The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1879-02-27
LEADHILLE.

44l-llJa 4A-l-l-s Z tDl.-. ] fil. L. 80.
Sine ! am IN daily receipt uf letters
from a!l PTts of Michigan making
many inquiries about Leldyille and its
surroundings, especially from my
. brethren Of the har, won't yOu DO my
self aud all my friends there the favor
10 publish these statistics u this c0un-
tTv:
LraIyille lies on the very headWaters
~ tie Arkansas River, on the 3gth par
ali-l of latitude, lJl miles south and
west Of Denver city. The County is
Lake and the county seat, Granite. is
eighteen IuilrS south Gf here. On the
ArkJusIs River. We nave no records
or courts here. save Justices Courts,
and they nave jurisdiction up To 500
only \ hiil i unU before the l.egiS-
iI.urc "a ui tx, 4 new cOuutV-CarbOn-
ate-hcry and make this the county
seat TIA. done, there will he much
litigation here, but at present, as We
arc eighteen miles from the county
seat AMI the District Court sits only
once year, law business in the State
courts here is mil" I.eadville IS TO-
iaG feet above the sea, situated in Old
California GulclI. Between S2OO0,OOO
and Ss.U1a.OOO of gold was taken out i'm
FIl- " ttll'A ii anu Lilt- halll0slD
cr taken from its bed by w. III. SteY-
"us. cuts the town in twain Although
thus high the winter has been heaven
iy. During the last two months the
Thermometer all day ascendS from
forty TO sixty degrees and at night has
never fallen lower than ten degrees be
ioS zero. and only twice at that for a
siu"le iaV. The fearful cold is un-
locked: on the east the Mosquito
Range cutting of the cold winds, they
being l3.JOD feet, and on the west the
Rocky Mountains doing the same.
Everg SUNDAY for two months have
our preacher expressed thanks to God
for giving uS such heavenly beautiful
days and nights too. This town was
born July July !, 1877, and now has
more than 500 people, 1900 dwellings
and business houses, all of logs, or
green luEber, save 4 half dozen of
brick, and the daily addition To the
population is ut least 100. We have
three banks, live churches, two schools,
three daily newspapers, Seventy-iive
drinking saloons, fifty gaming houses,
etc, fifty restaurants or eating-hOuSeS,
which each feed over 2iuEcrSOnS daily,
six furnace shelters, and six more in
PROCESS Of erection, two orc samplers,
mercantile houses of all kinds, over
thirty lawyers, as many physicians,
and all who work here, wear the blue
ribbon, avoid gaming, drinking, reyel-
ing and l0aiing, are doing well. Over
LOO six and eight-hOrse teams haul
the supplies here and draw away silver
bullion and silver ore, leaving all the
low-grIdc ore piled up mountains
high. Iradyille now sends away S2j,-
OJO worth of ore and bullion each day,
and with cheap transportation they
would qUadruplC that sum. Rents are
high. pay $40 per month for log
cabin for my law and business Office,
and all strangers have To pay 81 for 4
bed, and very many can find none. The
route here from Detroit is via. the
AtchinsOn, Topeka IL Santa Fe Rail-
road 10 Canon City, thence by stage
100 miles. Avoid Denver and the
South Park Railroad. The cost of
transportation from Detroit to Lead
vile will be about so, exclusive of
Pullman cars and food. Living here
is as cheap rs in Detroit, save rents,
And ! will say You can get as good
meals here as ut the Michigan EX-
change. Biddle or Russell House for
about S1.jO each day. Green lumber
brings $50 par thnuhand. Wood saw
ycrs earn 81 per cord for saving lum-
bcr. Carpenters, jOinerS, 81 per diem.
and in good demand, for there are at
least 800 buildings now i'll process of
erection. Good cooks elrn from so to
$50 per month: female servants earn
from so 10 $50 per month; black
smiths at least 81 every day; miners
mostly work for themselves, but Smelt-
eTS, furnace men, teMnSters, all get at
least $50 10 800 per day. The
AtchinSOn, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail
road is graded to within thirty miles
from here, and Will be finished here by
August 1, 1873; and then we have coke
at - per ton. instead Of S:i2; coal ut
81, instead Of so: and by that time
there viii be at least $4,000 people
here. and we shall send off SlOO,OOO i'm
silver bullion every single day. All
these ClTbOMateS of silver are
strongly impregIaUed with gold, and
this last summer SlOOOO0 in gold dust
WAS washed ont here by VIM. ii.
Stevens and other pioneer miners.
Although Sunday is the greatest day
for business and pleasure. too, this is a
most quiet, peaceful camp. But one
man killed since | came here, and he
WAS shot by constable for resisting
process. This, | think. is the real
bonanza of the United States, and will
ship more gold and silver this year
than mv other of the same number of
people ia this Union. ! have written
this letter with the d8Or of my cabin
wide open. the heat of the sun being
in the open air sixty-two degrees at
noon.-GOrT,syOHdeHrr IF Drtrou Free
Press.