The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-21
THE RICHEST GOLD FIELD.
Enough Money to Pay the Nationa,
Debt MANY Times.

O6Db MANY 4lLu6b.
A correspondent of the New York
Times, writing from Lander, Wyo., has
this to say about the new gold field in the
South Pass country:
In going to the spot, after crossing the
Little Beaver a mountain spur iutting
out from the main range of the Rockies
is assembled. Part of the way is pine
forest, on the upper edge of which is a
peculiar formation of rock. The cap rock
is ordinary sandstone, about forty feet in
thickness, and forms the top of the
mountain. The formation under the cap
rock resembles the material known in
Chicago as artificial stone, except that
many large and small pebbles are scat
tered through it. For several feet down
from the cap rock the material is of
light color, resembling light sandstone,
while below that is a stratum several
feet thick n u n darker in color; it IS the
same material, except that the second
stratum is stained with iron Below the
second formation is a third stratum
having more of the iron red.
There are miners who have known of
this formation for years, but it remained
for Ea G. Bartlett, known in Wyoming as
the ''Oil King" to discover that the for
nation was rich in gold. He was familiar
with the Potsdom cement deposits Of
California, which yielded so many millions
of dollars. His attention was called to
this conglOmerate late last fall. He kept
the matter secret. Tunnels were opened
and specimens of the conglomerate were
sent to assayers. The returns showed
from $40 to $50 a ton in gold. The con-
glomerate is easily worked and still more
easily mined. It is estimated that min
ing and milling will not cost more than
81 a ton Mr.. Bartlett is now erecting a
l., ?
Other mills are to be built.
It is certainly one of the largest gold de-
posits ever found in the Rocky Mountain
region There are at least 10000, 900 tons
of cement in sight, and, multiplying this
by the yield per ton, shows that it is
literal mountain of gold. This mountain
must once have been the bed of a torrent,
by the force of the waters of which the
gold from the high mountain was brought
down with other debris.
Before midsummer thousands of pros
pecters will make their way into these
mountains, for it is reported that there
are other deposits of like character in the
locality During 1867 there was mining
population in the South Pass country, and
before 1872 over 81 ,000,0 had been taken
out. But the Indians in five years killed
off over 100 miners, and the country, for
the most part, went back into solitude.
Here and there a miner remained, and
mining in primitive way has been car
ried on Emile Granier cleaned up, in
1891, 800, 900 from these "diggings."
George Mckay, one of the oldest miners
in that country, was asked his opinion as
to the outlook He said:
Il have mined and milled for forty
years, and unhesitatingly pronounce the
South Pass mines the richest in gold of
any in the United States. There is gold
aupnqb in these c1rnOG To nav the nation nj
debt 100 times over"
The South Pass gold fields are remote
from a railway, and can only be reached
by travelling $50 miles over mountains
It is reported a railway is to be built to
them this season through the pass. 1t is
also likely that the Northwestern will
extend its road from Caspar, Wyo., on to-
ward Ogden, aud it expects to build to
the east end of the South Pass this season.