The Springfield herald., 1898-12-23
GOOD oRE-slo CROWDS.
Dawson City Continues to Boom and Pr d.
peGtors Cover The HIS.

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| Pectors Cover The Hills.
Denver, Dec. 19-A special dispatcl
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 I'm
covered the vein. removing the looSc
rock and canvas by which ii WAS hid
den, broke off pieces with a pick, car
rled the specimens into Canon City ant!
had one of them assayed.
The assay ran 4ISO5 ounces. or 50
5G1 in gold to the ton.
Dawson City had Il boom yesterday
winch was a 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. 10. Il. Jewett upon whose plac-
er claim the town is built. saw that il
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 Creek to work survey
the placer claim for IL 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 were 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 We're at first
$40. then $G0-$1O down and the rest
10 be paid when Jcwett and the Town
Company could give II guarantee of IL
tie. The buyers of the lots We're among
the most prominent people in camp. i'll
Guiding II. W. Griswold of Cripple
Creek, Il member of the Mining EN-
change of Colorado Springs; j. H.
Adams. interested in the Gold Sover-
cign mine of Cripple Creek: C. NJ Mac-
Neill of the Colorado 4 Philadelphia
smelter at Pueblo: G. II. White prcsi-
dent of the FL Paso Bank at Colorado
Springs: John Hissong. rich ranch
man of the district.
The camp became more excited us
the day went on. Three or four fights
over locations in the hills were report
cd 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 ut present are the Da>y-
son. the Sentinel. owned by Jewett and
B. y. Dawson: the Mike Sutton. owned
by the Dawson people: the Emerald
Gem, owned by Matt Speakman; the
Copper Boy, owned by Gardner Il Cur
It's; the Mabel b., owned by Paul Mass
by u. +. 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
pletc confidence in the strike. Large
namssEs Y. ssSa aSG alIiGsS ifnSSuntan s
hundreds of people from outside the
town went in their own wagons. no one
could procure II rig of any kind or a
horse after 10 o'clock in the morning.
The Rio .Grandc railroad has been
looking into the situation w. III. Paul
civil engineer of the Denver 4, Rio
Grande. eNamined the country between
Canon City and the Dawson mine YES
terday morning. j. ]. Burns. s,iperin-
tendent OF division No. / of the Denver
Rio Grande will look over the same
ground next tuesday morning. An of
iicial of the r%ld, who does not care to
have his name mentioned, said:
"The Dsnver ~ Rio Grande will jump
at the chance of putting Il railroad past
Dawson City II the strike turns out as
good as y is mt present thought to be.
From loint just above Canon City
a road ahut five miles long over the
hills can 2 run to the new town, and
from the own carried over a low di-
vide into irape Creek. where the old
Denver &Rio Grande line ran to West
cliffe yea ago. The old road was
washed o. for about five miles above
Canon CT several years ago, but from
that poiI opposite Dawson City to
Westciihy the roadbed and great
part OF L roadway remain. As the
road pas Dawson City would run to
Westciiif' it would not depend upon
the mine lone for subsistence"
The eH1ement and interest in the
strike ne Canon City still continues
IN Dehve and all of yesterday little
Knots OF IN We're to be found in the
Corridors the hotels discussing the
prospects
Every ain that left this city yester-
day FOR mon City over the Denver
~ RIO GHlle and Santa Fe railroads
carried mall crowd of eager pros
pectors thinning engineers. all head
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