The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-01-02
as follows:

Gunnison county for 1883, based on
the best information obtainable, is
as follows:
Gold ................ S113, ,6S5 GO
Silver ........... IO7 $500
Lead -. 130,625. .0C
Copper. ............... 81, 1880
Total l..............S3 S31S, $500
All the talk about principalities
and kingdoms of wealth as exempli-
fed in the counties of Colorado
fade as the mirage of the plains
before the advancing sun of day
when pictured beside the eincompar
able resources of Gunnison. More
than twenty years ago prospectors
first sought to unlock the treasures
of her hills and ever since a con-
stantly increasing stream of mineral
wealth has poured into the channels
of commerce from the troves of
her hills. Almost every known
metal occurs in the ores of tina
region; it is not confined to the
production of one or two or a half
dozen, but contributes a share of
all to the metal markets of the
world. Gold, silver, lead, copper,
iron, manganese, zinc, molybdenum,
sulphur, coal, anthracite and
bitumihous, marble, building stone
of every sort, the finest roofing
slate known to occur in the entire
country, and among the products
of nature found in such quality
and quantity as nowhere else on
earth within like scope of terri
tory. Gunnison county is situated
on the western slope of the Colorado
Rockies and about midway from
the north to south liaes Of the
state, embracing within its area of
| irouu 100000 rnirvo vrv,orgcr por-
ton of the Elk Mountain group,
as well as some of the finest
agricultural, horticultural and
grazing lands in the world. In
the matchless grandeur of her
rugged hills the geologist reads
the elysian dreams of nature i'll the
morn of her brightest awakening;
within the hidden recesses of those
stately mountains the prospector
strikes his FURNISHED pick into the
latent wealth which the labor of
the miner pours out to the refining
flames of the furnace, and in turn
the mint or the manufactory gives
it to the waiting, anxious, work-a-
day world, and these same hills,
rugged, time-scarred and water
worn with elements of ages, are
clothed with the most luxuriant
for ests and richest verdure of any
section of the Rocky mountains.
These forests furnish timber for
the mines, material for the miners
cabin, ties for the railways and
millions of feet of the product of
the mill have been cut from here,
while they still seem hardly marred
by the touch of man. The hundred
and more of sparkling streams that
drain the county gather waters
through the summer from the
melting SHOWS of the higher alti-
tudes and make the farmers of the
valleys Independent of the rainfall
and supplying head of water far
beyond his needs, which has al
ready been utilized nearer the
source to generate power for mines
and mills. Adozen towering peaks
keep vigil over all that lies within
these areas, field and pasture, and
the vast wealth of mineral, at once
incompatible with any otherregion,
and wonderful in variety and
richness. No visitor to the state,
whether on business or pleasure
bent, has made the trip complete
without familiarity with Gunni-
son county.-Denver Times.
| XXyANTED-SEVERAE PERSONS FOR DIS
| w trict Office Managers in this state to rep
| resent me in their own and surrounding coun-
I ties. Willing to pay yearly $500, payable weekly
I tiles References exchanged. Enclose self-ad-
/ dressed stamped envelope. s. A. PARK, 80 Cax-
/ A., iJr