The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-12-17
WOLF MOUNTAINS.
A Louisville Man, Who Claims to Have
Been There, Says the NeY Mines
are a Fraud.

DR.. Il. ID. Porter sends TO tue Louis-
vile Courier-JouTnal from the Black
Hills an account OF the recent stampede
from Deadwood to Wolf Mountain. He
denoInces the report of gold in these
h~SHHtaiiIs,s a great piece Of hanabug
gerry: On the morning of the 18th of
November, says the doctor, the stam-
peded party left the Sweet Sulphur
Springs. After travelling fifteen miles,
In a southwestern direction, we went
into camp at the foot Of Bald Butte, a
solitary hill about. 100 feet high.
Here we met aparty of sixty or seventy
who had been to the Wolf mountains,
and pronounced the whole thing a hum
bug. No diggings in one hundred and
fifty miles in that direction. The next
day, the 14th, we held a council of war,
and 1t was determined to lay over at
this point for a few days and await de-
velpements. Accordingly, a large
portion Of the party, say about one
hundred and twenty, cooked up three
days rations, shouldered their guns.
blankets, picks and shovels, g~old-pans,
etc. and scattered out in every direc-
tion, prospecting. The balance of the
party went hunting, with the exception
of two or three men who remained in
camp to take care of the trains. N.Y.
self and partner took pick and shovel
and r~rospected the creek ON which we
camped. We found a large deposit of
plaster and a ledge of alabaster, but
conld only get a few fine colors. We
returned to camp hungry and tired.
During tire day several squads of men
came in, some of them from the Wolf
mountains I'm the north west, others
from the Big Horn range, while anoth-
er party had prospected Beaver creek on
the south, Others had made a circuit OF
the Inyan Kara, on the southwest, and
had been within sixty miles of Fort
Reno. They all reported large parties
OF stampeders, in every direction. 1t is
estimated that there were at least
twelve hundred men on this stampede
1t cost each man an average Of
$50 to outfit; it cost $50, 900 in money
besides the great loss of time, and Tho
immense loss to men who had to give
uptheir business to go on this stampede
Now the fact stares them in the face
that the whole thing was a put up FRAUD
gotten up by Spectators to make none,
out of the credulous.
But when the flock of disappointed
ones got back to Deadwood, madden i
not wiser men, the men that had sold u.
out bad pocketed their gold dust, gath
cred their traps, skipped out and wert
safe In the States before their dupe.
knew they were sold. One poor devils
Swede, remained, who was harnessed
up and made to tell all he knew about
it. He had received fifty dollars to q
out and come back and report that ht
had found gold in paying quantities
The enraged multitudes were satisfied
that he was only . tool for sharper vii
lains, and therefore turned him loose
giving him n hour in which to leav'
the country.
But, to return to our camp at Bale
Butte. Our hunters returned at night
iAnSA ~ eiSnt ucer, d uuInDer o.
prairie chickens, grouse, quail, jack
rabbits, etc. After eating a heart,
supper, they laughed over thei
discontinue. and resolved to return II
Deadwood as soon as all the p~rospector,
returned to camp. Accordingly. OF
Saturday, the 18th, we turned our face
in the direction of Deadwood, and re
traced our steps. On Thursday, the
23d we were all back in Deadwood read,
for another stampede.