The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-28
CHARLES HOLIDAY TALKS
Tells a Denver Paper of Sale of His
Trego Lands for 100000.

Although Charles x Holiday refused
to talk about his mining deal after he
came back to Topeka he must have been
willing to talk while in Denver, as the
following is from the Denver Rocky
Mountain News and followed Mr.. Hol-
Hday to Topeka:
Five million dollars for a tract of the
famous gold-bearing mud is the way the
thing lined up just east OF the COLORADO
line, according to the former owner
Charles K Holiday, Jr, of Topeka, VINO
was registered at the Brown Palace yes
terday Mr. Holiday has only $50 acres
left Of the 5000 acre tract which he
formerly owned there, but he thinks his
balance of land is enough for fortune
and he doesn't begrudge the new owners
all they may make out Of it.
I'VE got 800 geo in cash and good
commercial paper as a first payment,
he said and as the gold in the shale
there is just as good as money in a bank.
I've no doubts about the remainder
There is enough gold in that tract to
throw Cripple Creek and the South At
rican mines clear in the shade and 1t
won't be many months before the pupuc
will begin to see the truth Of the state
ment. Ever since I first became con-
WINGED that the shale along the river was
actually gold bearing. and became con-
WINGED only after six months experiment
tation in the laboratory myself, have
predicted that the district will be the
coming bonanza of the United States.
All you have to do is blast off the stuff
by the carload and treat it. Every ton
has gold in the same proportion
THE parties who bought the land from
me are California capitalists. represent
ed here by w E Robinson and they are
going to treat it for money Mr. Robin
son was the man who took the copper
mines in the western end of Arizona and
made them such paying proposition
that he afterwards sold them for half a
million dollars, and the way he has ia
ken hold of this shale gives as good
promise. He worked out a process that
will save the $3.50 per ton which we have
gotten on assays, and though I don't
know the day or month that he will start
the construction of the mill for the
treatment of the shale. I know it is da-
ted for the near future He is making
Denver his headquarters now and when
the things gets to working, the mines
will be tributary to Denver Just as much
as the mines located in the state.
When I first take that shale to an as
sayer, and I've had it assayed from New
York to san Francisco and from the
lakes to the gulf, he simply laughs and
says it's not gold bearing rock In the
course of time he takes my money for
the assay, however, and the results are
always the same I've had as high as
$500 to the ton and the specimens that
were assayed were taken from the grass
roots and from the edge Of the Shala
bank that runs along Smoky Hill river
for 60 miles The dirt is saturated with
petroleum and zinc and can't be treated
by the smeIters. but there is a treatment
for ii, and Aladdin's tales won't figure
in the same category as those sf1ale
mines when they are once working
THE gold was evidently deposited
there when that part Of the country was
4 vast lake, and I don't care whether
the rock is gold bearing or not the gold
is in the rock and can be got out
think there is a great oil lake under the
shale. too. and when a shaft is sunk for
the mine we'll run into oil in great
quantities"
c. K Holiday, Sr.. had extensive min
ing interests in Colorado and his death
last March has left his son in entire con-
troll The present visit of Mr.. Holiday
Jr-. Is for the purpose OF attending to
these interests and he will proceed to
Cripple Creek today