The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-06-03
The western slope of rhs BIuek nun.


pondent Of the Inter Ocean, writes as
follows from that place:
"a curious bit of nice conjecture
just now INDUCED in by some old
miners hereabouts-and II Is aston
ishing how many there are waiting
for the hills 10 open-is what may
shape the course OF the expedition
somewhat after the first discovered
gold fields are given a visit. These
dust hunters say that no gold has
ever been discovered, in any con-
siderable qualities, throughout
North America, which did not lie in
gulches; and was mined from sec
lions situated on the westerly slope
Of a mountain range. The eastern
incline Of the hin systems has. It Is
true, usually .colored we'll in some
portions, but the diggings that held
out and were the richest were those
on the western slant. They infer
from this, that the hills on the east
may have shown up excellently. but
that the most valuable yellow veins
are on the define looking toward the
setting sun. In the developing of
thisStheoryS the ridge I'VE strike from
Old Woman's Fork to the north will
be worth following, rs we thereby
compass and inclose the wished for
district in the west. Such a dis
closure would place beyond the re-
gion of speculation all thought of
there being. any other route to the
diggings than that by way of Fort
Laramie. The streams which drain
the hills, from this outlook, flow to-
ward the Big Horn Mountains and
the upper bed OF the Belle t'ourche.
And should the fraction of what is
anticipated by a number be realized,
their opinion Is hazarded, that as we
now have telegraph to Fort Laramie
we should soon e the railway run
ming up among the Wind River
Mountatnsk and awakening the still
ness of the precious metal land.
These may seem to you, at the dis
tant metropolis of the northwest,
wild prophecies, and yet l am not
quite sure that Chicago should so far
forget her history as to cavil at
such a random suggestion. There
are stranger things occurring daily
within earshot Of the Garden City,
and II almost seerns, to use the borsI
der profanity, that "nothing's i'm
possible here in Wyoming" is such
an approximation to fact, that the
next thing is the fact itself.
GOLD "PRoBABILITIFs."
Gold in the hills is no longer an
uncertainty The evidence already
in Is sufficient to convince even the
most eskepticaL. From all quarters
there have flowed in to me, while
quartered here at the post, sufficient
testimony to place it outside the
realm of doubt. And yesterday an
additional confirmation was given to
what is we'll known by the Inter
ocedn's readers. In an interview
~
with Capt. Mix, that gentleman
showed your correspondent samples
Of mineral taken by Gordon's party
near Camp Success, in the Black
Hills. These consisted of a very fine
fragment of mica, such as are now
used for lights in steamers on the At
lantic seaboard; also a large speci-
men of pyrites, which was at first
supposed to contain lead or silver,
but after assaying at Omaha was
pronounced a marcasite; and then 1
saw and handled several penny
weights Of gold which had come
from the pan of a miner in Gordon's
party In the hills. 1t was examined
critically on Capt. Mix's return from
the bills six weeks ago, and by sew
eral experts was unequivocally pro-
nounced genuine, and not 'salted,"
as some have supposed and would
have desired. 1t was declared of
COED color, and bore traces of having
been but a short time previous
washed out. With such witnesses
and testimony IS it doubted there is
goIdin the Black Hills ?''AAa ~eyE