The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-16
SODA LAKES.
$4,000 square Miles Of BItamiHou.
o
Iron Mountain Larger than the Iron
Mountain OF Missouri.
PetroIeum Oo.Inx fron the soil.
Geld, silver and Copper in Ever,
section.

iduO, L nave only changed my location
from the southern side of the center to
the very center itself of the great min
eral belt. 1t needs no words OF mine
to establish the fact that these rocky
mountains of yours are the personifca-
tion of the mineral wealth of the world.
You stand to-day in common with Col
orado, as the nearest gold and silver
producing section to the great CONNER
cial center of the continent. You must
awake to the realization of your ad-
yantages. You seem net to realize
what a grand country you possess. The
same grand continental range which
extends through Colorado to the Brit
ish possessions passes through Wyo-
ing. Who can truthfully say, that
south of your south geographical line,
is the richest mineral producing Sec
ton In the world, and north of your
north line, n almost as rich, .and yet,
in your geographical limits, between
those lines, no precious metal exist?
The god of nature, when he formed by
his almighty fiat, these eternal monu-
ments, was not so partial in his distri-
button. He placed in the Wyoming
ranges the same formations as in the
countries on each side of you.
Twelve years only have elapsed since
Colorado occupied the same position
that Wyoming does now. At that
time her people were unknown to
fame. To say that ere long she would
be the largest producer of the precious
mentals in the universe, at that time,
would have been considered the wild
.phantasy of an enthusiast. She was
then the most poorly advertised terri
tory in the United States. She woke
from her supineness and lethargy, as
you may now do, and, thanks to a few
enterprising writers mot exceeding a
dozen) she has become the best and
most widely known region in the united
world. Mankind has realized that the
Eldorado of the three centuries last
past, hoped for during all that time,
has been found right here in the Rocky
Mountains. The development of them
belongs only to the indomitable enter
prise of the people who reside on their
tanks.
Wyoming is as rich In the precious
metals as Colorado, Utah, Nevada,
Idaho, Montana and Dakota, all around
you, but you are richer in many other
of the great industrial products of ma
ture. No where in the world can be
found the equal of the sulphate of soda
(Glauber's salt) and carbonate of soda,
of the lake beds of Wyoming. The BIZ
luminous coal beds of the great state Of
Pennsylvania, are not equal in area to
the bituminous coal beds of Wyoming.
You ha We, according to acknowledged
authority 25, 900 square miles of coal
beds.
The development of a petroleum oil
region, is a matter of certainty in the
rear future. The formation is here,
and boring for'oil will be one of the
most important industries Of our peo-
pie. There are, 1 am informed, at least
four districts where petroleum is exud-
ing from the soil, viz:
/. Near Fort Bridger, on Bear river.
2. In the valley of the Popo Agile.
3. Near the mouth of Poison Spring
creek. in Carbon county.
4. Near Jenny's Stockade, Beaver
creek, Laramie county.
You have unsurpassed iron noun
tains and leads. The magnetic andhem-
attic iron deposits Of the Laramie range
are not exceeded by any section in the
world. The magnetites of Iron Noun
tain, 45 miles northwest of Cheyenne,
is n fifth larger in extent than the
celebrated Iron Mountain in Missouri,
and much finer in quality. These and
the hematites neal Fort Fetterman, if
married to your coal, will produce a
progeny of population which will make
Wyoming assume the stature of the
Hercules of the west.
The rich agricultural valleys of our
territory are not inferior to Colorado.
Ere long there will be a grand national
of the Industries Of the con-
and Wyoming must be repre-
and she will have to take her
stand and show what she a do in q
friendly way, for the supremacy as a
factor, in the mineral productions of
the great west.
The true assure crystalline quartz
veins of California have been found
here and pervade the whole of the
Medicine Bow range, as distinctly
marked as on the shore of the South
Pacific.
The ~carbonates are scattered pro-
miscuously all over your area-they ex-
ist everywhere, and are as common as
your spar stones whose products in
some measure they are. They are al
ways lower than the main ranges, but
invariably tend in the same direction.
l have found in the Big Laramie cafion
near Cummins City, on the Colorado
and Wyoming line, ~galenites encrusted
with corussite Carbonate Of lead), in
company with its almost i~nvariable at
tendant-baryta. Where you find the
blue and green carbonates of copper,
there you will nearly always find the
lead and iron ~carbonates in a greater or
less degree. They are everywhere, all
over your mountains and caiions.
The chlorides and bromides will also