Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-01
A MILLION A MONTH.
Precious Metal Product of Cripple Creek, Col Prospects at West Creek Also Show
 Heavy Deposits.

The Chicago Times-Herald devotes two columns to carefully prepared report on Cripple Creek and the gold fields of Colorado. It says in part:
 "A million a month";
 This is the precious metal product of the Cripple Creek district. And this fig ure. big as it seems, is inside rather than beyond the monthly gold output, a con servative rather than liberal state- ment. The shipments for October were l4,S00 tons of smelling ore of an average value of $65, and 5000 tons of milling ores ranging from $S to $35 per ton, with an average of $15. The total value of high grade ores for October was 1862, ,000, and of the low grade ores $102, 900, the grand total product being $1,064,000. The rec ord for November will show an increase. For the first fifteen days of November the shipments of high grade ores to the smelters have averaged $50 tons daily over the Colorado Midland, and 250 tons dally over the Colorado and Rio Grande railroad These ores held up to the Oc- tober average of $65 per ton, and returned 10 the shippers in gross $5S5, ,000 The low grade ores averaged high Figuring freights, milling fees and mining, the extraction of gold from $S ore means a loss Of S3 to $6 per ton to the pfoducer NoVembers low grade ore has averaged $2O to the ton. Of this class 255 tons daily nave been moved, making for the first half of the month a value of $1590OO If the tonnage continues for the remainder Of the month the gross product will be S1, ,329, ,000
 The original discoveries of gold in Crip- pie Creek. or perhaps the discoveries which led to the present development would Tt the case better, were made in lS90. The creek country was then known as Pisgah park, and was regarded as fnd fAE e.A, .s-...- It is asserted by the miners that this country, containing twenty-four square miles, contains more riches than any other region of the world. There is some basis for this assertion. On the many claims staked out hundreds are held by the assessment work only. The owners lack funds to develop or hold their claims for speculative purposes. It is probable that fewer than 100 mines are regular shippers of ore, and perhaps half the number are dividend payers. One may count on his fingers the companies and private owners whose shafts and tun- nels are deeper than 200 feet. The pro- duction thus far has been wholly super ficial and incidental only to the search for the principal vein. As the work on the roads progresses the ore becomes richer. The value is almost susceptible of. exact calculation when original assay in the surface and the depth of the shaft Is known. t..- -sa
 Senator Teller, who was here last week, left his indorsement on the Cripple Creek country, as 1t is known that he is an old and practical miner. His views on free silver do not seem to bias or warp his judgment on gold ones. "It Is the great est gold producing section in the world" he said. q am glad Colorado has it, and I hope her capitalists will be able to re- tain it." .. 4. t1-.4-f- a-r
 The golden wealth of this part of Col orado is not limited to the Cripple Creek fields. Prospects at West Creek, about twenty miles from Colorado Springs, show heavy gold deposits, and there is rush of miners to that territory. The population of Cripple Creek has increased in proportion to the-development of wealth. Four years ago the dwellers in the section numbered fewer than fifty at the two or three stock camps. In the same territory there is now a populationt of 25, 000 Of this number 20,000 are men.