Cañon City record., 1899-01-05
Chamber of Commerce Pays Out $500 to Sugar
Beet Growers of this County.
GREENHORN DISTRICT STILL PROMISING
Brief History Of Earlier Discoveries in the District
Interesting Reading Our Citizens. Conservative Be-
lief Is That a Good Camp Will Be Developed.

Whether the Greenhorn mining dis
trict. Of which Dawson City is just
now the center of attraction, ever be-
comes producing territory or not
depends largely on the prospectors.
If there is no pay mineral in the ter
ritory now being opened. indications
are certainly most deceitfuL At
least dozen instances can be cited
where the claim-holders have opened
seams Of ore which is as similar in
appearance to Cripple Greek ores as
ran b.. Owing to the fact that very
few assays have been made, it is not
known whether it all carries gold, but
it can be positively stated that some
samples do. Thorough prospecting
and frequent tests will demonstrate
the fact beyond doubt, and these
are the only things that viii prove
if absolutely Five packages Of the
ore most recently uncovered in the
Copper King workings were sent out
Monday, two going to Lesdville and
three to Pueblo.
That both gold and silver exists in
these Greenhorn hills has been known
since 1860 The only apparent reason
that big deposit has not been dis
covered lies in the fact that no one
has ever systematically searched for
it. The present Ia the third furry Of
excitement that has occurred in the
history cf Cahon City. and yet mine
has not been discovered. Surface
prospecting never did make mine.
nor did one assay ever make mining
district. What is needed is stuff
from the very bowels of the noun
tains, and there are only two ways to
get it: Go after it through shaft
or tunnel. or with a diamond drill.
The latter being the least expensive
is nnquestionably the most expedient
and effective method of prospecting.
and should be employed in this dis
tri Il. If for no other reason than to
put aq everlasting quietus on these
spasmodic fiurries over discoveries of
rich Aoat.
The original stampede to the Grape
Creek district occurred in the fall of
1860. II was occasioned by the find
ing of small quantity of placer gold
in the creek bed. the RECORD is in
formed by Lafe Coffman. the old stage
driver, who has passed forty years of
his life in this section. At that time
the exodus from Canon City was SO
great that scarcely a man remained
in the village. One instance Mr..
Cotfman recalled, where a man by the
name Of Lorraine Jenks went out one
night, and sticking stzse laid down
beside it and slept. In the morning
he found another stake within three
inches of the one he set. Tho whole
creek and all the gulches were placer
claimed. bit very little work was ac-
complished.
Coming down to later times, the
FREMONT COUNTY RECORD Of Septem-
Der 8, 1882, contained an article by
the editor, II. 7. Blake, in which was
recounted short history Of mining
operations then in progress and Civ
ing the facts of rich silver strike in
the Green Jacket claim. This claim
was located ten years earlier 1872
by John jennings, who six years later
sold TO Capt. B. F. Rockafellow. Mr..
Rockafellow sank l4-foot shaft and
drove a 24-foot tunnel. then abandoned
1t. At the time OF the strike the
claim was in the possession Of S. A..
Clapp, G. r. Shaeffer G. K. Cassedy
and F. H. Mayer, who we're reported
to have reached the vein. A mill
run was made by Assayer Bruce Of
Pueblo, the returns showing 240
ounces Of silver to the ton. The
Green Jacket is now being reopened
by Messrs. Kaye. Goodnight & Co. un-
der the name Of the Copper Boy.
Tho ores Of this district were said
to bc black sulphurets Of copper and
silver with the usual accompanying
copper minerals hearing gold. the
copper running from l6 to 80 per
cent The vein was considered 70
bsa true issurs and Developments
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