The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-15
An Enthusiastic Visitor.

| F. M Woods, largely interested II gold mining in the Cripple Creek, Colo. district, is in Birmingham for few days and is stopping at the Hillman
 He visited New Orleans during tho Mardi Gras and was most favorably i'm pressed with the Crescent City. Speak ing of this. his first trip to the south he said:
 q thoroughly enjoyed my visit te
 New Orleans. I was much impressed with the spirit of enterprise that is showing itself there. particularly II extensive building operations going or and the spreading out of the city. With the completion of the Panama cana it is already evident that New Or. leans will grow by leaps and boundi until it becomes one of tho great cities and ports of the United States. I was charmed with the genial hospitality oi the people with whom came in con. tact
 You have here in Birmingham al ready we'll under way a most remark able industrial city. You know tha' out in Colorado we not only mine golt and silver and lead and copper, but the iron industry is, already big flea. ture with us. In the city of Pueblo there are large iron furnaces and g great steel plant very much like the one here at Ensley. One striking fea- ture of Birmingham is the snap and gc of its people, and the brisk moving crowds on the street. l am in love
 with your beautiful boulevard resi-. dence street, Highland avenue. one of the most attractive I have ever seen Your office buildings will compare fa- vorably with any I know"
 Mir. Woods laid out the town of Vic- tor, Colo, and developed the great Gold Coin" mine in the very heart of Victor. which produced s7.OoO,OOO Speaking of gold mining at Cripple Creek. and Victor. which is four miles distant, by a winding street car line. he said:
 "The gold producing area in the Cripple Creek district is two and one- half by three miles. Geologically it is the pit of an extinct volcano through which later volcanic action forced eruptive dikes and formed Assure veins Through the medium of the circulation of gases and liquids the gold was sub sequently deposited in these dikes and veins, which by alteration have become quartz. In some places narrow streaks and pockets of practically pure gold have been found In several of the prominent veins. A marked example of this occurred in the "W. H. P mine, where one pocket produced near ly $1,000,000. A small portion of the contents of this pocket was 90 per cent pure gold.
 "The gold mining industry in the Cripple Creek district has reached 6 stable commercial business basis. Last year the average monthly production
 of gold bearing ores was about 55,,
 900 tons, yielding about s1,250.000 ant
 the total annual production was slight ly in excess of s15,5G000O. This is one of the most striking features of tn, district as compared to others witt | their gamble and speculative features rich fields and all too often failures Many fortunes have been made in tn, | Cripple Creek district, where men O. | moderate means, many of them prac | tical miners who struck the hard lick CT held the drills to mine the ore. Tn CT,
 are many millions yet to be taken ou
 and the completion of the drainage tun. | nel now under construction will facil itate deep mining which in some in | stances has already reached the depti
 of 1900 feet where some of the riches-
 ores have been found and in larges Quantities."