The daily gazette., 1880-04-13
SECOND EDITION
For the GAZETTE.
j Letter from Colorado.
GUNNfsON, Colo. Apr


I pi GUNsisoN, Colo, April Q. 1880.
A. 1 am in receipt of from fry to one
hundred letters per week, making in
answer all personally / will try and
give general answer to all tbr> ugh the
GAZETTE. Gunnison is 204 miles south
west OF Denver, on the west slope OF the
Rocky Mountains; altitude, TOO feet.
The town and county Is bran new. The
ctty contains about Dfty houses, two
stores. and two hotels; no paper in, the
county, and 80 miles to the present west
ern terninus Of the d. 8. p. & P. r. II.
d. q. p. & p. r. r., is one of the pro-
prie'ors OF the town, and he will make
this the terminus OF the main line Of the
railroad. and as iron and coal is In erea:
abundance here, the railroad will lave
10th furnaces and rolltng-mills here,
This p ace ID surrounded by mlnerals of
great variety. The silver mills Yield ore
OF wonderful richness. Bnt pothipg IL
yet deyeloped, a. nearly all this county
is In the Ute reservation, and the few
prospectors that wandered In here last
fall from Leadvllle were driven out by
the Utes, and the Meeker massacre
drove nearly every one out OF this coun-
ty, and an extraordinary hesvy fall OF
snow on the mountains this winter has
prevented their return. So everything
10 new, and one-haR of the present popu.
iation 10 hvisg In tents. But now that
she Ute question Is settled the railroad
will be within forty miles Of US by June
the first, and as soon as they get the tun-
mel through the mountains the cars win
6e run In 91nnisoPy which We expect by
October. There are i've hundred puild-
logs now under contract here. three
newspaper esta blishments are now on
the road, and on the 1rst day of May we
are TO have daily paper and three
weeklies. I.a7
d. II. Bidwsll, of Boston, has a S1OO..
600 stock OF hard ware on the way be-
tween here and the end of the railroad.
Mr.. Fred. Kirreger Is here superlnteud.
ing the erection of Q large who olesale
store house.
> Gov. Tabor. the bonanza silver king
OF Leadv.ile, is the president Of the
bank that will open here IN ten days.
The Gunnison Hotel Company, with
capital Of $50 900, has just been organ
ized, and they will they W II commence
WORK on the 18th ON shree-story stone
hotel. The officers are B.. Richardson,
President; Jas. II. Myers, Vice President
and general lsuperintendent,a and Howard
Evans, Secretary. it,t ,....,..,.r. ...,,.
Lots are sold to those that viii build
in six mouths at from $40 to 5000, none
to 81 eculators. The principal mining
camps IN this county are Ruby, Ore sted
Buttes, Pitkin and Marshal.i The For
rest Queen mine at Ruby has now at
depth Of only sixty feet:d five foot vein of
Ruby sttver ore that runs from S12, 600 to
$2O,O0O ner ton. Msjor BIteine, al
Alpine, shipped SOME ore from one Of
h,s mines short time ago that brought
S11 per pound. Otlfp =
A smelter would make O dozen men
rich here in a year. The smelters In
Leadvi lille are using coke that cost them
from $50 to $50 per ton; here 1t can be
had from $6 to $40 per ton. i
The gold, silver, iron, lead and coAi
mines VT this county will attract 100, 900
people here In tue next year. Every
hing here Is about double or triple what
1t Is in Wilmington. II man Ii willing
to work, hard, and compete with the
sharpest men found in America be will
get rich here in Ave Yeas. Gunnison
county has the greatest and richest silver
deposits in the world, and il is q splen-
did market for Delaware canned goods
of all kinds. Yours truly,