Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-09-23
Clear Creek County in Per Cent
of Gain, The Banner Dis
trict of Colorado.
Capacity of a Thousand Tons of
Ore Per Day.

seed broadcast, positive that GER
tain proportion Of it will yield IN
greater proportion than the other,
so has nature in some places
sprinkled the earth's surface with
precious metals that they may gilt
ter in the eye of man until he falls
in the feverish work of cleaning.
Again by mighty effort the earth
has rent the surface to an impene-
trabfe depth and filled the assures
with gold where it remains until
the hand of man tears away the
doorsto the hidden vaults of ma
ture, and the world is astounded
by another great gold producing
mine pouring its wealth into the
channels of trade.
Generous in the extreme has she
been with Clear Creek and Gilpin
counties, Colorado; in fact it was a
treasure vault for the gods where
they have banked their hidden
wealth, cultivated and formed by
some unseen hand stirring the alloy
in nature S crucible, Down, deep
intothe hidden reserves fthe earth,
far beneath where the hand of man
has gone or perhaps ever will 60,
nature has stored away riches that
tor centuries have bahled the me-
chauical genius Of man. Samuel
Newhouse, that colossus ia mining.
realized that the veins with which
Clear Creek county was honey comb
ed were what in mining terms are
called true assures, and if they
could be opened up at great depth
the problem of deep mining would
be solved. When he projected the
great Newhouse tunnel, which was
IN fact an underground railroad, to
run under the mountains from Clear
Creek county over into Gilpin county
distance of four miles and which
would cut myriads of veins, people
laughed and said it was not practi-
cal. Nothing daunted, with indomi-
table will he soon opened the eyes
of the mining world and proved
conclusively that these veins did
exist with depth and carried values
as rich as they did on the surface.
The Gem vein was cut at a depth
of $500 feet, at which point it was
forty feet wide and averaged $40 per
ton in gold and silver, proving con-
tinuously that with depth the veins
were true assures and extended to
the very center ofthe earth, at least
far beyond a point where man could
operate them.
This rich mineral section has
produced more precious metals than
any other district in the State Of
Colorado, its production to date be-
ing over $500, OOO,O 900. There are at
present over 300 mines in operation
IN the county, territory about four
miles square, and over 156 mines
according to smelter returns, are
shipping ore to the mills and smelt-
ers.
An army of 1000 miners are en-
ployed at an average of $500 per
day with monthly pay roll of S35,-
600, aud the wages paid in 1901
amounted to $4,000. There are
nineteen contracting mills in con-
slant operation at Idaho Springs
with a capacity of 900 tons of ore
per day. This little city is the
commercial center of the district,
has 1900 people, two banks, fine
public school, two electric light
works, hot and cold mineral baths,
and without doubt the finest eli
mate 10 the State of Colorado.
The Consolidated Alpine Gold
and Silver Mining Co. is located in
the very heart of the richest spot in
Colorado. 1t is sourrounded by
some of the greatest mines in the
district. The Alpine vein is a mon
ster in size and is a true assure.
The Monarch, Big Forty, Perkins
and St. Louis tunnels, are all be-
ing driven to cut the Alpine, La
MARITIME, and Freeland veins. The
Alpine shaft is down 800 feet and |
the management never intends to
until it reaches the thousand foot
marx The vein at the bottom of
the shaft is eight feet wide ana is
clear across the entire
width. Development work is being
pushed day and night as fast as
money, powder and muscle will car
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