The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-08-16

10 SSHcialIg auOHb tSu Attt DY twenty, uiNiGEQ
into two compartments, with double rows of
hunks all around like canal boat, for the ac-
comm0dation of from sixteen to twenty men
The mines of Gunnison county are chiefly
silver, though widely differing in character
containing galena ores. ruby ores, suiphuret ear
bonet and bismuth. The gold mines at Camp
Pinkney are of chief value III that metal As
yet little silver has been shipped, though large
quantities. of ore are in sight IL is the Old
story-it takes money to make money. There
are as yet no reduction works, though the
prospect for their erection is good. One small
smelter is turning out seventy bars a day,
working on a small scale. OF sample and con-
Centrating works there are several, at the dis
tances from Guunisou specified: Ruby. twenty
eight miles; Crested Butte, twenty-eight miles,
in different directions and on different side
of the range; Gothic, forry-iive miles; SchO-
fed, hity-twO miles Elks, hfty-two miles;
Tin Cup. fOrty-Gve miles; three at Pitkin, on
Union Pacific, near Alpine Pass, twenty-eight
miles. All these works buy ores placed upon
the market, shipping to Leadyille, Pueblo and
Denver.
Coal mining in Gunuison county is carried
on extensively, the principal mines being To-
Gated at distance of from fifteen to sixty miles
from Gunnison. The outCrOpping veins are
from u TO 20 feet thick. The prOducts-an-
thracite, bitumn0us and coking-are used for
fuel, gas and coking. Large quantities are
shipped eastward to Denver and westward to
Utah, via the Denver and Rio Grande. Since
the opening of the Union Pacific the rates of
transportation are becoming more equabIe on
all products of the mine, but the cost of carry
ing IS still enormous, and mining machinery of
all kinds is wanted for the Gunnison country.
At present the greatest activity prevails, it
being the season for making assessments, and
there is a large influx of capital, investing in
the precious metals coal iron, timber. ranches
ra9f estate DRDpsif= of f1f 4 q
few miles from Guunison attract much atteu-
ton because of the superior quality Of beauti-
full white lime they afford. The capitalists on
the grounds are chiefly from New York, Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts,, Kentucky and
Missouri. The general outlook for GunnisOn
has been ably set forth by Mr. HalloweH in
printed report, to which at another time it will
be our privilege to refer. And now something
of Western hospitality and the ThoFnburg
massacre.
A DINNER rs THE ROCKIES.
Together with Captain Bush. Of Lockport,
New York, your correspondent had the
pleasure of dining with Postmaster Hartman
and his pretty little Kansas wife. Mr. Hartman
being an Iowa man. Now, who would sup
pose that out in little mining town in the
wilds of the Rocky Mountains, in small apart
ments over quiet little post-0ffice, one could
sit down to dinner of luxuries such as a
diner at Delmonieo's might in vain seek to
duplicate. Captain Bush, who is something
of an epicure, in his stroll across the plateau,
had found perfect collection of mushrooms,
| which he brought to his hostess, Mrs Hart
man, and together they proceeded TO prepare a
dinner ut to grace the table of q king Brook
! trout, not an hour from the water, mushrooms
on toast bread fine and faky as ever came
/ cinnamon brown from Vienna bakery, crisp
| lettuce and radishes, the juiciest mountain
steaks, firm golden butter, fresh tomatoes.
/ plenty of rich yellow milk and cream. with
/ fruits and sweets to follow, and all served from
! the whitest of cloths, from cosy round table
/ and the daintiest Of dishes-why, we had to
rab our eyes on sitting down to be quite sure
| it was not all lovely dream!
! This Western hospitality has no show and no
glitter, but it is frank, hearty and spontaneous.
The arbitrary exactions of society set aside, the
/ individual is left free to follow his own in
| pulses, aud, whatever may be said for the evil
/ side of human nature, one must believe that it
| has warm, fraternal strata under the most i'd
verse circumstances. How else can one account
| for the boandleSs outpouring of good feeling
| that chaTaeterizes the toughest of men on the
| far frontier. When that hospitality is tenn
| pered by good breeding and directed by kindly
/ sympathy it IS most beautiful to behold as well
/ as grateful 10 share. So it is that we shall al
ways hold in glad remembrance the cordial
I dark face and firm hand Of welcome of our gal
! liant host, and the sunny sweetness of the fair
/ little wife, as she provided and dispensed her
| inequalities, without shade of WEAKNESS Or a
| lapse from womanly grace. and who followed
| Us. a stranger, to the door with womanly bene-
| dietions and real regret that We were going
away.
| Others we're equally fortunate in the kind
! nesSes extended TO them By the Gunnis0n peO-
/ pie. Captain Bean. clerk and recorder of
/ Gunnison county, who rejoices in fine double
! cav 0yj u NJ. 3 H.
most attentive TO the wants of strangers.
| Driving to the train, when the excursion came
/ In. his eye fell upon COmrade KOuntz, of To-
| ledO o., who by that time was going about
| rather YEARLY on his one good leg. Captain
/ Bean at once found him out and conveyed him.
| with his party, TO his house. treating them at
/ once like guests aGd brothers.
| No better arrangements for the reception of
| guests was anywhere made than st GunnisOn,
and both the press aud the citizens, as well as
! the e. 4. K. of GunuisOn, are pleasantly remem-
/ bored by their visitors. Charles Z. Jessup the
gentlemanly clerk of the Tabor House, has
| placed Us under obligations for kind personal
attention and information.
PIONEER SIDE OF THE MEESER TROUBLE.
| While the dinner at Postmaster Hartman S
/ was going on, conversation was about equally
| divided between the marvellous results of Gun
/ nison farming and the massacre by the Utes.
| OF the former, wonderful things were told by
! the father of Mrs. Hartman, who was present
! OF cabbages growing to the weight of fifty
/ TO seventy-fiye pounds; of beets weighing
| twenty-four pounds; of mammoth onions and
| other marvellous grOwths of the hardy varieties.
/ We listened in open-mouthed wonder. Then
| Mr.. Hartman, whose mOdesty. like that of the
| Western man generally, is only equalIed by his
| hospitality, and whom we had tried to draw
into conversation before dinner, when he show
| cd US pictures of Chief Ouray and the chiefs
wife, and the chief men and the pappooses gen.
orally, whose pictures he had, was induced to
| talk little. lie was three years with the Utes,
in Government employ, before the massacre
! he knew Chief Ouray intimately and Endorsed
| all the good that has been said Of him; he had
seen the effect of the peace, or church policy,
as he called it, and pronounced it a failure ne
| had witnessed the operations OF military con-
| troll, and called il success.
whenever those old preachers come out
/ here" he said, "and begin 60 treat the Indians
as though they were children, there is trouble.
| The Indian wants firm hand and must be
| treated like man."
Did you have personal eognisance of the
| Meeker trouble ?" was asked.
Yes; and the trouble was just here: Meeker
came out with his absurd theories and thought
he could scare the Indians into doing things
| his Way. Now, YOU eau coax an Indian but