Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 8, 1924, Page 5

ann — -wtiey seennaie resemnerovenernesees see desist 3 ? FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1924. GOLD MINING REVIVAL SOUNDED IN FREMONT COUNTY AS RICH STOREHOUSES & Esco of lower works of Tabor Grand mine, Atlantic Cit water, for the past twenty years, and following ay: pumping was ment—VPhoto by Bert Bell, Tribune Staff Photographer. . (Continued from Page One.) ming, revived in 1905 into another feverish activity that took millions of dollars worth of gold: from those hills, 25 miles southwest of Lander, only to again sink into quiet ghelis of cities as. the demand for) gold| | ¢ passed and mining ‘cost? passed mining fteceipts, { There is no. question »that the world’s economité — ¢ondftions,’ «a sréater buying’ power of gold. lessening of préduction costs from more modern jnethods of. mining, transportation, fuel and machinery, all are “tending towards another| \ period. of suécessful gold exploita- tion of western mining fields, open- ing, up new ones and devel profitably those already opened up, and Wyoming, with its hundreds of millions of gold stored in rocky vaults, must necessarily be at the peak of such activity, and the South Pass and Atlantic City field the center, Goid mining industry’ swings back- wards and forwards asithe pendulem of conditions demands, but to the practical question of dollars and cents investment to wrest gold“is always added the psychological, and men's mental trends towards gold mining are jest as regular as gco- nomic pendulum swings. ‘There is no*question but what there is an undercurrent, of . gold seeking awakening in the, country—in finan: |. clal fields and in westerners, Atlantic City today is already feeling. the -rdsult of gold: activities. The Carisa mine, one of the richest . in the country, has never been| Showing two of the three allowed to accumulate water, und while not producing has been kept ary and ready for mining resump tion, The Tom McGrath mine, an other rich storehouse of free milling gold, has réc been and then left idle. It connects wit Staff Photographer, . purchased "of Lead, South Dakota, + Showing eight-foot ore vein that has been outright by the Homestake interests one of the] organizations of the world, and : complement of engineers frésh from other fields are at present on the property, quietly developing, block- sng out ore deposits and planning engineering possibilities to put the property into rich production. Sev- eral hard rock miners have been put to work on this property by the Homestake people driving tun- nels-and shafts to further complete the preliminary work, The Tabor Grand group, a famous old mine, has been quietly de- veloped during the year by John Eilman of Lander, one of the west's best posted mining and assay men, and J, E. Hanway of Casper. The history of the Tabor Grand ix: one of the romances of the west and of mining possibilities. At one time a heavy producer with ore in sight that spelled millions, the South Pass activities ebbed towards }a cessation of mining owing to high costs of and no matter how ade ore is en countered, \if economic conditions are swinging back, mining must necessarily swing with it. The ‘Tabor Grand had tons of high grade in sight, and still had not completed its possibilities of ore blocking out and preliminary dévelopment. Addi tional capital was needed to put the property onto a heavy production basis. A fire burned to the ground the shaft house, hoist and com- pression plant, and thousands of dol- lars would be required to open the property, und conditions would not permit stockholters to do th’s. The mine stood idle, as did other valuable properties of South Pass district, until the present owners, with a vision maybe of the future but at least a substantial hunch and the kind of nerve that it takes to pro- ceed the wave of mining resump- tion, and sensing the possibilities, secured the property and for a year have been pumping out the old ee” made available for further de' of shaft at about five hundred foot level of Tabor Grand mince at Attantio City. This shaft, connecting with the ma‘n tunnel was sunk years ago at a cost of over $100,009, ith heavy tonnage of high grade gold ore—Photo by Bert Bell, Tribune largest international gold mining] workings, retimbering, developing: and getting the property in sha aid at — Housecleaning id KANSAS CITY ‘The Billion Bubble Ss In Bar or Chip * Form for Your PEET BROTHERS COMPANY SAN FRANCISCO stal White to take advantage of future possi bilities along with other mining properties,-secured by tremendous financial interests whose business it is to forsee just such conditions and be ready for them. The Tahpr Grand last week was finally pumped dry, and its working exposed. Veins of gold ore that in the days of thirty y ago when expensive methods ore milling of made unprofitable lay open in wide veins, available to power drills rather than the single jacks of those days, and new methods of milling as against the expensive and cum- bersome steam boiler plants then, with wood the only fuel, and cost- ing $6 a cord, Labor was high dur- ing the feverish pioneer days of this gold camp, living conditions in keeping with the camp's ‘isolation from civilization and food centers, hauling of ore expensive, road con- ditions nearly impossible, and mod- ern machinery for mining only hoped for as a future possibility. As an example of milling in those days, the Dexter mill was built in 1905, a large plant that today stands idle and rotting along Rock Creek running through Atlantic City, The mill could in the old days if properly operated show a profit in milling high grade ores even at a cost of over $100 a day for fuel alone. But with the gold camp wages, high living. costs, hauling costs from mine to mill prohibitive, and a lessening buyiig power of gold, the mill succumbed to the fate of the mines, and has lain {dle ever since, Convenience 8 waiting sa . developing word. to :. . patch vith motor transportation, Ff Away go housecleaning troubles with the oe erdaritlancheagh fuels areal season’s grime when Crystal White is on the ee arataiiteea miving job! Floors take on a brand-new look. Wood- power of an ounce of gold—all to- work shines. Curtains are spick and span. ‘The Tabor Grand property, follow- From cellar to attic—all through the house— ine: tie, belaesiusiies arantonented ight that would thr! the most Crystal White’s quick-action suds leave a hardbolied hard rock miner. Samples : . taken from various workings and shining trail of cleanliness. Lathe Revie Aude. up, thowed ‘a, high gold content. Showed it, mind Crystal White is a pure vegetable oil soap. Con- ed soo a she. apeetene Zq0 ot: ee: fains no ingredients injurious to fabrics or hands. : prerenty. marty bedi ‘ ae hog oe east $ , Gives a quick, lasting suds in hard or soft water. and streaks dot the ore, and the eight-foot vein with other veins, show an inexhaustible supply, The Tabor Grand mine {s the only mine in the district beside the Homestake, that has gone deep enough to get into the sulphides, so rich in gold. It. was interesting to see pannings made of ores that )30 years agowere run over the dump as unprofitable. ‘Today the dump shows gold bearing several ounces to the ton, way be- yond the minimum for very profit able working, Tens of thousands of tons of this dumped ore in Atlantic City r t the South Pass district, waiting the application .of modern methods. Placer mining offers millions today, oa he Casper Daily Cridune maintained done their quota of work on. claims to hold them ready for the days when immense wash the Rock Creek and Red Rock val- ley between Atlantic City and Lan- der, all rich in tioned more as an example of the a specific case. ample of a state's possibilities, and the states possibilities merely one of western development that seems to be in sight and on the way as the ‘wave of mining resumption is gath- as it did years ago, and several ot the older companies huve tarefully PAGE FIVE. ‘| their ownerships and] buildings, many uniphabitated, is but the ghost of the Atlantic City of 30 years ago, when it had several thousand population, an opera houxe, hotels, gambling dives, saloons b the row and was a bustling-with- energy gold camp. From the old to the new has been the transition, and one can visualize another Atlan- tle City, Uke Phoentx, rising in the ashes of the old, a monument.to the mountains surrounding it that hold gold in quantities, and to the de velopment of .Wyoming with its roads, its motors, its power, its fuel and its present day methods of mod- ern application of. modern methods. One cannot witness the develop- ment of that territory, explore the mines themselve talk to the engt- neers on the job there see the In: vestments of the largést compinie in the country, and know the chan ed conditions without realising that he is witnessing the of a a velopmet that; will again mean mil lions to-Wyomtng, and will to such cities a¥ Casper as the state. metrop: olis, mean added growth, T cities as Lander at railsh anc the outfitting point for the South Pass district it will lend added pros- perity. r Atlantic City and for Lewiston, South Pass and Miner Delight, those depleted and rotting centers of former mining glories, standing mute guard over the trea sures of Wyoming mountains until such a time as this when the world demands that treasure for comm and has prepared methods of wr ing it from the hills that 30 ag6 were only dreams of possibil ities, the new development marks | the dawn of another era of indus: | trial activity. | etd aS ee Something New Through Sleeping Car to C uo | Via Chicago & Northwester is ‘Lhrough Pullman car service hi been established daily on train leay ing Casper at 6 p. rriving Chi cago 7:25 a. m., second morning. Dining car serv Tickets and tions on application te Chicago & Northwestern Railway} Advertisement, dralic plants will m the sands of the gold old. The Tabor Grand property 1s men- possibilities of this district than as It is an example of and the district an ex- a district, ering momentum. In a good many of the properties, such as the Tabor Grand it is pos- sible, easy in fact, to chip out ore, crush it in a hand mortar, pan it and make better than high wages even by this primitive method. Transportation into the South Pass has been solved by the automo: bile and motor truck—unthought or med of in the heydays of the overy and first workings. Fremont county certainly has good roads everywhere, and has not over- looked the South Pass. entrances. Grading and road widening is being done continually. This with the motor truck meas cheap transporta- tion. Where hand drills were used before, power drills are available at this time. Within 30 miles is. the Buffalo Basin gas field, with un- limited cheap gas for fuel, and the Riverton United | Stdtes Reclama- tion project shortly will throw water into immense turbines to generate power for the needs of several times the present requirements of that por- tion of the state. Fuel, that expense that even high grade gold could not meet, and power that was derived from this fuel, is no longer a prob- lem, In the pioneer days of mining, labor was paid gold camp wages, be- cause living costs were tremendous- ly high, food, clothing, lumber and necessities were staged in by the pound. Now the automobiles roll through Atlantic City every few minutes, and they are even on a mail route for daily delivery. Shades of Wyoming's mining pioneers! Could they but see what gasoline has done for thelr egmp. 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