El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-20
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William Hagart. of Denver, is at the
Plaza. Mr.. Hagart is a mining man
of many years experience and has been
connected with the Cripple Creek dis
trict ever since its debut as mining
district He was in that section when
district proper was a big ranch owned
by Bennett & Myres, a real estate firm
of Dever. He was present when the
boom arising from the discovery OF
gold started and had the chance to buy
ten lots on Main street for $3.50 but
was induced to let it alone, as it was
believed to be only a temporary boom
and he would lose his money. Main
street is called Bennett avenue. in
honor of Mr.. Bennett, the real estate
man, and the lots that he refused to
buy for $25 each are now worth from
five to ten thousand dollars each.
Mr.. Hagart says that the famous In
dependence mine, though paying the
largest dividends. is not the best mine
in Cripple Creek district. He says that
the Portland is the most valuable one
and the reason it is not paying as large
cause the owners are developing the
property as they go. They are block
ing out and placing in sight enough ore
to keep paying the same dividends for
an indefinite number of years. The
Portland is paying steadily dividend
IT,
dependence has recently proven the
folly of taking out all in sight and not
developing as they go, by dropping
| from fifteen cent dividends to five
cents. But this drop is no indication
that the Independence has played out.
On account of a failure to keep up the
development work the ore in sight be-
gan to run out, but now they have
commenced developing again and the
dividends are increasing in size again.
Mr.. Hagart says there is no proba-
bility of the town of Cripple Creek
ened up continually. large shipments of
machinery are being received there
daily, new strikes in the old mines are
being made daily and new railroads to
the town are being built. There is al
ready two railroads running to Cripple
Creek and an electric line running
through the district connecting the diff
ferent mines and towns. A short line
from Colorado Springs is nearing COM
pletion and another from Denver is be-
ing constructed.
Mr.. Hagart has stock in several of
the mines, some of which are paying
regular dividends and though he has
missed many opportunities to make
wonderful speculations. he has made
enough investments to come out at the
big end of the horn.
Mr.. Hagart has come to Ell Paso to
enjoy our winter sunshine and to do
some hunting in the hunting grounds
contiguous to the town. He is a hui
name hunter and on that account goes
after game with a rifle that has bore
big enough to stick a mans thumb in
He does not enjoy Gripping game and
causing suffering. but likes to produce
instant and painless death. He says
there should be a law passed prohib-
iting the use of small calibre rifles in
hunting big game. He says that he
will not shoot promiscously into a
gang of animals. for fear of wounding
and not killing the game. He says he
has been out hunting with preachers
who at home would preach to their
hearers to be kind and humane, but
who would shoot promiscuously into
drove of deer with a small calibre
rifle and enjoy seeing them limping
off with broken limbs. He has seen
men bring home little fawns and boast
OF their prowess as hunter. Mr.. Hag-
art says he will not shoot at anything
but large game and will not allow them
has given them.
He has attended a bull fight and
sees nothing particularly brutal in the
killing of the bull. The bull would |
be slaughtered for beef some time any
way and why not let him have a little !
fun before he dies? He says that the !
bulls while in a fury do not feel the !
pain and they are killed before the |,
following soreness comes on them. But |
the idea of placing innocent horses in |
jeopardy from the sharp horns of the |
bull does not suit Mar. Hagart- How
the spectators can enjoy seeing the !
poor horses running around with their .
entrails dragging on the ground is
puzzle to him. Leave the horses out
of the game he SAWS then tho crueI