, 1892-02-07
Casper Mountains Seamy Sides Streaked
With Leads of This Valuable Metal.
ASBESTOS, IRON AND LEAD AMONG ITS OTHER RICH MINERAL DEPOSITS
Prof. Zahn, interviewed on the Subject, Talks With Some
Enthusiasm and Much Freedom.

little of mines, and consequently are not
inclined to hold the boys up" as the
saying Is, or interest themselves with
them as usually happens in new camps.
Some of the business men are interested
on the mountain, though, and as the min
ing fever becomes more general more are
becoming interested.
JASPER MOUNTAIN,
Casper mountain is five or six miles
wide In the widest place and three times
as long. The north side is the most alb
rupt and the foot of the mountain is
reached by the road in about seven miles
from Casper. From the south the slope
OF the mountain Is more gradual. There
Is some timber and water on the noun
tain and lots OF good grass.
SHEEP HERDER's LUCK.
Two years ago @. X. Jones was herd
ing sheep or the south slope of the noun
tain near the top when his eye was at
tracted by a peculiar saucer shaped stone
which he picked up as a pretty specimen.
In color it was green, blue and black.
q. NJ. Eads was on the mountain at the
time prospecting for galena further north.
There we're also two or three other parties
on the mountain and when Jones speci-
men was shown around it was recognized
as copper and the place where it was
found was at once staked u as a claim
by Jones, johnson and Nelson. The
claim has since produced one car load of
red oxide Of copper and one car load of
green oxide of copper, both of which were
shipped to Chicago by Prot Zahn. As
assays from this lead show "a little better
than 81 per cent copper, 1t is supposed
that the professor was well satisfied with
the returns. Denver parties who exam
ined the ore declared that he could not
have cleared less than 81, 0cO on the first
car as it was very rich. At any rate the
professor has continually haunted Casper
and Casper mountain since last August
and is here yet.
HOW DID IT E THERE2
The Blue Cap claim, from which the
two cars of copper were taken, is
on the limestone a short distance
south of the rimrock or crest of the
mountains. The cracks of the limestone
are filled with copper ore, some of which
seems to have been melted and In some
cases has such a pure copper-like look
that it was taken by some inexperienced
persons TO be gold. Al few hundred yards
north of the Blue Cap is the Bobtail
copper claim located by G. w. Eads at
the time the Blue Cap was located.
CAPT EADs' THEORY.
The Bobtall lead is thirty-six feet wide,
and it is red oxide of copper. 1t assays
20 per cent copper and 40 per cent IRON.
ms lead, the miners say, il about ten
miles long. AT the time of the first dis
covery Eads contended that the throw up
came from the north, the melted copper
was squeezed out from its original place
where that big lead is now, and running
down over this hill like hot molasses, filed
up all the cracks in the limestone. Act.
ing on this theory Mr.. Eads made his To-
cation on the big lead which lies lust un.
der the quartzite and above the hornblen.
Under the hornblen lie five large dykes of
serpentine rock between stratas of black
granite and in these serpentine dykes
large deposits of asbestos OF a most beau,
tful fiber are found. North of and under
the serpentine formation is a granite form.
alton about three miles wide.
ZAHN AND THE MINERS
About six months ago Prot. Zahn came
here in the interest of the Northwestern
railroad company. He came to look at
he asbestos, and after making an exami-
nation went east and got parties interest
ed. Learning of the copper finds the
professor then got an option on two of
the claims. He shipped two cars of ore,
as stated, but after that refused to do
anything further until he could secure an
option on the other six claims Uhere are
only eight claims on the original fnd).
These he got control of, on condition that
be would put in a diamond drill, or else
tunnel, sink a shaft, or in some way de-
velop the mines before Feb. | of this
year. There seems to be considerable of
a fight between tho professor and the
miners. One evening recently a meeting