Year: 1879

cideptal, and the find valuable. This re- minds us of another discovery made by Mr. Wilbur, a freighter, who, while trying to turn his mules in the direction of Cherry Creek, from the side of a mountain where they were grazing, picked uD two pieces of quartz, one of which he hurled at the mules to turn them, and as he was about to throw the other he discovered the glistening gold which permeated the rock through and through. For want ot time he did not wait to look for the lead, merely marking the spot, leaving the lode to be discovered hereafter. It will probably be named the Golden Mule. These mines are large, aver aging from three to four feet and assay we'll. With proper management, these leads will make their owner home stake and put him iA possession of the needful, wherewith he will be able to pass ihe remainder of life in the shade of brown front. A Mir. McKen- zie has discovered promising lode which he has named very appropriately the Hid den Treasure. It is high up on a mountain and only by accident was discovered, it was so we'll hidden by heavy growth of shsP- eral. The Casket. owned by Mrs. John G. Campbell and others, is being worked apd presents good showing. These are few of the leads we remember, of at least two or three dozen we heard mentioned and their merits discussed by the prospectors, who are as numerous around Cherry Creek as fieas in a Los Angeles country farm house. Mine owners and prospectors see before them now an opportunity of doing some thing with their ore. The Golden Era Min ing Company will afford them an oppor- tunIty of turning the base material into re fined bars of precious metal, which has given sudden impetus to mining matters in that section, very pleasing to note. From the many advantages which Cherry Creek presents for the cheap mining and milling of ores, it would not surprise us to see, aI an early day, another and another mill erec- ted until loo stamps will be pulverIzing the crude ore which has been lying dormant for untold ages.

 We should judge that there arc now em- ployed about the works of the company. and those whose prosperity hinge upon the success of the same, some 75 per sons. The wages paid by MT. Smith for the Golden Era firm, range from & to SC per day, which are invariably settled on each Saturday evening. Economy is the watchword of the Superintendent, and this of itself has much to do with the prosperity and success of any enterprise either small or great.

 The thing has been inaugurated and es- abolished on firm, business like basis, and will prove of great benefit to the whole country, and more particularly to the pco- pie of the great Verde Valley, who will find market for much of their produce, and be enabled to procure lumcer for building and fencing purposes, close to their doors. It would be doing MT. Gosper, our worthy Secretary, an injustice were we to close this sketch without giving him credit for hay. ing, in the first, started this laudable enter- prise into existence. When everything was dark and gloomy, in aud around Cherry Creek, he went there, invested his spare funds in property then undeveloped. Event ually Mir. A. NJ. Smith came in from Chi cago, examined the advantages Cherry Creek presented for mining on large scale, took hold of the matter, presented it to we'll known business men Tn Chicago, a pooi was formed and we now see the result. The company came prepared with money for the working of their mines, putting up their mill and other buildings. A new town will soon be built, aud we hope to be able to chronicle the successful working of ores from the mines in and around Cherry Creek. The bullion is in the ore as has been attest ed by that worked in rastras, and the little two stamp mill put in by Messrs. Gosper. Kingsbury X O., year since, when fifty tons of ore were worked, yielding forty dol lars to the.ton. The district winch has been neglected so long is about to become productive and prosperity will follow the efforts of those who have invested their money for its development.