Gilpin observer., 1901-02-28


R. G. Dill, Charles Doyle, s. G. Slower.
Denver; f. G. Heap, E. Smith, City Of
Mexico; Marion Stark, Paris; W. P. Ken
ney, Milwaulkee; r. L. Watkins, Mem
phis; j. B. Sairlamb, Philadelphia.
GOLDEN SANDS OF PACTOlUs HAVE
a RIVAL.
The Detroit Free Press of Sunda.,
February 10, 1901, contains the follow
ing relating to Gilpin county:
Situated some 36 miles west OF Den
yer, in the heart of the Colorado Rock
les in Gilpin county, is the "Li,tle
Kingdom" as it is afrectionaly called by
its army Of admirers, and it possesses q
historical and romantic interest in beirg
the spot where gold was first found in
Colorado, and finding its most enduring
auxiliary clbim to fame and favor in the
fact that for rourty.five years the famous
iird has been continually worked on
profitable commercial scale, showing
total product approximating 100000
600 in gold.
When tho exceedingly small area of
this wonderful district, scarcely larger
than western farm, is considered and
one further fact, that, after the enor-
nous production named, the remarkable
camp is still turning out S3,000,000 to
S4,0O0,00O annually, and shows almost
endless Gre reserves, its attractiveness
as a field for mining operations is better
the present activity in this pioneer camp
| lies in the constantly improving methods
of mining and milling coming in vogue,
! making valuable properties which even
ten years ago were considered worked
out because showing only low, grade ore
reserves, but which to-day pay hand
somely.
In the time that mining has been
carried on in Gilpin county the little
district has turned out more bullion
than any other locality in America. So
unin terrupted has been this outflow of
precious metal that the county has
justly earned the title of the "Old Re-
liable" This production has been going
on ever since the pioneers in Gregory
gulch arrived, in 1859, and is much
larger now than any former period.
There are more valuable lodes in the
immediate vicinity OF Central City,
Black Hawk, and Nevadavil.e than in
any other section of equal size in the
known world, and there are moro mill
stamps in operation than anywhere else.
| Various causes have prevented all of
profitable or valuable mines being op
Grated at one time, but the closing of
one was usually followed by the reopen
ing or discovery of another. There have
been no late suspensions, but almost
weekly openings Of new properties, or
the reconmencement of work on old
ones. Parts or all of every valuable
lude with few eXceptionsJ are now in
active operation, and the time is not
odes will be worked separately or with
consolidated properties The unfailipg
character Of SO many hundred veins and
their combined and continuous produc
tion long ago, caused this, the smallest
of Colprado's counties, to be considered
the richest district in the state.
The lodes of Gilpin county hold their
values with remarkable persistency,
and it is noteworthy fact that those
which yielded well near tbs surfaces are
generally speaking, those which are
proiltably pursued in depth: and,
further, that low grade pyritic veins
which yielded poorly at their outcrops
are persistently low-grade producers in
their present deeper Developments, and
it is safe TO say that the measurable
distance in the main veins of Gilpin
county has yet ~ be sounded at some
point deeper than hitherto reached by
it's deepest explorations, about 1900 feet.
Perhaps the richest part OF the whole
country lies in the immediate vicinity
OF Black Hawk nnd Central City Wis,
Bobtail and Gregory hill. Here are
located such mines Ms the Gregory, Fisk,
Parole, Evening Star, Cook, Orion,
Mammoth, King Solomon, and Bobtail,
the combined Yield OF which TO date is
some Si0,O00,0o0 and 'bc present rate Of
the output is greater than ever. Near
TO these mines ore the Saratoga and
Gold Collar, both owned by Detroit
parties, who certainly displayed great
business acumen in becoming the prop
rietors OF properties which have pro.
duced some s3,0O0000 up to date. Dur.
ing the panic OF 1899 the solidity OF this
little camp was tested, and il is worthy
of note that not one mine, mill, store or
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