Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1897-11-12
BOULDER sHoUuD1HAve 1T.
The Big 25e-Ton Stamp Mill is Either to
be Built at Boulder or Vaimont.

S"Shall the large new stamp mill 60 to
Valmont or be located in Boulder" is
a question that is just now agitating the
minds of a great many public spirited
citizens. For Boulder has public spirited
citizens and men who are alive to its in
terests, Notwithstanding the oft repeated
charge of old fogyism, dog in the-man-
gerism and conservatism dropslcal and
sloughing from dry-rot. There are men
here who want to see everything in the
line of legitimate enterprise centered
right here in Boulder. iMen of means or
men of energy without means, men hav-
ing the best interests of the best town in
Colorado at heart. "Shall the mill 60 to
Valmont three miles east, or shall it be-
come part of the active and productive
life of Bouloer?" In varied forms that
question has been asked by large num-
Der of citizens during the past few days
and, so far as the Camera is advised, it
lacks solution as much today as it did
several weeks ago when the query first
had expression. "What of the mill?
What kind of mill? What good could
a mill do Boulder, even if we had one?",
1There are numberless monuments to
MEMS mill-crazy folly in this county. We
have mills galore, mills that are tenant
less and silent Mills that stand as
gho is of the dead and unhappy past
| Mills everywhere attesting the hope, the
ambition, the over weaving confidence
of men who saw gold in every stream
and on every hillside and overlooked the
fact that no mill ever ran smoothly whose
grst was not regular, uniform and con.
slant. Mills, say you? Aye, mills by ev.
| cry stream, mills by abandoned shafts
and tunnel sites, mills where processes"
were born to work unseen and waste
| their dust and the dust" of their pro-
jectors.
But here is something of different
stamp. Here is no untIied thing, albeit
it is something new for Boulder The
concentrating mill has fourlshed in
Boulder county and has snatched from
the hands of the mortgage many of its
best properties. The sulphides of Ward
are in the main low grades requiring
concentration for the saving of the values
and minimizing of smelter charges. For
years this system has prevailed either by
Frue vanners or Gilpin county tables,
the saving by the plates in the case of
these volatile ores having been the most
considerable item. The crusher, the
stamp. the copper plate, the quicksilver.
the ripple on the table, the gold in the
hand of the miner. From the shaft to
the mint hasbeen a speedy and profit
able journey as many Ward miner can
attest. For three years, without loss of
shift Of an hour the Utica mills twenty
stamps dropped, its tables rocked and
the values of the ore OF the great mine,
less the percentage of loss in shines and
finer substances carrying gold, were
gathered from the plates or shipped in
the form OF concentrates. Gilpin county's
salvation has been its stamp mills and
S7o,ooo,oco In gold have been contributed
by that county to the worlds wealth by
means of this system of saving the chief
values of gold ores. Concentration is no
experiment there. By complete net.
work of tramways all the district concern
tiers in Black Hawk, whose mills fur.
nish labor to hundreds and have render
ed possible and profitable the employ
ment of thousands of miners. From
these mills miners are paid and into the
Golfers of the stores of Central City, near
by, the proceeds of their checks find
their way.
What Black Hawk is to Gilpin county,
Boulder should be to Boulder county's
great sulphide and tellurium belts.
The money is here-why not the mill
The interests of the Colorado & North
western railroad. now rapidly under con-
structon, are with Boulder, Ward, Sugar
Loaf, Gold Hill, Salina and other great
gold shipping points and every argu
ment tavors location of the proposed
new mill at one of these points. As it is
cheaper to haul ore to ths valley than
coal to the. hills, it must follow that
Boulder is the place where the proposed
mill should be built. mod
Do our citizens want it? a.a
Are they going to sit idly by and see it
go to the valley, where new town will
be built, new stores opened and trade
naturally belonging to Boulder diverted
from its proper channel? 1t remains for
the citizens of Boulder to say.
The National State bank has sold
Owen lake, near the butte. to the gen.
| tlemen interested in the Colorado G.
Northwestern and the transaction has
been fully consummated. 1t was cash
purchase and the object of the purchas-