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metal has been in the Medicine Bow
Range and the Wind River mountains.
The most successful quartz mining
has been in the former, because the
ore will respond to treatment for CON
siderable depth there. while in the
Wind River Range, the ore appears
on the surface as the oxide. that is.
free milling, but. upon sinking in veln
matter, there is n sudden change
caused by the presense of arsenic and
lntlmony, thereby making the ore too
-efractory for free milling and de
handing other treatment. The values
IRE there to be recovered and the near
uture will decide the method OF re
covery.
Placer Gold
There are three districts hat de-
Serve of special mention for the placer
gold content. One Of them Is the
Snake River in the western part of
the state. The sands along the valley
there run in values up to $12 per
cubic yard, but the gold is SO fine that
any process tried heretofore has not
made the desired recovery. Improved
methods will, undoubtedly, make this
a wonderful field.
The Laramie Plains is another very
likely field. but like the Snake, the
gold is very fine. Denver people have
fled several thousand acres of this
placer field, but have not yet started
operations. It Is understood that con-
siderable work will be done there this
year n the owners are now work
ng on n process to recover this fine
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lieve hat they will be successful and
this will become another Of wyo-
miug's large producers.
The Atlantic City and South Pass
City district Is the most likely look
ng prospect for immediate produc-
ton, because the gold there is more
coarse and, therefore, more easily
saved. The placer fields there cover
some $4,000 acres and about half Of
this car be recovered by hydraulic
placer methods. The balance could
possibly be worked II there were a
supply of water for that purpose.
The Mining Development company,
an association of Casper men, have
taken up some 10000 acres OF this
field and r contemplating develop
ment work there this coming spring.
They claim to have ample water for
he hydraulic process and will use
certain methods, in connection, that
have never been used In placer min
ing before. Several million dollars
has been taken out of this district in
the past, but the placer beds have
hardly been scratched. It is con-
servatlvely estimated. that $50 acres
would easily cover the lands that
have been disturbed for placer gold
in the district. That would leave
more h a 80 per cent Of the ground
untouched.
This district is where the first gold
discoveries were made in the state
and there has been many seasons Of
production and all appearances point
toward another of these about to be-
gin. Wen have to get some OF that
gold 10 pay tho "soon to be" two
cent tax on gasoline. Let's go get f..
The Great State of Wyoming has
an area OF some 4.l37, Os7.34 acres OF
state lands. minus some 400. 900 acres
that has been old without mineral
reservations. Tho greater portion Of
these lands are to be easily described
IS being sections sixteen and thirty
* OF each township and range.
Therefore, the state lands are in
very location OF the state and some
~ these sections necessarily nro very
rich. The large majority OF them be-
ing undertake with coal. while many
are retaining rich deposits OF oil and
gas. and HtiIl others containing vast
wealth OF minerals, both metallic and
nonmetallic.
Yet the state authorities have no
way OF knowing just what these vast
acres arc really worth IN cash values
There has lever been n move toward
a Systematic md thorough mineral
survey 20 determine these vniuen.
THIS would yrgulre a cousldarah'1 out.
lay O., Cnsh ror this purpose, but. AFT
4 business proposition. ten millions