Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-04-30
CREEDE CAMP.
Co,orado,s tAseeond LeRdvilie'-hinss
AT Marvellous Richness

ness 10 investigate each canaluato
which arose 10 find another such.
There we're many false alarms until
hope deferred had almost made pessi-
mists OF all, and the phrase a second
Leadyille'' had become n 10 90
scorned and sneered a. There 10
but one Leadyille. = became the stereo-
type reply 70 the stereotype cry, ana
the Carbonate Camp continued 70 pose
as the ideal mineral discovery.
But through ali those years OF hlck-
ering hope down whore the hlo
Grande meets It's drst considerable any
In its journey 10 the Cult q great vein
Of rich mineral which had ourst ls
ouar.zite bounds ages before, olinkea
back the starlight through the pine
trees and quaklng asps and waited.
Thousands Of men grew gray ana
worn climbing mountain sides q
died in poverty or priyation hunting
mineral wealth. The big vein Win
It's great aakes Of yirsin silver q rs
millions OF hidden wealth waited on
A p~rospecIor's burro TOOK " lnto MS
head 10 do an unusual thing. lie 1e1t
the tin cans OF his masters door-yard
and started out on = skirmishlng expe-
dition. The master had expected 10
go prospecting, but he had expeeieato
drive his burro in another direeuoa-
The burro strolled on up tho klo
, Grande, turned OF az Willow Greek 20
nlbble the twlgs as a relief 20 Juicy
crasA found WIRdy Guleh an inviting
! path, and from there up the mountain
! 10 a grassy park on Bachelor HilL
. The master followed. He came 70
where the silver lay blinking he star
light, and tho Last Chance mine
was found.
Then people who came and looked
al the discovery said that q second
\ LeadyiIie had been found, and tney
\ who stood % but did not leer.
There are two prelaces 10 Creede''
history. Tho ayas was when y. g
Creole, who has iouud many mines,
n had opened the Monarch aud otne'
v districts 10 the miner and prospector.
By close and Intelligent prospecting
abiding faith in tho hills Induced ~
study and a miners knowledge Of SC
ology and Jha art 81 nndlng veins
traced out, and by diillgent hammer
ing Of ROCKS and digging many hoseA
+" found ana located the Holy Moses
claim. Tnis no did Ia May. 1890 an'
In October OF tho same year. sold "a
prospect 70 b. II. NofatL 8 H. Smiii
~ and Capt T. ID. Campbell. all OF pon
L yer for 10000. after EbSa Smith, Mr.
= Modatt's trusted manager ~ tho Mai
OF Eriu' at Leadvllle, had pronouncaI
4 Il q good properly.
In a narrow gulcn on Willow CFsek
Z tho town Of Crcede commenced
y build soon after the news that sue
" good mining authority had lndorsc
= the and. For several months Ener
vas a steady stream OF p]Fospsctorl
merchants and miners flowing into u
camp. The houses OF logs and roug
boards commenced 70 90 up Ia "a
I Gulch. pushing into tho rock oiuf
IN which rise perpendiculariy from u
bank. and upon log bridges throu
across tho pretty little creek whit
no flows through tho center.
Then tho nearest railroad point vi
Wagon Wheel Gap. ten miles balo'
nm II was expected that Mr.. MoTat
M President OF tho Denver aud Il
~. Grnude Railway. would cause tho tral
TO be extended TO his mine, as q
grade was easy and the route entire
feasible.
Some ore was hauled hat wiEtar
orm burro and wagon TO the Gap. and
large force Of men worked upon I
Holy Moses" sinking shafts a
With drifting in the fve-ioot vein OF mi
eral, and proving the richness OF /
iay' mine.
IcSy by June, 1891, the hill on which I
Holy Moses mine Is situate. SIN
{ " dubbed Campbell Mountain, was W
covered with located claims. and I
''Kidgc, " discovered by Carries +. n
81. son ind sold to ex-senator Thomas
Bowen. with the Ethel. . another
i n cation OF MIR. Croede'A sold TO
time Holy Moses Company. were all kno
10 be big mines, and all were ready
hus- ship ore.
ther The prospecting and town build
how went on without a pause. In n quI
restrained boom, until in August,
ago Last Chance and '.Amethyst'' W
ana found and seen to be wonderful bon
''uer zas In big veins OF mineral rock,
FIRST shoyelfuil Of which was shipp
nyo ore worth s170 a ton. Then work
lives the expected extension OF the railrt
was commenced, and this. follow
. in. the big strike precipiAted such a n
/ tho ing boom as the men who remembe
alive Leadville had long beeu waiting
hoping for.
Of a There the overflow from Creole
de- the place for a town, and there wa
the time lost. Buildings were thrown
nu II In the bottoms. until within n mon
to n ,t.aa i, - an Th.s
new ~ ~ auV WY
casts snoise9 " "hich W uuilu thelr nou
1000 and here to-day Is still in progress
/, the OF the most remarkable real es
It be booms which the West has ever s,
Three months old, and a populatio
aris ]. 300, most OF IL in three weeks
idea increasing nj 100 n dnv.