The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-07-23
LEADVlLLE.
c0LoRAD0Y BIG BONANZA.
The Big Rush 70 the New DiRgings'
How Fortunes are Made in Few
Hours.

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ensem, Correspondence Sunday BAaoo.
LeadviIle, Col, July l0.-Here
am way up straddle Of the continental
divide-if l slide one wav. will "a
into the Pacific ocean the other into
the Atlantic. So / am trying to hold
on to it. Left Colorado Springs that
most delightful place-some two weeks
ago. Had 70 cross three ranges OF
mountains, coming log miles, and il
only took from ii a. m. Monday I'll!
Tuesday night, about eight days
pretty good considering the roads we
have to travel. Started out through
Veta Pass and on over the Hayden
DIVIDE, some 10000 feet high, and
there over two other ranges, down
through smith Park, and We finally
arrived at this noted place.
LEADvILLE
situated some three miles up what Is
known as California gulch, which has
heretofore been noted for its gold
place diggings. some five million
dollars worth of gold having beer
taken OH; of it. Is not washed much
now. This is a town of only one
wears growth, and today there are
some five hundred houses in the town
proper, and for several miles around
amidst the pines there are innumer
able cabins in which the miners "bacl
it," some few only having families
Most of the houses are made of pine
logs-the banker. l believe, has the
logs in his'n peeled-that looks toney.
There are some
THREE THOCaAND MEN
in here nov and still they come in
wagons, on horseback, afoot and any
way just to get to Leadville. There
are too principal streets in the town
one little more SD than the other.
The night / arrived. nv surprise was
great to find the street literally packed
and damned with humanity-equal td
any crowded city thoroughfare. Al
first it struck me that there had been
a murder or a fire. but / soon dis.
covered that it was an every day
thing. when the miners come down ia
get their mail, grub. etc, and to at
tend the theatres, games. They have
two theatres of the variety order; one
dance house. open every day. Matinee
afternoon. Friday night is
ladies' night, when no drinking or
smoking is allowed. They are very
particular on this night. they wont
even let fellow knock the barkeeper
iown, nor shoot the lamps out, and
then
THE ACTRESSES
all 60 to bed earlier, at 3 o'clock. Each
theatre has brass band, and they
rall the boys in each evening after
supper There are twenty-four saloons.
md about as may gambling dens open
all the time. both night and day,
though the principle business is done
At night. The tables are continually
thronged with players at all sorts Of
games. They do a slashing business
and have a riproaring time,
Miners get s. per dav. and many of
hem will work hard all week and
'pend and gamble away their earnings
IN Saturday and Sunday nights as reg
ilarIy as they are paid of. But all
ire not that way, though majority.
n at any rate a very great many of
he men in a new mining camp. like
his, are apt to
BUCK THE TIGER
md spend their money in carousing,
yet there are many who do not. who
rave not the means. and if they have,
t is used for better purpose. There
ire lots of intelligent, educated men
Who come here to make stake. They
'ull of their coats and begin to delve
nto the earth, hoping to be one of the
lucky" who strike it rich. Some of
hem are rewarded and others not. Or
course everybody can't strike it. But
his is considered the best mining
amp in the State.
These are
A PECULIAR CLASS OF MINES,
mike Others discovered herefofor.
These are called the Poor Mans
lines. Reckon the reason is that
can dig that can find a place
lot taken. All you've got to do is to
ind a good location and sink a shaft,
nd you are just as apt to strike miner
! as anybody. even the oldest miner
n the camp. The mineral is carbonate
nd chlorate of silver and laws in beds
r deposits just like a coal bed. and no
ne can tell ANYTHING about where it
Ups or which way or how far it ex-
ends. or anything about it. So any
reenhorn is as likely to get rich as
hose who have been here mining fur
ears. Mineral is struck at different
epths.
About three weeks ago a poor fel-
Nv who had been digging at various
laces Sithout success, began a hole
ear 4 new road that had Just been
pened, and in three feet struck pay.
e mineral. He sold the claim for
$4,000. Last winter two brothers
AIMED Gallagher struck it up STRAY
[orse GuIch," and