The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-14

ment--The Surface Rock Is Rich In Gold.
Remarkable Copper and Silver Leads.
Opinions of Eminent Mining Engineers.
Gold in Wyoming This Is the tocsin
now being sounded i'm every mining camp
In the west. 1t is Wyoming's first gold
excitement, and from every part of the
state, and indeed the whole west, people
are making rush to the banks of the
Grand Encampment river. The area of
the district is unknown. Where in ter
ritory of moro than 300 square miles there
lived few weeks ago not to exceed so
people, today are being erected hundreds
of log cabins, while tents and temporary
abodes of every kind are dotting the hill
sides and canyons.
Here in the heart of the foothills of the
Sierra Madre range of the continental di-
vide is believed by many to be gold belt
as fertile as the Klondike or the Trans
vaal and if surface indications tell of min
eral wealth below Wyoming's gold fever
is not without cause for in the mountain
gulches of the new district are being found
rocks containing fabulous treasures of
pure and free gold.
J. G.. Rankin, ex-sheriff Of Carbon
county and one of the pioneers of Wyom-
ing has recently received an assay from
Willis George Emerson of Colorado
Springs, showing wealth i'm gold per ton
of 81, 744 This is for surface rock. The
vein here is white quartz formation, and
is 81 feet in width at the surface. Such
a showing is greater than any of Cripple
Creeks bonanzas or Leadville's famous
Little Johnny had on the surface. On a
vein adjoining this one to the south the
surface rock shows gold assay of $3.50. 20
per ton. If either Of these veins should
hold even their present visible width and
continue to run even at their surface assay
rate, they would in development prove to
be perhaps the richest gold mines in the
United States.
Another alluring feature to the miner Is
the placer diggings along the Grand En-
campment river. Nuggets are being found
varying from gold dust to nuggets worth
S25 and $50, and while the stories of dig
gings in California gulch in the early
days and in Alaska's frozen fields of the
present are not yet equaled in the new
camp yet some of the more enthusiastic
are relating all but incredulous tales of
wonderful finds.
Surface indications arc at present the
only means of estimating the wealth of the
district. The camp is SO new that depth
of ten feet on gold vein Is more than an
average. The deepest shaft in the district
| Is down but go feet. This Is the Golden
Eagle. The altitude of this shaft Is 8, 300
feet above the sea level, or about 300 feet
higher than the town of Grand Encamp-
ment. The vein here is a well defined
white quartz in q mica schist country rock.
| The ore streak on one side Is about foot
| in width, and on the other widens out to
about two feet. Assays on this vein at
grass roots ran over $40 to the ton, while
at the depth of 20 feet the ore Is running
more than 81, 500 to the ton. If this vein
should continue to widen as 1t has, and
even hold its present mineral wealth, as
| indicated, at 90 foot depth, it would be
the richest gold mine in the world.
There is n general fear of the ore pinch
| ing out or running into some nonproduc
tive rock. This fear exists among the old
| and experienced miners. 1t does not apply
alone to the Golden Eagle, but to many
other prospect holes in the district The
more enthusiastic solace themselves in re
plying TO those of adverse opinions by say
| ing that at both Leadvillo and Cripple
Creek in Tie carly days Of those camps
the old prospcctors and miners shook their
heads and wise. $ said that the veins would
pinch out u.id tic ores would merge int
nonproductiyo rock.
There arc two striking exceptions te
these derogatory opinions on the par OF
mining experts. Claude Sachs, . tor OF
The Mining Investor, whose .hion goes
at par with mining mo- lot alone II
America, but also acr tho waters, anc
w. Weston, consult mining engineer o
London, who is thought 10 know more
about minoralizcd rock than any otho'
man in America, have both given mos
favorable reports of the gold indications o.
the new district. MIR. Sachs spent wccl
i'm going over tho district, and out of lee
assays of rock picked up promiscuouslI
from the hiilsidos and taken from pfospcc
holes hegave tho average surface indica
tions as So per ton in gold and the averag'
assay ut ten foot depth as moro than go
per ton. MIR. Sachs claims that he did no
take any of his assays from the grea
bonanzas.
AS for Mr.. Weston, he is SO fayorabl,
impressed with the district TINT ho ha