, 1897-04-08
WONDERS OF
Untold Wealth Seems to be Buried Un.
der Five Feet Of Snow.

A special dispatch to the Denver Re-
publican from Columbine, In the Hahn's
peak district. sayS:
The prospects Of the district continus
to brighten - the days grow In length.
Miners who are doing surface work are
much hampered with the depth Of snow,
but this bids fair to leave " ere long. -
1t has now begun to sink perceptibly.
Miners m now building trail sleds to
haul provisions to some Of the outlying
strike nei~ghborhoods and the whole
camp shows every evidence OF an incli-
nation to gel up.
The Dead Shot leasers are sinking on
that claim as fast as possible and from
tests made no character Of matter can
be picked out that will run less than IS
per ton and on up until the actual coin
is but little better. Frank Martin, who
has been digging holes and t%renching to
find the source of the Red Park gold,
has finally settled down and is now run
ming a tunnel to cut the contact In the
hill that carries. His plan has been to
follow the rich gravel flow by digging
small holes or trenches 60 feet apart AZ
ne approaches the top OF the hill. These
holes were carried down to bedrock and
carefully panned. Last week he dug two
holes, the lower one gave good results,
but the upper one had no trace Of the
precious metal. He then went back to
the lower place and began the tunnel.
Letters Of inquiry still continue to
pour into Columbine and Hahn's peek,
and II half the people come who are
talking of it our stage lines will be
worked tt their full capacity, and the
patient burro will have a busy season.
The miners in the district are talking
Of sending out some fine. large speci-
mems, not pocket affairs, to the mining
exchange at Denver, properly labeled, to
show people what we have. This 10 q
good move, 1t is thought, and would
open the eyes Of many. A new find is
reported down below here an Skaters
fork Of Snake river, just inside the Col
orado line. Reports says 1t Is rich in
both gold and silver. When q new
strike is made in the borders Of the
camp 1t never falls to apparently stir
the gall OF several parties who brand
such reports az utter falsehoods.
Keep your eye on them. and the
shades OF night hardly Obscure the land
scape until they light out. on snow shoes
prepared to stake without limit. Cases
have been known where men have To-
Gated 200 acres in this way before they
were satisfied.
The snow will not be of sufficiently
so that the outsider a see what he is
doing before May 20, and NO one who
has not been to the camp before should
think Of coming before that time.
Quite a number of business houses
were planned to be erected as soon %
sufficient lumber was cut by the mill.
but all these plans have been cast aside
and larger INT will be built. Even our
smelter will be enlarged before 1t blows
In, as the present plant IL entirely too
small to work the product Of one Of .
half dozen outputters.
Parties who have the means to put up
cheap process plants Of the Pattner OF
Thies chlorination kind or cyanide pro-
cess would do well to visit this district
and smelter men could ind something
here that would keep them in blast for
years to come.
We have many good properties In
camp. but we have not found all the
good mineral yet, IS is proved by the
rich float found In every direction.
Gold float has been found here that
ran S100,O 900 per ton and on the Minnie
D. claim ore was knocked Cd , ledge
sticking above the surface that ran 49,
900 ounces per ton in silver. One claim
in the camp has II inches Of ore that
is worth over $1,000 per ton even ut the
present depressed price Of silver and
contains Sufficient gold to pay all ex-
penses. We have iron lodges carrying
Al per cent Of iron and SIS in gold with
from three to four-foot streaks.
Our gold, silver, copper. lead, zinc,