Litchfield enquirer., 1880-04-08
COLORADO MINES.

The mining mania must be raging fiercely
 and furiously to require offices of mining
 boards in almost every large city-twoo or three | of them in New Iork-and mining bank
 specially Orgaized for lending on what used to
 be called wildcats" and officered by men of
 the standing of Henry G. Stebbins and L. Von Hoffman. It is twenty seven years since the last mining mania prevailed in this country. It was based on the copper discoveries on Lake Superior and gold discoveries at the South. As rule the latter proved valueless Nearly
 all the money invested was lost. Money was
 lost also on Lake Superior, but good deal
 was made. It is said of the late Professor Agassiz that when his son, the present prof essor, objected to tying himself down to a collegiate life with his narrow means, the
 father cried: "What! you want money, do you? never had time to make money. But
 if you really want some, go to Lake Superior,
 to such point, work in such way, and you'll
 soon have money enough" The son followed the advice, stayed away a year, and came back
 with $100, 900 in his pocket.
 The mining mania of 1880 differs from the
 mining mania of 1853 in two essential respects
 In the first place there is a great deal more
 idle money in the country now than there was then-millions where there were thousands
 Secondly, the present mining mania is based
 on much more solid ground. All experience
 proves silver and lead mining more profitable than gold mining. As if to check mans cu-
 pidity, it seems to be the law that to get a dollars worth of gold you must generally spend ninety cents worth of labor. whereas in
 a number of districts dollars worth of silver and lead can be got at cost of fifty or even twenty cents. Enough IS known of the mining districts of Colorado to make it reason ably certain that they cannot be explored n less than five years, and that, in majority of cases profit will follow so closely on the heels of development that the work will almost be self supporting. Even here at Leadvile only a few acres have been explored. Nothing has been done across the Arkansas In the Evans,
 Iowa and Independence gulches, the prospect holes are only few feet deep. At Ten Mile, which is incredibly rich in mineral, only one
 mine has been at all developed; the rest are mere pock- marks. In the Gunnison district the whole country is known to be underlaid with silver and lead, but It will take all of 1 this year to explore small part of one or two out of many camps. Some ore will come from the Alpine this year, but thousands of acres of mineral land have not been prospected From the Monarch district ore is sent to mar ket but ten thousand new prospectors could each take up his claim there-probably as good as the Monarch. There is even more va ! cant mineral land in the San Juan blstrict. In | word, there is every reason to believe that l mineral-paying mineral-underliese every foot l of a strip of country from twenty to thirty
 miles wide and stretching from Georgetown,
 through Breckinridge, Ten Mile, Leadville, Ruby and Silverton to the border of New
 Mexico, with many branches spreading east l and west that with each successive strike the popularity of mining investments will in- | crease; that the average income derived from these investments will exceed that of ordinary | business and that by and by, when our British couins have quite outlived the Emma
 Mine scandal they will become the principal
 owners of Colorado mines -Leadoi1Ee Corres-
 pofdence, ". 7. Eoe Post
 SCRAPING CARRots FOR BUTTER. Farmers
 wives have for years been in the habit ofscrap.
 ing carrots to color their butter. This hard
 and disagreeable work is no longer necessary, 1 for more perfect color in every way, and one
 absolutely cheaper, is now prepared by the
 well known chemists, Wells, Richardson &
 O., of Burlington, Vt, and called Perfected
 Butter Color. It adds to the keeping qual
 ities of Butter, and gives perfect June tint.
 It has been accepted by the leading dairymen
 everywheIe.