, 1891-09-08
FOR BUSINESS
Session OF the Mining Convention
Formally Opened.
President Downey's Resume of the
Mineral Field.
Col. Fisk of Denver Reads a Bril-
liant Adress.

The mining conventions exhibit at the
capitol should be seen by every citizen of
Cheyenne. However. 1t is not nearly so
good as it might be. Gold Hill makes a
very poor showing aud to the certain
knowledge of the writer not anything like
as good as might be made from that
camp. If other camps have shown so
little of what they really rave then this
must be a state of varied and wonderful
resources. The best time to see the ex-
hibit is in daylight. Following are some
OF the minerals and specimens noticed
last evening and not mentioned in Sun
days LEADER: From Newcastle. Hun
yata mineral spring water. crude oil from
the Jenney stockade district, building
stone, pottery clay. coal and coke. From
Albany county, manufactured glass. lime
and sand stone. Galena silver and gold
ores and sodas. r. W. Bradley's granite
exhibit from Sherman was especially
noticeable. 1t is OF an extraordinary
quality and when polished extremely
beautiful. A large piece OF ore from
Senator Chatterton's mine on Encamp-
ment creek. south of Saratoga. weighs
$50 pounds. Auditor Burdick says any
of it will pan out colors of gold. The
Business Mems club of Laramie sends
down gold, silver and copper ores. A
splendid exhibit is that of J. j. Steffene
of Douglas. 1t includes gold. silver and
copper ores, building stone. petriications
aud very beautiful blue copper crystals.
There are a lot of gold, silver and cop
per ores from Red Lodge sent down by j
81. Conrad Il Co. There are some fin
specimens of different kinds of ores from
Lander and the Sweetwater districts an
big bottles of oil from the different OF
fields. 1t would take a great deal of tim,
and space to give a complete list, but the
exhibit is well worth going to see.
THE SESSION LAST NIGHT
began about 8 O'Clock. Col. Downey
presided. The audience was made up Of
prominent men of the town, a few ladies,
and the delegates. Not all of the delegates
appointed from different parts of the state
have yet arrived. The committee on
credentials are G. E. Blydenburg of Carbon
county, chairman; G. w. Fox of Albany
and j. f. jenkins of Laramie counties.
After some preliminaries Col. Downey
delivered an address. The colonel used
very eloquent and fowery language, and
perhaps scared a little too much, but his
address was well received by the audience.
Col Downey SAID that in Wyoming as
good glass could be manufactured as any.
where in the world. He said that it had
been estimated that in the Albany county
soda lakes were 81, 200, 900 tons of soda.
He spoke ftho magnesia bcds of Wyo'
ming and mentioned the uses of magnesia.
In speaking Of the oil fields he said the
oil was there; that three-fourths of the
state was underlaid with it; hat wells
had been drilled, the oil struck and the
wells plugged. That when Wyoming
should have proper railroad facilities
these oil fields would be developed, that
when the oil fields OF Pennsylvania should
no longer be able to produce sufficient oil
to develop the oil fields of Wyoming
, would be imperative. Col. Downey
spoke enthusiastically of Gold Hill and
said that although the camp was a year
old its extent was not yet known. Ac-
cording to the newspaper re-
ports, and he believed they
could generally be relied upon Bald
mountain was a wonderful producer of
placer gold, and no doubt the leads from
whence it came would be discovered. He
also spoke of the Atlantic City and
South Pass districts In the Sweetwater
country and said the richness of the dis
trict had been known for years, but that