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Show A SOUTHERN COLORADO SETTLEMENT. The Denver AVic publishes a correspondence from the Animas river country, Southern Colorado, which has been known to miners as the San Juan region and as Baker's Park, which was first explored by Captain Bakerin 1S60. His party was broken up, were killed by Indians and died of starvation. In 1S70 the country was settled by a party ofXew Mexicans, and in 1S73 mining districts dis-tricts were organized, and the present season has witnessed some develop-! develop-! ments, and old miners says the silver mines are very rich, and predict a great rush to the Beclion another year. About 4,000 locations have already been made, but little work beyond that necessary to hold them having been done. Thero are but three valuable gold lodes in tha dig-trictyet dig-trictyet discovered. The Little Giant is the leading one, and is owned wad worked by a Chicago company, of which S. P. Rounds a noted typo and type-maker is a member. Three smelting furnaces are being erected at different points in the Park. The nearest post-office is at Del Norte, 129 miles East, and Bullion Bul-lion City is is the only city of the new settlement. It has seventeen log cabins and four wall tents, two stores, two saloons, a cobbler's and blacksmith's black-smith's shop, and the county offices. There are three women in the county, coun-ty, two of whom smile on the denizens deni-zens of Bullion. I The first election in La Plata county was held on the 13th inst., when the people were to vote on the question of a county seat. A road is being constructed from Saguache, on the western edge of San Louis Park, via the Cochetopa Pass, which is promised to be finished to the Forks of the Animas by September Sep-tember 15. - |