Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-18

GRAND ENCAMPMENT.
True History of the Encampmcnt, hattie
Lake and Sandstone Districts.
Carbon County, Wyo., journal; The
journal has been receiving so many
letters of inquiry in regard to the
mines and mineral districts in Carbon
county that it became an utter impOs-
sibllity to personally answer them.
Letters from Dakota, Illinois, New
York, Indiana and other states have
been received containing extracts and
entire clippings from newspapers
which have published accounts OF
Grand Encampment's mining district.
In order to reply to these questions we
concluded TO re-write a history Of
| Grand Encampment, Battle Lake and
the Sandstone mining districts and for
ward copies Of the Journal to inquirers.
giving succinct and true history of
| these districts, the principal mines,
| work done and assays from the ore ex-
tracted from them. This account can
be relied on, as the writer has person.
ally visited the most of the mining
claims, and has neither object nor in
terest In disseminating misleading in
formation to those honestly desiring
the truth.
THE MINING DISTRICTS.
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 tho
same mineral belt. This belt. so far
as Is known, Is twenty-five miles wide
! and from twenty-five to thirty-nve
miles long. 1t Is situated about sixty
miles south Of Rawlins, Wyoming. a
railroad town Of nearly 5000 people.
ana ana me 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 northwesterly direction and in
| cludes the slopes and foothills on both
sides, on the east side is situated the
ENCANfPMENT DISTRICT
So named from Encampment streams
the north and south forks which unite
| some five miles above and flow into
| the North Platte river.
The general formation of the Grand
Encampment district is granite and
schist, traversed by dykes of tran rock
most of these apparently being Of the
dioritic series approaching the true
! diorite. The course of the dykes is
| north 30 degrees west and the ore bear
| ing quartz veins, in nearly every in
stance, are alongside or close to these
dykes.
Encampment district was on the claim
located by Messrs. Houston & Culleton
known as the Golden Eagle. This is a
quartz vein in mica schlst 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, quartered down to u
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
1t containing pockets Of visible free
gold.
The Ada, worked by the Molly
Hin company has a tunnel in nearly
goo feet between two wide veins of
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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 40 feet below the surface, and
III tons Of ore has been shipped from
up to the middle of August this wear.
The ore from this mine, when first
discovered was a red oxide of conner
associated with blue and green carbon.
ates of conner, AS depth was ohtained
II consisted principally of conne,
pyrltes. The ore varies In values Inc
first shipment having run Of ner. cent
conner per ton. the next FIVE cars 81
ner. cent. Specimens recently tested as,
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