropping, or mineral blossom of a very large propor- tion of the mines. The gangue of the veins is usually quartz, with heavy spar, calcite and talc, intermixed often with felsite. Some veins show these minerals in different combinations, one predomin- ating over the others, as a general thing. This latter circumstance varies with the character of the mine."
From the foregoing description of the character of the mines
about Kingston, the miner and prospector can glean many things that will enable him to form an opinion as to the merits of the Per-
cha district. It is an admitted proposition among mining men that a country whose formation is cut up by dykes and cross ledges, and greatly faulted thereby, is one, which if possessed of mineral wealth
at all, is of a very superior kind. This being so and experience has proven it the outlook for the mines and the district of Percha,
is one of the brightest to be found throughout the whole of the Rocky mountain region. The mines thus far have done splendidly, and give abundant grounds for unlimited confidence in their future, while the prospects here are invariably of the most promising kind. Capital is needed to stimulate the task of development upon the properties of men too poor to push to a successful issue, the work of prospecting the veins. Once it comes Kingston will acheive a no- toriety that will be as substantial as it will be brilliant. Splendid opportunities are offered those who come with a desire to invest. Instances are frequent where prospectors are willing to give from one-quarter to 'one-half of their claim to have it developed to a pay- ing basis, while whole claims, eligibly situated, and presenting indi- cations of a positive character for the discovery of good ore can be purchased outright on the most moderate terms. No place offers superior inducements of this kind, and certainly none can better substantiate its claims to to intrinsic merit than can the Percha dis- trict. The mineral is here in large quantities and of high grade and work alone is needed to reveal it and make wealthy the owners of the mines. What has been done thus far is but an earnest of what ran and will be done in the future.' The attention of all is called
to these things with a confidence in the belief that they are just as