, 1891-08-29
MI ABOUT SARATOGA.
substantial Improvements Contem-
plated in the Lower Platte Valley.

s~ubstantiaI Improvements Contem-
plated In the Lower Platte Valley.
Special Correspondence.
SARATOGA. Wyo., Aug. 26.-The pros
poets are Saratoga will soon have an cleo
trio light plant and Touring mill. S. II.
Clark of Kettle Falls, Wash, is IN the
city making arrangements for putting in
the above in connection with a water
power mill that will furnish power for diff
ferent purposes in the future. A public
meeting was held last evening to consider
the matter. The enthusiasm exhibited
bespeaks sure success for the enterprise.
The plant when completed will cost $685.
900, and the outside parties furnish all the
money. The only bonus asked is in real
estate and farm produce. The river run
ming through Saratoga has a heavy fall
aud the power can be utilized at small ex-
pense and to great advantage.
A contract has been let for mining $50
tons OF coal. The coal is to be taken from
the Kent vein, fifteen miles south of here.
1t Is very nearly equal to the Rock
Springs and will be quite when developed.
BlacksmIths use 1t now but they have
never been able to get n but surface
coal. There is any quantity of coal within
sixteen or eighteen miles of Saratoga,
some of which will coke. Contracts were
drawn up and signed between w. b. HUI
gus and the Saratoga Land and Irrigation
company last week guaranteeing three
wells for boring to an outside firm if 1t
would come here with their boring ma
chimes. They are confident hot water,
coal, gas or a~rtesian water will be found.
Five brick storerooms are In process of
erection and two frame ones, and FIVE
brick dwellings and several frame ones
besides the fine brick hotel on Rochester
Heights.
Joe Cassidy came in from Gold Hill
Yesterday and reports work being crowded
on the construction of a stamp mill The
ore bed is being put in for the mill now
there. A week ago Friday f. Z. Bellamy,
the surveyor, received a telegram from
Col. Downy of Laramie to meet him at
Gold Hill with his surveying instruments
to run bitches and lay out mill sites. Four
sites were surveyed. Mr.. Bellamy says it
is the colonel's intention to put two mills
in operation at once and a third one later.
Mr.. Downey vas accompanied by Messrs.
Burkhardt and Martin, mining experts
from Denver. They spent a week at the
camp. Mr.. Martin is experimenting the
erection of the mill. The mill at Lara
mic Is to be shipped to Wolcott and by
the way of Saratoga to Gold Hill. One
experience over the Carbon road satisfies
Mr.. Downey and he will now use the only
practicable route
Some remarkable rich strikes have been
made about ten miles this side of Gold
Hill during the past week. One pros.
pector brought in some rock which no
experienced miner would suspect OF
carrying any gold but on pounding and
p~anning it out it was found to contain an
astonishing moun of gold. In these
times when the public ear is calloused to
any ordinary report 1t created an interest
not witnessed since Gold Hill was first
discovered and free gold exhibited on our
streets. The ore was taken from a depth
OF eighteen feet. 1t shows no free gold.
G. w. Beal returned last night from
the placer diggings of Mullison, Beal &
Downey, located on a small stream empty
ing into the Savory about twenty.fi five
miles east OF here just over the divide.
He has oil grains of gold in a vial, the
result of six hours work ny himself with
very crude tools. Its value is about IS. Is,
or 81. IS an hour. They think they have
the ledge located from which 1t came.
Four men are at work most OF the time.
A ditch from seven to twelve feet deep
and about one-half a mile long is being
put in for hSdraulIcing purposes. These
gentlemen have spent much time and
money, sometimes with good and some
times i'll success but they think they have
sure met their reward this time.