The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01
JUST OVER THE LINE.
Gold Excitement in Routt County,
Colorado

Colorado.
Considera BILE interest is being mani
tested at the present time over valu
able gold and silver discoveries il
Routt county, Colorado, at Hahn's Parl
and Columbine districts.
These two gold camps are but 6
/ short distance over the Utah county
/ line and are located east of Uintat
county, this state. Quite number OF
Utah people are interested there and
| they speak highly of the mineraliza-
ton of that region, and predict for il
/. a brilliant future.
! The Denver Republican, of the 29th
publishes a communication -from Col
umbine, which is reproduced below for
the benefit of Herald readers, as fol-
lows:
There are now five tracts of land To-
Gated at different points where it is
1tendesl I;;.,t Z ture cities shall spi .ilg
up. Three %.e21y are r rIES /" =
for sale and the ether two will be 1e:l iy
for business as soon as spring opens
and the snow leaves.
Many tons of ore are ready for an
early movement, but should the pro-
jected reduction plants show the peo-
pie owning property here that they
will get to work early, majority of
the ores will be handled at home
Both the Southern Cross and Texas
tunnels have cut streaks of jasper
quartz which pans well in gold, but no
assays have yet been made.
This is one camp in the state which
does not need booming, but does badly
need capital. Fifty thousand dollars
rival of Cripple Creek. if surface indi-
cations count, and the rich territory is
more than six times as large.
What is wanted over here is scien-
tine investigation by men who know
their business. The practical miners
who have come are satisfied but the
outer world pays no attention to them;
they want TO hear from people who
wear glasses and good clothes.
Thirty dollar ore in this camp don't
count, but will in time. At present it
is no place for the man without money:
no one should come who has not the
means to buy his own provisions. as
work is scarce. Almost every mine
owner IS a poor man and has not come
TO the front yet. For the man who has
the means to pay his own way there
IS no better field in the state or for
the man who has money to pick I'D
snaps, as they are very plentiful in
this district
Plenty of thousand dollar ore can be
seen mere today, and as soon as spring
opens II VIII be marketed
by fair estimate made from pan
ming, Keith & Co have taken out 81. 900
worth of gravel in prospecting their
ground with pick and shovel this win
ter. The source of this gold has not
been found as yet but men are actively
trenching TO do so.
The Greenville properties south of the
peak still improve, and the boys down
mere VIII put UP reduction works of
-helr own this season. Some of the ore |
runs up to over $1,000 in value per ton.
out the majority of it averages from
'oO to $50. The several properties Law |
oW on the foot hills and a good wagon |
Dad runs TO the dump.
Inc copper properties near Steam
ooat springs, will be actively developed
MS season, and a good output will he
made, as pay is found from the sur
ace. IL was the intention to put in a
matte furnace, but eastern capital will
ofopapIy take hold of them as negotia-
ions Tor the sale are now on. These
re nrst class. prospects and improve
materially with every foot gained in
epth, until now assays are had run
mug 4o per cent copper, II ounces sill
eI ana as nigh as IL ounces gold Der
on Inc copper is a carbonate and is
grade very easily smelted.
Inc Big Greek properties. at least
ONE OF them, will be handled by
indicate of Chicago capitalists and
now remarkably favorable surface in
icatlons, and run from $50 to s25 in
old. ~ go III
over near Elk mountain and about IL
llleS slightly southwest of the neak
M near the anthracite belt. are some
ne prospects, but slightly developed.
on the surface so to so ounces
liver and to 20 per cent of lead.
round the Twenty Mile placers no
'ads nave been located yet, as there
as been no prospecting for them. The
ountry is all right around that part
eng mostly a metamorphosed rock.
no some very rich float has been
lcked up Gold can be PANIED out in
lost of the guIches. some of which are {
cry rich One pay placer over there !
as no gravel whatever, and the gold !
found in fine sand on a sand bed I
'ck, and the gold ranges in size about !
ke clover or alfalfa seed. At another |
pint the bedrock is a fine character of
snite- The gravel and sand banks
trrying the gold are from two to so t
ct in thickness. The state located
valuable mineral ground a
-er there last season, which will ma t
rally retard prospecting over there I
the future. c
This county still has many square I
lies of territory unprospected, and r
ON present indications much of it is t
Try rich e