Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-09-17
,.ars under location the assessment work

with Law. The development Of the Car
digau, the Josephine. the Corbett, the
TAYLOR known as the Stone lode, the
Metropolitan. the Banty. the Liberator.
and the rich production of the Fraction
have stimulated efforts in that locality
ard it is fact that there is but very little
open ground in tha, locality and certain
ly very little in Coral Mining District
Tha, Idaho Springs is an ever increas-
ing and reuunerative camp is amply
proven by shipments during the month
Of August this year as compared with
the same month of last year. This must
be conceded healthy growth and with
our practically inexhsustible water sup
plv. with our many mills in operation,
others in course of erection. Idaho Springs
8 destined to become the milling center
of the world. While the oldest mining
camp in the state it is yet in its infancy.
investors might be inclined to think that
our camp being the oldest in the state.
and in the Rocky Mountains. its resour-
valuable mineral areas must have feen
taken MP. The fact is that we have but
barely scratched the surface. and while
we have passed as the third smallest
county in the state. we have long since
passed the sioo, 900 600 mark in produc-
ton. We have been only working on the
surface, our tunnel propositions OF which
we have the greatest and most extensive
in the state. penetrate our mountains at
depths of over 1000 feet, and at those
depths show increased values. II would
be idle to speculate as to when the min
eral resources Of Clear Crrek will be ex-
hausted. The child is vet unborn who
will ever see the beginning of the end.
It was practically within our city limits
that tha, old. intrepid prospector. Geo.
A. Jackson on the ninth day of January.
1880, discovered the first gold in paying
quantities found in the Rocky mountains.
Each succeeding year adds over $4,000
900 to our gross total production. the
annual output is constantly increasing.
But few people not eonversant with our
mountains can have any adequate idea OF
the breadth and scope OF our mineral
belt. Practically starting in the foothills
the trend is to the south and vest. cut
ting through Seston mountain. through
Spring gulch and Freeland, on through
Lamartiue and to the crest of the range,
the region ofperpetual SHOWS, disappear
ing and reappesring on the other side in
the famous gold fields of the Swsndyke
and Breckenridge districts, and sill on,
great zone Of fracture not less than o
miles in length and over 10 miles IN
width in the verv heart of which is locat-
ed the camp of Idaho Springs.
1t is in these great fractures or assures
in the Azoic granite that Nature placed
her treasure vaults. as she placed her
receptacles for oil, her great beds Of iron
deposits, limestone. coal and other utili-
ties in other localities. all for the uses
and purposes of man. The depth Of these
treasure vaults has never been ascer
tanned. In our camp we find them at
1000 feet and still going deeper. In the
Coms,ock mine in Nevada at depth
of one and half mile they
still 20 down. 1t is an unsolved problem
as vet whether 1t is within the scope of
human effort ever to find the bottom of a
true 6ssure vein. What gives to Idaho
Springs her permsnency and prosperity
is the character, intelligence. experience
and epergy Of the mine owners and man.
sgers who are directing Developments in
the operation Of mines.
We make no invidious distinctions;
with them it is business, . life study.
carried out on systematic principles and
on business lines, as any other business
would be carried to successful issue.
The development Of any mine is an
individual proposition in itself. Scarce
any two are alike in the same district.
Investors often think anybody can develop
a mine. They often put up the money
and send out some favored son who never
saw q mine and the result is an newt
able failure and mining is fake. All he
thought he had to do was to come out
hid shovel it up Still mining goes
on and is highly remunerative in the
hand. of those who know how. Invest
ors often grow restless and petulart in
that they do not receive returns as quick
ly as anticipated. They know of the
blight that may effect their fruit, the
frost. the drouth, or the excessive rains
that may destroy their crops. and of the
fiuctuatiou of the stock market. but they
little think of the mining man. disap-
pointments, obstacles to be overcome
that could not be foreseen or provided
against, of the working days and the
restless nights of planning to make their