The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-12
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three giant MOBILES for placer mining,
which carry the sand up % feet into
an immense pan. The pay dirt runs
about 80 cents per yard and requires
no quicksilver. 1t runs about 80 cents
fine gold. The company has about
thirty men employed and expect to
put in a STRENGTHENING or shovel ma
chine for removing the sand for wash
| ing.
/ There are many other rich proper
ties that the writer heard of but was
unable to visit. 1t is certain there are
/ immense riches in this locality that
only require capital and cheaper trans
! portation to make this portion of Wyo-
ming the gold field of America. There
/ is plenty of gold and plenty of labor;
plenty to eat and plenty to drink, but
money is the great desideratum, and
when it's magic wand is shown just
/ look out for the boom that will rever-
bate in the mighty clangor of the
workshop and factory that will surely
follow in it's gladstone wake.
The climate is all that anyone could
ask, being high enough altitude to be
/ just right and still live comfortable.
/ A company of mining men have been
in there Gold Creek lately looking the
country over with view to putting a
smelter in and a number of important
deals will also take place soon. The
locleS are all copper ores carrying
from $500 to 1900 in gold and from
$500 to $500 in silver and II to 80 per
cent copper
These Iocles run all the way from 3
to 200 feet in width.
MINING COUNTRY NEAR LANDER.
OF the mining country lying near
Lander Editor Coutant furnishes the
following:
The gold fields of the Sweetwater,
which compose the mining camps of
Lewiston, Miners Delight, Atlantic,
South Pass, Gold creek and Rock creek,
cover a territory of about fifty miles
east and west, and twenty-five miles
north and south. Within the territory
spoken of is opportunity for the ex-
/ perienced prospector such as is not to
be found in any other locality The
1 country is crossed by a series of rocky
ridges and these are scanned with gold
/ bearing quartz veins. The veins, for
the most part, run northeast and south
west. Between the rocky ridges are
numerous gulches hundreds of them,
many carrying water and these gulches
are rich in placer gold. 1t is true that
some of them are worked out, and it
is also true that fully $1,500,0 900 has
! been already taken out, but not 10 per
cent of the ground has been worked.
The gold secured has been coarse, in
terspersed with nuggets, some small
ones, but many of them large, that is.
going from S. to 800 each. These
gulches are worked to some extent
every year, but only in a primitive way.
Men with experience and capital to
/ secure the water, can wash out large
quantities of gold. These opportunities
are open today to those who care to
take them. The statements here made
a rn NH oh oar no don 1csf1 fcaI
and will be apparent to any one who
visits that country. The placer OPP
/ portunities are such as will justify the
expenditure of the little capital neces-
sary to work these gulches. 1t will pay
men of experience to look the matter
up, for there is abundant proof that the
country is rich and the opportunities
great. Men have for years walked over
this ground, and for lack of the neces-
sary capital have passed them by; but
all admit that the gold is there and that
the ground will pay to work if the
water can be turned into the gulches.
/ The mines already in operation and
others that are fairly developed shoW
conclusively that the ore veins thaeN
stretch across the vast country will
justify thorough prospecting.
The Carissa mine has milled large
quantity of ore that runs from $50 to
81 900 per ton The Souls &, Perkins
that runs from $25 TO 500. The Miners
/ Delight, which in a few years turned
\ out several fortunes in ore that run
from $50 to $500. The Garfield mill is
now running on rock that pays from $50
to $50 The Mary Ellen. during the
y last season, cleaned up over $50 per ton.
4 The Carrie Shields has milled $50 to $50
< rock, and so we might go on at great
( length: but all that is necessary for us
to say in this connection is that there
are abundant opportunities for prospect
/ ing all around these mines, and in
i many places there are chances to To-
\ cate extensions on the best properties
:. in that section of country. To the ex-
! perienced prospector great field IS
i open That there will be a great rush
Il this spring to the section we have men
toned there is no manner of doubt.
Those who propose to come should be
on hand as soon as the snow disappears
In addition to the properties already
named, there is a rich group in this
Lewiston district.
The Burr mine, the name of which
has almost become a household word
over the western country, has this
spring commenced the crushing of ore
at the mill of the company at Lewiston
This mill is fitted up with stamps ana
plates, in addition to the Huntington
mill already in use. The Burr is one
of the richest mines ever discovered IN
the Rocky mountains and there is now
! on the dump, ready for the mill. several
hundred tons of ore which was taken
out during the past winter. This mine
has four well defined veins of ore run
ming parallel the full length Of the pro-
perry. One of these veins has widLS
! of sixteen feet, with well defined wafisl
The ore in this has been running $40
ton. A 4-foot vein, which was worked
. during the past season, milled $92 80
ner ton. From this vein considerable
Quantity of rich rock has been taken,
some of it running from $500 to $4,000
. per ton. The two other veins run rich,
and will, it is thought, make good mill
, returns. The Burr mine is the property
; of the Burr Mining company.
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