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Show A NEW COLD BELT. 8om Rich EisTT Nr Laramie-Heat Laramie-Heat Anything in WyominB. Lakamie, Wvo, Oct. 3,-Fiftv-tvvo miles to the west of Laramie, on tho sunset side of the snowy rain'e is the new mining camp which is destined to be known as Gold Hill, it lie3 at the foot of the rauge, at an altitude of 10 -3.)0 feet above sea level, and three miles from the summit of the great divide. The camp is located iu the midst of a beautiful park, where there are a thousand thou-sand acres as level as a tloor. It is surrounded sur-rounded by lovely lakes and the finest sawing limber in the country abounds there, being from eighteen "inches to two and one-half feet iu thickness chieflly red fir. The gold belt starts in about two and one-half miles south of the Snowy and extends to Elk mountain, a distance of sixteen miles. It is said to be twenty miles in width and lies in a direction from northeast to southwest. Mr. Chase, the man for whom the district was named, was in town yesterday yes-terday and gave some interesting facts regarding the new camp. He went up there on July 2,-th, having linished prospecting oil Lake creek and being desirous of hunting new territory. He had heard of Brush creek ' through a friend and expected to lind a district well developed, but iu this was disappointed. disap-pointed. He found the Little Giant, first discovered dis-covered two years ago and owned by Drake, MeEa'dyen, Hermlale and P. Y. Woods, with a'three and a half foot hole on it. On examining the formation he was convinced that he had struck a mining country. He tracked the formation for-mation back to the Snovvv and returning return-ing to the head of the Middle Brush pitched camp. Is'ext morning he went to the Little Giant, looked at the lode, locating the Leviathan, on which he began sinking August 23d, and which at a depth of five feet eight inches was twelve feet wide. Mr. Chase says he commenced finding find-ing free gold on tho foot wall side, in the solid quartz which was Si feet thick, in quantity that would pay for milling it. He had at the same time H feet of a deposit of auriferous gravel, or gouge matter, that panned out and weighed $200 and over to the ton, average av-erage across tne ledge. "It will beat anything in Wyoming,"said Mr. Chase, "aud is equal to anything iu Colorado. There is no better "formation in Colorado Colo-rado in quartz or carbonates. As far as I can pan and learn, and this is all a miner has to go by, the Brush creek mines will beat anything in Colorado. Arizona or New Mexico." |