The Red Cloud chief., 1896-07-03
New camp Seward.
CAMP SEWARD, Col July |. .

some time since | wrote you, and
promised l would let you know how
things were moving from time to time,
| will endeavor to give you "a dcscrip
ton of the new camp, Seward. 1t is
81 uated about half way between Col.
orado Springs aud Cripple Greek,
two miles west Of what i. called the
halfway house on thr CHI yrnue pass
wagon road. The camp Tor town as it
will be SOON is on a beautiful moun.
tain stream that comes down through
the camp and the boys turned tn,
course Of the water 50 that 1t flows
right past our houses and tents aud is
az cold as ice all the time, and, a. for
fuel to burn, il costs nothing but a
little labor TO prepare it for the stove;
it is dry pine and Of a good quality
We have plenty cf grass for our horses
which are turned loose when not at
work. The boys have been very busy
making a Wagon road from the camp
up into the park a distance Of about a
mile and a half, having to blast rock
and cut trees and dig out stumps. 1t
has been very hard work and has cost
something like two thousand dollars.
but they have a fine road as far as
they have gone and their %ih'cntion is
to build on ny to the Sevco Lakes
where there is 6nr f,hiug and nice
summor houses aud Il l,rg" hotel.
The lakes we're stocked wi h fish
about eighteen years ago by some
eastern capitalists and they say there
is tiue fishing there now. / have not
been up there yet but am going this
week. You may wonder what the
park is; it is heavy pine trees and
large ones too, l think there are trees
enough to make 10000 900 feet of
lumber besides $4,000 mining timbers.
| presume you would like to know !
what mining prospects WI have. All
OF the boys have two or more lode
claims and n placer claim. There
have been some very good assays from
shallow holes the best cue in our camp
came from the hanging rock lode, the
shaft hole Is a ten foo, assessment
hole aud on the l3;h . piece of ore
was sent to Victor out of that hole
and 1t assayed $2S 0O per ton. Now
you may think that not very good but
We think it good and SO do the owners
of the mine. Lew Soderlin aud Geo.
Smelser and some other young men
are the owners Of it. On the l7th
q man by the name Of CLARK discoy-
cred a vein, staked the claim and
had It surveyed and took II piece of
ore from the surface TO Cripple Creek
and it assayed 81. believe the man.
ayers of the camp have contracted for
fifty feet to be put down i. the Pilot
lode claim about a mile and n half
from our claim There was a strike
made last week that a~ssayed SJ36 90
per ton.
AS for the town or camp, as it Is
called, there is a large hotel in con.
struction, besides a number of houses
and others just waiting for lumber
which will be forthcoming next week
when the saw mill gets there and 10.
Gated. There will be stabllng for 100
head Of horses. The intention | be-
lieve is to get the numerous stages 20
stop for dinaer and supper as they
pass through the camp about noon,
eight four horse coaches and one six
horse Tallyho that leaves Colorado
Springs at 1890 p. m. and will take
supper at Camp Seward and change
horses at 3 p. m, thence on to Cripple
Creek. l believe l have given you as
near a description of our camp as most
any one could and l will refer you to
Frank Tenant who left here yestey.
day for Red Cloud, or o. c. Bell who
left here the day before. If l have
emitted .any Of the great features of
the camp Frank will give them to you
and you car add them to this and
when you think of it all and the ad-
vantages VIC have over other cam ps
you will think and say as we do hat
this Is the greatest camp knows in
any Of the mining districts. The