The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-27

| in vertical depth. The ore averages
all the way from $40 to the ton to
| 81 900 to the sack Within the last
| twelve months one mining company has
| taken more than So, 900, 900 from the de-
| post while sinking shafts and run
| ming drifts. The company has not
| commenced to stope and today has
enough oye blocked out to keep four
| shafts In operation day and night for
! the next ten years.
These are startling statements but
| they will he accepted by more than one
Leadville man as really short OF the
truth. 1t is felt that Leadv1lle IS on
the eve of the greatest step forward the
camp has ever known. 1t is possible
that the large mine owners are waiting
until 1895 to make a remarkable record
but whenever they are prepared for
splurge there is no doubt the material
is at hand for the undertaking. When
the movement takes place, it will not be
necessary to go to the figures of South
Africa, or Australia to find something
to put the blood in circula ton. Lead
vile will furnish establishment enough
for the entire world.
Such, at least is the opinion of the
pioneer miner. THE ore body" said
he yesterday, in speaking of the i'm
mediate future of the Leadville camp
lis by all odds the largest ever known
1t extends in a northeast and south
west direction, beginning at the head
or California gulch and reaching over
the backbone of the hill over toward
The head of Big Evans gulch. The dis
lance is at least three miles and it is
probable that the ore body will be
found to extend much further as time
II n ,,..tr in, k,a ?
tie Johnny, in the Resurrection, in the
Blow tunnel and at other points that
might be named. There is absolutely
no doubt as TO the vast size and great
value Of the ore body"
Continuing the visitor said that ne
recently made a trip through the Little
Johnny. Il walked through the under
ground workings for seven hours"
said be. 'and in all that time I was for
every moment between two walls of ore
1t was not trip through the cave de-
Scr5bed in the story of Aladdin. Gold
ore everywhere. Gold ore until you
became tired of the sight and prayed
for little barren rock just for a change
The workings have been carried to the
depth of 700 feet and the diamond drill
was sent dawn 500 feet further on an
exploring expedition. What did it re-
L
ed without break throughout the en-
tire distance and the values actually
increased as depth was gained. The
truth is that the own ers of the Little
Johnny have found neither bottom nor
side to the ore deposit and figures will
not express the value of the property.
The output of the mine for the month
of October was $500, 900. 1t is limited
only by the ability of the smelters to
handle that class Of ore. When the
mines along the gold vein are in ope-
ration there is no reason why the out
put should not reach s., 0O0, 900 or up
wards per month. 1 venture the pro-
phecy that in 1897 Leadville will mine
more ounces of gold than Colorado
ever mined ounces Of silver in the same
period"
The revelations of the miner almost
take ones breath away. He says that
men working in the mines are pledged
to keep their mouths padlocked or lose
their positions. The reason given for
the secrecy is that knowledge of the
discoveries would prolong legal con-
troversieS which are in progress and
would make it much more difficult to
reach a final settlement. Lawyers
viii understand the force of this state
ment. Four or five of the large COM
panies own practically all the property
on the lode and when the lawsuits are
settled the necessity of secrecy win be
obviated.
1t is well known that the silver de-
posft of the region has been thoroughly
exploited. 1t now remains for the linn
its Of the gold deposits to be defined