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Show w w 11 Noathern Wyoming Mlues. Laratr.ie Ki pul Ucan. The wealth of mining resources possessed pos-sessed by southern Wyoming is one of those subjects, oid yet ever new that can never be exhatrsled. It is freshly called to mind by the assertion recently made that the Keystone and Douglas creek camps are giviug indications of proving as rich as the newly discovered mineral belt on the north side of the Snowy rango.. The Keystone mine is probably the best known and most steady producer iu this section of the state, and to all appearances its real value has not yet been demonstrated. It .has yielded in the past and is now yielding good ro-turns. ro-turns. The Florence, Little Nell ami other mines have so often astonished the operators that there is no telling what thero may be in the future. Some of these mines, while not so reliable as the Keystone, have at times developed pockets of wonderfully rich ore; these occurrences have been so freipient that on tho whole they have made a brilliant record, and the miners are full of hope for the future. One of them, in which no vein was discovered, has regularly rewarded the workers with pockets from which free gold in fabulous quantities quan-tities has been secured stitlicient to prevent its ever being" abandoned. From this field on to tho mountain itself, magnificent placers are found ; in every gulch, where nuggets scraped from tho Snowy by prehistoric icebergs have been deposited and sunk deep and thick in the soil. Up on the side of the range is the silver belt in which lies the old Telephone mine. Here as we have been told for tho past decade, and of late with more confidence than ever, is to be built up a silver camp greater than Leadville one that is to be compared only with the famous silver mines of old Mexico and South America. Just across the range, on the north side, is the Brush creek camp, from which wonders are expected next spring, and beyond this and scarcely less notable, the discoveries on the Grand Encampment Encamp-ment and other tributaries of the Platte. Immediately across the Colorado line, forming a part of the same treasure laden territory, and a part of southern Wyoming in all but name, is Independence Indepen-dence mountain. Teller, and other camps that arc destined to make their mark when the era of development is actually begun. |