The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-11-11
Ell DORADO ETcHINGS.
The Leading Quartz Lodes and Their
DeyeaoPmsnt-WsI5s New Short
Routs-MinoT Notes Of ID
Interest.

Mr.. w. M. Ward, formerly of the
firm of Ward & Mason, OF this city.
who has been in the Black Hills during
the past nine months, arrived in this
city on Thursday evenings coach Ac-
companying him were Mr.. Bolthoff, in
venter of the justly celebrated Bolthoff
ball pulyerizer, an ore reducing inyen-
ton of rare merit; Mr.. Thomas O'Neil,
discoverer of the now famous Hidden
Treasure gold lode, near Gayville, ON a
tributary of Deadwood creek. and 1. w.
French, of this city. who has been in
the Hills for four months past.
Mr.. Ward reports that the weather is
still mild and pleasant, and that gulch
mining is still being prosecuted with
vigor. The nights are quite cool, and
some ice forms ON the water at night,
but does not yet interfere at all with
gulch mining. The first snow of the
season at Deadwood fell to the depth of
five or six inches some two weeks ago,
but disappeared in a day OF two, and
o N has fallen since.
Work on all the quartz lodes is pro-
crossing rapidly. The shaft on the
Hidden Treasure, owned by Cheyenne
company, is now in about thirty feet,
and the ore now being taken out is
fully equal to that at first found. The
Chief of the Hills, a lode owned by the
same company, now has a shaft sixty
feet in depth, and the lode fully equals
the Hidden Treasure. The report pub
lished some time since stating that five
tons of ore from the Hidden Treasure
had been run through the mill and
yielded $1,000 in gold is confirmed, and
Mr.. Ward and his companions state
that the mill is now turning out two
hundred dollars per day above expenses.
Captain Nichols, of Utah, one of the
owners of the Father de Smet lode, has
a quartz mill on the ground, and will
erect and putt in operation within a
week ON ore from that lode, which is
considered fully equal to the lodes first
mentioned.
A party named Penny, to whom the
Alpha mine has been bonded, is now in
Colorado after a mill, which his bond
specifies must be erected and running
within sixty days from the date of bond,
half of which time has already expired.
Another mill will be erected on the.
Clara lode, owned by a Detroit COM
pany, and will be in operation in two
Or three weeks. The shaft on the Clara
is now in a depth of ~sixty-five feet.
(Mr. Ward is pushing work on his
shortcut road from Deadwood to Rum
ming Water, which will shorten the dis
lance from this city to Deadwood as
now travelled some fifty miles. The
shortcut runs from Deadwood through
the center of the Hills to Running
Water, via Jenney's s~tcckade, coming
out some twenty miles west of Custer.
The new road is now completed fora
distance of twenty miles this side of
Deadwood, and will be completed to
RuliiiilS WdtSi W lhC Aoeh VI OSSSh
Der next
Mr.. Ward has come here to C u
aid in the completion of the short cut
route which, when completed, will
make the distance between this city
and Deadwood only two hundred and
forty mil IS, over a much better road
than the one now Travelled, or that of
any other so-called route to the Black
Hills. He is thoroughly reliable and
responsible gentleman, as our business
men well know, and we feel certain
that he will be aided and that promptly.
He has shown his faith and grit by al
ready expanding two thousand dollars
in the work, and if u citizens will
subscribe three thousand dollars to the
enterprise he will complete the road at
once. This road is. of vastly more Inn
p~ortance to Cheyenne than any other
scheme destined to benefit the Magic
City, and our citizens should immediate
ly take steps to secure its completion.
We will then have the shortest and best
route to the Hills and need not fear
competition.