The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-30
CAMP FOR THE POOR MAN.
FORTUNES I'm SIGHT AND ONLY
WAITING TO BE PICKED
DEADWOoD is THE CENTER.
Assays Show Value Ranging From
Eighty Up to Three Hundred
Dollars Per Ton.


ate and st. Onge have taken to the
mountain. There has not been such
scattering with ore pans, picks and
stakes since Bald Mountain and Ruby
Basin put the miners into a fury.
The diggers who first broke ground
in the new field have been out but
little more than month, and it is
estimated that fortune a day has
been the average
1t has been poor mans bonanza,
the mineral appearing on the surface,
and the assays of the quartz taken
from the surface and sent to the
shelters run from $50 to 500 a ton,
with frequent assures producing as
high as $500 ton.
Ragged Top has been passed over
time and again by all the men who
came to Deadwood for a speculation.
1t is in a region close to the town,
which has not been considered pro-
ductive of mineral wealth. 1t is in
the limestone formation.
A lettering miner, dreaming Of
riches, put in his time rambling over
the precipitous cliffs overlooking the
canon to the east. There were open
assures and outcropping shales, and,
picking out a favorable spot, he started
camp. He struck it rich
The word quickly passed that all the
towns have already sprung up in the
camp. There was crazy run of pros
pectors, and surveys have now been
made as far west as Bear Gulch and
Niger Hill, fifteen miles away Candid
miners are predicting that the golden
glory of Cripple Creek is to be equaled,
if not dimmed, by Ragged Top.
Gold fever, which has been pre-
valent here for the last few years, Is
a Tao IN
Creek camp was discovered, about two
years ago, the Black Hills people were
amazed at the richness of the deposits
The ore averaged $50 a ton. This was
enough to make the community mad
and the woods have been full Of ad-
venturers and searchers ever since
There is not foot of ground for miles
and miles around that has not been
scrutinized
Gold finds were made in ground
which has been traversed and re-
traversed annually and semi-annuaIly
for twenty years. Ragged Top was
practically deserted 1t was assumed
to have no gold. All the miners are
now repeating the old Deadwood axiom
that gold is where you find it,
POOR MANS CAMP.
Balmoral and Nerve City are so ex-
same. Bankers and business men of
Deadwood and neighboring cities are
daily investigating and bonding new
discoveries. The streets are full OF
strangers, who come for a day and
then disappear down the guleh OF
across the cliffs. 1t is the revival of
the spirit of '49. o;.i
The word that it is a poor mans
camp was widely spread. Laborers
n "a
getting their pay, buying a tool or two
and fastening to the edges of the claims
which are already being worked or
have been staked out. Men swarm
in from their little mines and tell that
the gold crops out through the lime
at the grass roots.
The one cry here at this time is to
take to the hills and make for easily
secured fortunes as big as those which
others have made in the same district
by the expenditure Of great capital.
Ragged Top has been missed until
this time because it's formation is en-
tirely different from that Of Bald
Mountain, Ruby Basin and Yellow
Creek. Their ores are found between
the quartzite and shale, and are en-
countered in the prophyry, the dikes
running down in some instances to a
depth of $50 feet. Ragged Top on the
contrary, is exclusively in 1ime-save
the big part which seems to be in gold.
The Dacy mine is near the summit
It's owner is new Stratton. The en-
gfneer who started the work dug ten
feet under the surface. The ore Sc
cured there assays at $3.50 ton 1t is
the talk of the town that the vein
is pronounced practically without linn
1t. There will be practically no cost
In working 1t. There are others. 4"
and the decisive news about the Dacv
has made DeadwoOd as Of old
The Black Hills have never had such
rush of gold prospectors. John
Pierce has come from Sioux CITY and
started one Of the most gigantic min
ing deals ever set on foot in this sec
ton. He has bonded the entire re-
gion between the Homestead groun
on the east, Gold Run on the south
PoOrman Gulch on the west and Dead,
wood Gulch on the north.
The engineer, who has spent fifteen
years from Alaska to Mexico. has stud-
led and sampled the ground. He pro
nounces 1T veritable mountain of
Tree milling ore of all grades His re-
port doomed the rambling guesses over
the value Of the new find There has
been new rush to get close to tho
area under bond, covering upward of
$50 acres. . : -
There are many old favorites con-
cerned in this deal The LIST inc1n6ns
the Durango, the Cheyenne and tha
Swamp Eagle. The Swamp Eagle was
Tor many years the richest specimen
mine in the hills and was onlv forced
into second place by the HOLY Terror
The Durango has earned MANY for
tunes.
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