The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-18

able report that he made at the time,
but there have been no discoveries
that would justify the wild cat stories
recently published.
The latest reliable information con-
corning the Grand Encampment and
adjacent districts was published last
week by the Carbon County Journal,
of Rawlins, which is printed below
The accompanying map of the district
was prepared for the Denver Repub
lican:
This account can be relied on, as the
writer has personally visited the most
of the mining claims, and has neither
object nor interest in disseminating
misleading information to those hon
estly desiring the truth.
Three mining districts exist in this
county, and while they are practically
divided by names, yet Grand Encamp-
ment, Battle Lake and the Sandstone
district practically are one and the
same mineral belt. This belt, so far as
is known, is 20 miles wide and from 20
to 50 miles long. 1t is sitauted about
60 miles south of Rawlins, Wyoming,
q railroad town of nearly 5000 people,
and the county seat of Carbon county.
Stage lines run to the Encampment
district over good roads, and rates of
transportation are reasonable.
The mining district embraces a part
of the continental divide, or backbone
of the Rocky mountains, which trends
in a northWesterly direction and in
Guides the slopes and foothills on both
Sides On the east side is situated the
ENCAMPMENT DISTRICT,
so named from Encampment streams,
the north and south forks Of which
unite some five miles above and flow
into the North Platte river.
VI, inn 7f no T-OT n
Encampment district is granite and
schist, traversed by dykes of trap rock,
most Of these apparently being in the
dioritic series approaching the true do
rite. The course of the dykes is north
so degrees west and the ore bearing
quartz veins, in nearly every instance,
are alongside or close to these dykes.
The original discovery of gold in the
Encampment district was on the claim
located by Messrs Houghton and Gull
Teton, known as the Golden Eagle. This
is q quartz vein in mica Schist country
rock. At a 16-foot depth of the shaft
the ore streak is one foot and widening
to two feet of ore. a 50-pound sample
of this rock, CHARTERED down to Y
pounds, yielded by assay $40 ounces of
gold per ton. Another assay from the
same yielded $500 to the ton in gold.
The ore is white quartz stained with
iron oxide. containing honeycombed
cavities, filed with iron oxide, some of
it containing pockets of visible free
gold.
The Ada, worked by the Molly Hill
company, has a tunnel in nearly 200
feet between two wide veins Of low
grade ore, which assays from SO to $1S
ton in gold. The ore is a quartz
porphyry permeated with iron oxides
and there seems to be an unlimited
quantity of it.
The Golden Center claim, with wide
lead, assays SO a ton in gold.
The Bryan lode, owned by Clause
and Sapp of this city, has vein two
average ore gives S11.60 in gold
The Blue Bell, owned by Houston
and Culleton, has vein two and half
feet wide at the top of the shaft, and
five feet wide at the bottom of the
shaft, 35 feet deep and assays two
tenths ounces in gold, one ounce in sill
yer and 9.60-100 per cent in copper
The Morning Star, owned by Kurtz
& Chatterton of Rawlins, has a tunnel
1900 feet in the mountain, about 140
tons of ore on the dump, which Yields
$3.50 in gold 16 ounces silver and 4 $40
per cent copper from a random speci-
men picked off the dump. Numerous
veins were cut by the owners in driv-
ing this tunnel, fro1; IN, Of which an
assay was OBTAINED = IN III average
specimen which yielded is per ce Ut cop
per, 50 gold and five ounces silver per
ton. An average sample of the rich
and poor ore on the dump ran .0S
ounces gold and 20-100 per cent cop
per.
THE RAMBLER MINE.
Twelve miles from the heart of the
Encampment district is the Battle
Lake district, on the west side of the
continental divide The Rambler mine
is 10 feet below the surface, and III
tons of ore had been shipped from the
mine by the middle of August, this
year.
The ore from this mine when first
discovered was a red oxide of copper.
associated with blue and green carbon
ates of copper. As depth was obtained
it consisted principally of copper py
rites. The ore varies in values, the
first shipment having run q per cent
copper per ton, the next five cars 20
per cent. Specimens recently tested as