The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-29
RICHER THAN KLONDIKE
WEALTH OF THE GRAND ENCAMP-
MENT GOLD FIELDS OF WYOMING.
Copper, Asbestos and Lead in Great
Abundance, as Well as Ore Filled
with Yellow Mineral


ern part of Wyoming, told some wonderful
stories of the richness of the latest find
which has attracted the attention of the
country when seen at his apartments at the
Great Northern Hotel yesterday. He de-
ciared that these new gold fields in their
stores of yellow treasure surpass the wealth
that has been unearthed at Cripple Creek,
Leadville, San Juan, Gilpin county, Colo
RADIO. or the famous gold finds of California
in the old days. He said that there was
more gold in that patch of Wyoming, seven
by forty miles in size, than in any bit of
land of the same proportions in Alaska.
4 Mr.. Emerson is the senior member of the
firm of Emerson & Mccartney which owns
a number of claims. One of these assayed
$5S2.20 ton, another $1,744.16. Quartz taken
from a huge bowlder in the district con-
tanned $3,512 of gold to the ton. Assays of
ore taken from the Golden Eagle mine
showed values of from $500 to over 81 900.
claim near the headwaters of Jack creek
has yielded the yellow metal in values from
S1,51209 to $2744.S1. Float rock gave up $40
to the ton. There are rich placer diggings,
hut quartz mining is the most satisfactory.
Not only is there gold in abundance, but
Mr.. Emerson said that the recent eXamina-
lions of the district have revealed vast beds
of copper, mica, asbestos and great veins
of lead The copper will assay 60 to 20 per
cent, and already. has been a source of
wealth. The lead shows 54 6-10 per cent.
Mr.. Emerson is one of the men who met
success at Cripple Creek. He is interested
in properties on Grouse mountain, Squaw
mountain and Beacon hill. But in all his
experience he said that he had never seen
the equal of the new FL Dorado in the
southern part of Carbon county, Wyoming.
1.-The new mining camp of Grand Encamp-
ment will in my opinion, many times eclipse
the Cripple Creek district" said he. ut has
not only gold, but also copper in generous
quantities. The district proper is perhaps
seven miles in width and forty miles in
length, saddled on the crest of the Sierra
Madre mountains, being the continental di-
vide and if Chlkoot pass separated this
comparatively small area OF seemingly rap.
ulously rich mineral land from the rest OF
the world coo people would be rushing In
there enduring all the privatons of scaling
an almost impossible barrier in search OF
the yellow metal.
SECURES VALUABLE SAMPLES.
ga little over four months ago had some
ore brought me by prospector, who had no
idea of it's value. Ny partner Bernard Nc
Caffrey, and L had it assayed. 1t showed
gold values of $1,000 a ton, and ran AZ per
cent. pure copper. l Immediately visited
this new and practically unknown camp.
l traversed the banks of the north and south
forks of the Grand Encampment river and
prospected the quartz dikes that gridiron
the entire country. 1 slept on my blanket
in the Businesses of the mountains every
night for two weeks. l brought back with
me samples of free gold and of copper ores
that varied in value from trace up TO
$3,512 in gold. These samples were taken
from a territory fully seventeen miles in
length and six or seven miles in width. The
copper ores are mostly found west or the
hornblende formation that carries the gold
4 c
all the way from 40 per cent. to 63 per cent.
George F. Doane has the best prospect
open of any copper property IN the camp.
He has sunk his shaft about 10 feet IN
depth. His vein is between four and SIX
feet in width 1t costs him about So ton
to lift the ore on the dump. He hauls it by
wagon a distance of siXty-five miles to a
place called Walcott, on the Union racine:
six miles east of Fort Steele, at cost Oh
$40 ton. The railroad has made him
special rate of $3.50 ton. The treatment
charges of the Chicago Smelling and Reiln-
ing Company are $l2 ton, making d total
cost for mining transportation anu ereao-
ment of 1927 Notwithstanding the seem
ingly exorbitant cost the returns OF on th r6
different cars of ore netted MIN Sl'oVo'4V' $z'-
O16 and 81 $50, respectively.
THE other day the Golden Eagle claim,
which is a gold property situated IN furga-
tory g on az aoo1i Grand Encampment was
bought by D. H. Craig, an attorney of Raw
Inns WyO., for client, who is MEMBER oS OF
the English Parliament, on basis OF Slz,WJ,
although the interest purchased was only
fve-sixths of one-half 1 am reliably in
formed that he has been offered $zoOoo IN
cash for the remaining SeVen-SlXtns.
'',The Golden Eagle claim is only pros
pect with shaft not more than eighteen
feet in depth. The vein at the surface h 6e Was
of the shallow shaft it is about three 1eet
in width, and fire test assays sno w o soiu
values ranging from $3.50 to over $z'Voo
lust to the north of this claim, some
| half mile away and on the same uyke,
| feet in height, and is easily traceable for
MANY miles, A. McKinnie, OF cheyenne, on
| last Monday broke off two sacks OF qua1rbt a
| from the surface and brought II IN 10 .l1e
new mining town of Grand Encampment.
| From it a piece of ore not larger or tncker
than your haDddd asien Oh in gold It made
| even the residents of the new mining town
| gold mad, and every claim on the uyke Ior
| manv miles was quickly staked. MT NC
Kinnie brought the ore into Rawlins; |
! put samples of ii into a mortar ana crushed
them, and then panned II mysen. IL f orIle 5o
ent tests 1 secured all the way from 91ot oO
| cents to 81 80 in free gold. Not Tar from
| the place where this was found is the Ban
e Morgan mine The vein is fully thirty
feet in width They are prospecting 1t by
driving a tunnel They have nat 1ull OF
specimens that will run in value up 20 70
MANY thousands of dollars a ton. Or
course these are not fair average samples
by any means. They are sacking and ship
ping their ores and mill returns sho"
values of $40 to $3.50 q ton.
FAMOUS QUARTZ BOWLDER.
s~To the west of this property and farther
down Purgatory gulch is the famous quartz
bowlder. which really led to the discovery
of gold in this new district. Fire test as
saws from it shows values high as $25l2
a ton. The bowder originally weighed
about seven tons. A blast of dynamite has
shattered it into many fragments, and the
largest piece now remaining would not
weigh more than a ton. The Mollie Hill
Mining Company, under the management
of D. S. Baker has driven a tunnel some
go feet and has recently broken into
tremendous ore shoot.
go the north and between the north and
south forks of the Grand Encampment
river KurtZ & Chatterton have tunneled
several hundred feet into a mountain side,
and now have betWec" 200 and LOCO tons
of ore living on their Cuinp ready for treat
@What the district needs is a custom
stamp mill that will II eat ores for all. DR..
Grannis and E. Barrett the propretors of
the famoue Antlers Hotel at Colorado
springs are now figuring on erecting such
Grand Encampment, which is located at
the junction of the north and south forks
of the Grand Encampment river. The town
is admirably situated, with an altitude
about the same as that of Manitou Col.
Directly to the south and west the noun
tains containing untold millions of gold and
copper rise up thousands of feet high.
Flowing from the west is the north fork of
the Grand Encampment river. and from
the south the south fork. These rivers
flow through box canons with precipitous
sides hundreds of feet high. The only