The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-07
CONDITIONS IN COLORADO.
Greatly Encouraged Over the Strike
at Leadville.

f. NJ. Taylor, the president and treas
urer of the Taylor & Brunton Samp-
! ing Works company, who is spending q
few days in the city looking after the
company's Utah interests, informed a
! Herald representative yesterday that
the mining industry at Aspen has
! been greatly depressed during the past
year, in consequence of which the out
put for the past u months had dWin-
died from $4,000 and $1,000 tons month
TO 10000, and 20 per cent of this amount
VIII not average over 80 ounces silver
10 the ton, While % per cent of the
output VIII not run over 20 ounces, and
this depression, he states, is largely
caused by the slump in the price of
silver and lead, in consequence of
which but little dead work or prospect
ing has been done in the mines of the
camp during the past few years, which
course of action has left the mines in
a bad condition, with but little mineral
in sight.
According to Mr.. Taylor, the recent
strike in the Nil Desperandum mine,
at Leadville, has had a cheering effect
throughout the state, as it proves the
continuity of the ore zones across and
! beyond California gulch, thereby add
ing a large area of valuable territory
10 the camp. In fact, the new strike
virtually doubles the ore bearing area
OF the district. Prosperity at Leadville
means much for the other portions of
thte state, and as a result of the new
ma in ground that was believed to be
va!ueless the mining industry all over
Colorado will be stimulated
The Colorado smelters are pretty well
loaded at the present time, and yet
the smelling men are not feeling par
ucularly comfortable over the future
outlook on account of the fact that a
large number of mills are being erected
at Cripple Creek and Victor, which
means that the smelters will have to
meet with keen competition in the buy
ing OF ores within the next few months
Big supplies on hand will run low as
time rolls on, and when this period ar
rlVes the shelters will not have things
all their own way as they have in
the past. which means that the mine
owners will get more for their ores,
and Mr.. Taylor is of the opinion that
the people of Utah might follow the
example of some of the most pushing
OF Colorado districts and outWit and
defy the smelling combine by putting
up mills in every camp in the state
This would soon bring the smelters to
their milk, and they would only be
too Slad to pay a reasonable price for
ores.
In speaking of the gold camp of Utah
III the due mountains, MI. IdXiOr SAID
that the people of Colorado were much
interested in this region, and that it
was more than likely that the camp
would be corralled by Coloradoans. as
the people of Utah were slow in recog-
nizing its merits and probably would
not wake up to its worth until the best
properties there had passed into the
hands of Colorado capitalists, and the
business OF that region diverted to
Denver
Already, according to The Heralds
informant, an effort is being made to
throw the trade of Blue mountains over
into Colorado, and it will not be long
before Denver people will be in there
with mills and reduction works.
Mr. Taylor is highly impressed with
the naturalization of Utah, but he is of
the opinion that the people of the
state, as a general thing, are some
what lacking in the spirit of enter
prise and the get-up-and-dust that is
so characteristic of the Colorado min
ing operator and prospector. The ore
is here. and in abundance. but the in
of the Utahnian is too much
towards letting it remain where Dame
Nature has deposited it. When this
feature is overcome there is no doubt
but that Utah will come TO the front
as the leading producer of the precious
metals in this inter-mountain region.
MIR. Taylor expects to visit Tintic to- |
day in company with J. w Neill. the |
local manager of the Taylor & Brun- |
ton SAMPLER