The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-25
GOLDEN BREEzEs.
Waited Southwark From the Treasure
Vaults of the Black Hills.

~ AaAe - SOce ASok0s PAooINStS nClls allu
is owned by Wiser & Co.
The boiler of Messrs. Bailey g. Dur
bin has arrived, and will be put in place
Immediately on the Golden Terry mine.
The Black King lode is a recent dis
covery,' owned by Gerard g. Co. A first
class quantity of ore is found at a depth
of ten feet. -
The Nutless lode, on Poor Mans
gulch, owned by William Nuttall, was
sold by him recently to Messrs. Bough-
ton & Beary, for $4,000.
The Tenderfoot lode is daily improv-
ing as the shaft goes down. AT a depth
of twenty five feet the proprietors are
taking out quartz showing large guam
titles of free gold.
The little Julia presents as fair a face
as the name suggests: Work is rapidly
pushed. The shaft is down twenty
feet and the ore prospects finely. 1t is
owned by Wiser &Co.
The Omega lode, owned by King,
Snider Sc Jones, has a shaft downtwen-
ty feet. A great deal of work has been
done on this mine, and about eighty
tons of ore are now on the dump.
The Sioux City lode, owned by Fred
Evans & Co., shows every sign of a big
bonanza. The proprietors are running
atunnel and Shaft, and have a large
quantityof ore out that assays largely.
The extension of the Deadwood lode
in south Deadwood, owned by Hanlon
& Hartman, is vieng in appearance with
the original discovery. They have a
shaft down twenty feet, and sixty tons
of ore on the dump that prospects rich.
The Milwaukee lode is. owned by
Messrs. Gerard, Jacobsen & Wiser.
The ore displays a large amount of free
gold, and assays S73 per ton. 1t daily
improves in quality and appearance.
The owners feel assured they have all
they want.
Erina gulch is situated about six
miles from Deadwood, on Whitewood.
1t was originally located last January,
and representation day fixed for the
list of March. On that date it was re-
located, many of the old claimants and
many new ones being present. VIM.
Hanley still continues recorder.
Much attention is directed toward
Sawpit gulch, located about half a mile
above Gayville. The placer claims all
prospect rich. From number l to 8
active preparations are being made for
the opening of spring work. The leads
on this gulch are also numerous. The
Chicago mine, owned by the McHenry
Brothers, has been developed sufficient
ly to know that it will be a good paying
lode. They have a shaft down fifteen
font with N ant Of thi.fty Ex-a foot r,,,-
ming across a foot-wall. The wall rocks
are well defined, and a vein of ore is
visible that assays from S24 to 1854 per
ton.
On the Wooley mine ut Central City
a rich body of ore has been struck, on
the new cut, about $50 feet above the
big tunnel, which is now in seventy feet
IN good paying ore. 1t is dipping from
thirty.fi v to forty degrees into the hill.
The tunnel is six feet wide and ten feet
high. At its face In immense body of
rich ore is visible, and from four to six
hundred tons can be seen on the dump.
The addition of a mill site at the foot
of the hill makes Nhis property very
valuable, as 10y means of "a tramway the
OWNERS can place ore in the mill at a
cost of not yer 50 per ton.
BEAR BUTTE DISTRICT.
Messrs. Moulton & Co., proprietors Of
the Red Cloud, have erected a fine ore
house in front of their tunnel, which is
now in about seventy-five feet. They
are taking out a very high grade of ore,
and have about n hundred tons oil
the dump.
Robert Florrman, on the Florence,
is losing no time in developing this won
derful lode. His tunnel is now in one
hundred feet, and displays an unsur-
passed vein of ore.
The company owning the Ell Refugio
mine are pushing work rapidly on that
well-known lode. The shaft is down
thirty-fve feet. The vein is very rich,
and six feet wide. They are taking out
daily three tons of ore, and have N
hundred tons On the dump. The same
company are running a tunnel on the
Carbon mine, and also on the Hard
scrabble, both prospecting finely.
The Rutherford b. Hayes mine, at
Bear Butte, owned by Messrs. Nc
Shane, Reid, Allen & Co., is developing
itself in a wonderful manner. In the
tunnel, which is in about forty feet,
the lucky owners have struck three feet
of solid ore, and the vein is pitching
downward at an angle of forty-fve de-
grees. They are undoubtedly close to
u large body of ore of u~nequalled rich
ness.
NEWS NOTES.
Gold taken everywhere in Deadwood
at $40 per ounce.
Gwinn's sawmill has arrived ut Lead
City from Custer. A few days only
will elapse before Lead City will have
all the requirements for furnishing
lumber.
Mr.. George Stokes has arrived at
Deadwood. He has on the roada large
and we'll selected stock of dry goods,
and intends starting in business imme-
diately.
Mrs. Jessie Edwins, formerly of Ad-
ans coupty Nebraska and recently of