Year: 1877

suSEzrox, Coz, July l6, 1877.


EDITOR cHlEr:-Dont yoo think thore is q great
quantity OF hnmbuggezy IN svsy business but ours
Even the putting Of new ceG1tzy h sometimes over
done. The A. T., & Santa 70 Railroad has guide
for Western Kansas, and the San Jnan Guide, anoth
er precious document, which are very releable pa
Pers in their description of the country But for
what is said of the mineral wealth Of this country
the half has not been told, verify believe. The
silver alone in Sultan Mountain would pay the Ma
tonal debt and then leave enough for business pur
poses The Melville Reduction Works at the foot
OF this mountain, and will soon DO ready to reduce
ores. The company have half interest in several
mines of the richest found in Colorado The EN-
poria" Mine alone is fortune-almost pure gray cop
per, running up into the hundreds per ton. These
works can reduce from twenty to thirty tons Of
per day.


The miners on Sultan Mountain anxious to see
this mill running; and the mountain is full Of gopher
holes, where silver is found iu abundance There
several mills along the Animas River for reducing
ores, but twenty times many could be employed; !;
and my op;>s>u is, ouray and San Juan Counties can
beat the world in silver leads and they very rich
ores. The time is not far distant when money will
be abundant in Siverton. But everything else will
have to be imported from distance and as for rails
ing anything to eat about Silverton, or i1se maead-
amized flats between here and Kansas, the thing is
humbug have not seen il.


have heard, for years, of tho wonderful freaks of
volcanic action to be met with in this country, and
have been on the qai rice to find these things but,
alas nothing of the kind have seen. Even in the
San Luis yallcy-Sd Clark's great crater-I found
nothing Of the kind. Men have taken me out of my
way to sec volcanic rocks; have shown naturals,
pinnacles, and pyramids standing alone or in groups
1a.lt ham,
and have those stones scanned out by the ele-
ments, in the line of their cleavage assuming every
fantastic form and right Immediately above or below
them find stratifed rocks plane with the hori-
zon thus evidencing, beyond doubt, that each and
every formation laid by aqueous action, and
must have been done whilst old Father NOAH was
travelling about with his menagerie. And how any
man can view those mountains and doubt the teach
ing of Moses, is than 'any fellow can find out"
The multiplicity of floods contended for by some is
here seen to be papable absurdity for why should
stratum after stratum be piled on the mountains and
leave the valleys unvisiedi No. each and every de-
post was made in and the flood, and in rap
id succession and the guches ravines and rverbeds
were torn out and shaped just as We find them now.
by the action of the waters in subsiding after the
flood. Every gap and canon in the mountains gives
proof of this


Meehamcs wages are good here, when they get
work and teaming pays well here now-from six to
ten dollars per day. But common labor is a drug,
and plenty of men would return to Kansas had they
the money to pay expenses Some men working
here for sa5 per month and board, and glad to get
that Many men have left good claims, to find bread
1t is no uncommon thing to hear of a millionaire ask
ing for credit, and being refused Millions of money
in crude bullion, and nothing to eat. 1 know one
man, myself who il regarded M worth millions and
his wife takes in washing to help exc out living
until reduction works come n He will not SELL nor
get out, but hangs on like grim death. His claim is
of the best in the land and he says he will freeze
to it-and he does.


start for Ouray, in day two, to what l. ear
see. More anon. BOD