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Show why Ben Blanchard fails to move ahead with his smelter project. In this city, as in other parts of the state, the impression prevails that there is too much blow ing about the proposed smelter and doubt is expressed that the proposed plans will ever materialize. The stumbling block now, according to a newspaper mouthpiece mouth-piece for Blanchard, is the failure of certain real estate owners to perfect the title to a plot of ground included in the site selected for the smelter. If this is the only cause or source of delay, Blanchard Blan-chard ought to be able to get down to business in short order. May be he will. the new Lewiston camp and the mineral finds made there. "In my opinion the camp is a good one," declared Mr. Bartlett to a friend. "Enough has been done to prove this. As to whether there are large bodies of rich ore, yet remains to be demonstrated. It is known that there are some exceedingly exceed-ingly rich streaks and as near as can be judged from the formation and the character of the veins, I believe they will become regular arid show better pay at a depth than they do near the surface. "Near Lewiston, the Mason strike is being developed and, I understand.shows up remarkably well as they go down. Iowa men are interested with Mason and It is understood they propose to THOROUGHLY ; DEVELOP THE PROPERTY. Burr, who is known as the owner of one of the finest claims in that section, recently re-cently made a new discovery on the same claim that exceels all others in richness. "Without doubt, one of the best or most promising claims in that locality is the Midget," said Mr. Bartlett. "That is owned principally by Chevenne people, among whom are Acting Governor Barber, Bar-ber, Judge Van Devanter and T. B. Hicks. The Midget don't show rich streaks or f octets, like some of the claims, but rom present appearances has a large quantity of regularly-payiug quartz that can be mined with little waste and a handsome profit realized on it. CYAKIDE PROCESS A SUCCESS. The Midget owners are operating a mill, and treating their ore very successfully success-fully with the MacArthur-Forest or cyanide cy-anide process. They have, by this method, been enabled to save fully 95 per cent of the gold, and from 65 to 75 per cent of the silver. This promises at an early date to become a good dividend-paying property. A. D. Chamberlain is the manager and A. R. Fry, chemist." Up In the same county Fremont from which Mr. Bartlett brings such encouraging en-couraging reports, is another place, Camp KerwTn, that has been rated as a probable proba-ble boomer. The town now comprises twenty-four houses or cabins, only par tially constructed. There is nobody there to complete these structures, and judging from recent reports no one has sufficient faith In the camp to live there. A Laramie man received a letter from a friend up there, and the picture he paints isn't an alluring one. BAIT TO CATCH SUCKERS. These are some of the things this man reports. "There are lots of veins here but little ones and most of low grade. One vein, the Iowa, has some horn silver One vein, the Iowa, has some horn silver and chloride. Picked pieces will go high but those of that kind are very few. Just enough for bait to catch suckers with. The mines or prospects are all high up on the mountains, 12,000 feet, and hard to get at. No work has been done to amount to anything. Thirty-five Thirty-five feet in depth in two places is the extent ex-tent of the sinking and one tunnel 50 feet. None, by sinking 6how anything but low grade lead and tin or xo to 27 ounce silver. 4 Favorable reports still continue to come in from the new Herman camp, on the ea6t fork of the Medicine Bow river, west of Laramie. A mining district has been organized there named after John B. Herman, the discoverer of the big lead that created; the excitement a few weeks back. W... F. King is recorder. He has been mining for some time not far away, at Rockdale, where there are good indications that are being develped by Carbon men and others. Efforts are being made to interest the Board of Trade of Laramie to build a road into the Herman camp from Rock- ! dale. The trip at present is a pretty-rough pretty-rough one. ' N BURNING UP MINE TIMBER. To add to other annoyances, big timber tim-ber fires raged for some time in the mountains over on Rock creek, not far from Herman. The fire spread down the canons and destroyed timber that would have proven not only valuable but necessary if the expectations of the camp are anywhere near realized. Miners of La Plata district, to the southward, were apprehensive that the fires might spread so as to cause delay in work if not devastation in that region. re-gion. LA PLATA DISTRICT OUTLOOK. Speaking of La Plata reminds me that recent discoveries there have tended to strengthen the faith of the men who are banking on the ultimate outcome of that district. G. W. Bramel, an old prospector who has been developing a number of claims located last season, brought into town some rich ore from the Gray Copper. Assays were obtained as high as $567 in silver with a high percentage in copper. The lead from which the specimens came is described- as 25 or 30 feet in width and traceable, it is claimed, for a. distance of at least .four miles. The vein is quartz in lime, with slate contact. Shipping ore is nowbelng piled on the dump and a considerable quantity will speedily be sent out for treatment. THAT CHEYEN55E SMELTER. Over In Cheyenne all manner of excuses ex-cuses and explanations are heard as to . WYOMING COLD CAMPS. Laramie, Wyo., Sep. 3. A man who just returned from a trip to Atlantic, At-lantic, South Pass City and other camps in the Sweetwater country, reports that there are now over 400 miners in that section. It looks as though there would be a revival in Interest in that region, where there was a big gold excitement 35 to 30 years ago. E. C. Bartlett, who has been in charge of a, prospecting outfit all summer, in Fremont county, went down to Cheyenne Chey-enne the other day to confer with members mem-bers of the company for whom he is operating. Mr. Bartlett is a conservative conserva-tive mining man, who is better known as a promoter of oil enterprises and companies com-panies in Central Wyoming. He is a business man and is not likely to be carried away by the reports of over-sanguine over-sanguine prospectors. What he had to say about the RECENT GOLD STRIKES AT LEWISTON, where he has been working, carries more weight than any of the highly colored repoiti that have been published about |