, 1874-05-08
COLORADO.
Discovery of Rich Copper
Mines.
Probabilities Of an Active Year in
Mining Circles.
Tho n1urtlerous Career Of tho
Espanosn Brothers.

Tho N1urlorous Career Of tho
Espanosn Brothers.
Special corrtspondence af The Chicago 7tibttns.
CANON UirY, COL, April 40, 1874.
The eight-and-forty preachers, tho elght-and-
forty deacona tho wau, dismal, consumptive
crew of invali.le aud the few merchants, profess
sional mon, and gentlemen of elegant LEISURE
who constitute tho chief population Of Canon
City, aro quite vsibly excited ovor tho froah dis
covery Of somo
n1ou AND WONDERFUL. coppEn.ai1nEs
aituated in what ts known as Wobstora Canon, a
wild, romantic mountain-gorgc. Il miles from
this hoavou.faYored spot. The new qoloonda is
receiving It's squads OF miners snd adyonturera
daily; and, as vrito, choire perspective is re-
voalcd Of froightorH, wagonBt mules. md bull
vhackors, all laden With flour, bacon, picks,
sboyolB, and other necessary paraphorualla, and
oil bound for tho mines. Tho streets rcaouud
with blows aud cureos, and tho old Hquattera,
who have been scratching their ragged bacltH
against tho hitohing-posts for tho past twenty
years, DECLARE that they never saw tho town SO
lively before. But little ia thought, talked,
or dreamed OF, but tho 1niuoH.
Even the stail old deacons have
caught tho prevailing rnaufa, and last Sabbath
QUO Of them bounced hiB pastor with tho quory,
"WLy in thunder ho didn't preach something
fresh, BY comparing tho glorios Of tho Now
Jerusalem, to tho glorfcs Of Copper Gulch."
Tho deacon WAS kicked out Of tho ohurch in dis
grace, his atar Of Office WAS takon from him,
and tho sisters snubbed him as they passed him
Oh tic street but no are rejolced to add that he
struck a threo-foot orovice, which ls now for
saIo ut the modest price Of $4,000. Really, the
excitement is quito prodgious, and remiuda ono
very forcibly Of the palmy days Of 80. when
whisky sold tor s2 pint, aud whom dospcradoop
blazod away at each other with royol7ers oyery
morning before breakfast. at,d delugcd the
ground With goro. Thoso woro exciting days
and now, when one witnoaBeB tho hurly.bury
aud confusion, whom ho beholds rod-Bhirted,
full-whiskered minors shtauping up and down
tho street, comparing oroB md assays, and al-
1uling to now and wonderful lo1oB with that
modosty Of nomenclature so peculiar to the
mouutaiu-region, 1t requires but a small stretch
Of the imagination to believe that old Father
Time has hat the dial-hand buck about ton yoo1s.
Speaking Of deBperadoca, one iB very naturally
reminded Of those Mexican outlaws aud out
slroats,
TIE EspANosA BROTHERS,
rho 1ourlshed in this country in 1863. and rho
were the torror Of every nun, woman. and child
in aonthcrn oo,orado' Thoir namos .ro ut;iy
.aaa ~ xsa,,4e, sarsaa.o,, .a.a,s.a.. -. ~ "....
America and the Oldest inhabitant always looks
grave whom ho mentions tho namo of Espauosa.
If one-llalf tho yarns rclatod Of them arc truc.
thcv wcrc tbe moat h,no1thiratv villains TIN,
49,. ,,.1,,aa H. Soa. -, ~ .as.,' -. sA.s's
o'e9 "alAeo 'no 1aoo OF tno eaFtn' IL seems
they did not murder so much for tho gain Of the
thing as for tho nero pleasure OF the killing.
Thoy liked tho smell Of fresh blood, and c1oated
ovor tho c1n;r,ng ooon,oa ~ tIa;r y,ctitns r.
Was death to meet the Espanosas On lonsly
road it waa almost equally fatal to moot them
in q crowd, Their fayorito scono of operat;ons
waa l., nouthorr f,o1orado in IN. v;cntt, ~ A..