, 1890-10-03
DOWN TO DETAILS.
Something Definite About the Chase
District. .,
Rich, True fissure Veins Near the
Grass Roots.
Substantial Testimony of Expert
eneed Miners.

There are now over a hundred pros
pectOrs and miners in the Gold Hill
district at the head of Brush creek and
in Carbon county. There is warm com
petition between Saratoga and Laramie
for the honor and profit of being outfit
ting point for the new camp. The gold
belt is sixteen miles IN length, extending
from a short distance south OF the Snowy
range clear to Elk mountain. The width
of the mineral belt Is placed all the way
from three to twenty miles.
The first strikes were made a year ago,
bat until lately little attention was paid to
the find, interest being conferred on the
rich Keystone mines.
A Mr.. Chase, an old timer. is father OF
the camp and after him the district has
been called. He was at Laramie We'd
nesday and was interviewed by the Re
publican. He went up there July IS,
having flushed prospecting on Lake
creek and being DESTROYS of hunting new
territory. He had heard of Brush creek
through a friend and..expected to find a
district well developed, but in this was
disappointed.
He found the Little Giant, first dis
covered two years ago and owned BY
Drake, McFadyen, Herndale and P. f.
Woods, with a 81 foot hole on 1t. On ex
aiming the formation he was convinced
that he had struck a mining country. He
tracked the formation back to the Snowy
and returning to the head of the Middle
Brush pitched camp. Next morning he
went to the Little Giant, looked at the
lode and shortly after found the main
lode, locating the Leuathan, on which
he began sinking August 90, and which
at a depth of 5 feet s inches was IL feet
wide.
Mr.. Chase says. he commenced finding
free gold on the foot wall side. in the
solid quartz, which was three and a half
feet thick. in quantity that would pay for
milling it. He had at the same time
seven and a half feet of a deposit Of auri-
ferrous gravel, or gouge matter, that
panned out and weighed 300 and over to
the ton, average across the ledge. 1t
will beat anything il Wyoming" said
Mr.. Chase, .'and is equal to anything in
Colorado. There is No better formation
in Colorado in quartz or c~artonates. As
far as L can pan and learn, and this is all
a miner as to 20 by, the Brush creek
mines will beat anything in Colorado, Ari-
o or New Mexico.
II defy any miner who knows his bust
ness to come in and dispute my word; i'll
am not right l will pay his way in and out
again. I have spent twenty eight years
in this country aud there is not a mining
district L have not visited, but this lays
over them all. We have got the for
nation, the granite, the mica slate, the
black schistos gneis, and mica schistos
gueis. lime, p~orphyry, lime and porphyry
combined and s~ilicious granite as a base
to work on. What more could we have?'.
Capt. B. W. Towner. a Wyoming min
ing man prominent in the Keystone dis
trict, writes OF the new camp:
There is scarcely a lead in camp but
what shows free gold from three to ten
feet down, while there are quite a mum
Der of them where the float on top of the
ground is specked with gold. The veins
are large and seem to be well defined.
They have the appearance of true issure
veins. Among the prominent mines is
the Wyoming, owned by D. B. Dole and
others, and the Wyoming No. l, owned
by b. w Towner and John McFadyen.
A very fine prospect is owned by Chase &
Co, and two or three by Charles Benton
and others. Green Bros. & Keech have
some fine prospects, while Lewis 4 Lut c
think they have the best of all. Pete
Pfaindler and Tom Hale have some good
claims"