Show THE HERMAN DISTRICT A Wyoming Region Equal to Anything in Colorado Henry Campbell a Colorado expert has completed an examination of the Herman mining district near Laramie and makes the following report to the Boomerang of that city 11 have made a careful investigation of your district known as the Herman district dis-trict and I find that you have mineral of various kinds in abundance viz coal iron silicious carboniferous iron carrying carry-ing gold in paying quantities bole and quartzite alike impregnated with the precious mineral silver in leads and mineral deposits in paying quantities quan-tities even at present prices merchantable mer-chantable mica isinglas clear from mineral stain copper indications which promise more than prospects indicate and gold in payingquantities in nearly all the creeks and gulches timber sparkling spark-ling water fuel and game in abundance Indeed this is the poor prospectors paradise being gifted alike by the lavish hand of providence I The first place looked over on the trip was the Emma G property on Cooper Mountain whichul find more than promising pro-mising they having tapped the mineral from a blowout which exists nearly on top of the mountain The character of the rock is such that the experienced ex-perienced miner at once asks the question ques-tion Where are you shipping We found a sample shipment of two tons of the ore at Spragues ranch on its way to Denver I carefully sampled several sacks of said ore and find that it will pay more than all expenses incurred in development develop-ment up t date besides paying a handsome hand-some return The Emma G is being systematically worked as to future development de-velopment which speaks volumes as to the capacity of the men in charge The Emma G should have been a permanent shipper ere this time 1 On Rock creek I find plenty of pay dirt scarcity of gravel which will pay 5 cants per yard by sluicing the pay being be-ing found on the hard pan formed of adobe clay It is hard to separate on account ac-count of its character The surrounding country looks promising float indications indica-tions of paying properties to be had for the finding The outlook for the permanency per-manency of the camp is more than encouraging en-couraging Having found plenty of mineral 1 located same By way of a retrospect re-trospect I might say that the Herman district and Snowy range and vicinity has a promising future Very rich in mineral min-eral with a natural smelting point in the valley below lacking only the enterprise of Laramie citizens camp organization etc to make it one of the leading camps of the west |