Gunnison news-champion., 1903-08-07
BUILDING. FAST
AND SUBSTANTIAL.
BowerrnAn Already a Good
&zei Town
TWENTY HOUSES BUILDING
AnA best OF AL, Assay Returus
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miainZ camp ia Waaniia PARK Npi
only D. Boweraan growing like a
weed and giving promise 81 beinG
the metropoli- 1T the eoaHiy before
snow flies. but developments iu the
mines are proving the faith 1li-tSmers
have expressed an thai niiueral SER
tlon.
II may nW be Cripple Greek
but u : iast a. likely o. as MT. Con
ditians Of 1rs- bearing r1cks are there
to Justify the possibility
A rich strike was made tuesday
ou the Otor1 l1de near she Pitk IN
road bv Dupuy Hansen and BeNmer.
d Rocky Ford 10 an open cut
about ten feet deep at the breast gold
quartz was uncovered showing wire
gold aud small nuggets The own
ers believe they have the vein m
place and the hnd created consider
able eNcItemeut in camp
Bowerman and Dunn, owners o1
the Independent and surrounding
claims. have ten men at work build
ing a road to the mime. putting up
shaft house. boarding house and
driving the tunnel started 10 tap the
rich ore chute at depth Of 800 feet.
Owing b. conflict ol surveys which
people have deliberately thrown over
part oi their claims they refused to
open the mine 30 the public last Sun
day as prematurely announced II
may a. well be stated once for all
however, that there is positively no
doubt in the world that the wonder
fully rich specimens shown came
from the Independent, for dozens of
Gunnison county people saw the
gold in place before the hole was
covered up. The editor of this paper
knows it To be a fact from his own
personal knowledge This is no
blind boom based ON "a fake mine as
was Thunder mountain. Ii is a
bona fde wonderful gold discovery
and mineral country TO start with,
and the gold quartz being uncovered
daily gives fair reason to believe
that the district has a great future.
The first church service was held
in camp Sunday afternoon by Rev.
T. J. Mackey, pastor Of MI Saints
Episcopal church of Omaha, an elo-
uuent divine who has been recreat-
ing at the springs. 4 large audi
ence gathered under the trees, many
being seated ON the foundation of
saloon building in process of CON
struction. The serman was received
with words OF high appreciation and
two solos by Mrs :. G. Puterbaugh
were much enjoved \ more unique,
vet enjoyable service could hardly
have been imagined Rev Mackey
probably had as large an audiencn
and received as large a contributioe
as any preacher in this section.
The Waunita Gold Mining q Mill
ing company which was the first
company TO organize for business in
the field has about 20 men at work
doing assessments and surveying
claims for the group which lie all
around the first strike. Some thirty
claims have been taken by the com
panv. each one was given 10000
shares of stock ON a million share
basis and the remainder Of the
shares used for development work
All claims will first be recorded and
'len the most promising ones picked
out for special attention John B.
Turner is manager The company
has back of il such well known men
as @ B. Haines, of Chicago. con-
uected with the Keystone Mining
company Of :. D. ;. G. Puterbaugh
and ID. c. Webb, leading merchants
If Kansas City. W. H. Trmpe. sec
retarv and treasurer of the Steel
Tube trust. r. ! Cunning. of the
Cunning system, etc.
q. \. Dewey and partner Of Pit
Kin, have a fine looking proposition
ia the Copper King which assayed
$500 at the grass roots. AT a depth
Of l. feet the vein proves two feet in
width and looks like a mine
DIR. c. q. Davis. owner ol Naunita
hot springs sanitarium, arrived from
Chicago Tuesday and Is taking much
interest in the unexpected excite
ment 50 near his famous resort
Bennett. Williams. keough and
Wright are down ten feet on the
.paonia lode and have three and one
half feet of sulphide ore that shows
copper and pyrites in quartz. They
are having ASSAYS made in Lead
vile
Henderson and Custer have given
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