The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-06-18

of the great plateau between the summit OF
the Wasatch range and the summit of the
Rocky Mountain range. 1t may be adyisa-
BILE here to explain that the summit OF the
Rocky Mountain range Is actually crossed
near Separation Station, though the de-
preston is there so great that the apparent
summit and much the highest elevation Is
found at Sherman, on the summit of the
spur known as the Black Hills.
OTHER COAL FIELDS.
On the road to Denver, 81 miles from
CHEYENNE. the Rocky Mountain Coal Com
pany have another colliery. It consists of
q nine foot vein of fair coal. This will be-
come valuable when the Denver Railroad
is completed to Cheyenne, because it will
have access to the domestic consumers OF
both cities and neighboring military and
mining camps, and also to the Union Pa
ciic stations eastward. Its great yalue,
however arises from its contigulty to the
iron deposits OF the Black Hill country.
IRON.
There are in the Black Hills not only de-
posts of iron ore equal i'll. extent to the
largest known on this or any other CONT
nent, but they have the remarkable advan-
tape of comprising in one area three classes
of ore. which in making the best metal
must be worked together, and which in
other parts of the United States are widely
scattered In the immediate vicinity OF
| the Denver road coal bed there are depos.
its of what is known among iron men as
kidney iron. There are also in this ceun
try miles Of hills of ore Of the red oxide
and black magnetic varieties combined, ant
of the Hematite variety. Prof. Haydn, o
| the United States Geological Survey Office
| Washington, accompanied by Prof. Sill
man, inspected these hitherto unvaluef
iron districts last autumn, and reported
hundreds of thousands Of tons of rich or,
of the finest quality in sight. Prof. Haydn
is reported to have said. that there wa
more iron in boulders more easy of access
than any ordinary mine, than would suppl.
the western side of the continent with lroI
fora generation.
North of Cheyenne twenty-eight miles
at the head Of Chingwatcr river, is lrol
| Mountain, which some say exceeds the
famous Pilot Knob in extent Of its mas
of ore. IT is said by Cheyenne men t.
be the finest iron mountain in the world
and the supply of ore is equal to any de
mand, however rapidly the consumption
may increase.
4 MINERAL RAILROAD.
act OF the territorial government last win
| ter to build n railroad from Cheyenne Il
| ChinoWater. Companies are now being
formed for the purpose Of erecting works
at several points. One company propos'
to make rails both of iron and OF steel
For the latter purpose they have Dough
| the sole RIGHT to use the Bessemcr pat
ent in that territory tor n royalty or . {
| ton,
COST OF MAKING IRON.
The cost of making iron ut PlttSburg
| apart from the construction of works ant
wear and tear of machinery, &c, is said tC
! be from $50 to S26. Iron makers who have
visited the Cheyenne and ChingWater dis
tricts. say that apart from the constr uctior
Of works and wear of machinery. &c, the
cost Of making iron will not exceed SO s
| ton. They make out that result from these
! data, the ore will cost not to exceed 50 s
| tom at the furnace, and all the varieties OF
ore necessary for making are ut hand
| They say that PittsburG makers have
to bring black magnetic and hematitC
ores from Lake Superior, and blacl
magnetic ore from Iron Mountain
Missouri, where they have no Goa
and use charcoal only, to Pittsburg- fol
mixing with their own Pennsylvania ores
| to make good metal. Coal of good quality
can be had down along the Cheyenne and
ChinGwater railroad at $5 to So Lime,
stone for tuxing is ON the ground. There.
fore, the iron men of this district say, with
all these advantages, that if the trade o
the western shore will, in some time MOI
very remote, equal that of the eastern
shore, SO somewhere ON the Black Hills
near Cheyenne. there will spring up grca
| iron and hardware manufacturing town -
furnaces, FORCES, fcundries, rolling-mils
| and thousands of homes Of industrious
workmen. In short, that somewhere i'll
these elevated districts there is to be n see.
oud PittSbur9.