Year: 1879

The Far West has been filing up very rapidly this
wear. What were once ambitious settlements on
The frontier are now tagging IN tine rear, condemned
to the ignoble fate of ways.de unimpOIance, while
regions which had not been explored eighteen
months ago are teemng with human activity. The
turning of the immigration tide and the revival OF
business throughout the North have set III motion
new forces for developing the natural sources Of
wealth in the Western Continent. The progress in
material wealth that has been made during the last
twelve nonths-the rapidity with which the lines
of settlement III the Rocky Mountain belt have beeA
pushed forward and fields of industry opened
in the wIlderness-Is one of the marvels of Yankee
thrift and enterprise. There have been busy years
since the drift Of population from overcrowded
Europe set in. more than half a century ago. but
this has been unprecedented in national develop
mcnt.


THE TRIBUNE has made extraordinary efforts 10
keep pace with the movements of population and
enterprise in the Southwest and the Far West.
Early in the yeara correspondent was sent to Texas
the most promising field in the South for new set
tiers to ascertain what advantages were offered to
Northern farmers and what were the prospects Of
the material growth of that great State The
suits of his Investigations laid before read
ers in "A series of twelve letters. which were subse-
auently collected and repubshed i'll n TRIBUNE
EXTRA few months afterward our Washington
correspondent was dispatched to Leadville to de-
scribe the new sources of wealth which had been
discovered in Colorado. His correspondence. which
was subsequently reproduced in our popular series
of Extras was the first intelligent account of
that remarkable mining camp, where the output
of argentiferous during the first year esti-
mated IN round numbers at Sl0.000.000 After
interval of rest in the East the trained obser
yerreturned to passrie Summer aud Autumn in three





was known in the East. Twenty-eght OF his letters
have already appeared in our columns-eleven from
the Black Hills. twelve from Montana and sixteen
from Utah-and these have. in turn, been made up
into q Mining Extra OF sixteen pages, which IS Of
fered to the public this morning. 1t Is almost need
less TO say that this Extra contains the freshest and
most trustworthy Information relating to this sub
ject that can be had, and that lHE TRBUYES efforts
TO engheh the public have been amply justified
by the Importance of these new settlements and the
increased interest which has been manifested, East
as well as West, in mining enterprises.


The Extra rs divided into three parts. The first,
under the title of Gold in the Black Hills" treats
of the general features of the region, the growth of
D.adwOod. the four varieties OF gold mining, the
body of ore. the low cost oi mining and milling, the
outlying camps and the opportunities tor new-com-
ers The second section relates to Mining In Mon
tana," special stress being LAID on the distribution
of precious metals. the reduction of refractory ores
the region from Camas Creek to Helena, Colorado
Boulder, Stemple and Trapper Districts, the treas
ures and enterprises of Butte City and general
survey of this mining field The concluding chapter.
entitled " The Mines of Utah." is fresh from the
columns of our daily files. The price of the Extra Is
10 cents with the usual discount to the trade The
title is "The New Far West" No. 81. Orders by
mail will receive immediate attention.