Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-04-07
A ROARING MINING TOWN.
Charles l.. Staples, a Former Mex
leo Boy, Tells OF Life In Creede
Camp, Colorado.
CORRESPONDENCE Of the Ledger.

Correspondence of the Ledger.
CREEDE CAMP, Colo, March 81.
i want to tell you something OF
Creole Camp, a rip-roaring town OF
the 40 kind. She hobs up in the
twinkle of an eye, and startles the
whole civilized world with her
mines, millions and music. She
surges up among the everlasting
peakes and dazzles the eye of a con-
tinent. To give justice to such a
wild, roaring, surging, busy, bust
ling, mining camp as Creede and
any adequate idea to the eastern
"tenderfoot' of its life, its fascina-
lions, its rapid growth and its
strange and picturesque surround
ings would require more than the
pen of Milton to describe or the
brush of a Rembrant. The ever
changing development of the town
from its first inception only four
months ago has defied detailed de-
scription, and what is written to-day
, will in a weeks time seem a tame
story.
Every train that arrives in the
camp, and two passenger trains
daily of eight or nine coaches each
are required, add strange and new
faces to the masses that already
surge the streets and if there is any
business imaginable that is not yet
represented somebody is quick to
discover the deficiency andthe next
train back he goes to Denver, Pueb-
10, st. Louis, Chicago OF wherever
he can obtain the quickest what he
wants and in a short time returns
with his implements or merchandise
and is ready to go into the swim
with a chance of making what all
are after-money. Perchance on
his return he finds that he has
rivals in his supposed monopoly OF
a good sur thing, but that makes no
difference for, he has gone in to win
or lose, with the chances for win
ming in his favor, for the camp has
already grown to exceed his widest
fancy and he is after all but q drop
in the bucket. Creole has ha9
railroad from the start but even
great railroad has been taxed to|
utmost and beyond its facilitiesi
hundreds of business men in Gre
can testify who have waited in
tiently for as long as three or
weeks in a great many 81 be
the car containing their effects C
be taken out of the great jam
overy side track from Pueblo
Wagon Wheel Gap and rur
Creole to be unloaded. Every
wanted to get on the ground
and settle down to business b.
the grand spring rush, which j
eclipse all previous rushes in
history, pours its flood tide fro1
parts of the world into the IL
Creole.
Hundreds of men who int
only to prospect came here long age
in advance of the time when any
real prospecting could be done on
account of snow in the mountains,
yet the time would be p~rofitably
spent in getting pointers, learning
the ground and studying the indi-
cations given out to the practical
eye by the float in the gulches, the
character of the rocks, the motion
OF the strata, and the convincing
evidence right at Creole in the shape
of ore being shipped out daily to
the great smelters at Pueblo and
Denver.
Creole must be e to be appre-
ciated. Imagination is not vivid
enough to grasp the entire subject
without it and the motives that lie
behind it. Money and wealth is
here turned loose and the almighty
dollar circulates with freedom that
is an inpiration and an apparent
reeklessness that would paralyze an
old plodding credit business town
where a man wears out the 'soles o.
his shoes in vain efforts to collect
his just dues so he can pay his Just
debts and work up a little more
credit. Great is Creedel
Yours Resp,
CHAs. L. STAPLES.