The daily gazette., 1880-02-02
Letter From LeadvsUe.
A BRIGHT PICTURE OF coLoRADo's
SECOND CITY - INTERESTING STA


SECOND CITY - INTERESTING STA
TIsTIcs, &o.
LEADvILLE, Col, Jan. 81, 1880.
EDITOR GAzETTE.-Leadville is the
county seat of Lake county, COL, and
is 100 miles southwest Of Denver (;
Denver Is 654 miles west OF Omaha,
and Omaha is 502 miles west of Chi
cago.
The town is two years old--popula-
tion $4,000. 1t has paved streets, water
works, gas, six theatres and five or six
churches. The Catholics have two
churches, one q fine brick, finer than
any in Wilmington. There are three
daily and four weekly papers. The
total value of the ore shipped last week
was 1897, ,143, with $500 bars on hand.
L Ike county will turn out from $50, ,OO0,-
900 to $50, 600, 900 for 1880. To appre-
ciate this vast sum 1t Is only necessary
to remember that the product of the
precious metals for 1879 in California,
Nevada, Oregon, Colorado, Washington,
Idaho, Montana, Utah, New Mexico,
Dakota, Mexico, w. coast and British
Columbia was $75,34o,501.
Business Of all kinds is booming.
Houses rent for ID per cent month on
the cost, and many business places rent
for more money each month than they
cost, house, land aud all. Common Ia
borers get from 50 to 81 per day car
penters, brick layers, roofers, etc., from
"a TO So; teamsters and drivers from
$50 to 500 per month washing So per
dozen servant girls from 81 to $40 Der
week. Board is tom so 10 SIS Der
week and up to $40 per day lodging 80
cents to So per night.
A man and two horse team $40 to 500
per day lumber from $50 to $50 per
1000 feet -four SO per 100 pounds, corn.
So per 100 pounds; potatoes, S8.5
per 100 pounds hay, 81 per 100 pounds;
whiskey, So to So per gallon; eggs, 80
cent. beef II to 18 cents per pound
p rk IL cents. A dwelling with 8 or 4
rooms rents for from $40 TO 500 per
month, and the place has only com
menced to grow. Every one here now,
has come here in wagons or stage or on
foot from 40 to 100. miles over noun
tains Il, 900 feet high. The nearest rail-
road station is now 35 miles distant.
Next summer Leadville will have two
railroads and perhaps three, vet YOU
VIII find grocery stores here carrying
GO00 NM N I'D 4
diamond market in the U. =. outside of
New York city.
Now, if you want any further par
ticulaIs, just send Mr.. j. Gavisk, ESQ.
editor of Democrat, So, and have him
send you the weekly or daily Democrat.
Ii you do not want q red hot Democrat
ic paper, you can order the Chronicle,
or the Herald, all live papers and full
of things that would interest any one
who has Colorado on the brain. There
are lots of them. Philadelphia, New
York city and Chicago are full of them.
One word more, especially for my
friends: II some of the boys that are
waiting round for an Office, or for some
thing to turn up, or for the old man to
sign his last legal document, would Just
grab grip sack, go to Baltimore and
invest $40 in first class, or about $50
in a second class railroad ticket for
Leadville and come on the first train.
If you can bring $500 to $1,000 with
you, you can go into business and make
from 5000 to $1,000 year, and if you
can get In here without a cent you can
pull off your coat and earn from $25 to
$50 perweek; if and you have chance to
strike 1t rich, you may get mine from
which you can get 100000 per day-as
one man did not long ago.
II man locates a claim and sells IL |
out next week for $4,000 or $25, 700,
nothing is said about it, as that thing
happens so many times, every cay. In |
fact, the papers cannot give all the large
sales or big strikes made. If some of |
you who cannot get licenses to keep
hotels in Wilmington, would move your
dry goods and groceries to Leadville,
you could return to Delaware In five |
years and buy out every officeholder
and politician in the State. l mean |
heir earthly possessions, for am sure
none of them would sell their title to /
heir mansions in the skies. ]. H. M.