The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1882-10-28
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Interesting Items from Various Pnrtd
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EDITOR RECORD:

| Your correspondent being in matter of
course ticsled to see himself in print, and
| liking the sensation will needs try it again,
and taking the thread of circumstance con-
time Maysviile. This place seemed
like many others to be cussed with harpy
proprIetors who propose like many in your
| town to give outsiders and newcomers a
| high ~ opinion of the general loveliuess
and importance in the futurel Of the place
| by asking, and unfortunately sometimes,
| getting, two prices fr property.
The owners of Maysviile town site are
engaged in law suit with D. p Owen,
ffornasgiy Of Gallon City, hpcn : dixpastsd
South Arkansas, and as IN the fable. where
the Etigants hold the cow by horns and
tail while the lawyers do the milking; so
| in this case.
Mines and mining constitute the staple
exciternents of this vicinity. Two and q
half miles from town q late discovery. called
the Henry Teller, assays forty-one ounces
of silver and forty-one per cent. of lead
with traces OF gold and copper. Another,
four miles distant, the Soama, assays 146
ounces of silver. Still another. on North
Fork, the Springfield, runs forty -four ounces
OF silver and siNty-two per cent. of lead at
three feet deep. We have names of the
owners, but they would not interest your
readers. Tom ellison sold one-fourth share
of one of his mines to Pitkin parties at I.
high figure, but exact price not known.
Chaffee city is chilling with the l.s.e Geld
snap, and viii freeze up the Madonna
smelter. Rumor says that it will mose
down TO Maysville before long These
moves all indicate that smelling men are
coming to their senses and getting their
works to lower attitudes, where, at Canon
City. the percentage of loss of available
fuel, IS less-huxes are abundant and cheap
transportation quick and ready by rail
in short. expenses of all kinds curtaiIed.
Mr.. w, H. Edwards, who left Canon CITY
some two years ago, seems prospering; hav-
ing n valuable quarter section of land adj
joining and considerable tract in the town
site His dairy supplies the good people of
Maysville, and TO some extent Ch.lffeeyille
with the tactical necessities of the day
There are many very valuable ranches
along the South Arkansas and the land
rates high Judging from the comfortable
and in some cases pretentious residences
and Improvements, the inhabitants of the
valley are prosperous, Their hsy and root
crops find instant and profitable sale at the
mines before their doors, being . proof as
to the soundness of the protective tariff
! theory, of bringing producer and consumer
in close juxtaposition.
Two miles above poncha Springs Is i
| plant of nine charcoal ovens-at Towards
vile another of eight, and midway tovallie
station another. not vet in operation, of six
This is one of the NEST important industries
of the Upper Arkansas but to a certainty
an evil and detriment to the country in Il
climatic consideration, from cutting off and
stripping the hills and mountains of all the
green timber. Ii they would but manu-
facture the timber deadened by forest fire, it
would be desideratum, rs this is now
past good for other purpose, and is danger
eI...<
it then elsewhere. But it is said that this
wood docs not make the quantity of coal
that live timber does, and 50 the destruc-
ton goes on of wooded tracts that genera
tions cannot replace. Is there any solution
of the difficulty arising from the demand
and necessity for coal and this wholesale
stripping of that natural covering of hills
and mountains, which is at once the safe
guard and salvation of 3 country in eli
matte econonicsy
In the western part of Fremont county
are mines that will yet prove it one of the
hest mineral producing sections of the state.
Iron, copper, silver. zinc. are here IN veins
and deposits SIS scarcely elsewhere. but
have not received the attentioGf t,ue them
perhaps, from being too near hs,me. There
is also what has not been found Us yet to
any extent in the state, an enormous de-
pcsit of graphite that should prove valu-
able in u country where SO many furnaces,
fire brick, crucibles etc, are in constant
use. OF the zinc mines Of Cotcpaxi dis
trict your rcaders are perhaps conversant.
The deposit is simply marvellous, as also
the galena and copper. The principal
mine has been most miserabiy handled--it
has not been even robbed scientifically to
get most avails with least texpenditure-and
is in notoricusly bad condition Yet large
shipments. considering, are now being made
of the zinc ore to works in Peoria, illinois,
Ono hundred tons were first sent for trial,
and another order was almost at once sent
for two hundred and fifty more. The effort
| to get reduction works near the mine is
vigorously prosecuted, and it is hoped may
prove successful.
While at Cotapaxi, S. D. which the
same is Snow Round,' WIS again con-
demned to delay by eight inches of ileecy
beautiful, bat is now as ever, yours truly.
Tx.,,n~ Vista s-h~rss~s