The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-04-30
LEfixlDyfILE..


icauciS, VI your paper, lSeHu u Dllu s-ey
view of this great camp, its customs
trade, ETC., with some hints to futur
emigrants. The city lies nicely locates
among a group of mountains 10, 500 fee
above sea-level, with population of As,
900 inhabitants, from late census
composed of every nationality an,
tongue, Chinese excepted-the Colorad,
miner having no utilization for tin
Chang-Waw tribe. On coming down
from the mountains the first impression
the stranger gets is that he is going int,
some great manufacturing city, by tn,
clouds of smoke that hang oyer the val
ley, but on searching into it he will fine
1t to come from the smelters or or,
roasters, of which there are many going
day and night, and emitting very un
pleasant vapor, which is also injurious
to health; in fact, they can be Justly
named man-killers." Not one out Of
twenty escapes the dreaded infection OF
being "leaded" (that is, those WHO
are employed about the works., which,
If it goes too far, means an early grave
in Evergreen Cemetery. Many a poor
lad that has come with the glittering H.
fusion of getting silver mine has gone
to work III the smelter, and quickly found
his mine in the cemetery. Building is
going on rapidly in the outskirts of the
city, and there are promises of a rail
road at an early day, which will certainly
make Leadville the outfitting point for
all the great mining regions UNEMPLOYED
In Colorado. Two good theaters, one
opera-house, banks, hotels, merchants of
every possible kind, morning and even
ing papers-of which the Chronicle is
the official-telephon connections in all
directions, several churches, one Catho-
of bells that shall make the gigantic
mountains resound with the melody of
the Eolian harp, Shakspearian clubs, So
ciables, mixed with the inevitable church
oyster-stews.
The lady element, of which we can
boast a goodly number, and of the true
kind, serve to make society what it ought
to be; our police force is efficient, and
the fire department superb; so not one
of the most fastidious notions can grum-
BILE. From the highest-cultured mind
down to the lowest, debased, toothless
bag in the hell-dives, gambling houses
and vice dens of every description, all
are here, and floating population of
"gents who could well be spared,
which is only, L suppose, natural for the
greatest mining camp in the world.
Just above the city is the famous Car
Donate hill, now attracting the eyes of
capitalists from all parts of the world
For miles the ground is delved into,
from the famous Iron and Carbonate
Il % 4 I'll To.
unity is the great Chrysolite and Pitts
burgh," with hosts of others of fabulous
wealth, and holes of no value by the
Thousand, from away down the gulch to
the timber-line, into the regions of the
eternal snow. Machinery of the most
approved type is fitted to the great
mines, down to the rope and windlass on
Prospect Hole The output of bullion
from the camp goes to show the riches
of her mines.
1t costs good deal of bullion to de-
velop a mine, and the time is gone by
when mere prospect holes would fill the
bill, but good mines sell at good prices,
for which there are legitimate buyers.
Now few words to the tender-foot,"
for that Is the name given to strangers
out here. Don't come "busted too
many on hand, with no trade or friends,
who, from want and exposure, become
easy victims to pneumonia, which is
tolerably well-known. in Leadville ; and,
to those who never have been out in the
world, being guided by parental strings,
don't come at all-no earthly use for
you-but, to the shrewd, persevering, en-
ergetic ones, come along, for there is
plenty in Colorado to reward the brave
and energetic.
The Gunnison country, Roaring Forks
and the Reservation seem to be the lead
ing topics for prospectors, for rarely can
you meet with man who is not going to
the Gunnison, and some have gone.
Latest reports state three feet of snow,
no provisions, and impossible roads.
That it is rich is admitted and that it is
easy to imagine you are there, but, like
Lazarus and the rich man, there is no
gulf, but few mountains that cannot
be despised or ignored towering away up
to where nothing can grow, pointing up
to the blue canopy of heaven, seeming
nearly to touch and ending in eternal
thirty feet deep in some
places, with the wind at the summit of
VIC range DioWhlS d1 ~ iuoO oh"'o VIII
astonish your teeth and make them rat
tie like reeds, while, before you begin
the ascent, the sun is melting the snow,
causing streams of water to gush down
the mountain sides and flooding the val
ley with sunshine. This has to be en-
countered before you reach the Land of
Promise, so you will form some idea of
the risks Mt present that a teeming popu-
lation will pounce in TO the Reservation
as soon as possible, whether Ouray or
people like it or not. Get out they GER
tainly must, for the Colorado miner can
surmount difficulties higher than the
highest mountain range, and no fear
from the Utes can satiate his greed for
the precious metals. M.
LEADvTLLE, Col.
Saved by n Bear.