Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-08
LEADvILLE.

LEADvILLE.
No Place for Men Without Money-Ihe
Place Quorum ,vith Idle and Hun1r,,
Men WA0 Can Neither Get York nor Raise
Honey to Get A,U0aj.
Detroit POST
The following letter is from gentleman
who has ben there and knows all about it:
"DETRo1T, Feb. 20, 1819.-very many in
quries are made about Leadville, Col. Such
questions can be best answered by publish
ing the facts stated by the Denver Tribune
of Feb. %. 1t is high time that the lunatics
for Leadville were restrained. If people de-
sire to 60 west into the mining fields, there
is plenty of good mining country to be
found as good as Leadville or Lake county
'unoccupied. Leadville is crowded with dos
titute, suffering people, and it is an outrage
to encourage more to 60 there. Let the
truth be known; then, if they 60, they will
know what to expect
Denver (Col.) Tribune, Feb. 49,
1t is the duty of every newspaper in Colo
RADIO to warn moneyless people against going
to Leadville. The interests of the State de-
mand it. All the land around Leadville for
miles has been staked out and prospected,
and man without money has no opportu-
nifty of finding anything in the mines or in
the city. This spring there will be heavy
Immigration to Colorado, and large frac-
ton will 60 to Leadville. Many of these
newcomers will only have money to take
them there, and when they reach the Eldora-
do they will find that to them it is Poverty
Flat Of the most marked type. Everything
will have been taken up, and, being without
means, they will be in as miserable condi-
ton as they would if penniless anywhere
else. MoneYless people must be warned
away; not from the State, but from Lead
vile. There are too many of them there
now, and there are too many more crowding
in that direction. 1t is to the interest Of
Colorado and of Leadville that the latter
the danger of a starving and desperate ele-
ment.
Correspondence Denver Tribune.l
We publish the following letter from one
of the best known and reliable gentlemen in
Colorado. Every statement contained there
IN is in every respect responsible
''LEADv1LLB, Feb. 10, 1871 have talked
with more than fifty men in the last two
days who had not cent of money, and no
means of obtaining it. Hundreds of idle
men line the streets every day, because they
cannot obtain work. Unless the rush of
such men stops, there will be trouble of a
serious character. Men cannot starve, and
will rob if they can't get bread in any other
way"
letter from another source says:
'LEADvILLE, Feb. 20, 1S79.-While it is
strictly true that the mines are constantly
developing richer deposits of the precious
ore, 1t IS equally as true that not one in 500
VINO Hook here to make their fortunes bv
digging for minerals succeeds in making any
more than precarious living. The tempta-
ton held out by prospects of sudden wealth
overcomes all obstacles, and thousands upon
thousands of persons who were making fair
wages at home come here to lind disappoint-
ment of the most bitter and perplexino
kind. Unable to make discoveries that will
warrant capitalists in investing their means,
failing In their efforts to obtain employment
at rates that promise immediate wealth, they
become dispirited and detected, resort to the
cup, and in few weeks the story is told.
The undertaken can furnish the sequel. This
IS by no means a fancy sketch,
as anyone not misled by the
present craze will inform you. It
is difficult to furnish employment
to hundred men when there is only suf-
ticient for one-ffth of that number. This
is the status of the case in this city to-day.
The streets are filed with men anxious to
obtain employment, food, and lodgings, and
they can find neither. Food is plenty, but
these persons have no means to purchase.
know that there are scores of men who
sleep at night wherever they can find an
opportunity to lie down on the floor, for I
have seen them; and have also seen them
under the houses and barns, unprotected
from the weather, except by a thin wooden
blanket. These are the persons who fill the
mortality lists. Fifty cents per night is the
common price for bunk, and twenty-five
cents IS charged for the privilege of lying in
tent, where the party furnishes his own
blankets for covering. Fifty cents is the
ordinary price per meal at the common
restaurants
Colorado Farmer.
The mining excitement is at fever heat;
how much greater it will be we cannot pre-
dict Every train brings in scores and
scores, and the rush is not here yet. Those
who. come now are at least two months too
soon. The great carbonate districts lie
buried under deep SHOWS. The camps are
now overcrowded by hardy prospectors. who
know the ground, the country and the eli
mate. Strangers without money, or, as some
term them, 'pilgrims,'' have but little show
of success. We only wish we could avert the
great distress that will inevitably follow the
pouring into our State of the vast number
of inexperienced men who are coming-men
and boys who never knew days hard out
door work in their lives-who
do not understand "roughing it, as we
call this clambering over our snow-capped
mountains, sleeping on the frozen ground
or snow, prospecting on our mountain sides
with pick and shovel, subsisting on coffee.
bacon and hot biscuits. Many and many
are the hapless youths who will beg for
bread before the craze is over. Many and
many are the homeless gold-seekers
who will be laid to rest by strangers hands
on the mountain sides of our grim and grand
old Rockies. The papers of the East should
give true warning to their people, if it will
do any good. Let no one suppose that we
don't believe we have within our boundaries
more precius metals than any State in the
Union, or the world; but, if we have let no
one suppose that but there will be 999 fail
urcs to one grand success Those who can
come and support themselves may; but those
who defiantly court suffering, beggary and
death, should stay at home.
Independent Jo,srnalis,, Overdone.
Speaking of the late assault on Don Piatt
by Billy M cGarrahan, the Cincinnati Com
maerciaz observes:
We have heretofore expressed tho oninio,,