The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-04-07
A RICH MINING COUNTRY.
AsroNrsHIN0 STORIES TOLD AMOUR
THE SAN JUAN MINES.
rhousnn ds Of Acres Of Rich Goid-Benrins
Quartz The Com~ock Lode Thrown into
the shado-A silver Lode 80 Feet Wide.

Quartz The ComrtOck Lode Thrown into
the Shado-A silver Lode 100 Feet Wide.
Correspondence NJ ne Kansas Citv Times.
PUEBLO, COLI March 1.-THE city Of Del
Eortc, the principal out1tting point for tho san
Juan mines, IL a city OF some three thousand
Inhabitants, ON the south bank Of tho Rio
Grande Del Norte iivtr. 1t Is handsomely laid
out. and has some excellent buildings. aud is'
considering its location, lively three year old.
Every luxury "a he had in the states can DO
found IN Del Nortc, and at reasonable hsurcs'
distance from market considered.
There Ia some splendid farming country on tho
Rio Grande and San Louis rivers, ana II has been
settled for "A long time nv McAichhs 80, -
Your corrcapondcnt, who always VIII wear
good clothes, was mistaken. with the other pas
scngcis, for hlOatcd capitalist, ana Wheh tne
rounded Nv a motley, sccdv-looking crowd OF
fellows, some Of whom were OUT AZ cipOWs,
Knee, aud toes, ana wore shoCklnH Vhu nats
"'i" met INV old friend Gen. Thos NJ. Bowen. and
he nAsured me that all these chaps own rniucs,
and snme Of them very valuable ones, but that
il was ground hog case with most ~ them.
They could not eat the mineral, and must sell.
These milliOnnircs Ia rags are Tor the must part
old California and Nevada miners and pros
pectors, and have spent the best part OF their
ii a hundredth part OF the stories they tell are
true, the ComstOck and Consolidated Virginia
mines Of Nevada are small potatoes compared
with hundred discovered gold aud silver leads
IN the San Juan country. he m,nes are mac
Tor at least two months TO come.
Gen Bowen purchased thitd interest In one
OF the best summit claims "A Few dtYs ago Tor
tgTO, and he would laugh at any man VINO was
to offer him $l0OOO for his bargain. He, IN COM
pany with MIR Iangersly. formerly speaker OF
the Arkansas House Of Representatives., owns a
large number Of 81 4ns In the now famous sum
INIT gold mining district,
Mr.. j. b. Chaneo OF Black Hawk recently
purchased an interest In one VI the summit mines
md ia removing his thirty-.tamp mill To the new
ThPF
there last fall, and 1t cleaned W over $500 per
week for the SIX weeks that 1t operated before
other mills varying from ten to twenty-five
STAMPS each, are going III as soon as snow viii
permit than, which Will be, perhaps, Two
months or more Yet
This summit mine Ia. In many respects. the
most valuable gold mine ever discovered. The
whole top OF South Mountain. nearly 1000 acres,
Ia mass Of burnt quartz, and contains wherever
prospected, free gold, assaying all the way from
Sis to 500 por ton. 1t IA all claimed, and the
stakes are as thick a In "A newly discovered
graveyard. Ons nugget was found in the Little
Annie mine the only one that has n mill YETI
worth nearly fA.UO. saw number Of nuggci 4
that came from various claims In the mountain
varying In value from s. 10 go. OF course these
are exceptions, nj 1t would not pay to work the
quartz for the nuggets tut II very tich IN in
visible mineral. called -four gold.
As a rule gold Is not found IN quartz on the
mount In tops. Geologi.ts account for the gold
was form rly the bottom OF a volcano. aud that
II was partially cooled on tcforo being elevated
by an earthuuake. A shaft has been sunk by
the Little Annie sixty feet into the side OF the
mountain, aud the quartz Keeps getting richer
the further thew penetrate IT,. there Is gold
enough In this mountain, II II Is once got out,
10 pay the national debt and have a surplus left
The summit strict ia about thirty miles
covered or explored last year by the Hon. sid
ney Clarke lies directly south Of the summit,
ABOUT twenty miles, while to tue southeast Is
the Decatur, "A very rich district
one Of the most talked about at present, be-
cause II Is tho newest, IL The Bitter creek dis
trict, discovered 10y II. McEadden In July OF last
yoar. Mcfadden is an old Buckeye boy. and has
been In the MINIS ever since , the nrsi Cali
fornii gold discovery. lie SAYS that the
crcvice Is 100 feet wide between the small rock
OF his Vanderbilt mine, and specimens Of the
quartz shown your CORRESPONDENT seem 70 war
rant bis sanguine expressions In regard to this
and several other mines that no discovered and
located. The district lies nearly st OF the
Summit and Il only eighteen miles from Del
Norte. The character of The quartz ~ similar TO
that taken from the summit and the quartz
Tie D., rions Of WIN nave spoken are only
on the threshold. So 10 speak, Of the great san
Juan country.
Tie great lake district and Uncampaque dis
trict are among the richest. If not the Richest.
silver districts III the would. saw l2OOO pounds
OF bare bullion awaiting shipment from Pueblo.
Tns contains abou; 20 per cent. silver, and tue
NO from the small suciting works Of Green 4
Co., Of Lake city. Thousands OF tons Of ore are
mined In these regions. aud are only awaiting
capitllists to put IA mills aud smelling works,
wien the silver lrnduct of this region viii as
tOnish the world There are hundreds Of lodes
untouched that would pay big 10 work, II there
were mills aud smelling works In tue vicinity
REPORTS 81 silver lead I1 feet VIDE, solid
kalenH aud IT iy copper ore, and nfty-fuut thick
coal mine and mountains % irnn ore, are among
the latest from the front. have seen speci-
mems Of the ore and coal, and can assure your
readers they IRE first class. Good placer gold
digginss are being W Jrked on tbe Aninas and
La Plata rivers by a company OF CalfOrnians
headed 10y Mr.. Morse, an old and wealthy miner
who can I TX the Ute Indian language, and has
received from the tribe the right to mine on
their territory, which has been long known to
contain tue richest placer diggings In Colorado
Gu the WY Gown from Canon City fell in
MIR Wilhelm. a. the Denver T1illIlDe HA had
lust been to Rosita, a new mining district near
She railroad, on this side OF the mountains, and
he vas loaded down with RI n specimens OF ore
that VS. ali poCkmarkel, SO to speak, With ma
tive or ruby SILVER. These mines lro attracting
agreat deal of attention, aud pay well, FROM the
fact that they can lie worked all tho year round
While was IN Pueblo MIR Fetd Birndollar sold
onc-tuiTd int rest IN one Of the newest dis
coveres for f@7,0 U.