, 1900-06-01
IN WYOMING MINES.
CAPITAL HAS MADE ITSELF FELT
AT GRAND ENCAMP-
MENT.
Copper. Gold and Silver in Paying
Quantities in the Ore Veins-Rec-
ord of the Ferris-Haggarty Mine
A Region That is Making History
Fast.


Encampment a long phone service.
From there the telephone wire is to
be extended to Battle Lake and thence.
it is said, to ~Columbine, Hahn's Peak
and Steamboat Springs.
The Ferris aggarty mine is now
down 200 feet in its e shaft and has
already passed through seventeen feet
of solid ore running as high as As per
cent copper and yielding from $40 to
sl4 in gold. The mine is now market
ing thirty-five tons per day of $12O ore
and has about 5000 tons of this Ore
upon which to draw for daily ship
ment. The mine workings at present
consist Of prospecting and develop
ing in preparation for the operation
Of extensive new machinery to be in
place by the middle of August. From
the first and original shaft of this
property-now idle-$S7, 900 was taken,
or 81 900 for every shaft foot. The ore
body in the new shaft is estimated to
p' Suii'i'il u hlNtth sSdIS sup
ment at the present daily market out
put. The property employs oyer 100
men and has a total daily pay roll of
10000 per month.
George r. Caldwell, writing to the
Denver News, says: In the glow of
copper and gold, the sheen Of silver
and tho nIannn 80 r,1or, H. 80
the Grand Encampment is now being
blazoned in every community Of the
civilized world.
No mining region on the globe ever
made history faster than has this great
mineral aggregation of the Medicine
Bow and Sierra mountain ranges, as
three years ago the district was scarce
ly known beyond local limits, while
now a score of mines are in operation
with an aggregate producing capacity
Of 300 tons per day, with scores of
properties ready to develop a rival out
put.
The district mas now an area Of forty
or fifty miles by from five to fifteen
miles, an area certain of increase with
the progress of the prospector. Cop
per is the mother metal and with and
about its exceptionally high grades
are grouped the values of nearly all
the other known minerals.
Both prospectors and purchasers are
plentiful, the prospectors being count
ed up into the thousands, while the
purchasers are bringing money for in
vestment. from all the great financial
centers.
At the beautiful and busy town OF
Grand Encampment itself the Boston
Wyoming Shelter, Power and Light
company promises to erect this sum-
mer a smelter of 100 tons daily capac-
ity with electricity as the motive
light the town of Grand ~Encampment
itself.
II. A. Frambach, president Of the
Wyoming Southern railroad, to run
from Fort Steele, on the Union Pacific.
has lately stated that the road would
probably reach the Grand Encanp-
ment district this season.
The Grand Encampment district, in
Guiding in its boundaries Big creek,
Upper Platte, Battle Lake, Sandstone,
etc, has TO- in active employ about
400 miners, with 100 more men as ore
haulers, teamsters, etc, with a daily
pay roll approximating $1,000. With
the final going of the deep snow, ad-
vent and operation Of additional ma
chinery and the development OF fresh
properties the district will, by the mid
die of August, probably have 1000 men
under daily wages.
The Kurtz-Chatterton mine, syndi-
Gated by New York, Chicago and San
Francisco capital. is already Of ex-
tended development with average $40
ore. thousands of tons being now
blocked out. A fifty-ton concentration
is being erected on the property.
The Newsboy, organized by w. C..
Henry & Co., into a syndicate, shows
a twenty-foot lead with as high as 40
per cent copper.
The Etna, owned and operated by
Sam Fields and associates, the latter
including George W. Baxter of Denver
and j. T. Holiday Of Laramie, is re-
plete with values.
The Finley Hill properties are
wealth sources, an instance being the
White Horse, which was bonded for
forty days to Iowa capitalists, and the
money paid before the expiration Of
the bond.
The lead, silver and gold deposits of
the Spring creek area, with their ac-
companying lime supply, add to the
Grand E%ncampment district at once
high mineral values and an exhaust
less fluxing capacity.
The rich copper and gold ores Of Pur-
gatory gulch are being actively ex-
with Ohio, Rhode Island and
capital heavily interested.
In the Battle Lake section the Ram
bier property will make a big showing
this season, while the Hercules and the
will spread abroad name and
fame.
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