| Show GRAND iNC3t1311T Twit lIItoy of it nWo Luk o oil Iolun UlotrlI Carbon Count W30 Journal The Journal has been reclng l so man lellrs I of Inquiry In egard to mall ho mines and mineral districts In Carbon county that U became an utter Impos I Ihlilly to ponally answer them Utters front Dakota llllnoui New York Indiana wind other own t on have been received cOlltlllnlog extracts anti entire clippings from ncwspalwrn which Its luhllh1 lIocunt of ind KM lCompmonle mining district 10 order to = ly to Ih whe a Ions vvi < c1te8c ttlorns concluded 10 rwrlt 0 a history wo Grand Inmrrnellt Dattlo I Lake world the Kandslonemining districts and forward for-ward l ophe of the Journal to Inquirers giving n succinct and true history of Ihcse districts the principal mines work done and assign from Ihe ore extracted ex-tracted from them Tills account can be relied on as the writer has personally person-ally Visited the most of the mining claims and ling neither object nor Interest In-terest In disseminating misleading In formation lo those honestly desiring the truth TUB M1NINO DISTIUCTS Three mining districts exist In I this counts and while they are practically divided bs names yet Grand Uncimp mont Uattle Lake wind the Sandttono district practically tire one and the same mineral belt 1 This twit so far ns Is I known Is I tventsflve miles wide and from twentyfive to thirtylive miles long it Is I situated about sixlj miles south of Itawllns Wsomlng n railroad town of nearly 3 000 people and the county sent of Carbon counts Stage lines run to Ihe Encampment district over good roads and rates of transportation tire ronable The mining district embraces a part of the t continental I divide or Imckbone of the lioeky Mountains which trends In a northwesterly direction nnd In eludes the slopes wind foothills on tmth sides On the east side Is I situated I the ENCAMPMENT DISTUICT So nand from 1ncampmnl tram the north and south forks which unit some live nllei above and flow Into the North Ilatt river The gonernl formation of the Grand incampment district Is granite and schist trnveisecl by dykes of Iran rock i most of these apparently being of the dlorlllc series approaching the trite diorite The course of the dike I 4 north 10 degret p wool and the ore bear Ing quartz veins In nearly every InStance In-Stance alo alongside or close 10 these dykes Tile original discovery of gold In the Tncampmnt lItrlrt was on the claim 10at01 by Alesstric 1I0lleton or Culleton known as tile Golden Knglo This ls a quartz vein In mica schist cmmtrj rock At a 10foot depth of the shaft tile ore streak Is one foot and widening I I to two feet of ore A COimuncI sample of tills rock quartered don to 12 pounds 31ldd by assay 310 ounces o r gold per ton Another Assay from the Mm ilelded JS7IO to the ton In gold Tile oro Is white quartz stained vvltl Iron oxide containing honeycombed ivltlfs tilled with Iron oxide some nl II containing pockets of lslb1e > free gold goldThe The Ada worked by tho Molly 1IIII company has a tunnel In nearly 200 fet between two wide veins of low grade ore which 013 from 0 to Its a tonsil gold The ore In I a quartz porphyry permeated with Iron oxides anti there atoems to bo on unllm limit quantity of It The Golden Center claim with a wide lead nana s tJ a ton In gold The Itrjnn lode owned by Clause k I < app of this city has n vein two and a half feet wide and nn assay from average ore gives 111 60 In gold The Blue Hell owned by Houston Cull too has a vein two and a half feet wide at top of shaft and five fee wide nt bottom of shaft 31 feet deep and nesitios 1ulnth ouoc In gold one ounce In Ur wind 960100 pr cent In 0plr The Morning Fine ownd by Kllrtz Chnllrlon of 110wlln line a tunnel 1100 feet In the mountain about 110 tons of ore on the dump which 5If 11s ISM In gold 1G ounce silver Anti 4 310 pr cent copper from a random specimen picked 011 he I dump Numerous Veins were cut by the owners In driving this tunnel from ono of hlh on assay Was ohllllnrd from nn average specimen which > led ml 18 per cent copper 13 gold and 6 ounces silver per Ion An average ample of the rich and poor ore nn tho dump ran OS ounces gold and 620100 pr cent copper THE RAMBLER MINE Twelve miles from the heart of the Encampment district Is I the Uattle Lake district on the wel side of the continental divide The Rambler mine Is I ITO feet below the surface and 111 Ion of ore haa Iren shipped from up to the middle of August this jcnr The ore from this min whn n1 discovered WAR a red oxide of copper sociated with blue and green caron ales of copper As depth won obtained It consisted principally of copper pyrites The ore varies In values the first shipment having run 21 per cent copper per ton Ihe next five cars 2 O Per cent Specimens recently tested as iyed a trace of gold 40101 ounces of silver and 43 COloo per cent copper per ton The Ledbettcr claim about 1U mile hhb t ia i east of the Rambler gave essays from specimens submitted 30 ounces nf gold SO ounces of silver and 1210100 I cnl eOlper Tier Ion Tin iimiiir Chile copper mine in tile Inclmpmn district and about live miles northeast of the Rambler gave returns of 18 per cent copper 2 line 1Icr II gold and 19 Ir ont Iron I Tile sholt on the rlulmVoo fet deep and Is I now bonded bs InC Ilih capitalists The line khorn claim has a vein 15 feet wide and memo line Specimens of gold has been obtained from the rock Assays from this ore run from 110 itO 10 depending on the rlchnes of the eclmon in addlllon to these claims there are at least 15 or 10 more In these ills 111 a thai or being lIeOlu1 Slowly tile I ghts promise of richness In norly every Instance values ine range an ohafts are punk 10 a greater depth Some 400 claims have been located In I Ihoe districts and hero arc man rood claims up good It not better than those which have been ocato1 The ones 10al1 are In open IlOld ridges whore the vehis are Family IrlLOII hits nearer the con thienial divide timber and earth secrete them hut tho Prospectors will I eventually discover them Some mltn miles south of the Unto Un-to omlllnl TwIt another dllrl hns re eIlt1Y to 0 opIId C r oromillen of great valw have t n dtsetwwv red nnd claims are being lo md In nddl lion to these minerals 1 id nil antimony anti-mony have been found In the mine I belt Till SANPSTONI DISTRICT ko Is northwcsl ot the tattle Ionk 11 I Irlr In ur twelve mil wind the chief min there is I united by Mr Justrivit Douglas A Intnll mill is how In I struewis of troction fill ure enough 10 rullll for II yQai Thin min thin a full net of about 215 ft In Im which It shaft descends too feet mid numrou velnmere cut Thcaiogmnof1hwt ore In gold Is about i6 Per Ion > This sandstone dutilcl tins fui nlshed rich specimens of fri gold quart Fork and line bpcclmens of copper WATKIl AND TIMBKIt Anywhere In these mineral districts thither nnll water are uhunda 1m inerwe 01 field urohrly the middle I nn1 norlhrn part of Hi uullty The Platte volley is uOLpUblo of oullln lIulI slid Irrigation 11001 now is I r tjaji y llIed nith nil nrprllng People Al the time nf the year the mountain ranjpn are receiving Ihlr nantl if now anti but 11 1 site 11 11wil11111 Q101111bo do Ior next Juno 1 r July Thu mloo deal to visiting the 1trlto eholl101 come In I Tub I or August That a rich mineral hpil exists and whist nmroll 10tIn have Ieon 1vol Illich gl cAery prIIII uf nrlohlng heir I nuerst ore beyond question Tlml II will tak time and money In dlop theme prop ertl 9 I nlo beyond quentlon but three I hRrd II dltrld In the United RIo on today that offers 11 wwt l minIng min-Ing men proptore onl visitors a bet > er opportunlt of Investment |
