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Percha are the Cimarron, Grizzly, Sarah Bernhardt, Hopeful, Tem- perance, Pocahontas and Little Chief, all having assessment work
onlydoneuponthem. TheyarethepropertyofBlain,Bentleyand others.
Besides those mentioned there are in other portions of the Percha district a great number of claims the names of which it was impossible to "secure. Some of them are equal to many of those which have been written of in the preceding pages. Among them are the Fay, Butler, Golden Crown, Silver Tip, Illinois, Lillie Game- well, Grey Eagle, Sweet Ann, Casandra, Revenue, Golconda, North Texan, Valdemar, Alpha, Jackass and Sam Tilden.
Up the gulch, east of Percha City, are the Sooner, H. Seeley,
Burke, Corry, Gorringe and Gorringe extension.
About three miles up the North Percha there is a class of mines
which are referred to in the description of the formation given in this pamphlet, as fissures in trachyte. Of late these have begun to receive attention at the hands of prospectors, and a more intimate knowledge of the indications presented by them at the outcrops is being taken advantage of. The result is seen in the new strikes that are being heard of as occurring in the section noted. They present no surface ore for inspection, the only indication being a quartz
cropping, carrying iron sulphurets, and usually barren of metallic- values, at the apex of the veins. As developed thus far, the iron
gives place to other compounds, and the ore makes its appearance as a base mass of quartz carrying chloride, sulphide and ruby silver, associated with other and baser metals, such as zinc, arsenic and an-
timony. The grade of the ore, however, is high enough to neutral- ize the ill effect that such a combination usually has upon ores of
only ordinary value. In many mining countries veins occurring in trachyte or porphyritic rocks are regarded as likely to be of com- paratively shallow depth. When these rocks form the overlie of a
mining country such is apt to be the case, but when, as in the Percha district, they are intrusive and have not overflowed, and constitute the formation of a large section, veins found in them may be relied upon to continue to the lowest workable depths, and far below. Only one example of them is yet to be seen, as but one has been
opened sufficiently to allow of a partial determination of its prospec- tive merits.