Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-16
soMErnINo ABour oREEDE.
A Fort Worth Railroad Man Talks About
the New Camp.

A Fort Worth Railroad Man Talks About
the New Camp.
A reporter of The GAZETTE called on ].
l. Pennington, general livestock agent OF
the Gulf. Colorado and Santa Fe, at his Of
fee and found him up to his eyes in busl-
ness getting ready TO handle the immense
stock business that seems in prospect for
his road within the next ninety days. The
reporter succeeded in getting few mo-
meuts OF his time. After general converse
ton the reporter remarked that the papers
were full of a mining excitement at Creede,
Colo, Il think you are familiar with that
country
..Yes, sir. Isppnt from 1878 to 1885 IN
what is known as the San Juan country
and had varied experience there: many
ups and downs, and come out on the downs,
while very many men come out on top.
That Colorado is one of the richest states
in the union in minerals and coal, climate
and scenery goes without saying. Creede
is a few miles north of Wagon Wheel Gap,
a country have Travelled over and camped
on many time without q thought OF the
immense wealth there buried. Mr.. f. G.
Gay, the general litigation agent of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa k'e, put in
some healthy days on the same ground
We both come out with experience and lots
of it. and a little short on wealth, because
we did not know where to look for it.
Were you through the Leadville excite
ment?"
Eyes, sir; and that was an excitement,
but the circumstances surrounding that
were altogether different from Creole.
Leadville is high altitude, troubled with
deep SHOWS, working season short and in
rs was inaccessible, being miles from any
railroad The formation is what is known
as 'blanket;' you could sink anywhere from
one hundred to three hundred feet; you
might strike it and might not The paying
properties soon got into the hands OF East
ern capital, and it became known as
spectators camp, not poor mans camp.
Creole IS at 4 much lower altitude. The
winters are practically nothing. The
Denver and Rio Grande railroad IS at their
very door, and to-day is unable to do the
business. Teams are hauling freight from
Del NOrte, thirty-hve miles, 10 Creole, be-
cause the railroad cannot haul all of it. In
three months it has sprung from nothing to
a town of 5000 people; electric light in now;
watsrworks being put in as fast as money
ana men can do it. One mine, the Last
Chance, is netting the owner $4,000 per
day, and only three months old. The camp
is shipping twenty carloads of ore per day,
vet the ground is hardly scratched over.
Men are going in at the rate of three hun
dred to four hundred per day. In fact, this
Creede is the most remarkable mining
camp of the world. I am personally ac-
quainted with hundreds of the men now on
the ground. From them 1 am in daily re-
ceipt Of letters and papers that keep me
fully posted. It is hard for me to resist
throwing up my position and going at once
to be in the swim. I shall have some in
terest there. and have already got some
Fort Worth friends to join me in a prospect
, ing and mining enterprise. We shall have
men on the groundI within thirty
days. You must not be surprised
if some of the Fort Worth boys
do not pose soon as fuIl-fedged millionaires.
The find IS not confined to little space
just around the creek. We have evidence
of its being equally as good for distance
of sixty miles. Any of the boys that want
a show in on the ground floor with me can
do so by getting around within the next
| twenty days. l could give you many par
ticulars and much information about this
mining camp, but really have not the
time. You see these gentlemen awaiting.
l nust attend to them. Each one of them
represents from one to ten trains of cattle,
and they will ship only by the old reliable
Santa E'e Goodbye. When I get these
Texas steers eating grass in the Indian Ter
ritory 1 will have more time