, 1890-10-25
AS BRIGHT AS MID DAY.
The Rosy Hue of the Cheyenne Min
ing Prospects.
A Syndicate to Expend S., 900 at
Silver Crown.
Canadian Capitalists Here Locking
for Mines.

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boom. 1t will commence within fifteen
days and continue till the result of extern
sive development work establishes the
camp as a producer of ore that can be
proftably treated or a district of mineral
that will not give good returns by known
methods of reduction.
Generally mining activity is a summer
visitation, but operations can be con-
Quoted every day in the year at Silver
Crown. This is one Of the great natural
advantages of the camp. Roads have
been constructed and a drive from Chey-
enne 70 the mines is a pleasure jaunt any
time when a team trip can be made
beyond the city limits.
WORK PROJECTED.
Mr.. Bernard, who came to Cheyenne
with the Interior company. and who has
been buying and selling, principally buy
ing, large blocks Of realty ever since, has
become interested in Silver Crown. Mr..
Bernard brought money here from Colo
RADIO. Oregon and other states and holds
as many Cheyenne lots as the next man.
He lately bought the G. D. Kelley addi-
ton.
Mineral hill will be investigated by Mr..
Bernard ana associates, who have similsr
property near Aspen and Maysville, Colo.
The arrangement is to accept an interest
in a group of seven mines and in return
expend 5000 in development work,
more to go in if the situation Is then
satisfactory.
The mines of Mineral hill are Fergu-
sons Comstock fold King DAVID and
Copper Queen, Mast & McGregor's Colo
RADIO, Major Glafcke's Bairview and
Metcalf and Col. Stanton's Copper King
and Good Venture.
Mineral hill shows better o~utcroppings
than any other portion of the camp and
the surface indications decided Mr.. Bern
ards selection. The lodes named have
long been regarded as the most promising
in the district.
1t is the intention of the Bernard
syndicate to have an expert examination
made of the claims, then contract for
shaft or tunnel. With IS, 900 an open
ing 400 feet long can be made, perhaps
more, as this character of work has been
undertaken in the Aspen country for as
low as SO a foot. Ali work in the dis
trict SO far has been by the day, which
method is extravagant to say the least.
On the Comstock there. has been ex-
pended 5000 to 6 5000; on the Fairview
about $4,000 and on the Metcalf 50, 600.
The shalt of the Comstock is l25 feet be-
meath the surface; of the Fairview 100
feet and of the Metcalf rs. These and
all other holdings of the Mineral hill
group show in their shallow shafts good
ore bodies and the cost of working them
is not extraordinary.
Mineral hill, the roalometer ~tattles. is
just twenty-one miles from the corner of
Seventeenth and Ferguson. OF course
every one knows that Cheyenne always
has been and always will be headquarters
for Silver Grown. When it IS necessary
to take machinery or large quantities of
supplies to the mines aud bring out ore,
q station will be established at the stone
spur on the Cheyenne & Northern, FIVE
miles from Mineral hill. A valley leads
down to this spur and an extension of the
siding would doubtless be made when de-
manded by the growth Of the operations.
The agreement with Bernard & Co.,
and the mine owners will be perfected to-
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tated on the proposition and it was I'M
derstood last evening hat he had as
scented.
A pioneer of Silver Crown says that if
a Bernard had come out of the wilderness
fifteen years ago the camp would now be
one of the famous. Butte was opened up
in much the same a For nearly TWEEN
tv years prospectors picked and burrowed
and inexperienced operators brought in
high priced machinery and built brick
and stone houses and ran things with a
weight on the safety valve till it came to
developing, when their funds were *
hausted. This continued till Senator n.
P. Hill, OF Colorado and j. b. Haggin,
the Californian, anne along. They liked
the looks of the camp, bought some holes
and made shafts and drifts of them, and
uncovered ore bodies that haven't been
exhausted up to date and which built u1
a wonderful mining section.
CANADIAN CAPITALISTS.
f, R. Lingham and A. Ostrane, Belle,
vile, province of Ontario, Canada, arr
registered at the Inter Ocean and will bc
in town several days. They are shrewc
young capitalists looking for investments
Messrs. bingham and Ostrane lean t,
mining and their baggage includes a lot o
ore specimens collected in Colorado. Thei
idea of the business is to strike a new
camp and get in on the ground floor
They have heard of Silver Crown and viii
take a look at the district. The gentle
men were driven about Cheyenne yester
day and were very iayorably impressed
with the city.
New mattresses. g. so; new wover
wire springs, 81. IS; second hand heatinl
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