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Show A SECOND LEADVILLE. A Colorado Authority Says Ee Has found the Sequel to the Famous Old Camp. HIS TEIP 07EE THE BELT. A Eevelation That Only Those Who Have Seen it Cau Possibly Appreciate. The merits of Tintic never found a man to espouse them more warmly or more eloquently than Hon. J. E. Rockwell, Rock-well, who sometimes departs from the dry and monotonous parchments of the law to engage in romance. He had just returned from the sea of silver this morning when the reporter met him. "If we had in Colorado what they have in Tintic," chimed the distinguished distin-guished voyager, "there would be no difficulty in naming the sequel to Lead-ville Lead-ville with all its thrilling traditions of life. I have never seen such a foundation founda-tion for a boom or such opportunities that extend themselves to human enrichment. en-richment. It is a veritable sea of silver and lead a Pactolus of riches that should make of Tintic the greatest district dis-trict that has been located since the days of the Carbonate camp." "Then you went through a number of mines?" "Nearly all of them although I do not feel at liberty to speak in detail of what I saw in each of them. I have traveled through Colorado, through New-Mexico and over most of the mineral bearing horizon but never have I visited a point that impressed me more favorably with its outlook for future prosperity and productiveness. There you And a lime belt from one to three miles in width with tho veins forming a veritable net work through its body. Instead of the lenticular position of the ore bodies in Colorado you find them here extended vertically into the ribs of the mountain and without any apparent end to them. Of course, so long as the laws of gravity hold goodjyou may look to depth for the real riches of the'eoun-try, the'eoun-try, and until depth is acquired you will never know tho extent of tiieir magnitude. In Leadvillo you will find the blanket vein spreading'itself on the footwall of a contact, bit here you have no limits that govern development or exploration. The ore bodies simply make their appearance in the body of the lime, and having once been exposed it would stump a student of Euclid to tell where they end. . "Then you bclievo that fat Tintic everything settles down into a jack-pot and that the deeper you go tho greater the riches?" "That sums it up exactly, although the jack-pot expression you njako use of leads to a profession with which my kuowledgo is decidedly limited. There is no doubt, however, as to the resultof explorations if they are carried on consistently, con-sistently, and I believe that if there is anotner Doom such as was experienced in the camp of carbonates the foundation founda-tion for it is to be had at Eureka. The future of that country, of course, is all dependent on tho pitch of enterprise with which it is developed and if capital is given a show vou can reas-ably reas-ably look for something that will rival the best days of Leadville." "And what Df your sampling works that were to have been erected in the city?" "If they are not put up it is not the fault of nature or the mines. I notice certain opposition.however.to tho newcomer, new-comer, and if that can be overcome there will be no doubt as to tho future of our project. WTe want to buy the ores of Utah and believe we cau quote a better price than has hitherto hith-erto obtained, but we do not feel justified justi-fied in building before we ascertain that we can enter the market without prejudice." prej-udice." 1 J Judge Rockwell will take his departure depart-ure in a few days for Colorado, but not until he has satisfied himself as to the opening for a sampler. He should be taken cordially by the hand by the miner, as the records of Colorado show that no one has done more for the promotion pro-motion of its mining interests. |