The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-04-21
BLACK I BUDGET.
W DRIrr1Nas.

DEADwOOD DRIrTIN0s.
r. r. Williams is firding some good
pay in his diggings back Of Main street.
The Wheeler claim No. 2, with one
half of claim l, have a force of IL men
ground sluicing.
The new owners Of No. II are run
ming on Flo0man's old tailings. 1t
pays $40 per day to the a
On Nc. 81, Messrs. Rawson & Co.,
have a force of ten men gulching on
bedrock, and are going to increase this
force. This mine is equal to any in the
cut.
Frederickson & Co. are sluicing, and
have been washing tailings all winter
with rockers. In this claim ia a shaft
of 20 feet with too much water now to
admit of it being worked.
Brown & Thum have purchased the
lot adjoining Stebbins & Co.'S bank
building on the east and will commence
Immediately the erection of a fine
building, to be occupied by them as a
bank.
On No. %, below discovery, Anthony
McCauley & Burch have a shaft 20 feet
and a tunnel 100 feet, paying well.
They have a force Of 10 men on the drift
ing diggings and intend to double this
force in a few days.
Claims II and 18, owned by Andrew
Wibleare ARE being worked by a force of
IS men, on drift diggings. They have
a shaft of wei 20 feet, and are running
a prospect main drill to drain the
diggings. The drift on the channel is
80 feet.
Buckley & Co. haye a 20 foot shaft
on claim No. 10, with run of 40 feet
into the channel. 1t pays 500 to a
six foot cap, They have II men on two
shifts, working night and day. One
drift of one hundred feet yielded twen-
ty-five cents to one dollar and a half to
the pan. They have 300 feet not work.
ed yet.
OTHER LoDEs AND PLACERs.
A gentleman from San Francisco has
purchased the Florence mine Of Mr..
Floorman. Consideration $50, 900.
An assay made of ore from the
Cora mine, owned by W. w. Andrews,
shows lead 39per cent. silver 67t ounces
or $50. so per ton, and this from soft
ore.
Mr.. V. Doran has purchased a thirty
sixth interest in the Ell Refugio mine.
Consideration $500. The mine is
located on Mineral Hill, in the Bear
Butte district.
The new stamp mill on the Gold and
Terry lode on Bobtail Gulch is in opera
ton. The mine and stamp mill are so
located that it costs but two dollars per
ton to work the ore-the mine will pay
handsomely. The breast of ore is about
100 feet thick, and estimating the value
of it on this basis, the amount of it in
sight is worth in the neighborhood of
thirty millions of dollars. The mill
consists at present of but ten stamps,
but the engine has power sufficient to
it will soon be enlarged.
CASTLE CREEK CULLINGS.
Castleton looms up lovely; its popula-
ton is increasing rapidly.
Claim owners who have been invest
ing elsewhere, are flowing in.
A good many of the boys are working
high bars for grub stakes, and average
from 50 to "a per day.
No less than five steam pumps and
engines are on their way here and are
all to be put in operation in this gulch.
A great many claims are being jump
ed by outsiders and the war-cry may be
expected on representation day, April
23rd.
Sitting, Bull, a new town just start
ed, has some Is or 20 houses and is To-
Gated where the Deadwood trail strikes
the gulch.
There is a fine opening for capitalists
the coming season, as c~laim-owners are
making liberal offers to such for open
ing up their ground, all of which re-
quires machinery.
Hoodoo Gulch is being worked by
Montana men, who average from SIC
to 1875 daily, with a rocker. Same par.
ties have worked out several dry
gulches since last fall, thereby making
quite a stake.
NJ. v. Rowland, Of the "Alpha," has
purchased an interest in six claims,
Nos. IS to 10 inclusive, owned by
Messrs. Cornell, Williams, Arnold,
Winters & Co., and expects to have
proper machinery on the ground in 30
days and commence work.