, 1900-10-10
GOLD HILL
NEWS OF THE MINING OPERA
TIONS IN THIS RE-
GION.
The Wagon Road Long Talked Of Has
Been CompIeted-Enterprise of
People in This Locality is Very
Noticeable-Carloads Of Ore on
the Dumps.

The much talked-of wagon road to
Gold Hill has become a reality during
the past summer and though not yet
completed for heavy %freighting it will
be graded owe the more difficult por,
lions early next summer. 1t affords a
good, if not the best route to Gold
Hill, Douglas mining camp and to the
La Plata mining district, and may
eventually reach Grand Encampment
and the Battle Lake country.
1t does II good to see the enter
prise of this locality, al well as the
fine ore that lies on the dumps of the
Wyoming Development company,
which is an extensive owner of mining
property here and has opened up this
wagon road to Laramie. Our business
men should in some way acknowledge
their appreciation of this enterprise.
Ore on the Dumps.
Although the pioneers of Gold Hill
realized but little from their partly de-
veloped mines, it was no proof that
good mineral does not exist there, and
if this company continues it's present
energetic policy it will soon prove the
true value of mines in this locality.
Already a few carloads of ore lie on
the dumps in front of the Acme tun-
mel that is being sorted, the fine dirt
washed in a fume and the coarse
mineral-bearing rock is saved to be
worked in the little mill that occupies
a central position among the claims of
the company.
Certainly there is needed no ex-
pert eye or magnifying glass to see the
gold peeping from the rock in tiny
globules and clusters of globules,
while the glass revealed broad sur
faces, rich in precious metal.
On Acme Hill.
The mill is on the west side of Ac-
me hill, just north of Mineral lake,
where it crowns a bare ridge, and
higher slopes of pine forests furnish a
Dedulllul DdIh6l oulhl III Tic IT'LL,
while the lake in front completes a
view not excelled by any city park or
public pleasure ground. The mill is
new and well constructed upon the lat
est plans for sampling, and for concen-
trates. 1t is supplied with a steam bat
terry of two stamps, that are equal to
six common stamps of the shaft or
gravity pattern. The capacity of the
crusher is four tons per hour, and the
battery is only twelve ton per day,
which is sufficient for the automatic
sampler and sample grinder for which
the mill is designed. Three grades of
concentrates are produced here, and
with such care that practically no
waste occurs. The boiler is thirty
horse power and besides the stamps
runs two sixteen-horse power engines,
one for the sawmill and one for the
ore mill.
A New Addition.
A cyanide vat is one of the latest
additions to the mill as various kinds
of ore are likely t. be found, and but
a short time ago Mr.. Tye, the assayer,
discovered nagyagite or telluride Of
gold and lead, which assayed beyond
anything previously discovered in the
Gold Hill District.
The group of buildings usually
known as the camp in mining phrase
ology, is on the east side of Acme hill,
two miles west of the Snowy range,
and hidden from view behind the hills
and among hillside pines, sheltered,
cosy and secluded, constituting a tour
lists paradise or a miners Eldorado.
The boarding house or hotel is a
two-story building Of fourteen rooms,
with q porch and bay-window that &C.
cupy the entire front. Water is piped
through the building from springs
above, and a few business features Of
the place are a large wash-room, a
dining room with seating capacity for
the entire force of employees, number
ing from twenty-five to thirty persons;
and bunk houses for several times the
number employed. The old buildings
are being remodeled, Offices, store
rooms, commisary and barns, etc.
Fifty People.
Among the forty or fifty people COM
prising the population Of the district,
are Fred A. Miller, who is treasurer
and resident manager Of the com
pany's business in Wyoming; w. H.
Green, mining superintendent and n
of the pioneers Of the place; j. ]. Fa-
gan, timekeeper and accountant; s. T.
Tye, assayer, and Mr.. and Mrs. W. B.
Harding and family. Mrs. Harding is
in charge Of the hotel and boarding
house. Mr.. Pagan will probably be ap-
pointed postmaster Of the e office to
be established here soon and a public
school is being talked Of.
Day and night shifts work on the
Acme, in which the main tunnel pene-
~trates the hill nearly 800 feet, and has