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Show the closest scrutiny that the leads can be found, and then there is no certainty until digging is begun. The only test to be relied re-lied upon, is by panning. Extravagant claims have, of course, been made as to the extent and number of leads. Conservative men, however, express the opinion that the new strikes are in reality an extension of the leads, or in the same belt as the promising locations made last season in La Plata district, and the nearest of which are distant about four miles. Visitors to the camp declare that there are TWO BIO LEADS nearly parallel, while others consider that there is only one, and gigantic at that. If, as is believed, the ore is free-milling, it will prove a big proposition, for the ore can be quarried and worked right on the ground where good mill sites abound. '. Herman has refused numerous offers for an interest. Neither cash nor the capital requisite to develop his big lead r.nd erect a mill thereon has any temptation to him. There is talk of putting in a custom mill. It is an interesting fact that The Mixing Age predicted, in June, that there would be an excitement this season In the locality where activity has begun. That judgment was partly based on the probable success of an expedition to locate A LOST MINE of reputed fabulous richness, but the district dis-trict also promised well. So far as known, this old treasure storehouse has not been re- j located. But there are evidences that Herman's lead was discovered many years ago. On an old dump a tree is growing which cannot be less than fifty years old, and a prospect hole has been found which bears indications of being very old. There are also ruins of old tunnels. This all tends to - confirm the theory that the richness of the Medicine Bow range was well known to the Aztecs or the Spanish adventurers. The shortest route into the new district is from Carbon, twenty-five miles distant. While it is forty miles from Laramie to East Fork and perhaps farther, there ia talk of building a good road from here and straining every effort to make this city the supply point Carbon can be depended upon, thour to exhibit its enterprise to facilitate commtinication with the camp and assist in its development. WYOMING- GOLD FIELDS. . Lakamie, Wyo., Aug. 12. Ordinarily.resi-dents Ordinarily.resi-dents of this city don't get excited over reports re-ports of rich mineral strikes in this section. Their expectations have been raised too high ) in the past, and instead of the bonanzas that I were claimed, only mineralized belts or deposits de-posits of ?mall value have been shown up. But the people here were excited two weeks ago When Ranchman Stockton Smith brought in specimens from a new find on the ca.-t fork of the Medicine. Bow river. There was a rush of the curious to that locality, iustauter. Several men who went from this city have reported either in person or by letter that investigation has proven that gold deposits of great extent and value abound. A permanent cajup has been established called East Fork. Already a townsite has been laid out, to be know n as HERMAN CITY, after the discoverer of the lead that started this craze. Herman, who has been mining and prospecting pros-pecting in the west for many years, and has inspected many of the famous strikes in this country and Mexico, says that h3 never saw a surface prospect to equal the East Fork. Herman and Kidd, partners, intend to sink at once a fifty-foot hole on the Chicago, one of the four original locations. The lead has already been cross-cut for seventy-five feet and any one can take out rock and dirt from any place and pan out numerous gold colors. col-ors. Native silver iS panned in the same way. Ail who have inspected the camp admit that it is the hardest country to prospect they ever saw. There is an impression that the Chicago and the East Fork are upon the same lead, but this has not yet been demonstrated. demon-strated. Herman discovered the lead by mere chance. Down along the stream he panned out gold. Not knowing where it came from, he kept panning up the hills until he found the lead. There is very little to be seen on the surface. In fact, the float is said to be of such a character that nine prospectors out of ten would pass by.think-ing by.think-ing there was nothing in it. It is only by |