. The state of Wyoming, a book of reliable information published by authority of the eighth Legislature . ll bring this district within thirty-fivemiles of a railroad, and it is more than possible that brancheswill be run to the mines and greatly facilitate the operationof properties in this section. Gold was discovered in this region in 1842, and from thattime until 1869 efforts were made to work the rich placersknown to exist there, when the great rush to South Pass oc-curred in the latter year, and the placers rich enough to paywhen worked on a limited crude scale were promptly workedout an
. The state of Wyoming, a book of reliable information published by authority of the eighth Legislature . ll bring this district within thirty-fivemiles of a railroad, and it is more than possible that brancheswill be run to the mines and greatly facilitate the operationof properties in this section. Gold was discovered in this region in 1842, and from thattime until 1869 efforts were made to work the rich placersknown to exist there, when the great rush to South Pass oc-curred in the latter year, and the placers rich enough to paywhen worked on a limited crude scale were promptly workedout and the miners sought other opportunities in the then newfields of Colorado and Montana. Geology.—The district may be said to consist of an islandof metamorphic schists of the Algonkian period lying upon thegranites of the Archean and with several intrusions of graniteand dyke rocks in the schists at different localities. The gran-ites of this section of the Wind River Range are usually thecommon red feldsitic granite, and here show an occasionalgray granite island or band, usually of limited
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