The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-03-25

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a size too large to ft your cabinet; and
the few we have are reserved for the Of
6cers of this company and the crowned
heads of Europe.
Our able and learned president in
structs mt to further inform you that
this company was incorporated for the
sole purpose Of supplying the cabinets
of poor but honest American citizens
with suitable specimens-that it is a
want long felt, &c. In fact, he wishes
me to state with prolonged emphasis
that the objects sought for in this COM
bined organization of mind and capital
r probably far different from what
you may suppose.
We propose in time to pay the nation
al as well as the individual American
debt and to place our beloved country
upon a substantial financial footing-a
basis Of pecuniary profundity, us it were
or, IL L may make use Of the expires.
sion, a condition of indiscerptible mon.
etary solidityl
We have scarcely time to daily with
the sordid trifes Of a brief pecuniary
existence. Our labor, our enterprise,
our indomitable energy, are for philan-
thropic approximation, land don't
you forget it." Res augusta domi, pro
bono publico! Mirsbile dictu, Nil des-
perandum, sine qua non! Cum grano
sails de gustibus o est disputandoml
In regard to the compensation which
you 80 kindly offer, i. e. having a speci-
me-" from our mines displayed in your
cabinet-our illus'rious president can
only respectfully but firmly decline. No
thing so harshly CRATES upon his mag
ni6cent ear as the least suggestion or
suspicion Of compensation. Were you,
my dear sir, better Informed as to our
brilliant prospects. you would scarcely
have ventured such a worldly PROPOSE
ton.
To the Table Mountain Mining com
pany Of Wyoming, eight feet right
prisms Of hexagonal gold studded with
diamonds would be as monuments Of
sand. We would gladly send to you,
land your sisters, and your cousins,
and your aunts," steamboat loads of
gold in the more common forms-ab-
solutely purel ITO the pure all things
are purel' If you had only said that
you wanted hexagonal cubes OF spheric.
al gold, or oblique neutrality-suspicious.
of octagonal gold, or cylindrical clip
solids, or conoidal paraboloids, or hyper.
bolical spheroids, OF cuspidated cycloids
or convoluted helicoids, or pyriform
prismoids, or sigmoidal trianguloids, or
b%ifurcated cylindroids, or even primer
dial congratulated isomorphoids, we
~shouldhave been abundantly able to com
ply with yourtrihing request. If there is
any one circumstance which will tend
to Gil the heart Of this corporation with
grief. it Is the fact that we are unable
to furnish the peculiar and impossible
form Of native gold you 80 earnestly de-
sire.
You are doubtless aware that there
are no rocks In this altitude which do
not contain gold or silver in some form.
Until recently no stockholder in any
respectable mining company could be
convinced Of this, and to your inexperi-
enced mind the statement may seem to
be utterly at variance with all the the.
cries advanced by the more prodigious
mining experts, nevertheless it is true.
We have had 1885 500 assays made by
disinterested scientists, and not one has
failed to indicate the presence of gold.
In some of Il richer ores the precious
metal appears in the form of 800 gold
coins. This we consider a fair paying
rock.
The very worst showing we ever
struck was a piece of imported Italian
marble from the Cheyenne cemetery
which showed 81 to the ton in green