The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-21
GRAND ENCAMPMENT.
Southwestern Wyoming Camps Com
ing to the Front.


A special from Saratoga, Wyo., has
the following to say relative to Grand
Encampment, Sandstone and Whisky
Park districts. which are located in
( the southwestern portion of that
state:
! Between the head waters of Cow and
/ Calf creeks near the summit OF the
Sierra Madre range-there- are to be
found a number of powders weighing
from ten to 5000 bounds each, any OF
which are very rich in free gold. In
many instances as high as 81 gold TO
the pound has been taken out these
powders. 1t is estimated that there
are some 200 tons of these powders on
the surface between these two streams.
For the past six months prosDectors
have been hunting for the lead from
which these powders came and ii was
discovered during the present week.
The lead is reported to be ten feet wide.
four feet OF which is good pay quartz
with an 1S-inch pay streak that is
very rich.
The Golf Bros. who own some placer
grounds on SOuvey creek, adjoining c.
b Stork. have just made a cleanup.
after working 20 days. With ordinary
sluice boxes. amounting to $3.50, $50 of
this being in large nuggets The mint
value of the gold being $3.50 per ounce.
G. b. Stark who owns several placer
claims on the SOuveny and has been
operating them successfully for the
past four years is reported to have
made a conditional sale OF six of the
claims for the sum OF $4,000
Several new discoveries have recently
been made.in this district, and there is
renewed activity ali along the line. The
ore bodies in these new discoveries are
large and well defined and the ASSAYS
shows from SO 10 S2S gold per ton.
The Sandstone mining district Is
situated along the western slope of the
main continental divide. in Carbon
tinental divide, in Carbon county, some
y miles north of the Colorado W-Om-
ing line. and embraces the headwaters
of the Sandstone and a portion of the
head waters of the SavOry and its trib-
utaries. The nearest railroad points
are Rawlins and Fort Steele on the
Union Pacific, some so miles due north
The formation of the district is gran
lite, lime, slate, syenite and trachyte,
with here and there porohyry dixie.
The ore bodies are principally gold and
copper. The gold is mostly free and
carried in a honey-cOmbed quartz
heavily oXidiZed. the copper is in the
form of red and black oxide. The veins
are well defined in every instance and
are mostly contact veins varying in
width from one TO . feet.
Although placer mining has been
carried en- in the camp for the last ten
Years in desultOry manner. it is only
within the past two years that active
prospect and development work has
been carried on on lode claims. The
first practical prospecting was done in
the summer of 1895 by Messrs. Douglas
and Adams, under the direct super
visinn cf the latter. Mr.. Douglas fur
nishing the necessary means TO carry on
the work. Mr.. Adams is an old-time
prospector having worked in the
Hahn's Peak Dlacers in the early '70s.
Since then he has prOspected the entire
length Of the Continental Divide from
The British Possessions TO Old Mexico
and he stated to the writer in the
course of conversation that in all this
territory he had seen no point where
the surface indications were so promis- I
ing as along the western slope of the
Divide in the extreme
southern portion of southern Wyoming
and northern Colorado. Entering into
I conartnershiD with Mr.. Douglas, a [
prominent and wealthy cattle man on
snake river near Dixon in June, 1896.
active prospect work was at once COM T
menced with The result that before the +
season closed Mr.. Adams had discov- (
cred and located several promising
luartz leads and commenced develop I
nent work. Deeming it best to con-
.entrate all their labor on enc claim
he Northern Belle was selected. de-
'elOpment commenced in earnest and
las been kept up without intermission
Until the present time
A short distance southeast of Battle
AXE. near the three forks of the Snake
liver. new district by the name of
Whisky Park has been opened up. and
; being rapidly developed. Prespectors
rave been seeking for this particular
lace for the past 80 years, but were
nable 10 find it until last February.
then it was discovered and opened UP
Y Mr.. Mcbride and associates from the
10 Grande river. Tradition has ii that
ONE very rich rock was found at the
hree forks of the river by persons
assing through there in the early COS.
nd that these parties have returned
ach year since in search of it. hut
ave not been able to discover the ledge
rom which the rock was broken. Mr.
icBride and associates are reported