Delta chief., 1883-11-28
Red Mountain District.
Ne Denver Republican.


From the Denver Republican.
Red Mountain district is now justly regard
ed as the most prominent of the new mining
regions of the State. In fact it has phenom-
enal history. Two years ago it had not been
brought before the notice of the public, and
to-day its fame is widespread. 1t has had no
real boom either locally or through the news
papers, yet the most healthful exploitation is
in progress. 1t has had none of the backsets
so common to new camps, and what is still
more remarkable, no prospects of any such
hindrance to its steady growth. 1t has ad-
vanced quietly and steadily to large daily
output that causes one to wonder thereat, be-
cause so little time has been granted for sys-
tematic opening of the ground. The first
year it exhibits a yield that would be credit
to any camp twice its age. Situated upon
and above the timber-line of rugged noun
tains, it sprang into such sudden prominence
as to compel notice from railroad lines, found
numerous towns and outstrip in achieve
ments the older sections, and all within pc
riod of two years.
So unusual and precocious developments
must have foundations out of tho ordinary
cuurse of mining experience, and Red Noun
tain presents them every hand to the en-
uuirer Her mineral bodies are clean and
valuable, requiring less work to become pro-
ductive than any other extensive area pre-
sents. Shafts, adi.s, tunnels and drifts have,
from the surface to the bottom and breasts,
been forwarded through solid pay ore, and
the dumps show less waste than can else
where be found.
The reason for this wonderful record is ap-
parent. The singular bulk and richness of
the veins and deposits themselves urged own
ers to the utmost exertion with pick, shovel
and blast, and, for once in the history of
mining, labor and muscle asked no aid from
capital. Outside assistance was neither
sought nor required, and the laborcr soon be-
came his own hacker and banker. This camp
possesses the favorable conditions of being
able at once to utilize all the facilities of
cheap transportation and cash markets, which
its ncighbors had, through years of priyation
and struggle, brought SO near its threshold.
1t needed only the extension Of trails and
wagon roads to give it a railway outlet to all
the established markets, and these were rap
idly added. No new camp in the State has
SO fortunately circumstanced, nor has any so
energetically grasped them. Exhanstlcss in
native resources, possessed of plethora Of
pluck and energy, Red Mountain has made
start from which she will not recede, and the
Red Mountain Recier is justified in using the
following terms of brilliant prediction
1.-The discoveries of unparalleled richness
which have been made in the Red Mountain
district the past season, are but the advance
agents of boom leading on TO an era of
prosperity such rs this country has never
known. The dark days in the history of the
San Juan are past. new star has arisen,
whose light will lead hundreds to wealth and
fortune. The Red Mountain district has re-
deemed the San Juan from the obscurity in
which it has lain so long, and will bring the
long. look ed. for reward to the faithful few
who have stood by those grand old silver
scanned hills, firm in the belief that here was
the Mecca of the pilgrim seeking the shrine
of fortune"