, 1891-04-29

Carbon. for the patriotic cudsavOrs and
substantial assistance of Wyoming people
IN general to help open up the district are
highly meritorious.
1t must be assumed that the TOWNSHIP
people know what they are about. They
have evidently reckoned the cost before
hand. If they didn't think that the
claims on Gold Hill proper were bound to
urn out well there wouldn't be any
money spent On towpsites, nor would
there be any rivalry between different
companies to secure for their respective
tracks. the location of various kinds of
business common or needful to a mining
district.
If there wasn't some evidence to base a
calculation that people could be induced
to locate permanently or temporarily In
the neighborhood of the claim and buy
building sites, is 1t likely that at least
81. 500 or 80, 00u worth of work would be
done on these townsites2
STANDS ON ITS OWN MERITs.
As to the three town sites referred to.
They can be dismissed by a brief mention
since the history and aims of the project
ors of any one or all of them are the
only speculative features of the district
thus far. Gold City, as 1t has been
named, has been laid out 10 the northeast
corner Of what will be No. l6. or the
center section of the township when it is
se~ctionized. Arastra creek, a tributary
of the South Brush, crosses it ~diagonally,
cutting it into equal triangles. The
Golden Courier corners on Gold City on
the southwest.
Gold Hill is just north of Gold City.
An official survey of that has been ordered
by the surveyor general OF Wyoming as
all the conditions of the law MS regards
the amount of work. etc, have been
complied with. That plat lies under the
hill below the Leviathan claim on which
development work is farthest advanced
of all the claims in the camp. The
AT the head of North Brush creek an
other group of placer claims called the
Monarch has been staked off. The
l~ocators don profess to haye any aspira
lions of a TOWNSHIP sort for the Monarch.
It is mentioned because it possesses some
natural advantages that some Of the Others
do not have.
WHERE WORKS You'll 90.
Should a permanent hamlet. town or
city be established 10 the district it Is as
yet too soon to predict where it will be
located. All depends on the result Of the
approaching seasons prospecting. If the
district runs to gold and the character of
the ore continues. as now seems likely,
free milling, then stamp mills could be
erected on the mountain top. Should big
silver deposits be uncovered. then the ore
would have to be hauled out Of the dis
trict, as smelters or other works would
never be built that high up. in all proba-
bility. The best location for these would
be in one of the parks of the North or
South Brush creek.
PLENTY OF WATER.
While it NAV be true that there are
large areas where the ~alluvial deposits are
richer than those in the Brush creek sec
ton, it would be difficult to find an equal
tract of what may be regarded as new
ground-so tar as prospecting is concerned
which possesses like advantages as re.
CARDS the water supply. Not only by
draulIcking can be prosecuted successfully,
but grass root washings and gravel de-
posts can be worked single handed. 1t
has been done before, and now better ia
cilities and the impetus of competition and
cooperation or pooling with ones neigh
bors the locator of a placer claim would
stand a good show of realizing a good re-
turn for a seasons work. Drawn and
persistence are capital sufficient in such an
undertaking.
Gold Hill may produce b~onanzas. Even
should such results fail of realizing the
fame of the district is likely to linger for
long on account OF the gold which was
once embedded there and has been mined
by the elements, and only awaits being
cleaned up by men who will take the
trouble 20 do IT,. GEORGE Z. CAMS