Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-08-11
$1.OO PER YEAR
ANACONDA Colo, AUG. 4, 1896
EDITOR PLAIN DEALER.

AnhAAe perhaps you anu 6ne
readers of the TwIcE-A-WEEK would
like to hear something from "the
greatest gold camp on earth, right in
the heart of the district write a few
lines. Anyone coming to this district
from the east hears of nothing but
Cripple Creek and accordingly buys a
ticket for that place expecting to find
all the big mines there. Cripple"
as it is called here is place of 15, 200
inhabitants and is a good mining
camp some good miners being located
near there. There is where all of the
eastern capital comes from the east
and is centered there. Anaconda is
two miles from Cripple and has
some of the best mines in the district
adjacent to it among them being the
Mary Mckinney, Anaconda Tunnell,
Doctor, Anaconda Leland and
hundreds of others of less importance.
East of the place two miles is Elkton
and that place has its famous Moose
and Eikton mines employing a large
number of miners. Six miles east of
Cripple is Victor where the great
Independence and Portland gold mines
are located. These two mines are
the best known of any in the state
and are the largest producers. Among
the other prominent mines there are
also the Anna Lee, Bob Tail, Nellie
o., Gold Coin, April Fool and the
great strong mine that the strikers
blowed up during the trouble. Victor
is on the south slope of Battle and
Squaw mountains and over the other
side OF Battle mountain abont one
mile is Goldfield, on up the gulch
about one mile is independence, and
on top of Blue Hill one mile from
there is Altman the highest incorpor-
ated town in the United States being
10,347 feet above the sea level. The
mines surrounding these towns are
the Teresa, Legal Tender, Christmas,
Vindicator, Victor, Last Dollar, Speci-
men and lots of smaller ones all ship
pers of ore. So you can see that all
the large mines Of the district are
not at Cripple Creek. From any Of
the above towns YOU can see Pixies
Peak plain and it looks about four
miles away but is in reality about
fifteen miles. This is a gold camp
that is all the produce is gold no
silver ore at all. But you should
hear them shout for s.free silver.n
The ladies have full suffrage here and
are as enthusiastic politicians as the
men. The miners are getting $500
per day for eight hours work. Mine
engineers $500 and other labor in
They have the carpenters, painters,
cooks and walters, decorators,
printers, miners and engineer unions.
There is no friction and everything
moves along smoothly. As to politics
you will not find a Mckinley button in
the whole camp and we have popu-
lation of over 10000 voters in the
camps. Everybody will vote for Bryan
and Sewall in November, Republicans,
Pops and Democrats. The county
seat of the county is Colorado Springs,
down in the valley and is settled by
an English syndicate. All the million
aires live down nthere-seventeen liv-
ing on one street-drive four in hand
and all that sort of things. and they
are all without an exception in favor
of Mckinley and Hobart, and have a
club formed. The place is dubbed
''Little England" by all the people of
the state, and it shows who wants the
single gold standard, the common
people or the millionaires. Ofcourse,
out here we all expect to see Bryan
and Sewall elected without doubt,
and if they are all the big silver mines
in the San Juan country will be re-
opened and this will be one of the best
states in the union for the laboring
man. The people here think that the
"Cousln Jacks -Englishmen-ha
had their own way long enough and
should be sat down on hard. The
Bryan ana Sewall club OF Victor, are
making arrangements to send orators
east in the interest OF silver and try
and educate the people little.
Senator Pettingrew assures the peo-
pie that South Dakota can be counted
on for silver which is good news. The
old cry of protection and free trade is
a dead issue and should not be discus
sed and where it is done it is with the
purpose Of throwing dust in the eyes
of the voters and throwing them Off
from the true issue-the money aues-
tion.
Yours for Free Silver,
TOURIST.
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