The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-29
THE GRAND ENCAMPMENT.
Whisky Park District Attracting
Considerable Attention.

Concerning the Grand Encanrpment
district, in Carbon county, Wyo., in
which a number of Salt Lake people
are interested. the Rawlins Journal
says:
The miners in Grand Encampment
district have grown tired of waiting
for the county to construct a wagon
road into camp, and have united on
the scheme To extend the road now
running up Cottonwood creek, over on
| TO Purgatory divide. and from there
into the Houston camp or townsite.
! work is expected TO commence on this
! roadway Monday next
About 300 people are in the Encanlp-
ment district now, and others are going
into camp daily.
Messrs. Ball & Morgan have 200 sacks
of ore on the dump and are ready for
shipment. Very satisfactory rates have
been extended to them by the Union
Pacific Railway company, and as soon
as the new roadway is constructed out
OF camp to the stage road they will
commence shipping the ore.
Mike kernS came in Wednesday from
camp and says the Golden Eagle tun-
mel is locked up and tightly bolted. So
much of the Golden Eagle ore has
been carried away as specimens that
the owners estimate a loss of nearly
$1,000 and in order to protect. them
selves have barred and bolted the in
quisitive out.
Jack Kurtz came in during the
week from the Chatterton- Kurtz mine
where a large force of men are con-
stantly employed They have ore
enough now on the DUMP to run a ten
stamp mill for year, and the owners
are figuring on putting in a mill this
summer.
AT WHISKY PARK.
The Whisky Park district. which is
southeastern extension of the Encamp-
ment belt, is justifying the hopes en-
tertained for it by its friends. The
Denver Republican of this week saws
that returns on specimens of ore tested
there from Whisky Park. show 50
ounces of gold and LOO ounces of sill
yer to the ton. Five experts have ia
Vorably reported on that section after
a most thorough examination of the
ground.
Several hundred pounds of ore have
been taken out for mill runs by differ
ent parties the last week and tons of
ore from there viii be marketed as
soon as the waters subside.
Parties who have recently visited the
park claim that seven leads had been
discovered either of which alone would
make good camp. One they claimed
was well defined, standing above the
surface from two to eight feet and ran
above grass roots from $12 to $50. This /
lode had been located and was being
worked for distance of u miles, while /
another had been located for over six
miles. The others were staked from
two to four miles. The two first men +
toned were slightly over six miles /
apart AM laying parallel. pointing in a
northeasterly and southwesterly course. /
Since then two other roofs have been I.
located. 1t is a characteristic of the /
new camp that nearly ali the quartz
is dead white upon the surface. show
ing no indications of mineral whatever
but when broken to the depth of less
than one inch it shows patches of fine
Salena and copper stain. At a slightly
greater depth the ore becomes porous
or honeycombed, and at greater depth
IS fine steel galena, gray copper or
heavily charged with brittle silver or
silver glance. The surface indications
are new to prospectors from most
camps in the state and for that very
reason tenderfeet now own some of the
best properties in the camp, having in
their ignorance broken rock that older
prospectors passed with but super
fetal glance.