The New York herald., 1879-09-24

horseback trip to the Ten Milo region, called be-
cause OF ats ten mile distance from the Grand River.
IL Is twenty-five miles from here just the divide
which separates the flow of water. On one side OF
the mountain the water lows into the Gulf of Mex
ico on the other side il flows into the Pacific Ocean.
party OF us went through the tunnel of the Fletcher
M,ne--a AZ, mine Of which the official geologsts
in 1868 by an English company. The man
ager and chief owner died. and atterward superin-
and walked Oft with $4,000. Since then tho estate
sold II ont and now it has gone into the hands Of
Wallace and Robert A. Little ana Mr.. lanes
Kingon. OF New York city. The vein on the out
twelve feet wide and about three miles long showing
heavy deposits of argentiferous galena silver gold
and iron. The vein Is assure. shown in the crop
pings near the mountain top. climbed up there
nearly perpendicular climb-l.5O0 feet The
whole shaft seemed to be filled with puro
lead cubes. shining like crystal. It cannot
be worked from the top. because there is no
possible way of getting the ore down the mountain
The rock would set fire to any shute almost imma
diately. The new purchasers, after having had the
reports OF several experts, who agreed, intend to
drive the tunnel 800 feet into the mountain. where
they expect to strike tho fissure vein, and then
slope 1t l,5O0 feet upward the body. They
expect this to be the key to the entire mountain
vein. they have already gone in 630 feet through
solid rock. with just enough incline in the tunnel to
drain the nino and will now run along at a rate Of
fifty to sixty feet month until the body Is cut.
All around, within radius of 200 miles from here
the mountains are full OF mineral, and the Leadvlls
folks make mistake in driving investors and
miners to new camps.
LEADvILiE A PERMANENT CAMP
Carbonateville Kokoma and other camps around
here WILL no doubt soon be large Leadyille il
now. But Leadvlle, with the railroad that is com.
ing up the Arkansas River from tho Atchison,
Topeka and Santa FG. the Denver and South Park
Railway and the Colorado Central-three roads that
will soon be here-will be the great camp Of the
State probably for all time It is now the laruest
and most extraordinary camp in the world, and has
not an unemployed person in it. The respectable
element has control of the city. The waterworks
are completed and gasworks are under way. The
police is good aud the fire department IL excellent
The terrible rowdyism of early California camps is
unknown here, and few people carry pistols There
plenty of disturbances every night but very few
with fatal result. They putting up poles for the
telephone, ana have the instruments nearly all over
the camp already.
In the general make up of this camp of Leadville
there are many striking differences between it and
Eastern cities OF tho same size. Nobody seems to
live here. and everybody seems to be on the con-
tinual 60 There is business in every eye and do
termination in every face. At night the payements
and streets are crowded with people, like broadway
in the day. On the side streets average of every
second house is a ginmili and gambling shop com.
bined with probably the addition of dance in the
back end OF the room. The women who are en-
ployed to keep up the dancing part are. without
ception. certainly the worst looking and most de-
praved appearing in the country. saw in one of
these places women whose faces depicted the starv-
gentleman who has been here year took me around
the other night to sec the sights. Gambling
roulette. Dutch hazard and other tables might
well have been the sidewalk as
in @ the house house. ,, You strike the faro table
opposite tho other. with stoolpigeons and pmps
playing their parts all day and all night
We went to theatre, where thore were Q lot of
female minstrcls There were two end men, colored.
In the centre of the half circle quaint old
fellow the image of an old picture Of Fadladeen in
"Lalla Rookh." He was grand developer of jokes
and conundrum asker. On the left. next to the end
man. lady asks the latter why he does not get of
with you. Creeping Jesus? ?" Then the lady knocked
the man down. and, jumping on him. gave him
and the doughty Irish minstrel girl whipped them
both. The whole stage and audience was in an
Uf e heard it. M Ell asa uga
pianos and behind bass yos to get out Of tho range
of pistols. and the dropping OF the curtain stopped
better than any the bills. After good deal Of
begging on the part of the manager the play went
on with the proyiso that the man of the bad jokea
and black eyes be Immediately discharged.
LEADvILLE HOTELS.
Among other things that strike tho visitor here
are the good hotels-not good rooms, but clean and
well furnshed-and good fare. The Clarendon ID
headquarters for the magnates. but the Windsor 10
There is great demand for without board, and
difficulty in getting them There very many
more people coming and staying than going away.
and the population is rapidly aud largely increasing
The greatest trouble that is to happen here will be
lawsuits over mines. Already there are hundred
more entered.
For some reason other tho Leadville statisti-
clans have not thought to gather up the amount OF
ore produced and bullion shipped since the camp
started or at any given period. So mounted a
horse and secured the country several miles to gee
the report Of each smcter. 1t is astonishing with
what rapidity these smelling furnaces started and
grew. There are some thirteen works and twenty
eight furnaces and more coming A number Of
them Fryer Hll right by the great mines like
the Pittsbura. New Discovery. Little Chief Annie.
Climax, NC.
These carbonates easily smelted and go through
the simplest processes STILL the ore from some
mines needs crushing. 1t frequently occurs that
low grade in demand. tho lead being needed
for huxes. Sometimes the iron found III tho
mine is used for iux. and in many cases they have
to run some of the Stag through again to
help. The smelling works here are all fitted
with the newest machinery. They are
doing well, but they encounter heavy
expense from the price and freight charges coke.
which is hauled in wagons from Trinidad distance
of 200 miles, The needed charcoal is made here in
the timbered mountains surrounding the camp.
The method of dealing in ore is simple and wonder
fully correct. 1t is sent from the mine in wagons
and dumped into separate bins at the smelling
works. then put into box. quartered and assayed.
1t is then again quartered and crushed to u fne
powder Half the sample is then given to the miners
and the smelter keeps the other half Each party
has his assayer the assayers agree, they nearly
paid at once by the assay II the assaycrs disagree
then third disinterestod party comes in
bitrator These ores are difficult to sample, and
o. two smeters caught playing smart games have to
pay more for their The sIneiter pays Now York
price for silver said to be in the less Ave per cent
and $50 smelling charges per ton. and he also pays
from SIS TO $50 per ton for tho lead. Tho1ead and
silver together into bars of 100 pounds each.
and shipped to New York st. Louis base bullion.
There are numerous advantages in shipping the
metals in this way. The freight is lower. tho cost
of getting bullion to New York being this way only
about s25 per ton. There is not much danger Of
loss by thieves because thieves seldom steal pig Of
lead. and they could not very easily get the metal
separated. 1t goes to Newark, N. j.. and is there
separated Tho value of the lead in tho pigs at New
York more than pays the cost of freight separation
hauling. &c. In fact, 1t deposits tho silver in New
York free OF costs and charges, and 10 still sold ata
neat profit.
ORE SMELLING.
The following table. prepared after great labor and
persuasion. is highly important because 1t repre-
sents all the mineral products of the camp and its
since two years ago. There Is not in
cuded in the table one little smelling works on
Fryer Hill that has worked out in the week Of its
operations thrco four tons of bullion. lead and
silver-say l,400 ounces of silver. Another, the
Pittsburg Mine smeter, has not yot started. In ad-
dtion to this there have been shipped from hore Of
high grade about 900 worth since the camp
This was nearly all shipped by O. II.
Meyer Co.. Eddy James and Burdeli & witherill.
The following is a Trustworthy abatement of all the
silver and lead smeted since the Lcadvile camp
started. the hgures having been furnished me by the
shelters themselves:--