The silver lance., 1898-12-23
GOOD oRE-BIo CROWDS.
Davson City Continues TO Boom sno Er"'
pectors Cover the Hills.

Dawson City Continues 60 D
pectors Cover the Hills.
Denver. Dec. ia special dispatch
from Canon City to the Republican,
says:
The presence of gold in the vein OF
the Dawson mine is proved Deyohu
doubt.
Your correspondent yesterday un-
covered the vein, removing the loose
rock and canvas by which 1t was ND
den. broke off pieces with pick, car
ried the specimens into canon Clty anu
had one Of them assayed.
The assay ran 47S.O5 ounces, or *9'-
561 in gold to the ton.
Dawson City had boom yesterday
which was surprise to everybody.
Even the owner of the property upon
which the town is placed was not pre-
pared for the sudden growth OF the
town. f. r. Jewett, upon whose piac-
er claim the town is built, saw that II
was growing so fast that he would be
Obliged to survey it this morning or
perhaps lose his right to the land. He
and the company which surveyed the
townsite below. therefore set q. w.
Wells of Cripple Creek to work survey
the placer claim for townsite.
Lots were sold before even the cen
ter line of the main street was run.
During the whole day but four half-
blocks were surveyed, and all the lots
in these blocks were sold. Each block
contained twelve lots. The lots are
25x125 feet. The street called Denver
avenue is sixty feet wide and runs
east and west
The terms for the lots were at first
$40, then $6O-$1O down and the rest
to be paid when Jewett and the Town
Company could give a guarantee of ii
tie. The buyers of the lots were among
the most prominent people in camp, in
cluding r. w. Griswold of Cripple
Creek, a member of the Mining Ex-
change of Colorado Springs; J. H.
Adams, interested in the Gold Sover
eign mine of Cripple Creek; G. NJ. Mae
Neill of the Colorado & Philadelphia
smelter at Pueblo; G. Fl. White, presi-
dent Of the Ell Paso Bank at Colorado
Springs; John HissOng, a rich ranch
man Of the district.
The camp became more excited as
the day went on. Three or four fights
over locations in the hills were report
ed. Several of the men began TO carry
revolvers. Last night thirty or forty
people stayed in Dawson. Half of
them slept in the tents. The others
rolled up in their blankets around
camp fires. Other fires CLEAN over the
hills in every direction. Half way up
the Greenhorn mountain shone the
light at the Dawson mine, where two
OF the owners remain on guard.
The claims which are attracting the
most attention at present are the Daw-
son, the Sentinel, owned by Jewett and
b. X. Dawson; the Mike Sutton, owned
Inv hn In hC v.,.I Il
Gem, owned by Matt Speakman; the
Copper Boy. owned by Gardner & Cur
tis; the Mabel b., owned by Paul Mass
of Leadville; the Queen Bess, owned
by E. +. Jewett. James II. Peabody
and A. II. Rudolph, and the Good
Night. All these claims, it is sup
posed, are located on the Dawson form
alton except the Mike Sutton.
The people in Canon City have COM
plete confidence in the strike. Large
numbers of people who are obliged to
work on week days went into the hills
for the first time yesterday. Although
hundreds of people from outside the
town went in their own wagons, no one
| could procure rig of any kind or a
horse after 10 o'clock in the morning.
The Rio Grande railroad has been
looking into the situation. w. 81. Paul.
| civil engineer of the Denver & Rio
| Grande, examined the country between
Canon City and the Dawson mine yes
terday morning. J. J. Burns, superin-
tendent of division No. 1 of the Denver
x Rio Grande, will look over the same
ground next Tuesday morning. An of
ficial of the road, who does not care to
| have his name mentioned, said:
"The Denver & Rio Grande will jump
at the chance of putting a railroad past
| Dawson City If the strike turns out as
good as it Is at present thought to be
From point just above Canon CITY
a road about five miles long over the
hills can be run to the new town. and
from the town carried over low di.
vide into Grape Greek. where the old
Denver & Rio Grande line ran to West.
cliffe years ago. The old road was
washed out for about five miles above
Canon City several years ago, but from
that point opposite Dawson CITY to
| Westcliffe, the roadbed and a grea,
part or the roadway remain. As the
road past Dawson City would run to
| Westcliffe it would not depend upon
the mines alone for subsistence"
| The excitement and interest in the
strike near Canon City still continues
in Denver, and all of yesterday little
Knots OF men were to be found in the
corridors of the hotels discussing the
prospects.
| Every train that left this city yester.
day for Canon City over the Denye,
x Rio Grande and Santa Fe railroads
carried small crowd Of eager pros.
pectors and mining engineers. all head.
ed for the new camp.