Cañon City record., 1902-05-15
CANON men Get
BONANZA IN LA PLATA
Joe Bradley and William r.
Price in a Fair Way to Be-
come Millionaires,

IL utNtlOIHuenI uOes Wnat w H.
Price thinks it will, he aud Joe VI.
Bradley of this city will be million
aires within the year. Mr. Price
has been in the La Plata Mining dis
trict, a short distance from Durango,
for some time, and has just secured
group Of claims there under lease and
bond. There are four full claims in
the group. Three of them lie end TO
end and are traversed the entire
length by vein of golden ore. The
fourth claim is traversed by two
veins, which form a junction with
the first mentioned vein on one of
the other claims.
Splendid assays We're obtained by
Mr.. Bradley on samples of ore, which
leads him TO believe that the group
contains a bonanza.
From picked samples of vein matter
Mr.. Bradley's assay discloses values of
2.6s ounces of gold to the ton. At
$50 per ounce this would make the
ore worth s253. GO per ton. The depth
of the hole from which these samples
were taken, was only Is feet. The
average assay value of the vein mat
ter at that depth was /. rs ounces.
Surface rock from claim located
by Mr.. Price last week, gave returns
equal to SIS per ton.
There is only one producing mine
on the Durango side of the mountains
This is called The Neglected. From
Mr.. Prices description the property
is well named. The La Plata is one
of the oldest districts in the state, yet
The Neglected has attained a depth
of but l25 feet. 1t has q breast of ore
s feet wide in drift 15o feet in
length, and from this 30 men mine
tons of ore per day. Last month
the mine netted its owners sI7, 900
after all expenses of production, ship
ping and treating had been paid
Mr.. Price believes practical men
could take the property and make it
rival the famous Portland, or STRAIT
toms Independence at Cripple Greek
He says the walls of the drift are
literally plastered with sylvanite, and
the samples sent by him are studded
with particles of free gold. Sylvan
lite glistens all through the rock also,
showing it TO be fabulouusly rich in
gold
Appearances on the property leased
by Price & Bradley are identical with
those of The Neglected Mr.. Price
believes he has secured for himself
and r,a-fnar tho Sa~ppI bonanza ~, rba
camp and writes very enthusiastically
of the district. The property leased
by Mr.. Price lies in the very heart of
the mineral zone Of the district Is
now defined, and the assays certain
" afford grounds for even more en-
thusiasim than is evinced in Mr..
Prices letters.
W. r. Price is the son of Thomas
Price of this city and is thorough
mining man. He says the La Plata
district has more advantages for the
prospector than almost any other dis
rrict in the West today, To the oper-
sting miner there Is single draw
back at present-the shipping facili-
ties are crude, viz: burro trains: but
good roads can easily be built at small
cost. a
He also says that no thorough pros
pecting has ever been done there.
The country is gophered with holes 80
to 40 feet deep, but outside of The
Neglected mine no one knows wheth-
er ne has valuable claim or not.
The old prospectors of the camp lay
around without doing anything more
than enough to hold their cliams, and
the country is suffering for develop
ment.
Joe Bradley and W ]. Williams
started for the La Plata Tuesday
morning. going by way of Sslida and
the San Luis valley. They went pre-
pared to prospect ON an extensive scale
and everybody in Canon hopes that
they will soon be able to report the