The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-03-03
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Governor Tabor is about to essaL.
l;sh library IN Denver.
Railroadswili be built IN every d.
rection 10 Colorado this year. .-.-
United States district and circuit
courts met at Pueblo last Tuesday.
With $1,000 to start on Colofado's
|commission to the World's Fair in
New York can make a good showing.
}esae eon Davis sas = asry 8 aisl.rt
Ills book entitled .rae Hissoryof tke
Rise and Fall Of the Confederate Gov.
ernnent.
The report of the Salmon Mine, D.
T., states that quartz rock assaying
5000 70 the ton is now being taken
from the mine.
1t is estimated that the yield Of the
gold and silver mines of the United
States during the present year will ag4
gregate $4,000, 900.
The great Chicago dry goods firm
of Field, Letter & Co., has been dis
solved. Letter retircs with from five
to twelve million dollars.
1t is rumored that there is plot to
blow up Windsor Castle. Precautions
have been taken and the Queen has
delayed her return from Osborne.
A band Of spiritualists are digging
for gold two miles south Of Albion
New York, under the inspiration and
direction of Rochester medium.
1t is worth remembering that the
Denver and Rio Grande company has
some two hundred engineers at present
in the field. The pioneer narrow
guage is alive and moving.
Only a5o, 900 bushels OF oats are in
the New York market. The daily
consumption is $4,000 bushels, and
unless navigation opens up soon there
is liable to be famine in that line
Wonder if Bob Ingersoll knew they
had whipping-posts in Delaware yet?
Robert had better look out Oar
now," for though Delaware is small,
"she's wild woolly and hard to curry"
Thousands of men are moving dirt
and snow in the canons of Colorado,
preparing the way for new arteries of
trade. The growth of 1881 will out
strip the record Of our brightest year.
1t is maintained that an experienced
mining geologist can determine wheth-
er a piece of ore comes from hssure
or from deposit, simply by observing
its crystallization and general charac-
terlstics. |.
A man who had just learned poker,
| but had not sufficient mastered the in
tricacies of the game, bet wildly upon
a flush, and upon showing his hand
was told that I" the spirit was willing
but the flush was weak"
In one case only depth exceeding
a mile from the earth S surface has been
penetrated, and that is at the artcslan
well at Potsdam, Missouri, where the
chisels have reached no less than
5,soo feet or one mile and 22o feet.
Scientific men have proved by actual
measurements that most of the great
silver mines lie o,ooo feet above the
present sea level, and among the rich
est are some which lie 1000 feet
higher still. Very rich mines have
been as high as 10000 feet. 1t lsa
notable fact that, as rule, the richest
silver mines lie over 10000 feet above
the sea level. All the mines in this
district are situated form 10000 to
II, 900 feet above sea level.
The London Mining Journal, the
leading mining paper Of Great Britain
has the following under the head OF
"Mineral Resources of Colorado"
"MrT. ]. O'Donnell writes that
no man of practical mining knowledge
doubts the future greatness OF Colora-
dos mining resources, and that the
explorations thus far are but mere
scratches on the surface of mineral
lied belt running northeast and south
west across the whole state. 1t there
fore behooyes every one who has the