The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-09-14
tuesday,. sEPTEM. IA, 1875.
Surveyor General Reeds
7 Sixth Annual Report

Surveyor General Reed has recent
ly finished his sixth annual report to
the Department of the Interior. 1t
Is a very comprehensive document
and contains many important, inter-
esting and instructive items for the
general reader, and especially the
people Of this Territory. We have
been granted the privilege TO make
copious extracts from the report. TO
be publishe J in the LEADER. and we
propose to lay them before our read
ers as time and space may permit.
After giving a detailed account Of
the progress Of surveys in the Terri
tory, Or. Reed devutes considerable
space to the various resources Of Wyo
ming he speaks as follows about our
GOLD AND SILVER MINES.
There ure sume good gold veins and
placer mines in the Sweetwater Dis
trict, a number Of which have been
worked with considerable profit by
the owners, who are generally men Of
quite limited capital and mine under
very great disadvantages, because OF
Indian raids, and the distance from
railroad.
The silver mines of the Semlnoe
Mountains, fifty miles northwest of
Fort Steele, continue to be worked,
and promise II profitable yield when
reasonably developed and more capt.
tai Is applied TO the working of them.
These lodes are chiefly in the Ferris
mining district, where the geological
formation Is much like that ut George
town, in Colorado, consisting of alter
nate layers or belts of gray, brown
and reddish gneissoid rock.
The same formation is found to eX-
list ut Laramie and Reeds Peaks, 40
TO so miles westerly of Fort Laramie.
The gold placer mines and gold
quartz lodes of the Medicine Bow
Mountain, .on the western edge of
Laramie Plains, and west Of Laramie
City, begin to attract considerable
and merited attention.
The Last Chance and Brush Creek
placer diggings, have produced very
we'll this year.
Two lodes of gold-bearing quartz
have been discovered Mt the eastern
base of the Medicine Bow Mountain,
at the head Of the Little Laramie,
this year, one of which is named the
"C~entennial," and both are spoken of
rs bearing very rich gold quartz; as
the samples l have seen fully demon
stIate. The veins are not yet worked
to a depth sufficient TO test their real
economic value.
The gold mines of Clnrk's Fork, a
branch of the Yellowstone, in North
western Wyoming, continue 10 be
worked by miners from The vicinity
OF Bozeman, Montana, and the noun
tains east of Yellowstone Lake and
National Park, in which Clark's
Fork rises, will. in due time, become
a resort for a large population of gold
miners.
The gold mines of the Black Hills
and the Big Horn Mountains, will
attract wide spr, ad attention, when
~peaceable possession is gained by the
whites, and the warliKe Sioux are
sufficiently removed.
THE BLACK HILLS
now so well advertised all over the
continent, are located in Northeastern
Wyoming and Western Dakota.
Their area is small, and their gold
bearing surface far inferior to the
Big Horn Mountains, about 100 miles
west of the Black Hills. These latter
mountains are not sufficiently eX-
plored nor the gold deposits tested TO
such an extent as to enable us to give
an intelligent opinion of the amount
of gold they will yield when fully
opened up to mining enterprise and
population.
We have lately conversed with
miners of Judgment aud experience,
well known to us, who have passed
over their whole length, made valua-
BILE discoveries, and have come here
for farther supplies, with the hope
and intention of returning there to
spend the winter.
To be Continued.