The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-01-10

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Hills Pioneer. Of December soth.
U. B. Ford shot Geo. Brown, in the
Bella Union theatre on Christmas eve.
Browns wounds are serious but not
necessarily fatal. Ford is in custody.
R. E. Thompson, Esq. isnowin town.
He has established a fast freight line
between this place and Cheyenne and
is carrying both passengers and mer-
days.
VIM. Smith, of Crook city, was out on
a hunt accompanied by two friends.
They went to Bear range and were out
sixteen days, six Of which they spent in
getting to and from the hunting around.
They killed 70 deer and one mountain
lion.
MINING MATTERs.
On Bear Butte the American Tunnel
company have run their tunnel % feet
and have flattering indications of high
grade galens and silver ores, the latter
predominating.
The None-Snch mine, situated south
east of Gayville and owned BY, Capt. S.
E. Faster, is being systematically
worked by a shaft 40 feet in depth.
The shaft of the Chief of the Hills
mine is 76 feet deep, with a full force
of men hard at work upon it. Some
ore recently taken from the mine the
whole width of the vein, yielded from
81 to S1.50 to the pound.
There has been about fifteen hundred
dollars worth of work done on the AL.
pha and Omega mines and there is
about four hundred tons Of ore on the
dump.
The large arastra on False Bottom
at New Chicago, owned by J. G. Wus-
tum & Co., has been housed in by a
building forty feet square. The ditch
has also been entirely covered and the
whole machine is in perfect order for
winter operations.
The Baum mine, on Blacktail gulch,
is opened by a shaft eight by seven, If
teen feet deep. The ore is conglomer-
ate, bearing free gold, and containing
q considerable amount of arsenical
iron.
The Golden Terry, on Blacktail
gulch, is worked by a shaft 80 feet and
a tunnel Sc feet deep. The ore taken
from the shaft appears to be of ahigh-
er grade than that from the tunnel, al
though the rock from both yields
free gold in handsomely paying quanti-
ties.
The Father de Smet mine has a per-
fectly defined crevice with a 80 by IA
foot vein of solid gold ore in sight, and
Is being worked on the face Of the mine
at an elevation of $50 feet above the
gulch.
The Bonner mine bids fair to pay its
owners well. Already a quantity Of
blue quartzite has been taken out, filled
with fine flour gold.
The Big Cheyenne, on Yellow gulch,
has a shaft twenty feet deep. The av-
erage ore taken out assays $120 to the
ton.
The Mary Greeley mine on Strawber-
ry gulch, is being worked by F. NJ. Al
len & Co. The ore taken out is a very
rich quality of black sulphuret and'chlo-
ride of silver.
The Ell Refugio mine at Bear Butte
was sold last week for / $4,000. There
is no doubt but what the investment is
a good one, as the ore is very high
grade. silver. Perfectly defined wall
rocks.
The Belle OF. the West mine, situated
above the Father de Smet, is develop.
ing m~agnificently. The owners, M. v.
Boughton & Co., have a SO foot shaft
completed; the ore is high grade con.
glomerate quartz, bearing free gold.
The Cora silver lead at Bear Butte
has been tunnelled to the depth Of q
feet, with dip of Is degrees; upper
wall is feldspar and lime, the foot wall
sandy quartzite. Five foot vein o,
high grade galena silver quartz.
"Dan" Costello was in town las,
week arranging for his stamp mill now
on the road here; the machinery will
be put up as a ''custom mill"
The Belcher lode, belonging to Harr,
Colvin & Co. and situated in Gold RuI
district, is worked by a shaft fifty fee
deep and forty-one feet wide. The ORE
is quartzite, bearing free gold;' and thai
reduced in an arastra yielded an aver.
age Of S53 to the ton.
Messrs. Grantz, Ulrig & Highly hav'
purchased claim No. 20, below discov
cry on Deadwood gulch.