, 1896-04-25
BLUE GRASS PLACERS.
An Excellent Account Of Their
Discovery.
THREE DOLLARS A YARD
Laramie L. the Hest O%uiittin. Point,
There Being IA splendid Road
and N Down Hiii Pull
From Here.

The Wheatland World contains the
following somewhat romantic and in
teresting article in relation to the new
discoveries 80 miles west of that place:
Mines and rumors of mines have
been talked about at Wheatland for six
months past; strikes and rumors of
strikes have beer reported, but it re-
manned till a few days ago for the strike
of all strikes and the property Of all
properties to be shown up.
For years and years Harry Yount has
lived in the Blue Grass district, con-
tented with a life of hunting, of pros
pecting. and in wandering over the
rugged cliffs of the mountain range at
his WI sweet will. with no master save
the elements without and no care save
the obtaining of the necessaries of life,
and this has not been a laborious task
to him, at all. Harry had his friends,
of course. as all men have, and was not
always alone in his perambulations of
natures rugged domains. but life to
him bore its greatest pleasures and
comforts chiefly in the requiems OF
~solitudes. and in the hope, which has
ever been present in his breast, of some
day striking it rich, as the miners
phrase goes. Some five years ago Harry
conceived the idea that the fine gold in
the Laramie river bottoms had a
source, like all things mortal or earth
ly. and that that source was somewhere
near this chain of the Black Hills. In
earthly panning up the Laramie the
presence of the fine gold would cease to
appear after he reached a certain
point on the edge of the Laramie plains
and going down the stream again en-
countered 1t at the certain point, and
would find 1t all the way from there
down as far as he tested the sands.
Other prospectors had PANIED the river
and finding the presence Of gold beyond
the chain OF hills had reasoned that the
yellow metal had been washed from
the snowy range beyond. and naturally
enough had not gone to the trouble to
pan up the river to the point on the
plains where the gold ceases. Harry
though, ven at matters differently
He had become convinced Of a big de-
post somewhere, and to find it he pro.
posed to do If in the words of the i'm
mortal Grant 1T took all summer
From the point in the river where the
fine gold ceased to appear Harry STRUCK
out to investigate the sage brush
stretches of the plains. He worked fol
some time with about the luck ascribet
to the historic fisherman only there
was mighty little water to moister
matters either in the rear or elsewhere
Finally wandering south of the river
about two miles he found a stretch Of
peculiarly looking redish gravel. an(
in the edge of this the first pan of dir
which was to mean so much was taker
up. No one but Harry probably woult
have had the temerity to even look a
it the second time. but not so with him
He panned 1t as best he could and in thu
bottom of the dish a dozen or more
particles. some Of them as large as pir
heads, were left to meet his gaze. II
didn't require a philosopher to tell thai
he had struck it. mighty rich. too
but what to do with the find was thu
question. To stake it meant that 9th