The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1896-01-30
CRIPPLE CREEK ON TOP
Fred R. Reed Writes Of Colofado'S
Great Yellow Metal StOfehouSe. !.
The TOWN IS 4 ORLD-BEATER
Wealth ana Honor Achieved by q
Former Citizen Of Yakima-Maio r
Reed Is Going to Have some OF
she Money TO be Made There.

CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo, Jan. 10, 1895.
EDITOR HERALD Il am now in Colo
RADIOS yellow metal storehouse, the great
centre that is attracting hundreds and
thousands Of brave souls who are casting
their lot in this certainly wonderful coun.
try. Cripple Creek is producing monthly
one million of dollars and the knowing
ones claim that this year will close with
production Of eighteen millions; one
and one-half millions per month. 1t 10
very refreshing to be in a place where
people have more than they can do, and
business increasing all the time. Hotels
and boarding houses are crowded to their
utmost capacity. Hundreds Of new peo-
pie are arriving weekly, some with money
and some without. Everything il hurley
hurley. get there day and night. Saloons
are doing land Office business. You
step out of the corridor OF the principal
hotels into the gambling rooms, in fact
gambling is one of the important factors
Of the hotels. The post-office is dandy.
They have about one quarter help enough
to do the work as tons of mail are receiv-
ed weekly. You can't get box for love
or money and it's an all day job to stand
in line and wait your turn. Cripple
Creek is said to have twenty thousand
people and as many more scattered about
in the mining districts adjoining the
town. The people are orderly and kindly
disposed and the the town under excel
lent government. Rents are very high.
An ordinary shack rents for fifteen dollars
per month. Offices are very scarce and
command big prices. Real estate, con-
sidering what is now in sight and the
new and rich strikes that are daily being
made, is very reasonable. Merchandise
OF all kinds is surprisingly low and prices
| compare favorably with those of any 9TH
er sections of the country. The churches,
schools and secret orders are all in
| hourishing and healthy condition and
we'll represented. The town has electric
lights and water works, with a sewerage
| system under construction. / was much
surprised to find such an orderly and re-
spectacle camp or city as it should be
called. There is total absence of tough
ism and old time gun plays. If would
be bad man gets jag on and tries to run
things, he doesn't even get started, for
the city marshal, who wears a big gold
badge. and his able corps of officers,
| quickly gather him to the bosom OF
warm Jail, and the judge puts on the
grand finale in the morning. There are
over one hundred producing mines here
with fresh one added to tfe~list daily.
The class of mining done here is deep,
and the further you 60 into the bowels OF
the earth the richer the ore shows up.
There is no doubt but what Cripple
Creek is to be the richest gold camp in
the world, if it is not now. I shall be In
better position in month from now to
write more intelligently of the mining in
detail.
Most of your readers will recol-
lect T. P. Airheart, who lived formerly
on twenty-acre farm just west and south
Of my house. He is to-day one of the
richest men in Cripple Creek. His in
fiuence is mighty. No man here is more
respected. He is now reaping his re-
ward for years of toll and hardship, and
deserves beyond doubt the good luck
and prosperity that he Is now enjoying.
Cripple Creek has three railroads, all Of
which afford excellent freight and passen-
ger service. The altitude is nearly two
miles above sea level and the stranger at
first keeps feeling all around to find him
self. He sort of feels full of balloons and
doesn't know whether or not he ia going
to rise and float away. In few days he
gets acclimated and is all right, but at
first you can't walk far or fast for you
have no breath. Everybody pants and
pufs but gets there just the same. /
asked the girl who waits on the table
where board il she knew where could
get sleeping room. She said no they
were scarce, and that her room was so
small she had to go outside to change
her mind. Cripple Greek has struck my
fancy. There is money to be made here
and am going to have some of 1t, and
soon. 1t is now the dead OF winter here,
but very pleasant and no snow. Many
people are delaying coming until spring,
when tremendous influx of people and
big mining boom such as the world has
never known before is expected. I be-
lieve the expectations will be realized.
FRED r. REED.
HER CHECK WAS A ClNDER.