| Show local y tho bb TRAVELED IRA OLD OLDig ig I nt at H aej EMIGRANT ROAD t meat meA mf moil mon mea meD Milando Pratt Visits Scenes of His Boyhood In Wyoming or ort 81 SAW SAV GAMP CAMP OF LEWISTON 1 ier or 6 P 1 st m mJ Where berI rM Suit HaU Lake Parties Are J i w lId nd l ru Gout Gold OND mints Located Joealed rea no a I I ando Pratt and son of ot a t this t s city c y he ho have Just returned from a trip trill to Lew LV ew Iston ton county Wyo where In n company with Col T P 1 T A Ai At r i t the th Holm flIm ami an 6 veral vera other gentlemen g they i Temp have havu been The Tho trip al at i though a stormy one was a II very vcr inter j 3 ono ona w tl ti Jr Ir Pratt this from tram the theDore Pore Dore fact that ho traveled a 11 number of ot miles by Jeam tran tel along the old historical over overland land route roule over which tho the emigrants passed aed with ox and am mule mulo teams hand handcarts carts etc In tho the early days day It Wild was wa waI I i particularly Interesting to Mr Pratt Pratte e who had taken part In three trips across the great plains during his hay hoy hood his bis first trip being In 1851 1551 when 4 he lie camu with hIs hla parents to the Salt Snit Lake LIIko valley valle Tho The next being In 1866 when he drove droo a n team of at seven yoke ot of otI otI I I oxen pren and two wagons over aver this his great groat emigrant route which took him some gome something something thing thins over tour four months to make mako tic the thoAI AI AP J round trip fyi The old road Is 18 well defined having havinga a wall of at sand on eIther Cither side which had drifted up UI by lIy the wind as ai the tile wag wagant i L r CO ant ana on passed along The Tho sage mage brush brU h had grown up through these walls wall of ot sand ST t and is much higher and stronger than that hat found Upon ulon the open Olen prairie Par lar ParMo larand Mo and nd ltd remains at of the buffalo are arc still to 10 too IB o be lie seen along this great pathway some somo of ot the heads and horns of ot their car carcases cases canes es being still In a 11 pretty good goat gool state tale of ot preservation wlaton L is fa a mining town It has D B I n numerous log cabins anti and two mills for tor forthe the reduction of ot the ores tram from rota the tho th the h mines Out flut the latter laller are arc not yet In Ino o ot nn tin II operation the tho winters there being long longI ii I I and conditions are not favorable for tor keeping them running at all seasons ons of or form torm tho th year Now that the warmer season e tI has opened mining soon be to In full I ty ser M blast t again Bain J Much gold gold has hns been taken from this district Tho The placer panda Bands lying In the terru gulches and ravines Mr h ho T Pratt states stales J nearly all contain gold while white the quartz quarts ho Ihu i I ledges are plainly In evidence The Tha Tham Thea m a of ot ledges ledge are embedded between u n strati fied fled country rock of at dark shale The Tho 0 ores orea are oxidized and decomposed near L 8 the surface containing free tree milling time t I 8 gold J The ledges Mr Pratt declare declares J lieu m are orf quite regular In their formation and tho stand nearly Matly vertical dipping slightly 0 to the northwest while their strike is 13 northeast by southwest a S n Mr Pratt visited the Wyoming CoM Coil CoMp GoMer p er Mining mines and while there thero saw gold KOld panned from tram dirt taken Ii a from tram different vans parts of ot Its property MI tint n t This company owns a group of or five wining claims and a ten stamp quartz quarts mill Considerable ore already mined r 1 and lying In their dumps dump Ho Ito was In Inand Inand inand and formed by their manager that these rasp rosr dumps dUmpe should yield the tha company compan about In gold old The old mill tailings cd arc to be worked over again with a n amere mere modern mo lern process of oC treatment and may IMY prove provo very ery profitable tort tori This property wan vas recently pur pur a deC dea W chased by the Wyoming Gold Mining van company ot of which h Col T P I r f to o late ot of Mississippi and now at of Salt f on o off Lake Lako City Is president Mr T A Helm 11 RI 6 Js Is vice president and general manager and Mr L II Nye Nys of at Salt Lake Is J treasurer Tie The 1 e company Is capitalized ic me of oC ot at t representing an nn equal num ber her of ot shares nil t |
