GREAT DISCOVERY OF GOLD.
On 11th January, at Laramie City, Wyoming Territory, great excitement prevailed owing to the discoveries of rich gold mines, twenty-six miles west of the city. Quartz containing 2,500 dols. per ton has been found in a spur of the Centennial Lode, which Colonel S. W. Downey, of Laramie, is working, having in operation a ten-stamp mill. The main lode is a five-foot vein of I rock, assaying as high as from 900 dol. to 2,200 dol. per ton. The spur is a 20inch vein of ore running as high as 25,000 dol. per ton. Roth veins improve on going down. The spur has been struck at 100 ft down; the main lode at a distance of only 40ft, Professor Thomson, the geologist employed during last summer by the railway company to examine its mineral lands, made a careful survey of the Centennial lode, and expressed the opinion that the strata were extensions of the lodes now being worked at Central City and Cariboo, in Colorado.
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Evening Star, Issue 4098, 15 April 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)
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169GREAT DISCOVERY OF GOLD. Evening Star, Issue 4098, 15 April 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)
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