Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1881-03-22
LEADVILLE LETTER.

never seen mercury go as low In All 10y
| life as II has in Leadville the past winter,
commencing Nov. LIST. Most OF the peo-
pie here say ''that they do not feel the
cold here nearly as much rs they do east
but must say that / see no difference
zero weather here, is the same TO me rs 1t
/ Is In Maine, and | never wore such m
amount OF clothing a. do here. We have
| had some very severe snow storms this
winter, tho have seen many worse ones
in the East Snow will fall here for three
| days and there will not be two inches OF It,
/ The fact is II does not stop here, but goes
straight by AS though it had business in
some other locality.
Business in town lother than mining
has been very light for the last three
months, but we think there Is slight i'm
provement, and as Spring opens there is
every indication that 1t will resume its
usual activity. We have learned by in
curry that there will be considerable build
I ing the coming season; In fact there has
been very much during the winter. There
have been many commodious shaft houses
builded, and there are now in process OF
erection many more over mining claims that
were mere prospect holes" in the fall,
aud some of them will be great ore pro-
ducers In very few weeks. There is not
day but an important strike ofmineral Is
made In this camp. There have been
several quite heavy sales Of mining proper
~. one in particular, which was for hGlf q
mllioH.
By the ist of May probably three thous-
and men will leave this camp for sum
mer OF prospecting; but without doubt
their places will DE made good by the ar
rival OF "tender feet" from the east; in
fact the tender foot has begun to arrive
already. Two from Virginia arrived last
week and commenced work NJ the Chryso-
lite Immediately. A virginlan is always
sure Of work at the Chrysolite, and so is
a Missourian, for the Chrysolite is |ir-
ginia aud Missouria out tit. There is quite
a laughable story told by some OF the boys.
In the early days OF Colorado, most OF the
settlers came from Missouri, and one day
one OF these Missourans fell In with fel-
low who had lust arrived and he said TO
him, "where are you from" The answer
benz. from Maine" The gentlemia
from Nj ssouri says you can't stuff me.
There is no such county In Missouri :"
There are many people here today who
never heard OF any other State except the
one they came from. The South aud West
are Ia rgely represented here, with good
sprinkling from New York and Pennsyl-
vauia. There are comparatively few from
New Eugland.
Nearly all the mines in camp, are run
ming full forces OF men. The Chrysolite is
working over three hundred, and the Pitts
burg about one hundred and my. II is
said by the papers that the strike recently
y made in the Pittsburg, shows signs OF
falling. This may aud may not be fact 4;
YOU can't 60 much on men who are In
tcrcstcd in bulling and bearing stock, II
you do you will get lelt sure.
After several weeks OF mining waste
~ the ChrySoiitc, they have again begun
10 ship ore, from 30 10 loo tons per day.
To-day, Mr.. Goodwill's shit took out in
ten hours, ~ car loads, over loo OF which
were high grade mineral. Mr.. Pat Ryan
screened every load OF Il alone-nearly
three days cork in one. The mineral Is
worth nearly twenty thousand dollars.
one more day like this and the expenses OF
the mine are paid for March. The clerks
at the Chrysolite had their salaries cut,
the lst of March. Mr. Stone, the ore ship
per. was '.let of, and hereafter Mr.. Nelson
will do the shipping. There were - tons
shipped to-day.
Mrs. L. X Nelson has been quite sick
for several weeks past, but Is about again,
we are glad TO learn.
We received letter this eve, from Mr.
+. VI. Buckley who Is in Denver, and we
were glad 20 learn that he was going into
business with Putnam the tailor; he Will
travel for the house and will be in Lead
willie in a few days with full llue OF
samples, so he writes.
An important strike OF ore was made
recently, in the Brittenstein groups
sample essays showing GA ozs., OF silver
In the Glass Pendery a vein OF ore has been
cut tina, shows 20 ozs., OF silver. three
foot vein OF ore has been struck In the Big
Petersburg, that runs high in silver. The
miner boy shipped a gold brick last week,
weighing 22j ozs., and will ship another
one this week, much larger. The Lower
Printer oy is shipping ore every DAY to
Ore Stamp Mills, keeping i've stamps run
ming. The Lee is shipping 40 tons day.
The net profit OF the Matchless for Feb
ruary, was seeenty.fee thousand dollars.
Gov. Tabor ownes this mine. The La
Plata paid fifteen thousand dollar divi-
dend lst OF March-this being its 18th
regular dividend. The smelling works at
Argo, shipped $3.50, 900 worth OF bullion
in January, and over $500 600 in February.
The Dunkin is shipping % tons OF ore per
day, aud is paying $4,000 dividends
monthly. The Evening Star is shipping
60 tons of ore per day. These are only a
few of the producing mines OF Leadville !;
could name very many more that are
producing large amount OF dirt, but these
are plenty to show that Leadville is not