, 1889-01-27
COMING TO THE FRONT.
Silver Crown Being Developed in
Fine Shape.
Forces of Miners Are EMPLOYED
on Several Claims.
That the Camp Will Soon in the
Spring is a Certainty.

A mining boom that will advance the
the city another stage in the
march of progress is nearing the boom
point. In the early spring there will be
a stampede to the Silver Crown district,
only sixteen miles from the city, Mines
were opened here years ago, but there
has been no development work
until recently. Men interested in
the camp have determined to ascertain
its worth and with this end in view have
furnished capital for the sinking of shafts
and driving of tunnels. Active work has
been in progress for several months and
the prospects are growing brighter every
day. Numerous large and well defined
fssure veins have been uncovered and
with depth the quality of the ore i'm
proves.
The Ingot and Silver Brick lodes,
owned by Jeffrey, Lennox 4 Steadman,
are being worked by a tunnel which will
cut the veins about 200 feet below the
apex. The tunnel Is at present nearly
100 feet in l~ength'and the face shows a
fine body of mineral.
The Ontario mine, the property of Mai.
II. Glafcke and w. Q. Pollard, Jr., is a
contact lode, highly priced by miners and
is located On Silas Read Butte. This
claim has lime for the hanging and granite
for the foot wall. 1t is being developed
by means of a%tunnel, and shows copper
glance and pirites from the surface.
A relocation of the famous Farview
mine has been named the Governor War
rem. 1t is located on Copper hill and the
bottom of the shaft is ninety-six feet from
the surface. The owners have Just fin
ished pumping water from the shaft, it
having become filed during the several
years since work on the claim ceased.
When the bottom of the shaft was uncov
cred Yesterday several streaks of fine cop
per glance were exposed to view. The
owners of this property will push its de-
velopment through the winter.
A syndicate of Cheyenne business men
W the Metcalf lode on Copper hill. 1t
is being developed nicely under the able
management of Maj. Glafcke. This claim
has shown good mineral-gold, silver and
copper-from the surface. 1t is worked
by a shaft which is now sixty-fve feet in
depth and will be made thirty-fve feet
deeper, when levels will be run on the ore
body. The vein is five feet wide and the
men are now working in good mineral.
The improvements on this property in
clude a large shaft house, hosting works,
ore house and blacksmith shop. Metcalf
ore assays from $40 to $7S per ton in gold,
silver and copper. A quantity of this
ore is on exhibition at the Collins saddlery
establishment.
The Moonlight lode is owned by a COM
bination of United States army officers,
stationed at Fort Russell. The shaft is
thirty-6ve feet deep, and a splendid body
OF mineral four feet in width is in sight,
and carrys gold, silver and copper in good
paying quantities. This Is a well defined
lode, o~ut-cropping for several thousand
feet. When properly developed it will
prove one of the best claims in the camp.
Silver Crown is not a carbonate district.
but there is big money in working the
ores, and the veins cannot be exhausted.
The operators will open the eyes of the
doubling Thomases in the early spring,
and lucky Cheyenne will be greatly bene-
fitted thereby.