The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-05-13
L~EApYILLE,S GLORY.
The Mushroom CITY OF the Colorado
Hills.

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A Leadvillec correspondent Of the Chi
ago Tribune writes; Leadvi.le under
stands her mighty wealth ofmineral de-
posits buried all around her, and, like a
conscious queen, she marches TO her
throne without aqualm Of fear or doubt.
Think Of a city of 10000 inhabitants a
thousand miles from any great CONNER
cial mart or center, sprung in two years
from a little miners camp far up the
mountain slopes, and already possessing
water works, gas works, banks, opera
houses, telephonic communications and
nearly all the accessories of metropol-
itan luxury She is already the com-
mercial rival of Denver, and several rail
roads are struggling through the gorges
and over mountain passes TO reach her
soonest and Sc ure the carrying trade Of
her great imports and vast bullion re-
turns. She already anticipates COM
handing the trade of the vast mineral
fields opened TO the west Of her, and is
preparing to meet the demand. Her
mercantile houses are crowded with
business; her journals are full of news
items, and her men of enterprise. In
order to show that the Leadville boom
is nota wild, crazy outburst Of local en-
thusiasm, il is only necessary to say that
while Clear Creek, Gilpin, Boulder and
other counties have for years been work
ing good and paying mines. yet, out of
the grand total Of production of preciou.
metals for the entire State during 1873
which is summed up at something over
Sl5, OOO, coo, the output of this single,
young, half-fedged camp, with only the
crudest appliances, was Sl2 032, sos. For
1880 the number of producing mines
here will be multiplied many fold. Isee
in every direction new mines which
have been developed, and are day by
day joining the grand column, whose
names did not appear at all in the re-
cords of last year, while such great
properties as the Robert E. Lee, Scoup-
er, Smuggler, Glass, Colorado Prince,
Black Prince, Miner Boy and many others
had only entered an appearance as rich
producers before the gates of 1879 were
closed. During the-winter a great mum
Der of prospects have been developed
into mines by continuous work, and the
older mines have greatly increased their
facilities, SO think it requires no stretch
of prophetic vision to forecast the
output of this camp alone for 1850 at
$50, 600, 900. Then to the total for the
States will be added nightly accretions
from that hitherto almost terra incog-
nita," the vast Gunnison country, from
which comes fabulous tales of enor
mously rich deposits and fissure veins,
told by the hardy and fearless prospect
ors who have penetrated even within
the sealed portals of the Ute Indian res
ervation. The rich silver beds and
golden seam of the Pitkin district, the
chloridcs, brittle silver and sulphurets
of Ruby camp, Gothic, Roaring Forks
and Coal creek; the immense three-fold
carbonate deposits of Eagle river, Dol
ores, Kokomo, Carbonateville, Brecken.
ridge and Buckskin; the great argen-
tiferous galena beds of Pennsylvania
Gulch, Horseshoe and the Upper and
South Arkansas districts; the hundreds
ofmines in the Silver Cliff and San Juan
regions. with the multitude of mining
camps too numerous TO name, will unite
to make a grand total at which the
world shall wonder. True, it requires
both muscle and money to develop all
these; but the muscle and the money
are coming. Already the scouts are be
ginning to arrive, and soon the valleys
and craggy slopes will be covered with
the white tents of the army of occupa.
lion, gathered from the city, and ham
let, and farmhouse. all over the land.