The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-31
MININa MANIA.
A Talk with Col. Haase. OF this City, on
LeadviiIe, Colorado, and the Mines.
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A Talk with Col. Hahse, OF this City, on
LeadVilIe, Colorado, and the Mines.
Col. T. h. B. Haase, the popular ticket
and emigrant agent at this city for the
BID o. Company, returned on Thursday
night from sly" to the Leadville, Col,
mining regions, at which place he and
several other gentlemen Of this city are
interested. The Colonel is eloquent over
the "gold ribbed" mountains and is sure
he has struck a lead. Hear him:
"Breckinridge, the location of our inter
ests, is about 20 miles from Leadyille and
II from a railroad, the Denver and South
Park road, mean. It Is Just beyond the
lowest pass in the Rockies, situated II 900
feet above the sea. It Is in Summit
county, Col, and Is in the centre OF the
mining country. The work OF mining,
surveying and locating claims is going on
at all times, and also OF sinking shafts.
This Is on either side OF the Blue river,
and up the stream for six miles, and ex.
tending back to the timber line, Breckin.
ridge is the Invest little town you ever
saw | tell you.
This extent Of country Is dotted at vari.
GUS points by discovery shafts sunk on
valuable. ore. The Fuller Mining Com.
pany struck carbonates on Niger Hill, lat q
depth OF 900 feet; value Of ore S. 1000 to
the ton. Near by is the Washington
Shaft, which shows at depth Of 40 feet,
valuable Galena ore. Across the Blue Is
the Marion lode, owned by Col. Haase,
Capt. Devries, Capt. Dunlap, the Burke
brothers, Ross Wells, Of this city, and
Henry Cans, formerly Of this city, which
assays $50 ounces to the ton, at depth Of
IS feet. On Pacific Peak Is the Silver
Grown lode, which has vein OF 10 feet in
width, Of valuable carbonate ore, heavily
mixed with gold. This mine assayed, at
q depth OF four feet, $50 10 the ton. West
OF this is the Coney lode, at the depth oil
80 feet, will run $50 ounces to the ton.
There are about three hundred miners
at work around these mines and about
1--WE hundred more at work at two Other
camps on "Nigger HILL" Wages rage from
s. to s. per day and laborers are
in great demand. Board S. per week.
More goods are sold in one week at pres.
emit than in a. month last summer. A
smelter is rapidly being built by a wealthy
New York company which will greatly en-
nance the value OF the lodes in thatvic
ty. The ores are pronounced equal to the
best Leadville ores.
The Colonel gives it as his opinion thai
Breckenridge is the liveliest town in Col
orado and promises to be the centre O
the mining interests. II Is very healthy
one doctor saying, "its the worst place fol
my business l ever saw"
The company in which the gentlemen
from this city are interested own
placer mining tracts OF $4,000 acres. The,
have contracted for q tunnel, to be tlnishet
at once, and IS soon as the smelter is in
Operation the "boom" will most certainl,
have struck them. The Colonel is very
much enthused over the dead" he hal
struck, and says that next summer he vii
go TO Long Branch or Newport, he hasn'
decided which yet.
In regard to the people there he say
everything is done on the square. II I
man is crooked they hang him, and tina
. settles it. A lady Is more respected ant
better protected there than in this city
for II lady should receive the stares ant
insults there that they do here, the person
offering it would be shot at once on sight
Oats are 81 per bushel, hay 500. PEI
ton and other things in proportion. Aut
the business dong therp. One clerl a
Denver alone in one day checked 429,0O(
pounds OF freight from that point to Lead
vile.
Eight hundred mule teams daily lcav,
Buens Vista, the terminus OF the Soutl
Pnrs and Tiima road fram nthpr nartu
Three million dollars were deposited il
the First National Bank OF Denver on,
day when was there, for the purpose o
purchasing mines. u
"0h, l have got It, he called out as h,
dsspepded from his high chair, and b.
pulled the bell three times for the de
parture OF the Western train, which wa
also the signal for ours.