The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-12
PROSPECTING FOR COPPER.
J. l.. Foster Has an Interesting Expe
 rience in WyOming

J. l.. Foster Has an Interesting Expe-
 rienee la wyoming,
 J. Leighton Foster, of 95 Kensington street, returned home on Tuesday from q long prospecting trip through Wyo- ming and Colorado. MT. Foster left for Wyoming during the latter part of April, going straight to Laramie, where he and his companions fitted out for their prospecting tour. There were five in the party, including, besides MT. Foster, A. D. Bradley, former resi- dent of New Haven, and Ralph Kirby. The latter left the party soon after they had started, being called home by the severe illness of his wife. The men were in the employment of a syndicate of New York, which was interested in copper mining in that part of the coun- try.
 In pleasant conversation last night MT. Foster gave an interesting account of the trip. During the talk he said. We fitted out at Laramie w. city of about twenty-two thousand people. We secured large covered Stakeholder wagon, into which we packed our pro- visions and instruments. The wagon was drawn by a team of mules and team of horses. We headed first for Grand Enoampment prospecting as we went and camping out every night un- der a large tent which we carried with us We met with many traces of cop per, but none of them amounted to much. After digging down some fifteen or twenty feet peculiar formation of t1,, f,f tl,ia country, below which no copper, silver or gold can be found. The state is cov- cred with small pockets twenty feet deep, which show where miners have followed evidences of a lead only to meet with disappointment.
 Although we were not successful in finding copper we met with plenty of hunting and fishing, and never lacked , fresh meat or fish. The rivers were full of rainbow, brook and mountain trout and the woods were alive with game. Many a day I sat at the door of my tent and saw herds of elks and deer not far away We killed a number of bad gers and some deer Coyotes we shot for pleasure and also in revenge, as they at times kept us awake with their yeipihg. We were all through the cen- tral and southern part of Wyoming and the north central part of Colorado, passing over the Medicine Bow range, Gore range, Hllks Head and Columbus mountains, through the Sandstone dis trict, Antelope Basin, California and Slater Parks, and also North and Mid- de Parks in Colorado We forded the Snake, Elk, Platte and Bear rivers and yanc crh n y,ii ar nf t6G. called cities of those states. There a settlement of two or three hundred peo- pie is called city. Grand Encamp- ment, Troublesome, Empire, Central l City, Black Hawk and Boulder are all centers of mining regions and show few 1 signs of advanced civilization After a | trip of over nine hundred miles we sold cur outfit with some difficulty at Boul- l der, Col We had met with great | many signs of copper, but in no place | did we see a lead which would pay to mine. After selling out I got a good chance to come home so left for Denver and took the train for New York at | once.
 l MT. Foster met a number of New
 Haven and Connecticut people while i west. Among them was John Wilson l Arnold, New Haven man, an old ac- l quaintance of Seabrook & Smith, the | carriage manufacturers. MT. Foster | says that MT. Wilson has one of the l best placer mines he saw during his | trip He is located at Gamble Guleh, l Col Mir. Foster also met man
 named White of Norwich, a cousin Of
 Joseph F. White, Jr., of the Sperry & 1 Barnes Go.