The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1884-01-13

petent managers and the forcing a
stamp mill process and amalgamation,
under the mistaken idea of its being a
free milling ORE
Our people will remember the bogus
professor" who is reported to have
said there was $1,000 tons of ore on the
dump, and 4 5000 tons in sight in The
mine in Cummins, when, in another
part of his report, he said he ''had not
been able to go down the shaft on ac-
count of the water" OF course, such
a wild, sensational report produced a
feeling Of disgust on the part of capt.
talists who were negotiating to pur-
chase. ,
We have not yet been cursed, like
Colorado, with the new process man,
and L hope sincerely that our people
will not be. 1t has been said that the
Adams Copper King ore is u fine mill
ing ore like the Calumet and Hecla, of
Lake Superior, and from some unac-
countable cause the territorial geolo-
gist and mining engineer of Wyoming
has been induced to add his testimony
to the statement. II is a mistake, and
such testimony probably has caused the
investment of many thousands of dol
lars, with no prospect of al adequate
return. Sensational assays and wild
statements, which are very common in
this mining business, must, for the
sake of the miners themselves, be
crushed under the nethermost mill
stone.
The ore OF the Copper King is a red
oxide of copper, or at least the great
bulk of it, with some pyrites and a true
smelling ore. If the proper process is
put in the large quantity-as l under
stand there is in the deposit, for it is
not a fissure vein-will some day make
it a very fair paying Investment, by a
proper admixture with other ores in the
neighborhood, the quantity counterbal-
ancing the lowness of the grade. l am
probably more personally interested in
the success of Silver Crown mining dis
trict than any other person in Wyo-
ming, but | will not, if l know it, utter
n false statement OF allow any other
person to do SO in relation to that camp
without a prompt and unequivocal de-
NAL of it. Miners like to talk about
their big assays, but they are only fool
ing themselves, and it is in the end dis
astrous to their best interests.
Look at the old Metcalf smelter, and
remember the money that some of our
citizens put into it. Where now are
their sensational assays. Where now
are the big sounding reports and names
by which the were wheedled out of
their money! Echo answers, wherep
The people themselves are to blame. A
fraud in mining is like a counterfeit
bank note, tine more specious the imi-
tation, the better the counterfeit; the
viler and more dangerous is the fraud.
If people will exercise good ordinary
common sense there will be no miuing
frauds. If some of its employees under
stood the business they professed to do,
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