The Meeker herald., 1898-12-24
GOOD oRE-BIo CROWDS.
Dawson City Continues to Boom and Pros
pectors Cover the Hills.

Dawson City Continues to Boom and Pros
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 beyond
doubt.
Your correspondent yesterday un
covered the vein, removing the loose
rock and canvas by which 1t was bid
den, broke of pieces with pick, car
ried the specimens into Canon City and
had one Of them assayed.
The assay ran 4IS.O5 ounces, or So
561 in gold to the ton.
Dawson City had boom yesterday
which was a surprise to every body.
Even the owner of the property upon
which the town is placed was not pre-
pared for the sudden growth of the
town. Il. F. Jewett, upon whose plac
er claim the town is built. saw that it
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 C, w.
Wells of Cripple Greek to work survey
the placer claim for n tOwnsite.
Lots We're sold before even the cen
ter line of the main street was run.
During the whole day but four half
blocks We're surveyed, and all the lots
In these blocks We're 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
$4O, then $GO-$1O down and the rest
to be paid when Jewett and the Town
Company could give guarantee of IL
tie. The buyers of the lots were among
Guiding II. w. Griswold of Cripple
Creek, member of the Mining Ex-
change of Colorado Springs; ]. III.
Adams. interested in the Gold Sover-
elgn mine Of Cripple Creek; C. NJ. Mac
Neill of the Colorado & Philadelphia
smelter at Pueblo; C. II. White, presi-
dent of the Ell Paso Bank at Colorado
Springs; John Hissong, a rich ranch
man Of the district.
Inc 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 gleam 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
by the Dawson people; the Emerald
Gem, owned by Matt speakman; the
Copper Boy, owned by Gardner & Cur
tbs; the Mabel B., owned by Paul Mass
Of Leadville; the Queen Bess, owned
by q. F. Jewett, james q. Peabody
and A. Fl. Rudolph, and the Good
Night. All these claims. 1t is sun
posed, are located ON the Dawson rorii,-
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
| L. l.,
civil engineer OF the Denver & Rio
Grande, examined the country between
Canon City and the Dawson mine yes
terday morning. j. ]. Burns, surerin-
tendent Of division No. ! of the Denver
& Rio Grande, will look over the same
ground next Tuesday morning. An Of
ticial of the road, who does not care to
have his name mentioned, said:
1.-The Denver & Rio Grande will jump
at the chance of putting railroad past
Dawson City If the strike turns out as
good as 1t is at present thought to be.
From a point just above Canon City
n 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 Creek, 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 great
part of the roadway remain. AS the
road past Dawson City would run to
Westcliffe 1t 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 Denver
d Rio Grande and Santa Fe railroads
carried a small crowd Of eager pros
pectors and mining engineers, all head
ed for the new camp.