The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-04-04

ther they penetrate it. There is gold enough
| in thfs mountain, ifit is once got out 70 pay
the natibnal debt aud have d surplus left over
| to ioaii'the other nations of the earthfo the
isafne purpose" &
L Among these mines are found many
persons, old Californians, and 'rprcs-
pectors" generally, who have entered
their claims o millions of this mineral
wealth, but who are utterly destitute of
means wherewith to work their claims,
and are millionaires in rags, glad to get
a square meatn on any terms. The
same writer, after exploring all that rer,l
glDn, thus speaks OF the silver mines OF
the "san Juan Country" Y
"If a hundredth part Of the stories they ten
are true, the Comstgek and Consolidated yir-
ginia mines Of Nevada are small POTATOES, COM;
pared with a hundred discovered gold and,
silver leads in the San Juan Country .fS
'The great lake district and UhcampadaeI
district are amongst tile richest, II not the.
richest, ,silyer district in the world. 1 saw
twelve Thousand pounds OF bare bullion await
ing shipment from Pueblo. This contains
ahoutthirty per cent silver, and the balance is
copper and1ead, mostly lead. This chme from
the small smelling works of Green u Co., Of
Lake City. Thousands Of tons Of ore are mined
| in these regions, aha are only awaiting capi-
talists to put in mills and smelling works,
when the silver product Of this region will as
tonish the world. There are hundreds Of lpdes
untouched that would pay big to WORK, if there
were malls and smelling works in the vicinity.
i'Why don't the Eastern capitalists, whose
imoney lies unemployed In the banks, bring odt
ismelting works and quartz-mills, and heir
solve the problem OF a return TO specie pay
ment?" 81.
1 After alluding to the, various mining
I districts that he had visited, this writer
Lsays;
''All Of the districts spoken Of are unqpes
Etionably very rich in gold ana silver, to sa,
nothing OF. lead and copper, Of which no &C
count is made in this country; but now com,
waited stories across the snowy range tina
sound like hctions. and almost stagger TIL
senses to bslieve them.
'''Reports Of a silver lode one hundred an,
4 lffty-hve feet wide, solid galena and gra,
a copper ore, and q fifty foot thick coal min
and mountains Of iron ore, are among til
latest from the front. have seen specimen
Il of the ore and coal, and can assure your read
ers that they are frst-class; but / must beck
Il cused from being little skeptical as to th
enormous quantities. But there is no dout
! the richest mines of the continent are locate
: in this vicinity. Good placer gold digging
are now being worked on the Aninas and l.
u Plata Rivers, by a company of Californian,
,. liheaded by MIR. Morse, an old and wealth
MINER, who can talk the Ute Indian languag,
and has received from the tribe the right
mine on their territory, which has .beenloh
: knewnto to contain the richest placer digging
: in Colorado"
!. The failfoad facilities for reachin
! out to the vicinity of these mines ar
now SO great, that the difficulties an
impediments in the way of access 4
those mining districts, obtaining SUI
plies, &C., are almost nothing compare,
Ewith the obstacles encountered by tn
, California pioneers even twenty year.
ago. The Black Hills region in Wyomin
lies nearly due north from the Colorad
mines, ON the north side OF the Paciti
e Railroad, and are doubtless but the e1
!. tension of the game remarkable miner;
Ibeit, running from the mountains ,
Mexico to the Arctic Circle, across a
: our domain, and bound to yield silyt
7 and gold to. an amount beyond all con
putation.