, 1905-12-07
SUNLIGHT IS RICH.
So Say Scores of Famous Mining
Men. Wealth Scattered about
in Profusion and in Plain
Sight.

Sunlight District Will pay more
Big Horn county ard state taxes than
the balance of the county all tod, many
fo'd.
Immense deposits of high grade
copper all running high in gold and
silver, scures OF valuable mines, many
developed to IL high degree by hun
dreds of owners who have for years
spent money and labor, piling i'm
mense fortunes on dumps. content that
transportation facilities would event
ually reach that remote rich store
house of natures wealth
In Cook City first founded by tie
great iinancier Jay Cook of Phila-
delphia, who financed the nation dn :
ing the war Of the rebeliion) men lave
grown grey surrounded by minert,
the richie OF which are beyond c m
putation-waiting, a generation ahead
OF the push of civilization, the sIuw
progress of which is Il Thing of the
past today-and low rail roads push rs
quickly here as in oder states, and
these grim, manly old pi2reers wi
, soon be rewarded. OLL,r later, but
far sighted pioneers of which class J.
r. Paiater is a tpye have gone in and
taken up the long fight. In this life
of the survival of the ~fittest' these
long headed, determined men don't gel
any credit or sympathy either, gener-
ally, and to win or to die trying, tells
the short story of this sterling charac-
ter, seer on the western plains and in
the rocky Businesses of the mou1 tains
battling under universities for the
generations to come. Such is the
western pioneer be he scout. soldier,
miner, rancher or bull wtacker, but
stop and think of our situation. For
we're Sunlight as it. is with W., in sch
mining States as Colorado. 1daho,
Montana or Utah it would be as famous
as Cripple Creek, Butte, or Leadville
in their first days. That it will be, the
summer OF 1906 will prove, as hun
dreds of able and well known mining
men from these states will be on the
ground and show us what we have and
then we will probably ''conIe alive 10
the fact that we have something be-
sides alfalfa-good as that article is.
OF the many highly developed mines
is the property of LaFond Bros, 30
claims in one group, 500 feet of tunnel
ling, hundreds of tons of copper, gold
and silver on the dumps. This is only
one of many equally good mines.
A railroad to these mines approaches
the east line Of the National Park to
within five miles in the valley of the
Sunlight river passing over the vast
volcanic sulphur deposit, which is one
thousand feet in width, and three
miles in length.
These big deposits of high grade
sulphur can be mined from the river
level on each side of the track by
steam shovels working into the base of
the mountains, one Of which called
Sulpher mountain is said to contain %
million tons; this mountain is about one
sixth OF the entire deposit. Some of
the copper faithful of Sunlight are,
The Winona Mining & Milling Co,
with about 30 claims-miles of tunnel
ling, whose property is a bonanza.
Hon. J. E. Kearns, ex-mayor of Cody,
Wyoming, to whose far seeing bust
ness acumen he will owe the golden
harvest we'll deserved. when the future
shall prove that quiet may
have cloaked an active mind seeing far
ahead Of other men, some times called
g%enieus by the ob%servant, but by the
unthinking luck, "what luck" for
little does the world think of or care
for carefully thought out and worked
out plans that leads to success.
While these few statements may
seem strong they fall far short of the
facts revealed to all who go to see, and
many wise heads predict for Sunlight
Basin the richest and most flourishing
section of the resourcefully rich young
state of Wyoming.-Contributed.
END GALE