, 1885-12-30
PROSECUTORS STORY.
Rich Deposits of Silver in this
Territory.
Quartz Discovered Which Assayed
$4,000 Per Ton.

There never was such winter weather
known in Wyoming before, - said an en-
thusiastic Cheyennese Yesterday.
We'll" said n. X. Boswell, 81 have
been in this territory since an early day.
The winter of 1860 was just such another.
Bright, sunny days, with little or no
snow, and the nights were not bad either.
| camped out on the open prairie, unshel-
tered by any tent, or any such nonsense,
with nothing overhead but the blue cano-
by OF heaven, and the stars peeping
down at the slumbering world below.
That vas a pretty good sentence. wasn't
it," he exclaimed as the LEADER man
drew his chair closer, to lose nothing of
the story that he saw was coming.
what was | dong camping out in the
dead of winter ?' he continued. 81 was
prospecting Tor silver. To begin, as all
stories should, at the beginning, it was
early in 1860, when an old mountaineer
named Raymond brought me a piece Of
quartz which he said he had picked up on
the trail between the Sabille and the
Chugwater. The lump weighed from a
pound and a half to two pounds, of pecu-
liar shape, looking as though it might
have been broken off from a piece of steel
| knew that the bright glittering particles
were pure silver. Pete Dodson and |
were together when Raymond brought in
the quartz. We asked him if he could
lead us to the spot where he found this
prize, and he assured us hat he would be
willing to be hung if he could not, 1t
was agreed to go out and prospect. First,
however, we sent the lump to Denver,
where it assayed four thousand and odd
dollars to the ton. We thought hat was
pretty fair, but to be still safer, we broke
the chunk and sent one half to Boston
and the other to Philadelphia Between
the assays there wasn't a difference of five
dollars. We now began in earnest to pre-
pare for our prospecting tour Pete bod
son, Gen. Burr and myself QUILTED a
gang of thirteen men, and we started out
in search of our El Dorado, with
high hopes of striking it rich.
Raymond led the way as enthusiastic as a
boy. Our course lay almost north from
Cheyenne, and we pushed on for two
days, covering from sixty to sixty Eve
miles. Finally he halted near the base of
a limestone mountain, and declared hat
this was the spot. Then we camped, and
as soon as day dawned we divided our
squad and secured the country for miles
around for indications of an argentiferous
character. The story of one day was the
result of every days work. Not a single
indication of a silver outcrop was discov-
cred, and another thing that discouraged
us was the impression that there could be
no mineral deposit in limestone, and we
were prospecting in a limestone district,
with a huge mountain of that material as
the pivot about which we revolved We
returned to Cheyenne. sadder and we
thought, wiser men. The iron mountain
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