The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1881-08-13

mining districts, as threshing ma
chimes are wanted in all wheat pro-
ducing localities, but the dressed
mineral product must be prepared
for market as wheat is reduced to
flour at come common center, wher-
ever it can be done cheapest and best.
During one calender month of the
present year, a single firm paid more
than $4,000 freight on limestone
from Canon City to Leadville, and
this material was used in Leadyille
smelters. Presumably that sum was
paid on about 200 cars. and the Den
yer and Rio Grande company would
have made more money by hauling
for the same sum, 600 cars of ore
from Lake county mines, to the lime
quarries below Canon.
1t must be remembered that coke
and coal also must be transported
through Cafion and up into the noun
tains as well as lime, that large guam
titles are SO transported every month
anu tuut tHIcc Coio cuu DC udulcu
DOWN for the same charge that is
fixed for hauling one car of fuel UP.
There is another feature that should
not be lost sight of in this connection
and that is the unknown, but vast
quantity of ore on the dumps of Lake
county containing from 20 to 40
ounces of silver that cannot be profit
ably reduced there, owing to the
great cost of fuel and lime. This
ore will bear transportation down
grade to Canon City, where with
cheap fuel and cheap power it can be
mixed with low grade silver bearing
iron and zinc ores of Gunnison,
Saguache and Custer counties, and
the values of all, profitably extracted
and saved, while all are now practic-
ally worthless.
That which is believed to be the
true theory of railroad transporta-
ton, and which is becoming more
and more the accepted policy of the
most successful railway managers is,
that railroads should be built and
operated for the purpose of annihilat-
ing space, in other words, that trains
should be hauled 100 miles over easy
grades at but little, if any, greater
cost than for ten miles.
Within a few months the d. & r.
G. trains will be running regularly
into the rich mineral districts of Sa-
guache and Gunnison counties, and
furnish an outlet for territory that
will soon become enormously pro-
ductive with facilities for transporta-
ton. On or near all branches of the
road new districts are being opened
and in them all, production will be
greatly stimulated by proximity to a
permanent and reliable market. To
be permanent and profitable it must
be where constant supply of raw
material can be delivered cheaply.
Into the great basin of the Arkan-
sas, an engine will haul from any
division of the Denver and Rio
Grande railway, as many loaded cars
as it can haul out again-empty.
To the Arkansas valley therefore,
where all necessary food supplies for
man and beast can be produced cheap
ly and in abundance; where the deli
cious fruits of the Atlantic and
Pacific states attain luxuriant and
perfect growth where men can fol-
low their usual out door avocations
during 300 out of every 1865 days !;
where there is boundless power, and
unlimited quantities of the raw ma
terial required in the metal industries
of the state; where nature has con-
structed the foundations for gigantic
en- Enterprises, millions of tons will
eventually be brought over roads
with descending grades, and the sur
plus lead and iron in the ores of one
locality, will be made to supply the
deficiency of those metals in the pro-
duct of other sections of the state.
Then will new era in mining be in
augurated. The old wasteful meth
DDS will be abandoned, and economic
production of precious metals be the
rule. instead of exception, as now.
A safe and sure means of restoring
the youthful color Of the hair is fur
nished by Parker's Hair Balsam,
which is deservedly popular from its
superior cleanliness. c11t85
Mothers MsthersIy mothers!!l
Are you disturbed at night and
broken of your rest by sick child
suffering and crying with the excru-
ciating pain of cutting teeth? If SO,
go at once and get a bottle of Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 1t will
relieve the poor little sufferer imme-
diately-depend upon it; there is no
mistake about it. There is not a
mother on earth who has ever used
1T, who will not tell you at once that
it will regulate the bowels, and give
rest to the mother, and relief and