The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-12-29

day; while at hight the place remind
US OF a Pittsburg by being illumin
ed with the flames from the cox,
ovens. In fact everything roune
about gives indications of progress
prosperity, industry and wealth, ane
the future of this country can be hard
y realized.
RESOURCES or THE COUNTY.
That part Of Colorado known a.
the Gunnlson country Is gradually
but surely, getting out of Its swaddlins
clothes. 1t has already advanced tc
the point where conservative capitalists
are finding 4 field for investment.
The peculiar genius of the Ameri.
can people manifests itself in aremark.
able manner in the development Of a
new country, public spirit and an
lndomltable energy in an! increditably
brief period, transforms a wilderness
into a fully equipped and vigorous
civilization. The growth of the G
nlson country, perhaps, illustrates this
marked characteristic of American
life more completely than may be
found elsewhere in the last fifty years.
Its resources are so vast and diversi-
fed that they present most complete
collection of material from which to
produce one of those astounding re-
suits, so common to the growth of our
country, when moulded by the hands
that in a centuries time have reached
the most perfect system Of human
government and great moral people
the world has ever seen. 1t is aot
here, a civilization struggling up
through a labyrinth of experiments
and lily digcsted conclusions ; it is a
civilization fully equipped and con-
fident IN Its sense of stability trans
planted to new and virgin soil, and
It only needs that the raw material be
zthand to work with and it takesroot
and prospers.
||As1asthis Gannison country no maii
of business pre-science, of practical
knowledge in what constitutes the
permancy and prosperity Of state,
can fail to see the lasting elements Of
a growth that shall in few shor,
years place it among the foremost
producers of wealth. 1t would seem
almost presumptuous to claim for this
country growth liken to many of oul
eastern communities and yet this is
not reason why we should not wit
ness here repetition of the incidents
and life of the iron and coal produc-
ing regions Of Pennsylvania, the fact is
we have an immense superiority
over those older sections, in the
greater variety Of our products. Its
mineral resources are Of enormous ex.
tent, and it has this advantage over
all purely mineral producing countries,
in that it is not dependent for its
prosperity and development solely
upon the production Of the precious
metals. A single industry will of itself
hardly make a country great. The
raw material from which to build up a
variety of interests, with community
possessing the proper spirit and energy,
cannot fail of producing vast results.
We venture to say that in no section
of our country, open for settlement in
many years, is to be found so happy a
combination of all the circumstances
that produce lasting prosperity as are
found here.
Three years has witnessed only a
commencement in the development
of our mines, but in this time it has
been demonstrated that not only have
We immense fields in which to labor
but that our great mineral veins are Of
such a character as to warrant the
most absolute faith in their permancy,
and to invite the investment of con-
servative capitalists. Already there
exists a wonderful homogeneousness
of interests ir this industry, it is not
this or that camp, it is one vast camp
in which We all feel a common pride.
We begin to recognize citizenship
and that We are here, not for a day,
hut for time, in the united work OF