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Show 1910 Field WorkE have all read and enjoyed the "concentrates ' from the Summer Survey by "Jim" and "Snag," dealing with the humorous side of our Pioche life, and inasmuch as the "Chronicle" has seen fit to copyright both the articles and the style, I am forced to confine myself to the cold and unadulterated facts.After all, gasoline explosions, broken legs, mosquitoes, gnats, moving picture shows, roulette, faro, broken transits (ask Bob), serenades and egg omelettes, sore feet and sore-heads, Pioche ice cream and lemon pie are only of secondary importance. They were means toward a larger and sadder end, namely, experience. If you doubt that such experience was of the sad variety, make a survey of Andy's face, study the reasons for Keep's sojourn in the Pioche hospital, read J. E. Alley on "Gnats," imagine Blackner as soloist at an Ordivician picture show, try "bucking the wheel" with meal tickets or ask Gansl to describe a slab of Smithy's lemon pie. There's a moral here for all Juniors to come.The cold facts referred to are enumerated below. These are not excerpts from a "10"s" diary, but the outcome of an awful memory.Pioche and VicinityFirst Day-Pitched tents, dined and unearthed twenty pounds each of Cambrian trilobites.Same Evening-Studied the underground geology of Pioche town.Second Day-Followed (as closely as possible) Prof. Pack on a little jaunt ten miles east of camp to work out the history, structure and extent of the Pioche dikes and ore veins and the height of Mt. Ely.Second Evening-Repitched tents which had been slightly disturbed by a gentle Nevada zephyr.Third to Ninth Day-Accompanied the department of Geology (on foot, railroad and wagon) to the Prince Con., Mendha, Demijohn, the Day and other big producers of the district. (Evenings of third to ninth days spent in study and slumber.)Tenth Day-Produced geological report of twenty pages and bade farewell to Prof. Pack and the Marathon.Eleventh Day-Grand triumphal arrival of Prof. French with transits, chains and news from the City of the Saints.Eleventh Evening-Prof. French's office a scene of a free-for-all draw for mining claims to be surveyed.Twelfth Day-A general search for prehistoric corners to said claims.Thirteenth to Fifteenth Day-Survey of claims (such as they were).Remaining days and some night shifts spent in underground surveys of the Zero tunnel and the stopes, tunnels and raises of the Boston Pioche mines.Surmount all of this with a week's wrestling with notes and maps in search of credit and the deed is done. If these references to the facts do not suggest more important details to the reader, then he is a fit subject for a "Summer Survey."(114 ) |
