, 1888-08-02
PROSPEROUS
HartyilIe Thriving and the Miners
Are Happy.
A New Proposition Regarding Silver
Crown Ore.
Northern Ideas About the HartviIIe
Spur.

COl. Il. a. Stltzer mas returned from q
northern trip, in which he took in Hart
vile. as well as a number of other places,
and he gives a glowing account of affairs
at that place. There are now between
eighty and 100 miners hard at work at
that place, and they are all exceedingly
happy, as they get fair wages and are
paid off with clock-like regularity. There
is now discussed under the pay roll of the
mine owners at Hartville over SO, 600 each
month, and the laborers in the mines are
getting from So to "a per day, which is a
very fair compensation during these hard
times.
OF course every man who goes there
for the purpose of getting employment at
these figures cannot expect to have his
wish gratified, and, indeed, it would be
almost impossible for those seeking en-
ployment to get a Job at all in the mines
Just at present, for the company now have
all the men they want, and all they can
work to advantage at present.
1t is now asserted by the mine owners
and those in authority in the new compa-
ny, that they have discovered a new and
important fact in connection with Silver
Crown ore. Without attempting to ex
plain just what is meant thereby, it may
be said that experiments have disclosed
that the Silver Crown ore can be used to
"hux" the Hartville ore, and vice versa.
This is something which it is claimed will
greatly enhance the value of the former,
and Mr.. Thomson and others who are at
the head of mining affairs at Hartville
have not only acquired large interests at
Silver Crown and have been proposing to
take hold of the now idle Silver Crown
smelter and run it. but they now have an
other idea in view, in connection perhaps
with the one above alluded to, and that is
to devote all the energies they possess to
the furtherance of the plan Of establish
ing a smelter here in Cheyenne, and to
which the ore from both Hartville and
Silver Crown can be taken for smelling
purposes.
Another idea among them up there is
that the Hartyille p u will be built, ex-
tension bill or no extension bill, if it be-
comes apparent that there is enough ore
in sight at Hartville to make it pay, and
there is no doubt that satisfactory evil
dence on that point has already been ad-
duced.
The smelter at Fairbanks, which is
about three miles from Hartville, though
a good one, is not of sufficient capacity to
handle all the ore or even a considerable
part of that which the mines can yield,
and at present it has all that it can do.
When it is remembered that a vast
amount of ore taken from the mines at
Muskrat Canyon is to. be hauled to Fair
banks for the purpose of being milled, it
will readily be seen how the Hartville peo-
pie consider it necessary to figure on the
plan Of starting another slnelter at some
convenient point to which the ore can be
transported at a moderate cost.
Hartville is growing and quite a number
of people besides those interested in the
mines are centering in there with the view
of making it their permanent abiding
place. There are now several business
places in the town, including a good hotel,
three or four boarding houses. a drug
store. two grocery stores, five saloons and
a blacksmith shop. Other places of bust
ness will soon be started. There are now
between 300 and 400 people at Hartville
and more are coming every day.