Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-09-12
A Second Leadyllle.

Mr.. Joseph Mulhall, just returned
from Colorado, speaks of new mining
camp just opened, which, in spite of all
obstacles, is bound to become another
Leadville in point of growth and noto-
riety. Ii Is the town of Carbonate, situ-
ated i'm Garfield County, Colorado, in
the midst of the Ute reservation, which
was opened up to the whites for settle
ment 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 domiciles of
four or five men who have been at work
all winter. IL is said to contain pure
lead of carbonates without walls on
either side, and running from 80 to 582
ounces of silver, with 80 TO AZ per cent
of lead to the ton. The snow in that
region is now from four to ten feet deep
for eighteen miles in all directions, and
the only way to get TO the new FL Do
RADIO Is on snow-shoes, and blankets and
provisions have to be carried over the
crust in this way. And yet since the
opening of the mines one thousand peo-
pie have been waiting to go there, and
$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 Roaring
Fork, where are the finest hot springs
in the world. They found some twenty
five people already located about the
springs, where they had erected bath
ing-tcnts, showing the incipient stages
of great watering place-yet to be
pulled into notice-for the benefit of
suffering invalids. Mr.. Songer provided
himself with snow-shoes-a long, slender
shoe, not as wide as that in use by the
Canadians and Indians of the East in
the early days-with which he started
over the snow-crust for Carbonate
camp, but Mr.. Mulhall would not ac-
company him with this cumbrous means
of locomotion. To people not used to
snow-shoes, their weight and unwieldi-
ness, requiring straddle of the legs,
would soon produce fatigue and an in
ability TO proceed, and the wearer would
break down under the circumference.
Mr.. Mulhall stad eight days at the
Soda Springs, and will return there in
short time, when the trails will be
opened through the snow.
Mr.. Songer has since been heard
from. He Travelled the distance on
snow-shoes, carrying his blankets and
provisions. He found everybody at
Carbonate moving about on snow
shoes, which are IN essential part of tho
wearing apparel. He saw four or five
claims where work Is going on, bringing
out rich samples, and he further noticed
"a number of men digging in the snow
trying to find locations which they had
made the previous season. Mr. Songer
believes that in this new mining district
genuine carbonate of II paying grade
will be found over very extensive area,
and he proposes TO return and aid the
army of prospectors that will repair
thithcr. No excitement, not excepting
Leadville, has more thoroughly aroused
the citizens of Colorado, and il is calcu-
lated at least twenty thousand people
will visit the carbonate fields of Garfield
County within the year.
Mr.. Mulhall says that Carbonate
Camp is ninety-seven miles from Lead
vile, due west, and twelve miles from
old Fort Defiance. Ii Is twenty-five
miles from the mouth of Eagle River,
which empties into Rooney Fork. The
site of these carbonates is 10000 feet
above the sea level. There is, in addi-
ton to the silver mines, n body of coal
that faces out on the cliffs for thirty-iive
miles. This coal can be seen in thick
layers, from which large blocks have
tumblcd out.-.St. Louis RcpuJlicdn.