The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-08-05
BIG HORN GOLD A BIG MYTH.
THOROUGH PROSPECTING ON TIE
EISIII.N SLOPE or THE R.INGE
Color Found Once Enst,rd QUART Relic. OF
Prosperity Father lie smetrs Frirnd The
Western sIopc-siight Hopes -rowder VAL
Icy-Mnjor Hart Capturing Wbiskcy.

iey-Msjor Hart Capturing Wbiskcy.
CAMP ON ToSGUE RIVER, July Tive
have just completed thorough exploration OF
the cast side OF the Big Horn range for u dis
lance Of 175 miles. as woll as Of the beautiful
valley that lies at its base. For their own good.
| sincerely hope that every person with eyes
and hopes fixed upon this Bi.. Horn country
will stay away. If ever there was u humbug.
this late gold excitement il one.
The eastern slope OF the range Is drained by
Powder river. Crazy Womnn's Fork. and Clenr
Fork tboth tributaries of tho Powdcr), Goose
creek Tongue river Litto Big Horn and Big
Horn rivers. These arc the sole outlets from
the main or granitoid range-all inter-
mediate streams heading but u few miles
in tho front hills never beyond them
and should therefore decide tho qucs-
lion whether there IL gold in tho mountains.
| am not guided by secondhand reports or Idle
spcculntions. report the results OF my own
observation not OF the work Of the tender foot
or pilgrim but Of experts, Of men grown gray
and deformcd in years of packing. picking.
prospecting. mining in its every branch. Nor
was | satisfied with one or q dozen tests upon
few of the streams named. nut waited until the
last " SCORES of holes had been sunk to bod
rock upon every eastern outlet How great the
swndlr is may be- inferred from the fact that
after all the hue AMI cry. cNtolllng the richness
OF the territory far above all others and causing
thousands and thousands I'll write by the CARD
to invest their little all in outfits but one sOli-
tlry color" has bcen found. AMI that a Little
speek. worth less than n cent. taken from Crazy
Wpman's FORK. at Il distance OF over thirty
miles from tho main. or granite range over
one hun lr'd m,n have prosp't,d this fork.
but no other sien OF gold has been found. |
viii 70 further; from the formation oil me
nnssil,lv be- any COLI in the crooks that How th,s
way-,ust and north.
W saws nly ulnrir friend. tho abs N 20
billy of lin lin,ri in ro * D." Tat ~ CORE I ns
ngenrrni rropls.tion. possibly 4 IS true IN ihis
hay: ' cayer. In, Will i III. fr,t pros Pc t.ns
Tor piar.r ii ,l.in,s tor AT l,Hst ssrurin .thn aiI
OF comp tent ana wiin-: IN n rs o. dp III work
Tor m"l. and ntnr f;uln. IA tlai. gong INTO
quartz. ", found several cAl n-.Ve veins
r suli WINS ~ barron as IN thn n 1t instnn,s..
70 u4, bot. ,.N pr - ON pf L. + nro ~ AMI Jim
II Min I'm tyn 0,J Wnni1nM miners and mrs.
mi hnlinrs of v.fn4nr pmdwnod ouiiris,
There isn't "A dollar IN Thousand tons OF ~ n
stun" T1e i Is " iat - known as bastard
quartz L.iu- uiirn vii { . almost s rrV-t 4. and
His. particuts'y aDSn, tho ION on e thriyng amp
OF Custer CIV tnow d.iun d. and was nsV'r
known 10 contain m.nL / appeul a f,y ex-
ira Is rom ms IT. hook:
str nm n II c"uiI moss III rnntain Odd. brStsS
from tho foothills ii tna ,.ntr,ol tn range and
at lis most rns;sfiy pr 1t II hnuds nigh NJ ths
DIVIDE having nun ,rous tributaries and CON
s,qu"ntly a large area. ni dsAina-,. on tn. slh
~ Juiy w TOOK In % party % wv 'nty men. and
sunk to bed rock in forty ulnass cover ne "a q -
tuncc of over fifteen miles, At n KIT had ono
color ~ the result ot the JAy's work. On the
ON " rode ov"s % Clear FORK. twenty
miles aud rs Thoroughly prospr ted tuni stream
High up IA the mountains W. cam" upon tne
runs ~ an old calm. ami - llttr lu.th rup dis
covered tcru ~ affair.", 'vileuty an Arastr Tor
the rrdu ton " orc tn = cSritel .sr'at nOp's
an diiigrnt = 'ar'b which resulted IN lin I'm.
a Moot SHAFT up "a % prOuA-.n- lpI". ana
quantity Of orr nj N the dump. So rimens
wer, taken NH ass ~ f. but no tra'r of either
gold cor sllNar WAS ioun J. Strru i";"nds hr.
in ar 'ulat.nu con .rtn.n- THIS lp it.on. tut
am unAhic. slier most i-"At inquiry, t. vou'h
for ths truth of any. I'll" protmoiiti - sr' that
years ago some meinb rs OF party ot M'Nian
miners known e. have bfen IN thH western
mines penetrated t,s DIST mt To Hlty, IL ~
sud that they wtre su3seIuenty Killed by tho
SlnuN.
w reached oil Fort Ph.l kearny on the lltA.
and en,amp"d upon me banks OF NORM finry.
/ Upon the south FoTk W. dis overtd piner ryi-
drnro OF mining oprrat ons in tao shape of II
dam ani ilume Tor sroundri u Ing. but nothing
IN in lffstI .rL. ~ Ntt "A