| Show I fROZEN GOLD IN INI j I I WYOMING MINt MINE f Sudden Change of Weather r f Freezes Up p Sluice Boxes and Precious Contents 3 I Over Oror on Douglas reek creek In the south southwestern thou t C f western wern W corner of or Albany county L I i and thousands th of dollars worth of oft II t K Jt m lisa 1188 fl In open boxes box unprotected and andt t by only two lonesome miners the 1 O a K Cheyenne special to J r I N ws S But mit nature has locked the treas trea S UN as Its it securely In as though It lay In 1 th tk Inuit of a bank and its owner the ther American Gold Placer Mining company compan r no apprehension regarding Ita ta Il fob hlll sold oM lies lIe Ii In the sutee boxes o es of the ther I company r plant and represents the tho pro duet of oC several weeks of of a ap plant p nt with Ith a II capacity ea of yards of oC gravel dally daily The company intended to a cleanup S of the boxes box at about this time but phenomenal weather resulted m In i a freeze tre e h made It nary ear to dOH co down doft the tho plant and aban abandon I don tl de the ld Id ida a of a cleanup before next ne t poring Th The gold gravel Irael and water in III inthe I the tha sluices froze Into a mass as hard bard as sraH rn te a and d nothing can ean now separate them The Hio value alue of the Ule gold in the boxes Is s believed to be many man thousands of dollars hut as IS the precious dust Is as safe where It lias li as nil It would be In the strongest bark bank the tho company does not believe b It Iti i necessary ne to burn the sluices to get et it at will let It lie He until the spring than tha releases it Two reliable miners have b been n em to stay at the camp amp all winter and aRd prevent any an person meddling with tho the boxes bons and as the officers of ot the tho In Ini company have implicit confidence i these men they th are not worrying about the Hie safety sety of the tile gold Already the road j to tho the camp Is almost blocked by snow within a short time will be entirely closed After that the guards at the camp p will have hae a II lonesome time as their only contact with the outside world as represented by Holmes and Centennial the tile nearest settlements will be when one anI or the tho other oilier of them thorn sees see fit tit to make maka makaa makit a it difficult and dangerous trip on snow snowshoes shoes Max J Meyer president of the Amerl Ameri ran rail Gold Gol 1 Placer Mining company compan and amI B H O 0 Glenn lenn fiscal agent for the com corn company comi i pany 11 nY returned last night from the camp campi where shero they the made arrangements for the tho i guarding of the gold old during the winter I unit nd paid off otc the large lar force of men which had ben been employed prior to the freeze freeo While at the camp Glenn chop hop chopp p d out a small pan of ot the tho contents of or orthe the sluice and found it to be almost one onel IS c l third pure gold As there are 00 riffles f In Jn the s the value alue of their contents i i may be Imagined |
