The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-01-24
Prevents
Hair from
Falling Out.
HUNTING FOR WEALTH
But a Slab in the Morgue the
Fate of Many.
|, PICTURE OF CRIPPLE CREEK.
Solorado's Boom Mining Camp-A Mad
Race for Gold, the God OF the
Restless Spectator.

And one DAY last week ,wenty-fouT dad
lay stretched on the slabs AT tho n1orsue.
a. which eighteen We're buried uniden-
tided,' said William Ptggotl last WEht Al
the Butler, in the course of story he was
telling Of his recent experience at Cripple
Greek. Mr. Piggott Is the mining engineer
who with Capt Hoefer recently purchased
the Kirkland Iron Works.
Yes" he continued. that paints pie
ture OF the state of affairs at Cripple
Creek. those eighteen poor fellows whom
nobody knew anything about or where
they came from Think Of il.
The Cripple Creek excitement died
down No. on the contrary people are still
erOwding in. and many poor fellows, from
being insufficientiy clad and FED, get
pneumonia and take their places among
the unidentified at the morsue- Why.
chair In a saloon or billiard room costs you
81 cents q night. and you cannot get de-
cent bed for less taan =. In the spring
probably more people viii be rushing in
than ever before. and the worst 81 II -
that so many go there rs 20 other mining
camps. without any well-det1ned idea of
what they are going 10 do when they get
there. Half a score OF Seattle men have
beea pumping me today. with the idea Of
going there and I should be pleased If the
Post-Intelligencer would permit me 80 tell
them that the place is ovcTCrowded, and
that there Il room but FOR one class, these
NTH money that they desire % invest ~
mines. Even for those there are no longer
many soft snaps. for the neighoOrhood has
been prospected and mapped out Tor miles
and miles. Men are coming I'm from every
where, on freight trains and In sleepers.
I should say there are now about o, 90 PEG
pie there In the spring there VIII be many
more. for Just noE il not the right season
for the Spectator IN mines 10 travel IN.
Also. about ADril ard Nay q sreaI rner-.'
tourists come into Colorado. nj nSny 90
these wealthy pist5-sa seeker set inter
es,ed, and sometimes esscina'ed with mir
Ing and are led 10 MAKE vast Investments.
Alaska is a rich country, ana the article
IN the Intelhgencer that last year she
turned out 5000. 60 worth OF gold. with
g. small a population. was much talked
about among mining men. But Colorado
* the state for mining. Its climate attracts
wealthy people; * IS near the great centeTs
O. capital. and a mining man can get into
his sleeper at Denver after dinner ana -
a. any OF the great mining camps In the
state for breakfast Alaska - very Ear
away. A speculator cannot affoyd 20 run
W there and see how his investment Il
nrogressing. and thai must keep many
from investing.
In Colorado We have cheap freights and
CHEAP fuel and SO can AFFORD 70 work Tho
low grades OF ere. FTetRhts that were ten
years ago s. TO so a ton are now s. and 3;
coal has fallen In about the same ratio.
Whv Won can contract for the best coal
or the cars for ~ cents ton. They have
good railroad tines handy. sneiters 20 nan
die the GRE at exceedingly low prices and
hack Of all these advantage unlimited cap
HaL 1t II the low grade ORES out OF which.
n my belief. Colorado is to make her great
wealth.
As 20 Cripple Creek thew claim 70 have
about $50 shipping properties ;hhTe now.
krt this "a a misleading statement. a. one
who ships once a month o. once 3 week
ought Hat 70 b. 40 clss.ed SIN. there are
= great many paving properties there, and
again. many thousands Of dollars put into
properties that never will pay IN has De
come ore OF the most important camps n
she state although yet IN its very early
infancy. and next year viii see wonder"
fui development"