, 1888-05-03
THE NEW CAMP.
An Interesting Letter from the
Slate Creek District.
The Principal Lead Can be Traced
Four Miles.
Gold, Silver and Copper, With Rich
Surface Quartz.
,oc,o, correspondence of The Leader.

snecial correspondence of The Leader.
SLATE CREEK, April 29.-The pleas
ant weather for the month past has favored
work and our camp is moving to the front
quite satisfactorily. Some description Of
its location, mines and work of develop
ment may be of interest to people who,
as yet have heard, but not visited it:
Slate Creek mineral belt is located in
the valley and adjacent hills of Slate
creek, twenty miles from Iva, trending
northeast and southwest with the stream.
The belt is abont three-quarters of a mile
in width and four miles long, lying between
tive norm piles of granite-Squaw
mountain on the southeast and Papoose
mountains on the northwest. Harry
Yount, the noted hunter, was the first to
divert attention to the profuse mineral
indications here and by common consent
the place is called Yountville. Probably
the first consideration of interest which
strikes the practical mineralogist IN
coming here is the immense quantity Of
vein matter and the length and trueness
of the leads. On the north side of Slate
creek lies the principal lead. 1t is four
miles long and can be easily traced every
foot of the way, crossing valleys and run
ming the whole distance without a break.
Assays from surface rock have yielded
from S. to 81, ESQ in silver with consider
able lead, and some have given n good
per centage in gold and copper.
Among the richest appearing is a gold
quartz carrying a heavy iron stain and
the lower one a heavy lead or galena
lead showing the free metal in many
places on the surface.
AS yet there has been little develop
ment beyond assessment work, but from
the rich appearance of the ore it Is not
believed that this will be a poor mans
camp.
Many permanent business men of
Cheyenne have located on this lead, on
which is the mine now being worked by
the Slate Greek Mining company. The
shaft has been sunk about sixteen feet and
is now timbered and covered with a shaft
house. Foreman w. H. O'Brien is well
pleased with the indications and is push
ing the work as rapidly as practicable in
sinking. 1t was decided to make allow
ance for the dip and cross cut the lead,
the formation being SO true there is no
danger of a displacement. This lead is
in reality two leads. One, the upper one,
being mines on this lead are the Crystalite
showing chunks of galena assaying $50
per ton, the Prospect running high in
silver and copper; the Pie showing guam
titles of steel galena and copper, and the
Leadville. which gave 81 in gold from
surface float rock, and at a depth of four
feet shows a most beautiful honey-combed
and crystalized quartz, carrying gold. ma
tive copper and a brilliant silver stain.
Everyone who has worked an assess
ment here il highly pleased with the
changes found, and from calculations
made by a careful examination of differ
ent prospect holes and the general lay of
the lead it is fully expected that. at a
depth of forty or fifty feet, in the shaft
now being sunk there will be found a
body OF ore that will attract all eyes to
Slate Greek. GROVER"