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Show WESTERN MINING GAZETTEER. trolled by a stock company, to be termed the.Colorado and Wyoming Mining and Milling Company. Aside from working the A reporter of the Laramie Times visited this district and reoic fiom their own mines, the company will purchase ore by the conhas fully ports: A weeks stay in Bramel mining district ton, after sampling it, so that the smallest mine owner can realvinced us that the small village now called Cummins City is ize money from his ore as soon as delivered at the mill. This destined to he a thriving town, and the mines in the district company will take possession of the Miller and Blackburn equal to any in the West, and that, too, in the near future. The i ::tcs the last of this week, when names and full particulars camp is hy no means at a standstill,, as some of the chronic will be given. Part of the ore found in the district, howcvcj, will have, to be grumblers who infest every city would have the people believe, but, in fact, was never in a more prosperous condition than smelted, but this want will soon be filled. Some Illinois gennow. Fully 200 men are in the district, and there is not a tlemen representing a capital of over 500,000, have written M. drone among them. These figures may seem large to the their representative in Cummins City, that if at any time Drrly, person who simply visits Cummins City, stays one day he thinks a smelter will pay there, they will build one immedior perhaps only over night and returns the next day; but a ately. Mr. had not decided when we last saw him Durly tram) through that portion of the district in which the mines whether to build the smelter or not, but lie probably will. The are principally located will prove our assertion. In almost Omaha Smelting & Refining .Company lias also sent for a few every gulch or ravine where there is wood and water will he hundred pounds of the ore to test it with a view of having it found from one to five tents each tent being occupied by from shipped there and worked. two to four miners who wish to be near their claims. Nor are Tne most skeptical can no longer doubt that Cummins City these people idle. On the contrary, they even begrudge the w;!l be a and successful mining camp. Those of our thriving time it takes them to tramp down town and get their tools people owning claims there will either work them to their profit sharpened. or sell out at a good round figure. Money will be plenty. LarAn immense amount .of work has been and is being done. amie City will be tlic from which the large population of point Between seventy-fiv- e in shafts and one hundred the district the disi :iet will draw their supplies. And the boom will boOin are down ten feet, while many arc deeper the deepest shaft, with an ( xceeding great boom. Selali! we believe, being forty-seve- n feet. These shafts fully demon- strate the permanence of the mines, as the veins, in almost evWorking Up a Steamboat Racket. ery case, grow wider and better as depth is attained. None of them show any signs of pinching out, nor does the ore dete The Bangor Mining Journal of the 13th has the following riorate. n to say citizen of Nevada: The Sulli - of a former . On Jelm mountain, several rich strikes have been made latevan District is greatlvv indebted to Colonel John Shoenbar for ly in the shape of fine galena ore. The reason this has not been found before is this: On the southern and eastern slopes the public spirit which lie exhibits. He is exceedingly courof the mountain there are a great many ledges of pure white teous to visitors, and takes great pains to show them the elaborquartz, which lias until lately been thought to lie worthless. A ate mining works of the Milton Company, which are among the short time ago, some parlies owning one of these locations handsomest and most comple in the world. He has established concluded to sink on it, and at a depth of four feet began to find small cubes of galena scattered through the quartz. As a weekly paper, the liiilletin , which has already attained a the shaft went down more of this mineral was struck until, at good circulation, and is doing much to bring Sullivan and the a depth of ten feet, it was found in quite large quantities. district into prominence. He is now engaged in securing a Other .parties owning similar claims in the locality sunk oil small steamboat, to ply through the waters of the Frenchmans . them with a like result. This galena ore is said by good Bay, for the convenience of visitors and residents at Sullivan. The citizens of Sullivan should thoroughly appreciate the enjudges to be very rich, though we can learn of no assay havdeavors of the energetic and enterprising Superintendent of ing been made of it as yet. On the west side of the river all is the Milton to advance the general interests of that section. bustle and activity. Most. of the prominent .mines are being worked and an immense amount of ore is being taken out. A The annual report of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Comlarge force of men are at work on the Gold Hill, opening up the lorty-tw- o foot vein of rich g ore which that pany, which was rendered at its recent annual meeting, conmine boasts of. A good wagon road is being built from the tains the following comparative statement: mme to the stamp mill, a distance of something over a mile. 187S-7- 9. 1879-S- O. The mill itself is being erected as fast as possible. The logs 2,048,118 3,877,353 are all on the ground, the building commenced and all but one Total assets Less liabilities 180,070 402, GS1 load of machinery lias been brought in. Mr. Cordiner, an able machinist, went out Saturday to superintend the puffing in of 2,408,042 Surplus May 1 3,414,071 tlic maeliiiuiiy, and will probably remain until the mill begins Dividend due 15 400,000 1,000,000 May crushing ore, which will be in about three weeks. The town lias improved wonderfully since our last visit. 2,008,042 2,414,071 Comfortable log cabins have been erected,- a street laid out For the Dec. 1G1,704 Inc. 340, G29 year along which is located most of the prominent dwellings, and These figures on their face do not show fully the success of thetown presents quite a metropolitan appearance. The prediction made at the head of this article that Brnmcl the company the past year, for the 34G,G29 gain in assets is district will yet become famous was no d but but a small portion of the increased earnings. An extra diviguess, is backed up by the following facts: dend of 500,000 was paid in May, and two of the regular 1 he drawback on the camp thus far has been the lack of dividends 'were on 100,000 shares, instead of 80,000, making ital. 1 he mines arc permanent and the ore rich; this no capman 200,000 more paid out, so that the actual increase of the net can deny. Almost every claim in the district will assay from 20 up to 500 to the ton, and as it can be worked for about 4 earnings is more than a round million, not to speak of the heavy extra expenses for machinery and other improvements, approaching half a million more. The benefit of the new machinery will not begin to be felt before next winter, but the prospects of profit for the financial year 1S80-- S1 are fully and Blackburn have sold an interest in their group of mines to as good, if not better, than the results of the past year. The some of the heaviest mining operators in Colorado, who have product of the company the first three months of the new year bound themselves to put in a p mill inside of the time (May, June and is ton 98? in excess of same period July) mentioned above. The mines and mill will be owned and con- - last year. It KAMEL DISTRICT, WYOMING. in-dilFer- ent y r 1 well-know- gold-bearin- hap-hazar- fifty-stam- |