, 1899-01-04
WYOMING GOLD
NJ. N. GRANT SHOWS DENVER
PEOPLE SOME GOOD
STUFF.
Nuggets and Yellow Dust. From The
Medicine Bow Range Exhibited to
Mining Men at the Albany Hotel.
in Denver, Whicn Was Taken From
the Douglas Creek Placers.

1t glittered and ,was al good gold,
No. Flake or flour gold about it. a Y
the Denver Republican yesterday.
1t vas spread out on a desk at the
Albany last night and NJ. N. Grant OF
Laramie, W1wo., said that Judge D. B.
Graham, whose Office is in the Earnest
& Cranmer building and his brother,
DR.. ]. W. Graham, have a bond on the
property from which it was taken.
First of all There was a small gold
brick, the refined metal. which is 954
fire and is worth 500.
In an ordinary physicians pocket
case were the results of seven tests
made of the gravel from the placer up
on which GraJhams are working. There
were w bottles of gold, including
nuggets ranging from S. down to less
than so cents in value and gold of all
degrees and fineness and as nicely grad
ed as to size as shot kept in a gunstore.
One bottle contained 36k pennyweights
of the yellow treasure. In the lot there
was a value of $3.50.
The placer property from which this
gold comes is located in the Medicine
Bow range, 45 miles west of Laramie.
Douglas creek leads up in the Medicine
Bow and empties into the Upper Platte.
These p.acers are just west of Sheep
mountain and three miles south of Old
Snowy. They are Is miles in length
and embrace 1900 acres lying along the
creek.
Another placer property, above this,
extends along the creek for six miles
and contains 1900 acres. 1t is being
worked by E. NJ. Breitung of Marquette,
is estimated at six or seven millions.
Breitung began testing the dirt on this
property in the summer Of 1897, said
Mr.. Grant, and spent a year and a half
in satisfying himself as to its richness.
The result Is that ,<nawa has a lotion
steam shovel in on the creek. The last
load was landed there in November and
it will be set as soon as possible.
Mr.. Grant shows the results of the
seven tests made by him for the Ora
hams to be as follows in gold per cubic
yard: one of 35 cents, one of 40, n OF
60. one of 80, one of 921a, one Of sl.05
and one of SIPS.
There was great excitement oven
these placers thirty years ago, Mr..
Grant says, and more or less gold has
been taken out every year since. The
chief trouble encountered was in the
ground being flat and requiring ma
chinery or some meunod by which the
gravel can be elevated. 1t was found
impossible to work it by hydraulics.
With a steam shovel, under the most
favorable circumstances, it is possible
to handle the dirt at a cost of 3 cents
per cubic yard; under the most I'M
favorable circumstances the o is 10
cents a yard.
A meeting is to be ,neld in Denver as
soon as Judge Graham returns from
Chicago, to determine the method to be
adopted in working this placer. 1t will
likely THE decided to use the steam
shovel, and there is talk of putting it
in this winter, 80 as to begni operations
IN the early spring. Mr.. Grant is here
to attend this meeting. He says he has
been familiar with the mines OF Albany
county for many years and was at one
time superintendent of the famous Key
stone quartz mine, which is now own
ed by Barcklay & Young of Salt Lake.
The Florence mine, in thes same group,
is owned by l.. 2. Farwell of Freeport,
H., a brother of j. V. Farwell of Chi
cago.
W. A. Mcintyre of Ward, Colo, was
I'D there Friday, Mr.. Grant says. trying
to secure a bond on two quartz propo-
sitions.
Among the placers in close proximi-
ty to the Douglas creek fields are those
on Lake creek and Spring creek, own
ed by Weir & Sturgis of Cheyenne. In
Lincoln gulch Gus Hurley, a veteran of
the civil war, has taken out from $500
to 81, 900 a year for the last twenty-five
years. He never hires a man to help
him, burt works on small streams where
he can get fall enough for ground SLUG
ing. The streams all about are rich
with placer gold and the mineral wealth
of the mountains in which they take
their source has been explored suf-
ficiently to give promise OF some big
camps when 1t is developed.
$500 WILL BUY
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