, 1888-07-14
WILL BOOM AGAIN.
Silver Drown Soon Coming TO the
Front.
The Smelter Will Begin Active
Operations.
The Camp Destined to Become
Quite Lively.

1t was on yesterday ascertaiRed by THE
LEADER reporter from reliable sources
that there is now a prospect, and a very
good one, that affairs In the Silver Crown
mining district will soon assume a new
turn, aud one that will result in perma-
nent advantage not only to the mining
district but indirectly to Cheyenne also.
1t is a well known fact that the smelter
at that point has not been in operation
for a considerable time, but it is not
generally known what have been the rea-
sons for the shut down. The difficulty
has not been for want of ore, for there is
enough-of that in the district to keep all
the smelters that can possibly be put in
either at that point or here in Cheyenne
running for the next quarter of a century.
The facts are that the smelter had to shut
down for the reason that thus far the cost
of running it had been too great. Why
the cost has been larger than could be
borne with profit to those having it in
charge need not be discussed here, but
those who are best informed on the sub
iect say that such has been the case.
Recently Mr.. Thompson of Hartville,
who is connected with the new company
which is now taking hold of the extensive
and valuable mines at that place, has
made a trip through the Silver Crown
mining district, and has had an opportu-
nifty to observe its advantages and re-
sources in the way of mineral deposits,
and has come to the conclusion that they
are practically i~nexhaustible. Mr.. Thomp-
son, who is an experienced mining man
in every sense of the word, and who is
most thoroughly posted in all that relates
to smelters, stamp mills and all sorts of
mieing machinery and apparatus, is of the
opinion that the smelter at Silver Crown
can be put in operation and kept running
at one-third the expense that has here
tofore attended its operations. One great
item of expense heretofore has been that
of coke, for'it is necessary that this arti-
Gle should be used in work Of this kind.
1t now transpires, however, that not
more than one-third of the amount of
coke heretofore used is necessary for the
successful operation of the smelter.
Hence it is that taking this item into con-
sideration in connection with the fact
that the expense heretofore in other d.
%rections have been in excess of what it
should have been; it is easy to see that
the cost can be reduced to a paying
standard.
Mr.. Thompson has made a proposition
which it is quite safe to say will be ac-
cepted and acted upon by the gentlemen
owning valuable mines at Silver Crown.
He offers to come down and run the
smelter on a paying basis and at one
third the former cost as soon as any one
or more of the mine owners are ready to
furnish fifty tons of ore to begin with.
This proposition is now being considered
by the Silver Crown parties who are d.
rectly and indirectly interested in the de.
velopment of the mines out there, and
there is but little doubt from what was
ascertained yesterday, that the PROPOSE
ton will be accepted.
If the propositions and counter-proposi
tions being made pro and con are accepted
the result will be that the smelter will be
set to running in a short time, and if so,
there will be lively times around Silver
Crown from hat time on. There is min
eral enough IN that district to make a
millionair out of every man in Cheyenne
if it can only be taken out and worked
with profit, and it would now seem that
the time is near at hand when this can
and will be done.