, 1897-03-20
MINING NEWS.
The Yankee Boy Showing Up Better as
Development Proceeds.


If signs are right the mining proper
ties in the vicinity OF Rockdale will be
The first to give returns to the investors
during the coming season. Work at the
Yankee Boy mine is showing wonder
full results. and as it progresses, the
vein shows up wider and richer. The last
strike in the shaft is reported to be u
vein SO inches wide, and it is stated that
the ore will run fully so per cent in cop
per. The school Of mines OF the Uni
versity OF Wyoming made an assay OF
ore from the Yankee Boy on the 18th
giving the following result: Gold, s3.42;
silver, S1.00: copper, 31.7 per cent; to-
lal value per ton, $63.4O. 1t will be re-
membered that this is the mine recently
transferred by w. A. Williams Of Rock
dale to Chicago parties. A handsome
sample of the ore is on exhibition at
his office.
The Overland company is vigorously
pushing it's work. 1t now has 500 feet
OF bedrock ditch, and is putting in
sluices -four feet wide and eight feet
high. The rifles will be 9 inches high,
L. inches wide and 600 feet long. All
the piping lie now on the ground. No
pains are being spared to make this
plant the finest in the state. The Re-
publican is reliably informed that pan
tests recently made on the bedrock OF
some Of the ground Of this company ran
AZ high us SIS per yard, and it is conf,
IDENTIFY claimed by the Overland COM
pany that hundreds of acres OF its
ground will go 81 per yard. The first
cleanup OF this company will be await
III with considerable anxiety.
Men OF capital and influence in the
mining world are now constantly max
ing inquiries concerning the many prop
critics around Laramie. A letter receiv-
BY President Grant Of the Mining and
Stock exchange from James J. Cone, OF
he celebrated Doctor mine OF Anacun-
la, Colo, says his company is anxious
20 do ONE mining in Wyoming and
asks for information concerning tho
Medicine Bow Range and the Centennial
valley. 1t will be remembered that the
Doctor mine is the one at which Henry
Dahl is employed as superintendent.
An English man Of letters of James
Payn's acquaintance was slightly Bo-
aemian, and popular with his own sex,
but modest and retiring in the presence
of the other, whom, nevertheless, he
greatly respected. He wrote for several
periodicals, among them an American
magazine. He had been connected with
1t for years, and though they had no
personal acquaintance with INT anoth-
er, the editor and he had become friends.
Independently OF his contributions, he
often correspondent with him. telling
him the latest anecdotes Of the club
smoking-room, all harmless enough but
some of them certainly not suitable for
publication. On n occasion he SEN
him a very amusing story, which has
since become a classic. but, it must be
confessed. not a drawing-room classic.
Then he got a letter from the publish
ers of the magazine which almost cost
him his life: Dear Mr.. So-And-So:
We think il right to inform you, with
respect to any private communications
you may have in future to make to IL
editor, that she is a lady," This was all
through indicating her Christian name
by an initial only. She had been COM
PEELED to appeal to her proprietors for
protection against the most modest man
in London.