Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-17
cOLoRADO's GOLD.
Wonders Of the Denver National
Mining Exposition.
GiIpin County Sending an 0belisk Represent
ing $50. 600, 900 In Gold Found Since
the First Discovery Of the Precious
Metal in Colorado.
MOUNTAINS OF SILVER AND MINERALS,

DENVER, August l6.-It is now two weeks
since the Mining Exposition was formally
opened, and as yet there has been nothing
in the history OF the exposition so notable
as its opening. The expected influx from
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts has not yet
begun. The curtain has risen, but contrary
to the usual custo in such cases, the au-
dience has not arrived.
No one who wanders among the massy
blocks of bullion, the wonderful cleaning
of gold, peeping out from its mother.quartz,
the glistening of the uncut gems whose at
fractions succeeded those of the god dig
gings in alluring wanderers of the early
days, the great pyramids OF coal, marble
and granite, which on all sides overwhelm
the imagination, can help freely acknowl-
edging that the like of this has never yet
been seen in an exposition.
There IL q Barbaric Charm
about this display Of gold and silver in the
rough, which appeals strongly to the imag-
ination. The effect of all this is greatly
heightened by the whirring and continu-
Gus motion of the great Corliss engine at
the other end of the hall, the various forms
of piston and wheel, crusher and grinder,
holster and dipper, which, by their techni-
cal names are known TO every miner as the
implements of his trade, and which here
are apparent to the eye, initiated as well as
Grange, in all their modern shapes. The
effect of the assenblage is novel. Brute
force accomplishing gigantic results, is sag
gested. The mind goes out OF the gllmmer
of civilized life into the depths Of dripping
tunnels and shafts whence the gnome may
almost be expected to leap down on the
miners pick to rob him of his hardly earned
treasure. All this will strike an imagina-
tive visitor at glance, and will as surely
delight him. If he lifts his head, however,
to recover from his surprise and mounts to
The Broad Gallery,
around which he may walk third OF a
mile, he will receive a new impression.
Here ne will find treasures OF modern art
no less valuable than those of modern in
dustry; Mexican filigree work in forms
both old and new, patterns of to-day and
the day of the Montezumas. Diamonds,
cut and uncut, from Arizona and Golcon-
da, with stories, and wrapped in more ro-
mantle veil of secrecy and lastly, to culmi-
nate an effect which would be at least the
result of unexpected causes, here and there
along the walls might be seen several gems
from the artists and engravers of Europe,
as we'll as America, from whose canvass
fair women's faces look down, and June
landscapes peep, giving at once human
interest to the whole. This attempt at a
pen picture is not at all overdrawn, u an
imaginative visitor, and almost any visitor
would be compelled to realize some portion
Of it.
Mineral Exhibits.
The exhibits are not as yet in place, and
the mineral and mechanical displays viii
scarcely be complete before ten days. Ari.
zona, New Mexico and Utah have furnished
the most complete and noticeable collec-
tions, which must be n surprise to even
those who have travelled through those Ter
ritories. Colorado's wealth is of course
presented in more various shapes and
greater quantities than that of any other
State or territory. PARKWAY Montana sends
gold from Alder Gulch, which yielded its
million to the placer mines OF go, and sill
yer from Butte. the Mecca for railway i'm:
migrants last spring. Idaho, the gem OF
the mountain, the most virgin and attract
i've, perhaps, of all the Territories, sends
sends some other famoudWoo River, Bay
Horse and Salmon River ores. ltis useless
to attempt description of any one exhibit
given of the most remarkable.
The Dividend.paying Mines,
of which every mining man in the West
and every stock speculator in the East
know so well, are all handsomely repre-
sented. Asizona's celebrated Silver King
| shows a dazzling abundance Of ore-bearing
| native silver, wire silver, horn silver, as
| we'll as the commoner and less attractive
| chlorides and sulphurcts. The horn silver
| and Ontario mines of Utah are as lavish in
| their showing ores as they have been in
| their payments of dividends. The Robert
| E. Lee, Matchless and Little Pittsburg, oil
| Leadville, make thorough and characters
! tic ore displays. And Just here it may be
said that Denver people and exposition
| visitors alike take as much lnteres'
Just now in the affairs OF Robinson
| Consolidated, of the Ten Mile
| District, near Leadville. a. do the Eastern
| operators. The unfisgging interest OF the
| latter, which still produces dealings In
! Robinson every week in New York more
| than one-third as large as in all othel
| mining stocks, needs no comment. A gen
| tleman who returned from Leadville yester
| day, and who is concerned to some extern
| in Robinson, SAYS no man can tell what the
upsbot of the deals and double dealinf
which have beset its affairs for the la:
| eight or ten months. Ore on the eleventh
| level has not been found in paying quanti
ties, while the lessees of the upper working
claim to be making handsome profit. Th'
| management claim nothing and the STOCK
holders get nothing.
Two Monuments.
There are two monuments more glitter
ing than brass which one eye can overlook
They have been reared by the Robert l.
| nl ha Smelling Tom
pany, of which latter Senator Hill is presi
dent. The former is a truncated pyrmiC
glittering with silver, about fourteen inche
! nj its base and thirty inches high, repre-
sentipg bullion value Of $llS,OOO, said u
have been extracted in seventeen ana
half hours from the Robert +. Lee mine
This wonderful pyramid is surrounded D!
silver bricks, crude bullion and handsom
chunks Of L. L. Lee ores.
The other and even more notable treasury
pile is a heap of thirty-SeVen s,Ns eI, @ sSI
from the Argo Smelter, valued o. S'"'"C'
weighing 81 900 ounces, and said TO be tu
product OF one weeks work. II must b
remembered that these smelling and rein
ing works are the largest in the West, ant
are fed by ore from surrounding area o
hundreds, and, in some cases, thousands o
! =, lies. Were this valuable heap OF silye
90 Al own, the most curious and beautiful
onecimen.s Of bullion and copper-matte in
tbe various processes through which tb,
| rough. dirty copper-silrer ores must pas
: der TO become pure bullion. Cemen
In o. .he name given to masses OF crys
silver u 49, -oiored silver moss, with al
| tsiline parti-,> wood in its fbres ant
| the airy delicacy o. With the most ek
I texture, but yariegateu pink, purple
| quisite shades of coi0ring, :, one con
blue, brown, fused By hest I'M rrSb !, thin,
someration OF beauty-t suco
could be. ---r
Manitou aud ColsrsdS 4,
viii send all their Eastern visitors to '
Exposition this summer. "The Garden
Il \ ~ VD-t L.