Omaha daily bee., 1892-03-06
TrRoM Yesterdays SECOND EDITION. !
IN. THE SHADE OF HOLY NOSES
The Great 0reede Camp as it Appears by
Day and Night.
MONEY AND LEAD QUITE PLENTIFUL
A Nebraskan wooing Dame Fortune and
viewing the sights on the side-Min-
erai Wealth and Prospects
A Great Rush.

CREEpE, Colo, March 4.-[Special to THE
BEE. -Creede, as seen by your correspond.
ent, is situated In the canyon between noun
tains that are some seven hundred feet
above the town. Through this canyon runs
a small stream called Willow creek. The
width of the street canyon is between
fifty and sixty feet, including the creek. Tho
water flowing in the creek is clear spring
and snow water. Every available foot of
this space Is occupied with buildings, set
upon posts.
The town OF Creede commences at the
west end of the canyon and runs east. Build
ings are strung along Willow creek for dis
tance Of one mile. Then commences what is
known as Jimtown. 1t Is impossible for
stranger to know where the towns commence
or end. 1t is simply one town as far as
can see, although thoy have two separate
postofilces mean by this they leave mail
at both the railroad stations.
Postal Facilities
At Jimtown there is no office rs yet. The
mail is thrown off here and dumped into
small goods box on the platform. Then some
man steps to the box, calls off the address OF
each envelope. If the parties whose names
are called holds up their. hands their mail is
harued over. After this process is gone
over with three times, the caller throws the.
unclaimed mail into this box and goes away
Then everyone who comes along picks up the
mail, looks il over and throws 1t back in the
box. At Creede proper 1t is somewhat differ
ent. There is a postof1ice in room 14xl6,
and it takes YOU from one to three hours aJ
any time of the day to get your mail. jim
town is soon to have quite a nice Office with
some 600 boxes.
A Wonderful Camp.
10 Cd ~ Vo,,
can hear the carpenters hammers at all
hours of the day or night. AT
night by the aid of electric lights. Creede
is undoubtedly the magic city of them all.
There are now over . 200 buildings completed
and some 600 nearing completion. The
ground is all staked off away up the sides of
the mountains-one end Of the buildings rest
ing on the rocks while the front is perched
upon posts 1t makes very strange sight to
see.
Life in Camp.
The town now has eighty saloons, dance
houses, etc. They are all in full blast, ana
such dance houses as they are, and such
dances. and such discarded remnants as the
old fairies who float around in them were
never seen before. They are a job lot of
weakened witches, but they make the night
groan just the same. Drunken men come out
occasionally and empty their guns in the air
or in somebody's legs. Yesterday one had
the ends of both thumbs shot off and another
had the front legs of the chair he was sitting
on shot off 1t is needless to say that he
moved without any further invitation. The
accordian cuts quite figure In this light
mountain air at night. 1t is useless to try to
sleep night through without being awak-
ened by firing OF pistols and the yelling from
these denS.
Rushing Business.
This is really rustling, bustlng town.
Every kiLd of business you can find any
where is represented bere. The furniture deal
ers have such signs as this: "Outfts from
the cradle to the grave" The lumber men
are doing a rushing business, and also the
hardware men. Money seems to be plentiful.
Everything is on the jump. Rents for store
rooms are enormous. A building on one OF
the town streets in Jimtown. say 25X40 feet.
brings from $3.50 to $500 per month, and it IS
impossible to get a store room at any price
on either of these streets.
The Mines.
The paying mines, as far as ] can earnl
are as follows: The Last Chance, Ameth VS.
Bachelor, Holy Moses, Ethel and the Ridge
way. In the latter mine yesterday was
found one piece of pure silver weighing fifty
six pounds. Should the owners make a few
more such discoveries-an l think they
will-this will prove to be the greatest camp
in the world. Even now, with lots of snow
on the mountains, you can soc prospectors at
work. l, like many others, am interested in
trying to find something rich, and think the
indications are pretty fair. One hundred
and thirty-two claims are staked off and
named within a radius of SIX miles of Creede.
or these the SIX named are producers. The
Holy Moses Is the only ono Of these CON-
pletely bonded, aud that for only $40, 0U0.
The manner of stalking off claim Is interest
ing. The locator, after satisfying himself
that he has struck it rich, drives plain
stick or board into the coveted spot and in
English more emphatic than chaste or
elegant writes thereon the name of the claim.
its boundaries when located and by whom.
In this preliminary the law has been COM
piled with. The Load Is the property of the
'.locaiters" for thirty days If they shouldn't
even do a lick of work on it. But ii at the
expiration of that time they dou't dig hole
IN The ground ten feet deep they are liable to
lose their property through the act of the
nimble Jumper, who simply announces on
another board stuck by the side of the other.
But il this jumper isn't careful he will get
his head blown off and no questions asked.
Permanency.
The permanency of the camp Can be de-
termined only by time. Tho glib-tongued
boomer will grab you by an arm before you
strike terra tirma from your railroad coach
and tell you tnat nothing like il was ever
before seen on the earth, and that its pros
poets surpass the widest dreams. Then
| there is another species who will swear to you
with equal earnestness that tho whole affair
! is so badly inflated that when it col
| lapses within the year, or half year. millions
| will 20 to wreck. There is still another char
| acter OF man, a part and parcel OF the hetero-
gereous mass that composes the young city S
| population, who AYERS that of course every
| thing is overdone now, but that there is the
best and surest basis Of permanency, to-wit:
| Millions of silver already in sight. and the
mountains have yet only been scratched
| AS yet have met nobody from Omaha or
| Nebraska. The greater part OF this popula-
| tion, which is very close to 5000, Is from
| Colorado. There are quite few greasers
| from Mexico here.
Strange to say, there is not a single China
| man to be found In this camp
The town, though without organization. is
| quite peaceable one. 1t will be three weeks
before the people can organize city govern
ment, as there is some doubt as to wha,
county the camp belongs to.
| The camp Is great boom for the Denver
& Rio Grande railroad people. They have
! more than they can do. WOUNDED KNEE.
| TIRED OF THE NEW YORK FIGHT
| What N Nebraslxan Thinks Of the 0ut IaaI