The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-10
A HILL OF GOLD.
4 More Extended Account Of the Grea
strike at Tin Cup. Colorado.

strike at Tin Cup. Colorado.
The Roehy Mountdin Netcs contains the
following in regard To the rich strike
made at Tin Cup,announcement of which
appeared i'm the STANDARD of Tuesday
Tin Cup is at the present time in a CULVER
of excitement over n rich discovery that
has been made here aud which was fully
| substantiatcd early this morning i'm what,
10 all appearances, looks To he a noun
tain of gold. III the streak which has bccn
uncovered continues To improve for the
week as il has th e last. there will he an
influx of miners here that will astonish
this quiet little place.
The first reports were calculated TO turn
the country upside down and were of the
widest nature imaginable, and have
since been proven Ia he exaggerated. be
that asst may, however, the fact remains,
and sternly so, that the richest gold vein
ever opened In the world lies lust six
miles from this place. and IL the dip holds
out IL will cause an excitement that will
put the early days of California and
Plies Peak To shame.
Without u doub Messrs. Mccormick x
Lewis, the owners, have SO far the richest
thing on the surface OF the earth, and if il
holds out three months, will overshadow
the famous Comstock lode of Virginia
City.
The citizens have been running back
and forth In IA steady stream, some only
curious Ia see the wonderful vein of gold
rock and some bent ON stalking and work
ing n portion of the mountain.
IL il stated openly on the streets here
by old and, better yet, truthful miners,
that there is more gold discovered
in that streak on Cross mountain. pro-
vidcd the streak Is continuous on its dip
Ia the usual extent of contact veins. than
in all the pay mines of Colorado. This is
no idle exclamation made i'm the heat of
desire, but the following estimate is "a fair
one. mathematically cduced. as follows:
There is disclosed, lying between two
lines. n vein mass Of ten feet in thickness,
the lower six feet being iron manganese,
the upper four Of gold hearing quartz. the
quartz being light in color, porous and
free, gold can be seen ia the form of
threads crossing the spaces in the rock
u fiakcs of gold adhcring tn thee exposed
surfaces Of the rock. This same quartz
has been thrown over .he dump in past
times AS worthless.
The lowest assay obtained thus far has
been % ounces Ia the ton, and there are
specimens that will pan. 10y pulvcrizing
In a comuio mortar and washing, 10000
10 the ton. Two men are taking out right
now Sj.opD worth OF metal each day, and
they are In the hill only TX feet from the
surface. From the best information OBJ
tainable the four-foot gold streak is worth
$1,000 a ton. III that streak extends the
length Of claim, l,tDO feet on its trend
and one yard only ON its dip. and each
cubic yard weighs ton, there will be
S563.upo worth of gold. IL that streak on
its dip goes down into the mountain 900
feet, IL IL worth Sls7 ,47o,0DD. Now about
the iron maganese siN-foot streak under
lying the quartz streak II is worth $40
per ton In gold besides the iron. IL Is fair
To state that from present appearances
no flnd was ever made on earth that
equals this me-.