Daily camera., 1898-09-22
Boulder County
Nli||g Outlook
BOULDER MINES.

properties that Promise to Put the County
to the Front
A journey out through the hills will
surprise one at the amount of the worl
being done, ald at the activity every
where displayed. Caribou has taken on
new lease of life that augurs better
times for that end of the county thar
the old days when Dunn and Breed
made the district famous blythe rich ores
they shipped from Caribou hill. All
told there are about a dozen new mines
that have shipped this year, developed
this year, and strikes all the way from
Ward to the Gilpin county lines. are of
daily report. No district has made big.
ger sales. has more good sales pending,
is making better showing. and the peo-
pie have prospered and are prospering,
and all because modern methods and
cheap appliances have made it possible
to work ores that could not been worked
before.
The day is here when ores running
from S to 81 to the ton can be worked
pro6tabiy in Boulder county. the same as
in Gilpin and in Clear Creek coun,ies,
and the profits of those counties are from
the low grade ores. Power is needed
generated from the coal fields and car
ried by wire to these camps, just as
Canon City furnishes Cripple Creek and
reduces the cost of mine operation and
renders profitable enterprises that other
wise could not be undertaken. Boulder
has the advantage of a wider distributed
coal supply and can furnish by shorter
route not only the camps of Boulder
county but Central City. Black Hawk
and Idaho Springs.
At Nederland new mill is being put
in by Leach and Waltemeyer to take
the place of the old mill, which is to be
removed.
Twenty stamps are now in the yard of
the c. & N at Boulder to be hauled to
the hills and be in operation before the
first OF December. A mill will be built
and equipped with arastas for the finer
pulverlzatlon of tailings, which will be
run into ponds and will later be treated
by modified cyanide process, upon
which Mr.. Leach has recently taken out
patents, and which meets the approval
of experienced cyanide users. They
have also bought and will Immediately
erect an automatic sampler OF 100 tons
daily capacity and when these improve
ments are all installed will buy ore upon
assay and pay cash upon delivery, even
down to as low as S per ton, and no
matter how refractory.
Boulder County hill is as busy as a
like area at Cripple Creek with teams
and men and machinery and supplies
Sugar Loaf and Gold Hill are alive to
the new era, and all through the county
is heard the hum of prosperity that ha:
come to stay.
Boulder shares every advancement
that may be made, for all and everything
passes through, and the merchants fur
nish except machinery, all that these
new bustling places deman1: Of ten
times the importance of the Chautauqus
is the building of one new camp. ane
Eldora furnished better market than {
Chautauqua ten times as big as the one
recently held. Give to new mining dis
trict the support Boulder gave the Chau
tauqua, and that district will attract more
people than the Chautauqua. The sum
mer school builds no permanent city
and there is no permanent city of size il
the state the mines have not built ane
do not support. 1t is not alone because
of the Chautauqua that all the new
homes are building in Boulder, but be
cause o. the lead, silver, gold, iron, ant
other materials in the hills.