Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-03-05
LIFE AT LEADVILLE.
From the Denver Tribune, Feb. %

from the scene Oh cAclteLuont.
"You can just bet they are now.
With hundreds of saloons, a half
dozen dance houses, plenty of amuse-
ment of all kinds-theatres. !egiti-
mate and legitimate, balls and par
ties, people coming and going, new
discoveries, high expectations, you
bet everything is way mp Life is
nowhere equal to what it is in Lead
vile. 1t is for activity and hustle,
excitement and talk, Paris inAmel.
ica-that is our lS-month-od Paris.
"People coming in in droves, |
presume!"
"Drove is no name. By carloads,
Stage loads, agon-loads, horseback
and on foot they pour in as if Lead
Vile were a lodestone and human
flesh were not able to withstand the
magnetism"
"Where do they come 'front.'
"Ask me something easy. Where
don't they come from! 1t looks as
though some parts of Colorado must
have been deserted to furnish Lead
Vile with population. 1t looks to
me as if everybody | ever knew in
Denver had gone to Leadville. There
are hundreds there from Kansas and
hundreds who never saw
"a mine before, and, on the other
hand just as many from Wyoming,
New Mexico, Dacota, Utah, Idaho,
Nevada and California, from San
Juan and the Black Hills, WhItepine
and Cottonwood, who have made
mining their business for years.
There are people here from heLaho
Superior district, from Chicago, New
FORK and from even the very coast
of Maine Indeed they come in raw
from ireland, England, France, Ger
many, etc No end to people. 1t
seems to me the fame Of Leadvllle
has penetrated the innermost recess
es Of the earth.
"What do you propose to do with
those who Gomez
"God only know if they keep com
ing. However, we have SO far fur
nished those who came with some
thing to do"
"What do they dol"
ooh, anything. There is, you see,
so much going on, Building is pro
crossing everywhere. There is a
great deal Of hauling. AS many as
ten smelterS | now know OF are pO-
ing up. Saw-lniiIs are pouring into
the country. Prospecting is going
right ahead and mining IS lively.
Almost all of the shafts employ three
shifts"
GLOW much are the laborers paid!"
"i1rom $3.50 to SD per day"
People have gay time finding a
place TO stop when they first arrive
in town, do they not?'
"Well, rather. Its not so hard,
though, when you get used to it
sleeping on the floor and table"
con tie floor and the tables"
"Weil, | should remark. You'd
think so if you would go into one of
the hotels or saloons some morning
about daylight. They lie on the
tables in piles, and on the floors they
are stratiiied like rock. And they
get along pretty well, fortunate to
get sit as good as this. !"
"How much does couch like this
cost"
The same as 0 bed-S1"
"The hotels must be doing pretty
well 2"
That's what. Making money
Just ike coming it."
"How many people DO they ac-
commodate at their tables--I don't
mean on them--a day!'
"Oh, Lord, / couidn't say. Take
the Tontine restaurant for instance.
il has six tables which accommodate
six persons each-thirty-siX in all.
They are all constantly crowded
from daylight till midnight. It must
feed at least 800 or GOO people daily.
But any business pays IN LeadYlle, =
Bow so!'
"Oh, money changes hands SO fast.
a dairy ranch would he y fortune.
Min is sold at dollar a gallon"
"a dollar a gallon Y
Eyes, sir
"Ard pray how much is water
worth!