The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-01
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when you consider that to successfully part
the purer silver from the base companion
metals that hold It with giant grip in their
embrace, II takes an outlay Of an hundred
thousand dollars for machinery and other
appliances, even to make the first brick.
you will rather be surprised that we ever
had any silver at all. But with proper
mills and tho various ingenious devices
that the active brain of the miner and
chemist have sought out and applied, it Is
as easy and certain 20 obtainthc pure silver
briclss siii iGs1ts from this wonderful hill,
as for an experienc d baker to fabricate a
luscious loaf from Colorado's Incompatible
wheat.
If Eastern capitalists would come to this
country and bring with them intelligence
sufficient to examine, understand and APP
preciate its mineral wealth they would need
look no further for profitable field of in
vestment. / am aware that Pixies Peak
and Colorado not many years ago had their
day of favor among certain L Eastern spec
ulators, who now, if not singulariy pious
nre moved to profanity on the mere men
ton of the names Nevertheless the silver
ore is here, and the English and Dutch are
wise enough to begin to profit by its pur-
chase and to erect mills and furnaces for
its reduction. That there are thousands
yes, many millions of tons of silver ores
in this immediate neighborhood, assaying
from forty to five thousand ounces of silver
per ton every intelligent miner knows.
All that is needed are numerous and pow
eriul mills to treat the ores and make
ready market for the product of the mines
1t has been demonstrated beyond doubt
that when the Caribou ores are delivered at
q goodwill the silver can be extracted at n
cost of not over ten dollars per ton to the
mill owners. New the vast piles and noun.
tains of ore that are known to exist here
and are everywhere visible, that will pay
ten fold the cost of reducing should lie
useless in and on the mountains side re-
fleets little credit upon the enterprise or
intelligence of the many capitalists whose
easy command of the ready means might
so quickly add untold millions to the wealth
of the nation. You need take nobody's
word or representation. Bring on your
hammers and your crucibles and try the
ores for yourselves. One summer in these
n untans will convince you that there are
royal roads to wealth that have never yet
been discovered by the many worshppers
of the golden calf whose shrines dot the
edges of the sea. One summer in these
awful mountains will expend your souls.
that are now pinched and cramped by the
winding ways of metropolitan commerce.
If you love the beautiful or the grand,
come to the mountains, for here only has
nature spread her grandest glorics out.
| Crags and peaks lift their snowy heads
+ above the stormy clouds and calmly watch
the lightning's play as it draws its thunder
ing chariot over the even floor below. You
may think am enthusiastic in my impress.
sions of this region. But one tramp among
these snowy peaks will kindle into rapture,
and will delight anything bat craven i'm.
age. If there is one remaining spark left
| in the soul of the beholder. the magic
breath of these lofty nights will blow it into
flame fit to kindle the purest incense up
on the affairs of the gods.