The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-23

daily output of the Little Johnny is
now about 200 tons, and the average
value Of the ore is nearly $50. There
are now six shafts on the property,
the two deepest of which are $50 feet.
Gold is struck about 800 feet below
the ground, and it is said that the
whole area Of more than 100 acres is
mineralized
MILLIONS IN SILVER.
Leadville is one of the greatest sill
yer camps of the United States. Mil
lions upon millions have been taken
out of the earth back of the city and
scattered broadcast over the world
Much of the money which Levi q. Lei
Ter is now spending in entertaining
IN washington and gallavanting over
Europe came from silver mine here,
which he bought for $40, 000 and which
panned out more than $1,000,OO0 A
great part of James G. Blaine's polit-
zeal expenses were paid out of his sill
yer mine in Leadville. and it is only a
lew minutes walk from the heart Of
TINS city to the spot where Senator
RAZOR, by grub-staking a couple of
miners, Jumped at once from the posi-
uon or a poor grocer to that of a min
ing millionaire. / think that Tabor
made something like $7,000,0 900 or SIS, OOO,-
OOO out OF his mines here, and though
ne is practically bankrupt today, there
are others who have done almost as
Well and kept their money. Millions
upon millions of dollars worth of sill
yer nave been taken out of the hills
pack OF the town. and there are vast
quantities of dump and waste rock
walled up almost on the edge Of the
houses. The city itself is undertake
with precious minerals. About a wear
ago Mag. A. V. Bohn struck a silver
mine on the edge of the town, the ore
OF winch averaged 100 ounces Of sill
yer, with now and then a Jump to as
hlgh as from 800 to 900 ounces. 1t has
peen found that this vein extends right
uhder LeadVille, and it is question
nov as to whether LeadvilIe
can mold its silver, or whether
II IS 20 go to others. If
LeadVille gets it it will be the rich
est city In the world, and single pock-
cts OF ore under the streets will proba
Oily pay more than the city debt and
IeaVe big surplus in the treasury.
LeadVllle claims that the streets were
dedlcated to the municipality and that
all that is under them belongs to the
city. The original owners of the land
are now trying to pretend that they
gave the ground only as a right of
way ana so the question hangs in the
courts. '-io
Many OF the silver mines at Leadyille
are so rich that they can be worked
at profit, Notwithstanding the low
price OF silver. In the Moffat and
Smlth mines there are $50 men on the
pay roll as miners, and it takes about
Inree men to handle and care for the
ore TO each miner. There are SOoo
men at work in the Leadville mining
olstrlct, and laborers get from 81 TO 50
per day. The Wolfton mine has re-
Gently struck an immense body of ore
neither end of which has vet been
round, but in which los, 900 tons of sill
Ver-oearlng rock have been blocked
out. This, 1t is estimated. will nav at
Ieast So ton above all expenses Of
handling and smelling, making the ore
IN TINS mine alone worth at least 1894
OUO. Mr.. Moffat told me in NV inter
view that his best mine had been tho
Maid of Erin for which he had maid
about 100000, and out of which himself
and his partners had made S. o00 Ooo
This mine is still being worked. and
there are other great silver mines here
which are shipping ore.
VISIT TO MAID OF ERIN.
paid visit the other day 10 this
hve-million-dollar maiden. The Maid Of
Erin silver mine lies on the hills lust
above Leadville. 1t is surrounded bv
mountains of waste rock, and it has
immense frame buildings, something
like those of a great factory. look
at 1T gives you some idea of the enor-
nous cost or silver mining. The engines
which move its machinery have ten
great boilers. and its furnaces are so
large that ten men are constantly
Ehoveling coal into them to keep the
nres alive. They eat up from twenty