The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-22
GRAND ENGAGEMENT DISTRICT
New Wyoming Camp That Abounds
in Gold and Silver.

a SptCldl lIOIIl 1ldNllIlS, w NO., 10 lUe
Denver Republican, describes the
Grand Encampment district as follows:
A well known and reliable mining
man of this state. who has just re-
turned from making a disinterested
examination of the Grand Encampment
mining district, having spent three
weeks in the camp, gave your reporter
the following information of the dis
trict:
The Grand Encampment is so miles
south of Rawlins. The trip is usually
made by stage coaches to Saratoga and
thence by private conveyance to the
mines. The Mining EXchangesof Raw
Inns has taken action towards building
direct road from Rawlins to the
camp, which will shorten the distance
about ten miles.
The first discoveries of pay ore were
made last September. There are three
belts of mineral, the first along the
foothills near the Platte valley, about
a mile wide, where there is gold, sill
yer and copper predominating. In this
belt they are running out the copper in
a blacksmith's forge; no assays have
been made. so far as is known. The
second belt is about five miles wide,
being on the east slope of the range:
the formation is schist, gneiss and
trachite, with numerous great blow
outs of spar, and occasional domeS of
granite. IN this belt are the ores car
Tying only gold and silver, gold largely
predominating.
WHERE FIRST FINDS WE'RE
MADE.
The original discovery in this belt
was the Golden Eagle, made by Mr..
Husselton, assays from which have
gone from S35 a ton in gold up into the
thousands with five to ten ounces of
silver Six inches of the lead will
average over s.. 900 to the ton. The
shaft on this claim is but ten feet deep,
but a contract has been let for 300
the tunnel for the ore that would come
out of it, but the offer was refused.
Ball &: Morgan, owning the west eX-
tension of the Golden Eagle, have had
sacks sent in for shipping ore. They
have tapped the lead by tunnel 80
feet long from Purgatory gulch. There
are over 100 locations in this belt, prin
cipal among which is the Leviathan, a
60-foot lead owned by S. Y. Hale, which
panned on the top from 50 to $500 per
ton.
There is on this location a 34-foot
shaft on the foot wall and "a cross-cut
of IS feet towards the hanging wall. "A
quarter interest was recently sold by
Mr.. Hale for $4,000 and vigorous de-
velopment work will soon be COM
menced On the Buckhorn there is a
25-foOt shaft and a 15-foot cross-cut
to determine the width of the lead.
These mines will undoubtedly be the
big ore producers of the camp. On
Spring and Cow creeks, five miles fur
Their west. Ben Northington has de-
veloped ore, five assays from which
average s57 a ton. In this belt are
many more ten-foot holes which have
developed good ore, but just how rich
cannot be learned.
THE DOANE COPPER MINE.
The Doane mine, six or seven miles
southwest of the new camp, is an old
discovery on which George F. Doane |
has been working for several years. |
The Doane is a copper mine, which |
runs 81 10 20 per cent in copper and |
s. to $40 in gold and five to ten ounces |
in silver The development consists of !
a 240-foot tunnel which cuts the lead |
125 feet below the surface, and a shaft |
has been sunk in the bottom of the |
tunnel on the lead, which is four feet1
wide. Levels are also run on the lead |
in both directions. car load of the |
ore recently shipped to Denver gave |
very fiattering returns. RawlinS and |
Carbon parties own the west extern |
sion of the Doane; they have run a |
300-foot tunnel and expect to cut the |
lead within the next so days at depth !
of $50 feet below the surface. In a 10 |
foot shaft on the lead ore averaging |
80 per cent copper was found.
At the head of Sandstone, II miles |
northwest on the west slope of the con-
tinental divide, Douglas and Adams |
have struck a two-foot lead in a 300 |
foot tunnel, average assays from which |
show $25 a ton in gold.
In a general way the camp is very |
promising proposition. 1t includes all |
of the mining camps in a district 80
miles long by to u wide. Over 500 !
locations have been made. but not all |
of the camp has been explored. Nearly
every business man of Saratoga and |
RaWlins has interests in the camp; |
many of the outfits are amply supplied |
with capital and by July l there will
be several thousand men at work in
the district