St. Landry democrat., 1880-02-07
Mining in Colorado.

( were not Il certainty nor a permanency
and the capitalists who came in afte
INN also long time to make expensive
: experiments, and equally expensive
2 mistakes, and to come down to what i
7 technically and happily called "harc
PAM and operate to some extent will
proper means, skill, and common-sense
t There was one collapse about 1864, ;snt
, OF course the panic of 1873 affected thu
| progress OF the State, and it may fairly
be said that the real g flush times - il
. Colorado are these in which we are now
living. In spite of MI disappointment:
and drawbacks, steady progress has un
doubleday been made, and great results
accomplished. Mining is, beyond al
question, the foundation of the growing
greatness Of the State, and it is most in-
teresting to learn from an elaborate cal.
culatlon, coming recently from a re-
sponslble source, that after making full
allowance for the labor of all the men
employed from the beginning, and all
the money sunk, the residue shows a
better return then any other investment
IN this country. 1t must not be forgotten
that this IS an acreage, and that the for
tunes OF TWO or three bonanza kings
balance the losses of thousands of poor
men; and against the result of this cal
culatlon should be set the assertion-for
which ample support can be Obtained
that at least up to 1871, when railroads
cheapened living and introduced greatly
improved facilities, the proportion Of
miners who could be called successful
was one IN fye hstndreI.
| 1t is to be noticed that here, as in
other similar regions, public interest is
continually attracted to new discoveries,
and q tloating population at once drawn
thlther; and events move so rapidly that
al account Of the state of affairs in the
mining regions may be stale before it is
i'll type. On the other hand, it may be
said that even if some of the people 90
away, the mines remain, and the silver
and gold come out just as surely and
easily as before and a larger area than
| ever is now the scene of active opera
tons.
Starting from the north, we come to
the mines OF Boulder County, not far
from Longs Peak, where there was an
ephemcral excitement, some three years
ago, about telluriuln veins. Then came
those of Gilpin (Black Hawk, Central
City, etc. and Clear Creek George
town, etc., counties, the former noted
for gold product, and both containing
what are called "tEue tissure veins,'
where the rocks have been broken or
torn asunder by earthquakes or volcanic
disturbance. In this neighborhood some
OF the earliest discoveries were made,
and the bullion product of the two coun-
ties is large ard steady Then come
various points in the South Park, and
just between the Park and Main Ranges,
California Gulch, now known from one
end of the world to the other, for here is
Leadville. South again, and between
the Sierra Mojada and the Sangre de
Cristo lie Rosita and Silver Cliff, and
southwest again of this, the great
San Juan district. Discoveries have
also been made in the Gunnison
and Elk Mountain country, away west
of the Snowy Range, and only time can
show what other now hidden treasures
are to come to light in these regions. 1t
is needless to say that several quarto
volumes could easily be written about !
these mines and their operation, and
still much be left unsaid; and perhaps,
indeed, in view of the rapid movement
OF events, the writer OF such work
stands in greater danger of being behind
the age than he who attempts some ran
dom sketches of the haunts and ways of
the " honest miner so first called, it
is said, by aspiring patriots who sou chit
his suffrages. Mr.. Harte declares that
when sets of pictures portraying the
eontrasted careers of the honest and dis
'olute miner were first sent out to Cali
:ornia they utterly failed of their effect,
or the reason that the average miner
,efused to recognize himself in either
A man may come to Colorado with
worthy of Leonidas; he may
reat gold and silver with lofty dis .
lain; he may be doctor, lawyer, p;lrson,
book-agent, lightning
cd man, or dealer in sewing machines
any thing but a miner; all in vain,
or. sooner or later, if he stays in Col
rado, the mania for the precious metals
viii make an easy victim of him; he s
will seek a I" elaim,'' and fondly see J
in the smallest and shallowest '
hto pIoopcCt HOLES. "A. II. IfGYGS,
r., IN Harper for February. :
HERE is the most remarkable presence {
mind heard from so far: A brake J
IAN on the Rochester, Lockport and J
Niagara Fails Railroad had his right a
Dot caught in the guard rail, and there l
as Il locomotive backing some cars a
'ward him. If he threw his body out y
ard both legs would be cut off. The t
ngine would crush him to death if he y
aged in the middle of the track, but he b
y there, face up, and as the car APP q
reached he watched his opportunity, "
nd, just as it reached him, seized the e
rake-rod and hung on with death tx
ke grasp. The effect was that his right W
et was crushed by the wheel, and his fl
Did on the rod pulled the injured foot Y
ON the boot. Except his crushed foot, 81
: was uninjured. C;
ORANGE CAKE.-Two cupfuls white te
gar, two cupfuls flour, one half cupfu] al
alter, two tcaspoonfuls baking powder, W
nch OF salt,t eggs-all the yelks, and p1
hltes OF two--one orange, grated rind b
i'd half of the juice. Bake in four "
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