The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-10
GOSSIP ON THE WING.
ABOUT NOTED WESTERN MEN ANT
WESTERN MATTERS.
Something About Mines and Mining-Srn-
ator Tabor's Aiadsiin's 1.amp-How Es.
senator nm Made a million Ia OH
Advice to Young Men.
rSpcclaI Corrcspondencc /

velopng and how it's towns ana cities
grow The people Of the east who travel
little know nothing OF it, and the ciylliza-
ton here is an unknown quantity 10 ali
bnt those who see and feel it The stores
If Denver. Omaha and 81. Paul arc a.
good as those Of Baltimore. Washington
and Cleveland, and fair index Of tho
homes O. the people can Toe told from the
goods sold visited furniture store in
Minnoavnlis las: wecl, which had q better
and more costly stock Than any you will
find in Washington city. aud in Omaha
became acquainted with the proprIcte.r OF
a furniture establishment who made n
trip around the world 10 pick up goods TO
SATISFY the Omaha taste. and who visits
Japan and brings back thousands of dol.
lars worth Of works of japanese art and
sells IL 10 the wild and wo0lly west. This
INNS establishment contained chamber
so,s which cost 81 600 apiece aud he
showed me objects of art from all parts
Of the world. for which hc told me there
was a ready sale lis said that good goods
met with reader and aquickcr sale west
than east. and that the western man and
woman took less time to make up their
minds TO buy than their eastern brothers
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Minneapolis has now about 100000
Omaha claims 100, 600 st. Paul crowds on
Minneapolis heels and contends that her
population is as large as the others and
Denver boasts Of nearly 100, 600 people
The smaller towns grow like the cities.
and the western frontier is now prac
tically the Rocky mountains and the Colo
TGdo desert Nearly all Of Nebraska and
Kansas is taken up with crop bearing
farms. and | rode for miles through the
garden Of Wisconsin. the most of which
~ now as well settled rs Michigan, Ohio
or Pennsylvania | rode from Detroit "a
Chicago through country as well pcoplcd
az New York or PENNSYLVANIA. and thence
over the Chicago. Milwaukee and ST Paul
line to Minneapolis This road is the one
of which Alexander Mitchell was so long
the president, and which Inc did so much
TO make il is the PENNSYLVANIA railroad
of the west. and its track is long enough
10 reach from san Francisco 10 New York
and half way i>crOSs the ocean 10 Liver
pool Ii has 500 miles in Iowa, 1,222
miles in Minnesota. .2c, miles Of track
IN Wisconsin end nearly thousand miles
in Dakota IL j. one of the paying
roads of the west and ! would inform the
east that the western roads as "a rule are
better equipped and better run than those
of older states. They rely more on
through travel and ono can now goacross
tine plains with mo lack Of good beds and
good meals. ! slept like top coming
from Minneapolis Ia Omaha. and the
Union Pacific from Omaha 20 Denver is rs
comfortable a. any Of the great lines be
tween Ncw York and Chicago. Here and
there we had % cowboy I'm the Pullman
car nut the passengers were as well
dressed a. those of the trains which bring
IN the New York capitalists 20 their work
~ Wall street from their suburban
homes. and they were fully as cosmopoi
tan and intelligent Among them were
mine owucrs in Idaho who had been
spending the winter in London. trying to
sell some lead and silver mines.
"ls there much English capital in
vested la American mines ! asked one of
tine gentlemen.
Yes. a great deal but owing 10 tho
alien land act such investments are
practically stopped. and millions OF dollars
are turned to North America and Mexico.
Il was not. Judge Paysou Of Illinois, tells
me. intended that this alien land act
should relate To- mines. and there Is bill
now before congress TO So amend II as To
permit such Investments.
How about mining and mines? is
there any possibility that they will soon
be- exhausted
No The mountains are full of silver.
gold and lead. and new leads are being
constantly discovered Much of Che ter
ritory has never been well prospccted ara
some of that most tramped over 10y pros
pectors turns out after all 20 contain
great mines. The only test Of it ale is tn.
pick and shovel. You cant tell where tn.
gold and silver is until YOU get down int
the bowels of the earth. and five genera
tons hence there Will etill be mining III
the Rocky mountains.
Are there many prospectors now at
work.
yes. there are men who are as crazy
now after gold and silver mines rs were
the old Forty. miners. Many of them work
in our mines in Idaho in the winter and
save enough there for their summer pros
pccting outfit They take pick shovel
and provisions. with a camping outfit, and
with a mule or packhorse tart of intot
mountains Sometimes they go alone. and
sometimes IN parties 81 TWO or three.
Some capitalists, such as ex-senator
Tabor. Of Colorado. keep number OF
prospectors out. furnishing the provisions
and outfit for half interest i'm the mines
they strike. 1t was in this way that
Tabor made his fortune, and many other
men have done well 10y grub stalking.
Speaking Of ex-senator Tabor. | hear
good words Of him here in Denver, and
he is still very rich man He is a daring
speculator and wins and loses without
making much fuss about it. His Match
less mine. said leading business man
of Denver TO me here today, is very
Aladdm's lamp TO him. and Whenever he
gets into a tight pinch his zen seem TO
strike pocket of rich ore and 10 thus
put 100000 or - TO Tabors credit.
'abors mines pay him from $4,000 to
$4,000 month and this income he can
depend upon He has been good citizen
Tor Denver and he has proved himself a
far sighted business man lie built
'rol,rf. spera loulr NJ n cost of SStO. tNO.