, 1892-01-17

road is broken to each mine and TO WRIT
tnem was easy. The first one seen was
the Leyiathan. The original shaft was
something over 100 feet deep. About
200 feet down the steep hill side from it
a tunnel is being driven and Is now in
about fifty feet. The calculation is to
strike the shaft eighty feet below the sur
face. This will save hosting and will
drain the water off. In running the
tunnel some new leads have been struck
but little attention is paid to them. In
the main shaft is two or three feet of
quartz with FIVE or six more OF gouRe
matter said to be good.
The Little Giant shaft Is about fifty
feet deep. The lead dips at an angle of
about forty degrees and is very narrow,
there being only a few inches OF quartz
The ore on the dump looked very good
and Davis picked up a peIce showing free
gold. We did not test any of this rock
by p|anning or in any other way but there
are men in camp who believe the Little
Giant will be a wonder. On our way to
the Wyoming we met Mr.. Price, one of
the teamsters, with a load Of ore. 1t took
only a monen to pick from his load a
piece OF rock showing free gold.
THE WYOMING
has furnished more rich specimens than
any other lead 10 the camp. 1t is certainly
very rich at the top and ii the lead
holds out will prove to be a wonderful
mine. The shaft is sixty feet deep and
was sunk at the side of what was sup
posed to be the main lead. However, ore
was found all the way down with the ex-
crption of a few feet occasionally. The
u1e now being hauled from this mine to
The mill is taken partly from the bottom
Of the shalt and partly from an incline
run in on the lead near the shalt house.
The lead as it shows up in the incline is
between two and three feet wide. At
The bottom of the shaft a DRIFT on the
fity-fve foot level is being started. 1t
shows a nice little vein of quartz probably
- loot wide. Much OF it Shot VS. free gold.
As before remarked this is not supposed
10 be the main lead. which pitches while
the shaft goes straight down. When the
drift Is run twelve or fifteen feet from the
shaft a cross cut will be run to strike the
main lead. All the ore being taken from
The Wyoming and Little Giant is being
hauled to the mill and there are now
about sixty tons ready Tor the stamps,
which will crush ten tons n day. The
stamps of the mill now up weigh $50
pounds each. AS soon as the fact is
demonstrated that the mill is paying the
other Downey mill now on the ground
will be started up by the side Of this one.
It's stamps are $50 pounds and will
crush nearly double the amount of rock.
though it is only n ten stamp mill. In
M address delivered by Col. DOwuey in
Saratoga recently, he said: Let me
make a prediction. The first clean up of
the mill will be $4,000, and next year
The output of the camp will be 800. O0O."
Rumor has it that Supt. Martin made
the same remark, but when asked if 1t
was true he said, mo, l can't tell what
the clean up will be. After we have run
for a day I can tell something about it,
but not before" He said he could not
make a prediction as to the future OF the
camp. The gold is here" said he, but
every camp has it's own peculiarities, every
diStric: has its characteristics; it Is hard TO
tell ANYTHING about a new camp, and | sm
one of those men who cannot see any
farther into the ground han n pick can
60" MIR. Martin was born in Cornwall,
Eng. 10 that country they have a pre-
paratory mining school where students
mt 10 eight hours a day flour OF which
are in the mines) for five years before
entering the London Royal school Of min
ing and engineering. Martin left for
America without finishing the five year
course. He has spent over twenty years
in mining 10 this country, in Mexico.
Montana and British America. He was
several years at the Keystone mine before
coming to Gold Hill. His office looks
something like a drug store with so many
bottles. which contain chemicals There
are also all manner of instruments for
experimenting and testing ores, and
when his furnace is up any kind of ore
can be assayed. Martin is evidently a
good all around man. When first seen
lie was pounding a peice of red hot iron at
the blacksmith's anvil, but at night buried
himself in one of the big books of his
library. He could probably make a good
guess at Gold Hills future il he chose.
At the DoSney camp John Burmap and
r. l.. Miller each has a saloon, G. Miller
runs n boarding house and ID. N. Stick
ney runs the Downev store. The Hof
man house is being prepared Tor occupa-
ton by Sam Shirley, an old Union Pacific
engineer of Cheyenne. Miners pay &c a
week for board; single meals are so cents.
Gold HIii's Progress.
Ten months ago it was said 10 this
paper that there would probably be a
otapn null 10 Goll H,II H. Mo- H.