Daily Republican., 1880-02-09
LETTER FROM COLORADO.

-TwO Years Old And n POpula.
tiOn or Thfriy.nve Thousand
COlOradO POItltcalIy-silveP and
6reenbacks to the FrOat-GOId
Bugs TO the Rear.
Special Correspondence OF the Republican.
LEADvlLLE, Colorado, Feb. 3, $50.
As promised from fifty to hundred
Of my friends to write them all about
this place and as like all other resi-
dents OF this place, find but little time
for writing, ! thought | would give
them general letter through the Re-
PUBLICAN. Lesdvills is the largest city
in the world for its age, Not one out
Of every fifty mines that will pay to
work in this county, are now being
worked, yet now, in the middle of win
ter, the dullest tins of tho year,
Leadville ships every week from $780,
900 to 100000 Of bullion. This
would be s2O,00O,o00 per annum.
They expect that the total yield OF this
camp will reach $50, 900, 900 or $40, ,O0o,-
900 in 1880. Compare that with the
total agricultural products of such
great States as Pennsylvania and New
York or your total manufacturing in
terest Of Wilmington, and you will see
why a city two years old with a popu-
lation Of 35, 900 can boast Of being rich,
and this 35, 900 are nearly all men, big,
stout, brave, noble fellows that are
not afraid.
When they get their wives and chill
dren here, the population will be co.
600 or 10000. Leadville to-
day could muster double the votes of
Wilmington.
REAL ESTATE.
Lots that sold last year for from 5000
to $500, are to-day selling at SO 900
and 100000. One three story building
on Harrison avenue, about 80 by so.
rents for $1,000 per month. The Clay
ton House would rent here for $40, 900
per annum. The arrivals from the
east average from 200 to 800 day.
New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chi
cago, st. Louis and 'FriEcD serd their
wealthiest and smartest men here, and
when they get here they invest, not a
few thousands, but from $l00, coo to q
81 900, 900. The First Na:.onal Bank
OF Leadville will do more business in a
day, in dollars and cents, than all the
Banks of Wilmington. Labor commands
from So to So a day; teams from $40 tc
500 per day. This is bonanza for no
tells, saloons and theaters. Here every
man helps his neighbor.
You do not have 20 freeze any one out
to get in yourself, as each has more
than hs can do, and you are never in
formed of the grave fact that you were
not born in Colorado. That circum.
stance does not disqualify man here.
If such an obj sction shoul1 be raised
the man making it would bs shot OF
the spot.
That Colorado is soon to bs the rich
est State in the Union, one has only tt
study the report of the Superintendent
of tbe U. S. Mint, and see where tht
gold and silver come from, and then
look at the vast mineral deposits of this
State, and that settles the question
Has Leadville got its growth No, i!
has not commenced to grow yet.
The nearest x. r. station is 30 miles
distance, but next summer the city
will have two or three railroads, and
then will come the wives, mothers ano
children. Coal is cheap, provisions
home comforts and luxuries are abun'
dant.
COLORADO POLITICAL.
ltmay be put down as doubtful
State In one sense, and very sEre il
another sense. No anti silver, anti
Greenback, Democratic candidate fol
the Presidency can carry it, nor any
| other State ives, of the Ohio river anc anc
don't you forget it TolA Hendricks
could carry it and Indiana, Wisconsin
California and Oregon, providing tn,
Republicans do not nominate Blaine
But that the Democrats should be smar
enough to nominate any man that car
be elected, and one that would haV'
nerve enough to take his seat withou
asking committee of Republican SEN
atoys If be might, is think expecting
too mach. Democratic politicians know
100 much Of finance ara too little about
tho wants of the people.
The gold bugs Of Wall street do not
make Presidents, and when the Demo
cratic party trys to pull through with
out the working men and the vote OF
American citizens of foreign birth, it is
like the fly walking into the parlor OF
the spider.
Can man make any money in Colo
radof
Yes, a smart man here with $4,000
can make 100000 in year. A man
without a cent, if he is sober and in
dustrious, can make competence in
five or ten years.
Work is in excess of the supply.
Farming, Mining, Spsculating, Cattle
Raising and trading, and in fact every.
thing pays; even editors and reporters
get rich. They are here from every State
in the Union, and from every civilized
nation of the earth, and their is room
for millions more, and there are lands
and mines and work enough for all.
J. II. N.
The Popular Mtcks Third.
This evening The Popular Micks will
give their third annual reception in