The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-11-25


ALMA, COL, Nov. 90, 1850.
They say out here "they all get it" (the
mining fevcr). / left your pleasant town the
2Ist of June last for Denver, Col, to start
branch house Of the Cleveland Cooperative
Stove Co., in company with q Mr.. Kent, of
Cleveland, and q. c. Stutchdeld, of Sandusky,
formerly OF your town. But as said, Z" they
all get it." and got 1t after remaining at
Denver about six weeks. AL you can hear
in this State is "How much did you get for
your mine?" thought / would try 1t, so
started out, July ed, to try my hand, and on
the morning of tho oath landed ct Alma, q
little mining camp Of 800 Inhabitants, II 200
feet above sea level, and the highest mining
camp In the world.
Within the past three months we have
made good growth. We have 1000 MEM
bers, and are In q very fourishirg and rich
mining district. The town is at the junction
of Platte River and Bnckskin Creek, and will
never want for water, which most Of our
mountain towns do. Its surroundings are
beautiful. opening out from South Park to
the west; Mt. Bross, 14,OOO feet above sea
level to the southwest; Mt Lincoln, II, 200
east, 12,00O; Musquito Mountain to the east,
and Pennsylvania mountain TO the south, and
all very rich 10 mineral deposits. We are on
the east side Of the range and get the early
morning sun, while on the west side they
have snow and ice the year round. Our
nearest railroad-the Denver & South Park
is at Red Hill, % miles. We have 8 tri-oaily
line of Concord stages, which bring the mails
from south aud north.
The morning after arriving started out to
take In my surroundings and town, and on
every corner would hear, 20 say, there goes
tender foot ~ "Shoot the white Shirt" and
all sorts of remarks Of that kind. did not
know what to make Of II, but after looking
over the town-which could be walked over
in five minutes-t returned to the hotel. A
Mr. Newton, a friend Of mine from the States,
who has made this his home for number Of
years, came in to see IL had arrived, as
had written him was coming, and the first
thing be had to say was, " Mr.. Colver, that
white shirt and stiff COLLAR must bo removed,
or you cannot stay in this camp" So l
thought must do 40 the Romano do IL
wanted to dwell with them. After going
through Q complete change of costume the
tender foot of the morning was no more, and
through the instruction Of my friend passed
of as ian old timer" as they call them.
The next on the programme was to look
the camp over and sec and learn what I
could. After the first week made a break"
and bought "a prospect" which am work.
ing now with q very good showing. We
found, by looking over the camp, that it was
impossible to find q market for low grade
ore, and after talking with the prospectors
of the camp, We concluded to start the long
needed works for handling the low grade ore
with which our camp is blessed. We have
the works nearly completed, and will make q
start about the 25th, with q capacity Of treat
ing twenty five tons per day.
A week ago last Saturday it commenced
showing, and for eight days we saw nothing e
but snow on Mt. Bross. They have twenty
feet of the beautiful commodity. They say
their winter does not set in before February
18th. II SO, want to get out Of here about
that time and return to Ohio, or some other
sunny cline.
James Bowlby made me q call the other day
at Denver, so the boys write. He is Mail
Agent on the D. & R. G. r. R., from Denver
to Leadville, and understand Is doing we'll
I find q number Of Ohio people out here. All
the railroads leading out OF Denver are un-
der the Management of Cleveland parties.
Yours truly, B. II. CoLvER.