, 1890-05-29
ON SILVER MOUNTAIN
A. Large Scope of Rich
Mineral Lands.
MUCH OF IT NOT pROSpECTED.
Assays Showing That the Ledgea
Grow Rich as Depth
Is Attained.

SILVER MOUNTAIN, May 49,
The Silver mountain district, with
Its large ledge aud high.Srade min
eral, can soon be seen by aIl who
will go and visit the camp, as the
snow will soon leave the high ringe
on which the wide veinsa-c located.
As | am acquainted with the camp,
moro 40 than any one else, | will
give the width Of different lodges
and the assays, 80 far ns they have
been made.
Tho starting point OH the railroad
Is Clarks fork, following the trail
up Lightning creek to Wellington,
n new tow nsitc located at the mouth
OF Fall creek, one Of the tributaries
Of Lightning creek, from the west
side, which is twelve miles from
Clnrk's fork. About 800 yards cas-,
of Wellington, on the east side OF
Lightning creek, copper ledge has
been discovered. There is an av.
erage OF sixteen feet In width OF q
ledge in sight, with moro or less
copper pyrites clear across tho
ledge.
Half IA mile west Of Wellington,
on the north side Of Fall creek, on
the mountain, are two locations close
together, one of them with ledge
OF quartz fifteen feet In width carry
Ing fine galena. No assay has YET
been made.
A mile and half farther west, on
the same mountain, Is the south end
location, called the Elmer, ON thu
main ledge Of the camp, measuring
twenty-five feet at the south end,
where the solid quartz stands up
above the surface, showing gnleng
In the rock on top, following it TO
the north end, or as II goes down
the side Of the mountain, where Ii
there Is twenty feet of solid ledge,
with galena scattered from wall &c
wall In the ledge for several hun.
drcd feet along the vein. On this
same vein there are eight locations.
Those on the north show cropping
Of quartz twelve feet in width.
The Rapid City Is the fourth locn-
tion from the south end, Of which
an assay has been made. In tn,
ichHc ut VI NEAR thc nOttn tiius
where II Is cropping out above Tie
surface about twenty-five feet high
and twenty-five feet wide, tho u,.-
lena Is found In the quartz for
twenty-five feet across the ledge On
the west side or foot wall. l.don't
know how much farther, for tho
balance has not been pr0speeio.l.
The assay made in Spokane Falls
shows 20l. l6 ounces. About halt ga
lena Is mixed with the quartz.
Half mile west of the Rapid City
is the Dickinson location, showing
q ledge about ak or seven feet IN
width. The assay of the galena
was 3S4.99 ounces OF the cropping.
About 400 yards west is another
vein, with six locations. The
Wellington IL about seven feet in
width, and the Custer north OF II,
where the galena was taken off the
top, the fourth assay, has four
foot ledge and a shaft down eleven
feet, showing u good vein of ore in
the bottom, Of black sulphates and
galena, which assayed ut the sur
face galena itself, free from
all quartz, 291.66 ounces. That
10 tiic oniy h-cuy thatt iithS b-cu iIiiut
and that was for the grade Of min
eral in that vein.
Within 800 feet Of the Wellington
lode Is the Last Chance, on a vein
that has six locations. Both OF
these veins run through Silver
mountain, on the high range be-
tween Lightning creek and Trestls
gulch. The Last Chance mine has
"a tunnel run 20 the depth of thirty
feet. The two first assay near the
top 3si and 4S7, and at the
depth of thirty feet the vein was
three feet four inches in width. Orr
taken on the ledge from one wall to
the other assayed from ~ to 52(
ounces. The quartz is all of the
same character, only varying In
color. The galena is from wall To
wall.
Two miles south of Silver noun,
tain are number OF locations in
one group, close together. The
country is not as yet prospcoted. a
great many ledges remain INDICATED
on the west side Of Lightning
creek In this district.
East OF Lightning creek the
formation has the appearance oi
being all copper veins. That part
remains unprospected.
Ten miles north of Wellington, In
the vicinity of Vivian and More,
lead locations, Is a camp where ther
ought TO be some good prospects.
Any one wishing to know any.
thing about the above-named loca
tions that L have written about oi
zee them can find me In the camp
The assays that l have given
have forgotten to give the $5in gold
DEPUTY MINING RECORDER,
Silver Mountain District