The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-22
IRON CREEK.
New and Rich Placer Discoyeres-0ak Val.
ley Guich Planning Out Well.

pecteO ana secured the TeIldrhdIic ie-
suit of thirty cents to the first pan. He
had v washed out yer ten cents
per pan, and he wouldn't believe his
eyes. He dropped pan, pick and shovel
and made a bee line for Docs" office.
DOC" is recorder as well as a physi-
clan, and was compromising a pre-
scription technically called "bean
SOUP" as the miner entered and de-
manded a certificate for No. 3, Oak
Valley gulch. Without confusing his
work, or with other demonstrations
than to meekly reply, "Well, pard,
guess you've missed it. She's gons,'
doc" disposed of the case. A more
irate individual never Travelled the
Hills than that self-same miner, as he
returned to his cabin. They've struck
it rich," as the boys term it, upon Iron
creek, of which Oak valley is tributary,
and the question of gold or no gold is
definitely settled.
Oak valley is about six miles long,
and as its name implies, is studded
with oak, with many pines, throwing a
darker shade over the ground. Two
immense quartz leads (gold) cross the
gulch, one near its head, the other op-
posite claim %, and are constantly
feeding, as they have constantly done
for ages past, the little stream that for
four months in the year runs down the
valley and empties into Iron creek.
The gulch is dry the remaining eight
months of the year, consequently min
ing must cease with the stoppage of
water, or else dirt must be carried a
distance of nothing to six miles to Iron
creek, where it can be sluiced, but the
exceeding richness of the claims will
compensate for such labor and expense.
Of course the utmost excitement pre-
walls, for here; if anywhere, good news
travels fast. Miners are flocking in
from all quarters, but the majority eX-
perience great chagrin in finding all
claims 'located." The district has
been greatly ridiculed by miners of this
Battle) district, n and all having
pronounced it barren of the precious
yellow stuff for which men hazard their
lives, their fortune, and often sacred
honors. The tables are effcctually
turned, however, for while Thirty cents
to the pan equal to 5000 per day. has
been prospected upon a bedrock only
two feet deep in Oak valley, innumer-
able shafts have been sunk on Battle,
often as deep as twenty-three feet,
through solid rock and immense guam
titles of water, without finding a color
at the bottom.
The quartz wealth of Iron creek dis
trict is simply fabulous; and if your
capitalist want to turn over their
money as often as there are days in the
year, all that they have got to do is to
send out machinery for developing this
branch of mining industry. A New
York mining company are taking ad-
vantage of the chances, and have al
ready secured fourteen leads. They
have received a return from the Denver
assay office, defining the value of their
Spring creek lode at % per cent. silver.
An agent started east to-day with
samples from their most valuable leads
to be assayed, and to purchase two
large stamp mills.
I'M Of THEIR LoCAToRs
is a colored man named Nord, who
displays more sagacity and geological
knowledge than any other prospector in
the Hills. He was partner in the famous
Deadwood Niger gulch" last year,
and has large interests in that locality
still. He owns four leads in Iron dis
trict, silver bearing, showing a vein of
over seventy feet in depth.
DOC" Wood also figures heavily in
quartz, having, in company with Sher-
man Coburn, a large stakeholder in the
Calumet and Hecla copper mines of
Lake Superior, located upon upward of
twenty lodes. The doc" is well post
ed, and confident that he is ''ixed,"
only twill take time to realize from
them" he adds.
Jack Baronett, who, in self-defense.
killed Capt. Timblin at Hayward, last
week, has the gem of all in the Gen.
Custer" lode, which shows a silver
bearing crevice seven feet wide upon
the surface.
Capt. Darlington, an old California
forty-niner, washed out chunks of sill
yer from his creek claim (No. 16 above
discovery to-day, something very sell
dom done, as silver generally run in
flour quartz, and imperceptibly to the
eye even under q powerful glass.
As a result of
THE RECENT DISCOVERIES,
the two stage lines have changed their
routes, and to-day made their first trip
from Custer to the foothills via Iron
and Battle creeks, instead of by the
way of Buffalo Gap, as heretofore.
The weather continues favorable for