, 1925-04-09

odNS Uuc -. " u. DIS eventually
duct hat is shipped west from Su-
perior, Wisconsin. Anthracite coal
is being mined at Madrid, N. NJ, from
l eft. to- gift. veins and successful
ly competing with eastern anthracite
from Pennsylvania in a Francisco,
via water haul and Kansas City, Mo
via railroad haul. With ten foot
veins to work in Northern Colorado
it ought to compete almost up to-
Duluth and all intervening territory.
When this North and South railway
is built it will have to take a route
near the Seminoe iron deposits. 1t
will have to go through Rawlins up
the Platte valley into Colorado and
will eventually be built into Denver
as l will show when discussing the
south end. First it is useless to talk
of building a railroad across a desert
like say from Wamsutter south, as
railroads today have to get revenue
from every mile they traverse, and
the Platte Valley is capable of
furnishing revenue it's entire dis
lance, when properly developed.
In order to get at some of the po-
tential future resources for revenue,
l will jump to the south or Denver
end. First, mining in Colorado is
coming back just as the cattle bust
ness came back in Wyoming after
the collapse of the ranges and the
big herds in the early nineties. When
mining gets under full swing in Colo
RADIO the mining men will finally
come to their sense and realize that
Kremling, Colo. Is the natural smelt-
err point of Colorado and 1t Is ad-
jacent to- three fourths Of the var
ious ores produced in Colorado. In
the Gore Canon ear to Kremling is
immense unestimated water power
going to waste. 1t is close to the
Rout county Goals and it has lime
stone and every factor needed In
cheap smelling close at hand. This
North and South railroad will have
to be extended up the Blue River
and from there to Montezuma, Colo,
and then through the old Wider Tun-
mel into Denver. At Dillon it will
connect with a branch to Leadville.
Clear Creek. Gilpin and other coun-
ties in the sulphide belt OF Colorado
are now shipping their ores around
800 miles to Leadville to be smelt-
ed while II they went through the
Wider tunnel 1t would only be from
thirty to fifty miles to Kremling. An
other important factor about this
route through the Wider tunnel is
that the Union Pacific some time
to hold its own Is going to have to
have a cutoff from Green River to
Denver and o. to New Orleans /
will not go into different mileages
to show this but it will be the only
chance of the Union Pacific COM
.<.tsnt N.,th thA narfhnrn rnnfnG In
Superior and Duluth.
When this smelter project is real
lied II Is going to open up a ire
mendous development OF the mineral
of Northern Colorado. This
brings me to the subject of copper
in the Ferris Haggerty district and
| believe time will prove my views
are right In regard TO those deposits.
The United States Geological Survey
published a folio on the Grand En-
campment Copper District and n sum
mary of the views OF the ~geologist
was that the copper In h Ferris
Haggerty was formed by teaching OF
small particles OF copper embedded
I'm the schists of that region. As
the degradation of the Sierra Madre
Mountains went on, they explain,
This copper was leached out and fin
ally found Its place to enrich the
pocket of copper mined for several
years in the Ferris Haggcrty. by
their own figures. taking the small
amount of copper contained In the
gchists, II would have had TO have
those mountains some hundred miles
high TO accumulate this amount OF
copper into one spot. As n matter
of fact this pocket OF copper was
found on the contact between Pre-
Cnmbrian limestone and Pro-Cam-
brian schlat. and e was lenched into
"A cave in the Limestone during the
time this country laid under the
ocean for several million years. Whom
the Sierra Madrn mountains were
thrown up, this section OF copper
hearing Strata was broken off and
forced up with the rcat OF the noun
tains. My theory is that the whole
platte valley "a undorlnid with cop
pcr deposits OF this nature for the
reason this achict dyke runs across
tho country from the Ferris Haggorty
past Saratoga. making the hot
springs. and To Elk Mountain where
.se copper is nlso brought near the
surface, II this theory II r II can
be proycd by diamond drill holes out
In the valley from the mine and clear
ncroaa 10 Elk Mountain. All the old
rcajdents of the valley can realize
| wha, would happen II this Is true. '