Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-08
A SECOND ~LEADVILLE.
A New Mining camp in Colorado that
Will Have Twenty Thousand
People in a Few Weeks.
ST.. Louis Republican

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Mr Joseph Mulhall, Just returned
from Colorado, speaks of q new mining
camp just opened, which, In spite If
ali obstacles, Is bound to become
another Lsadville In point of growth
and notoriety. 1t Is the town of Oar.
Donate, aitusted In Garfield county,
Colorado, In the midst of the Ute res.
ervation, which was opened up t. the
whites for settlement and occupation
only last year. The new city, now
scarcely known to the outside world,
was laid out on the 9th day of last
month, and now contains three
or four cabins. the domicils of four
or five men who have been at work all
winter. 1t Is said to contain q pure
lead of carbonates without walls on
either side, and rum ing from 50 to
582 ounces of silver, with 50 to AZ
per cent of lead to the ton. The
snow In that region is nov from four
to ten feet deep for eighteen miles In
sll directions, and the only way to get
to the new Ell Dorado Is on snow
shoes, and blankets and provisions
have to be carried over the crust in
THO way. And yet since the opening
of the mines one Thousand people
have been waiting to 60 there, and
already 347 lots have been sold at
fIom $50 TO $3.50 apiece cash.
Mr.. Mulhall, with Mr.. John Songer,
of Denver, went to within eighteen
miles of the spot, being stopped by
the snow at the Soda springs or Roar.
ing fork, where are the finest hot
springs In the world. They found
some twenty-five people already 10.
Gated about the springs, where they
had eresced bathing tents. showing
the inciplent stages of a great water.
Ing place, yet to be pulled into notice,
for the benefit of suffering lnvalids.
Mr.. Songer provided himself with
snow shoes--a long, slender shoe, not
7 as wide as that In use by the
/ Canadians and Indiaus of the east in
the carly dsys--with which he started
{ over the snow crust of Carbonate
t camp, but Mr.. Mulhall would not &C.
. com my him with this cumbrour
z meaus Of locomotion. To psopIe not
used to snow shoes their weight and
e uuwieldiness, Requiring q atraddle Of
8 the legs, would soon produce fatigue
. and all insbthty to proceed, and the
wearer would break down under the
circumference. Mr.. Mulball stale
eight days az the Soda spring., anc
r will return there again in a short time
o when the trails will be opened through
A the snow.
Mr.. Songsr has aince been hear'
from. He travelled the distance OIL
snow shoes, carrying HIS blankets ant
a provisions. He found everybody a
Carbonate moving about on sno'
shoes, which are an essential part O
the wearing apparel. He saw four o
five claims where work is going on
i bringing out rich samples, and he fur
d ther noticed a number of men diggin
1t In the snow trying to find locations
which they had made the previou
d year. Mr.. Songer believes that in TIL
s new mining district genuine carbonat
h of apaylng grade will be found over
very extensive area, and he proposes I
: return and aid the army of prospec
= ors that will repair thither. No 81
element, not excepting Leadville, hs
more thoroughly aroused the either
d of Colorado, and 1t Is calculated
t. least twenty thousand people will VII
" 1t the Colorado fields Of CARTEL
Is county within the year.
To Mr.. Mulhall says that Csrbonat
> camp Is ninety.seven from Leadvill'
70 due west, and twelve miles from oil
lie Fort Defiance. 1t Is twenty-five mill
ID from tie mouth of Eagle river, whic
d. emptied into Rooney fork. The sl'
re of these ~carbonates Is $500 fe'
ID above the sea level. There is, 1
,e addition to the silver mines, a body
ct coal that faces on the cliffs for thirt,
five miles, This coal can be Q
lie thick layers, from which large blocl
ID have tumbled out,