New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-24

tinic III tuc mstofy VI LeauNllle. MeSSrS. o.
Brunton, who have had long experience in building
gold and silver mills and in operating them, have
Just completed, on California Gulch, about mile
and halI below the city, one of the best twenty
stamp mills have ever seen. 1t has ten amalgam-
ating pans and will be driven by 150horse power
engine The capacity of the mill be will from fifty
to seventy-fye tons a dav, and the cost OF treat
rcnt of ores to tho company is estimated at no
more than 81 ton. Already Messrs TAYLOR &
BruntOn have filed their ore houses with ore
which they have purchased on very favorable
terms. The most Of it is rock, for which there was
no market ut all at the smetcrs, and which they
will realize profits ranging from 81 to $50 ton.
The cost of the mill will be about $150.000.
Another company, of which Lieutenant Governor
Tabor is the moving spirit. is also erecting twenty
stamp mill Oh California Gulch just on, the edge
of the city. This mill will be supplied With three
BIuckner cylinders for roasting sulphuret ores, ana
the manager OF it expects to be able to crush and
amalgamate in his eight pans forty tons of ore
day, thirty of which he can roast i'll his cylinders
The cost of this mill will be $75, GOO $4,000.
The Importance Of the establishment of these new
reduction works, the influence which their sue
cessful operation will have upon the future pros
penty of Leadville can hardly be estimated. In
the first place they will furnish market for large
quantities of low grade ores which are now lying
on the dumps about many Of the large mines.
Manager Harksr of the Leadville Company, told
me the other day that he had already sold for 81
and 50 ton on the spot, considerable quantity
of material which had always been counted as
waste and which it would have been an expense
to remove if 1t could not have been sold. Then the
rich chloride carrying little no lead can be
reduced by amagamatiOn much more chcaply and
with smaller loss of the silver, than by smelling
Again, these new mills will stimulate the develop
ment of the gold deposits about Leadvllle by fur
nlshng market for their product right here at
home, which they have not previously had While
the two mills now building may not add very
gre atty to the aggregate output of the camp,
believe that they are simply the pioneers of an in
dustry that in few years will become second only
to that OF the sneters in Importance.
A BRIGHT OUTLOOK.
l believe that Leadville will be perm anent
camp the metropolis of the mountains. Some of
it's great mines will cease to be productive, and
the output of the district may not be fourteen,
even ten millions of dollars per annum; but null
titude of smaller mines will take the places of the
famous bonanzas and will continue to produce ores
for wears to come Leadville will also be for long
time of the most important centres for sineltng
operations in the Rocky Mountains. large
amount of capital is invested here in furnaces, and
if the mines of this immediate vicinity do not fully
supply them with ores those of outlying camps will
do so. This city will become an important
railway centre. and will be the distributing point
for score OF camps which have been or will be
established within fifty miles Of here. Already two
railroads have their teImini here. The Ten Mile
and Eagle River branches of the Denver and Rio
Grande road will connect here with the main line
and tho Gunnison country lines, although not
leading directly into Leadville, will bring trade
to this city, Denver will be the metropolis of the
entire State it will bear the same relationship to
the whole Rocky Mountain region of Colorado
which New-York bears to the whole country, hut
the new camps in this vicinity and over the range
will send many of their to tho reduction works
here and will look to this city for their supplies.
| As business in Leadville settles down to perma-
nent basis and the excitement that has prevailed
here dies away, the city will lose some of the Gus
| toms and much of the appearance OF mining
camp, and become more and more conventional.
| Already, as i have explained in this letter there
begins to be something like society and refinement.
The public gambling houses to- be patronized
only by the lower classes of men some of tho
stores arc closed and very few of the mines are
now in operation on the Sabbath. Men will not
make money here as rapidly as they have done.
but there will be less of gambling and moro of le
Ultimate business. Z.I~w.