, 1908-01-17

made indicate a rich field for the future development work. In
vestors will do well to keep informed on this little corner. as it
is brand new territory, and each year shows decided progress
and new finds.
GOLD.
In the South Pass District, in southwestern Fremont County,
the principal work. has been the reopening OF the famous old
Miners Delight mine, twenty-eight miles southwest of Lander,
by United States Senator Clarence D. Clark Of Wyoming and
his associates. This mine was famous forty years ago as a pro
Queer of the highest grade of specimen free gold ore. when the
"Sweetwater mines" were famous as Goldhed today, and pro-
duced an unknown amount OF gold, as the then owners simply
.%gophered where the gold was the thickcst, and paid no atten-
ton to any ores except the specimen rock, that made the mine
famous. Later some serious attempts were made to open up the
mine, but were abandoned, and the property laid idle for many
years, to be taken up now by Senator Clark and his friends.
1t has been supposed that all the ore came from one shoot,
on one vein, but the recent work has shown conclusively that
there are a number of veins, centering at this point, several Of
which were cut into, but the main body OF the rich ore came
from the surface cuts and shallow slopes from the first shafts,
and the ore miled from a cross-vein, which occurs apparently
independent of the other veins noted here. No attempt has been
made, until now, to develop the low grade milling ores lying with
the richer shoots, and, in commo with the other South Pass
mines, these are beginning to receive attention, and will evil
IDENTIFY prove the real ores of this section. The entire problem
at the Miners Delight is most interesting, and bears every evil
dence of working out into a great gold mine, as the veins are
strong and well defined, the ore shoots have been large, and
work done at the Canssa and other mines on these ores has
demonstrated that these ores continue with depth. the value are
nerroanent and there is eyery nrabsbiitT tb55f fba oros Of the
Miners Delight will do the same and a really great producer be
listed from Wyoming at last.
The Carissa has made but little progress this year, the mine
being operated only a part of the time. The E~urton-McGraff
property has been taken over by Denver capitalists, and, under
the direction of Frank Reinhard, is being opened up previous to
a thorough exploiting. This property lies on the other side o.
Peabody Hill from the Miners Delight, and many of the con-
ditons of the two properties are quite similar, and good results
be expected.
Until recently the ores of this section have been thought to
be only gold ores, with the greater part of the values in the free
gold form, and the u~noXidized ores, reported from the deeper
workings, have always been associated with iron and arsencal
pyrites, but there are several new properties where the gold is
with copper minerals, and at the Copper Surprise,
near South Pass City, a well defined copper-bearng ledge is
being exploited and commercial copper values obtained. In adj
dition to this evidence, it now appears that in many of the old
which produced gold and were only worked for high
grade ores in the surface shoots, that frequently copper has been
the mineral associated with the gold ores, but was not considered
of value at that time and no attention was paid to it or how it
occurred, so there is ground for the belief OF a number of engi-
neers, now concerned in the development of properties here,
that the carrying mineral of the district may prove to be copper
.suphides, when the mines are opened up to some considerable
depth, instead OF only the iron and arscnical s%ulphides, now noted
throughout the district.