, 1891-05-01
GREEN RIVER GOLD.
Reviving Interest in Mining Matters
in Western. Wyoming.
Pay Ore Being Taken From the
Victoria Mine.
Talk of Incorporating Green River
as a City.


FNNAa NNAANoBoAAAIAAANs
GREEN RIVER, Wyo., April 3O.-MIn.
ing talk in Wyoming is not confined to
the Gold Hill district. James Rumble,
who has lived in these parts for twenty
two years, j.. Sharon, Ed Morris and
other old timers have talked mines and
prospects to your correspondent until be
can shut his eyes and see glittering
colors Of gold mixed with the sands of
Green river and Its tributaries all the way
from here to the Yellowstone park. That
there is a mining boom in store for Wyo-
ming Is almost beyond a doubt. For
years there has been stories told of gold
in that wonderful but slightly prospected
region known as the Big Horn mountains.
Should the DEVELOPMENT work now being
prosecuted in the Bald mountain district
of that range prove satisfactory many old
timers all over the west, to whom the
words Big Horn have for years held a
charm, will likely stampede into that
country and aid in the thorough pros
pecting of it. Tie Sweetwater excite
ment OF over twenty years ago has not
been forgotten by old timers. If your
correspondent is correctly informed profit
able mining on a small scale has been car
ried on in that district ever since. More
thorough prospecting is being executed
now than ever before and news of rich
strikes IN the vicinity of Lander or any
where in the South Pass or Sweetwater
country may be received at any time.
To return to the original subject. These
gentlemen, all reliable men, are quite
enthusiastic oil the prospects of upper
Green river and its tributaries, as we'll as
the copper and silver mines in the Uinta
range 100 miles south OF here. That the
Victoria silver and copper mine in that dis.
trict is rich is already an established fact.
The writer was shown large pieces of ore
IRON this mine which is unlike anything
he bad ever seen before. 1t is very
heavy and as green as grass. Ore from
the Victoria after the expense of mining,
hauling to Carter station, a distance OF
100 miles, and freight to its destination
has paid a net profit of 800 per car
load. There is not known to be any silver
or copper up Green river but it is said
that gold can be found in the gravel from
here up.
When the cellar for the Morris
Mercantile company's store, a third of a
mile from the river, was being dug colors
OF gold were found and colors can probably
he found from any part of the bar on
I whfUh Green RiFefst4H4s-
A Mr.. Brown, an old prospector, who
was in the South Pass country six years
ago, 10 company with a DR.. Sawyer. of
Topeka, Kas., passed through Green
River recently on their way to the head
waters of New Fork and Big Sandy, on
the western slope of the Wind River
range. 1t is said that these gentlemen
were instrumental in opening the White
Pine New district, and good results are
expected from their present prospecting
trip.
Late last evening two roughly dressed
and sunburned men we're noticed enter.
ing town. They had besides their saddle
animals three loaded pack animals. On
being interviewed they gave their names
as +. o. Judkins and George NJ. Clark,
They are hunters and trappers, and have
been out nearly all winter on Red Desert
and in the Big Sandy country. The
packs are furs aud skins, mostly coyotes.
When asked as to the mining prospects
| ~ tha ,n,nfrv thav aoiI fharn -na rnn,.
little excitement in the South Pass coun.
try this spring; that a new mine gold,
is being opened up there; that prospect,
ors are going in; that new placer discov
cries have been made on Green River, al
the mouth Of Horse Creek, and that
bitches are being taken out preparatory
to working the same.
Court commenced Monday. Judge Jesse
knight presiding. There are sixty. three
civil and twenty criminal cases on the
docket. There are two murder cases.
Lawrence Hereford will be tried for muir.
der in the first degree, for killing jim
Moss on Henry's Fork the first of Marcel
last. f. L. Enterline, prosecuting at
torneY, Is working hard, but his Opposing
attorneys are making all they can out o
the complications arising from the change:
in the law made by the last legislature
whereby information by prosecuting at
torneys takes the place OF indictments b.
grand juries.
There is some talk of incorporating
Green River. 1t would certainly be a gooc
thing, as theD the town would be KEEP
clean. Now slops and refuse are thrown
in the streets and the town Is very dirty
though it could easily be made one o
the c~leanest in the country.
Over 20, 900 pounds of wool is lyins
at the depot awaiting shipment. 1t il
from the shearing corral OF Henrl
Butcher, six miles north of town.
Trees and shrubberY at prices never
heard of before in the city at Phi