The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-08-01
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fellows from Illinois, Missouri, Miehi-
gan, Iowa and the eastern states. There
is little dialect spoken. Beyond the
double negative and the common mix
ing of cases they speak in the rapid
vowel-clipped manner of the middle
west. Some OF the citizens said they
hoped would try to find the man who
spoke as Bret Harte's miners did. They
had never found him. 1 told them to
look for him among Dickens fisher
men.
The tourist who thinks he Is not see
Ing life unless he sees the vice and
crime of life will find gambling houses
and their accompaniment easy to Wis
1t, for they do not conceal themselves
could not, in fact. The rouletteywheel
and the faro table are as easy to visit
as drug store and show very little
more excitement and the worn or stupid
faces of lewd women look from the win
dows in some Of the streets, but on
the whole the tourist can find more
drunkenness and crime in towns where
the men are less absorbed in a greater
excitement.
Cripple Creek is to-day one of the
| most active mining towns in the west.
The depreciation of silver has turned
the attention of miners to gold, and
these hills are being burrowed by thou
sands Of prospectors. The claims are
In hopeless confusion, and the poor
| man lands small chance of winning
anything more than day wages, and
considers himself lucky to secure that.
Some leases may be obtained but roy
alties are high and few succeed. Every
big strike is sent abroad with instant
shout and the excitement seems in
creasing.
| Meanwhile the saloons, the gambling
houses and the lawyers seem. to thrive,
as everywhere in this incomprehensi-
bic world The claims in certain plac-
| es lie literally five deep and can never
be Strengthened out so long as they
pay. 1t is hard to understand why the
confusion exists, but 1t sprang out Of
the loose and vague condition of the
laws relative to mineral lands.
| The moment a man makes a strike
upon his claim he has a score of ad-
| verse claims, suits and demands to con-
tend with. Many valuable mines are
thus held from use, pending settlement
| unquestionably there are hundreds OF
| veins undiscovered here, but it Is the
exception for the poor man to profit
| largely by their discovery. Big fellows
at once secure all the most promising
| territory
| saw men rocking the old-fashioned
cradle and washing dirt out in a
! pan, precisely as in 49, Up on the
mesa back of the town a group of min
ers are busily at work Sitting the gold
from the alluvial soil which fills the
ravines. They pay 25 cents per barre
for water and pay rs per cent. royalty tc
the land owner, and yet they contrive
| to make something to live on. / watch
ed one man as he washed painful OF
dirt down to the black sand in which
minute grains of gold glittered. He
said there was about rs cents worth OF
gold in the pan, which seemed little
| enough to me.
They are encouraged to keep sitting
away by tales of finds"
One man found a nugget worth $1S.
Another man corraled one worth $40.
Mainly they earn 80 or So per day, after
paying the royalty. They live In tents