The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-08-22
CRIPPLE CREEK.
Colorado's Great Gold Camp.

The advance that Cripple Creek is making
is wonderful. 1t is the most active camp in |
the state and the number of producing mines
has increased enormously The same is
true of the number of miners at work. 1t |
is estimated that there are two hundred |
producing mines there now against only
about thirty year ago, and that the mum.
Der of miners employed is three times as
great.
1t is also estimated that the output of the
district this year will be 100000 as
against less than half that amount in 1894
From this one may form an idea of what
the camp is doing. Nobody doubts now
that it is one of the greatest gold camps in
the world. There has been, practically, no
sign of exhaustion in any established mine.
Some mines that were thought to be ex
hausted are recognized now as good proper
ties, the former impression having been
shown to be erroneous.
Both Victor and Cripple Creek. the two
rapidly, and it is difficult to say which is
the better of the two. At one time the
latter was at standstill, and then Victor
grew in way to cause some to think that
it would outstrip its rival. But Cripple
Creek men say now that their town ia grow
ing as rapidly as Victor and that it is the
better place. Unquestionably both are good
towns and illustrations of what may be
done in mining camp situated in the
midst of a good district.
There is no estimating the advantage that
such district is to state like Colorado.
1t is all the greater in view of the depress-
| ion in silver mining. The fact that Colo.
RADIO has gold camp at this time producing
$40, 900, 600 per annum tells story to which
no thoughtful person can be Indifferent 1t
confirms what we have said so often in
these columns, that Colorado is in better
condition to endure gold recommendation
than any other state in the Union. The
people Of the East who expected that this
state would be Frustrated after the decline
in silver mining see now that they reckoned
without clear understanding OF what the
resources of Colorado really are.-Denver
Republican.
The way to win in any fight is to stick to
winning issues.
The average man drinks eleven thousand
gallons of liquids in fifty years.
If the gold bugs really believed that the
silver movement is dying they would let it
alone and talk of something else.-San
Francisco Call
The Southern Pacific Company has con.
tributed 81, 900 to the San Francisco and
San joaquin Railroad to purchase depot
grounds at MERGED. Possibly the Southern
Pacific intends to become large stakeholder
in the Valley road. Eureka Sentinel
An anti. bloomer brigade has been organ.
it'd in Norwich, New York. The boys
promise not to associate with girls who wear
the bloomer costume while cycling Some
curiosity exists as to what the girls will do
During the eleven months ending May 81
1895, as shown by United States Treasury
report, the enormous amount of 1855, 33l 24l
pounds of foreign wool was brought int
the United States, free Of duty, to crowd
out wool raised by American flock masters
Is it any wonder that sheep is selling il
some parts of the country for fifty cents
head, and even as low as thirty cents pc
head.
} The fishermen along the Carson, Hum
) boldt and Truckes rivers are complainin
! about the vorscious carp which they say
5 regular hog of fish, and cats the food {
a the other fish so clean that there is non
g left. Even catfish cannot live where car
3 abound, and they abound wherever plante
l as they spawn by the million. Not only d
+. the carp eat up the fish food, but they d.
0 your everything else, and actually make
t impossible for water foul to live on tn
Q river. Fine trout might be raised in a
8 these rivers if it we're not for these hogfsl
: and how to get rid of them is now what
bothering sportsmen and fishermen -Ex.