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Show COLORADO NOTES, Small pox is raging among the thickly populated mormon settlements in San Luis valley. A large body of cryolite is reported as having been discovered near Cheyenne Chey-enne mountain, adjacent to Colorado City. The mineral is especially valuable valua-ble us an article used in the manufacture manufac-ture of the finest kind of glass. Tho Union mine in Marshall basin was sold recently to an English syndicate syndi-cate for $400,000. The Union adjoins tha famous Smuggler on the south, and has produced several hundred thousand dollars in the past five years. In Gunnison county there are hills of iron and maneanese ores 800. 1000 and 1100 feet high, their bases covering over 1000 acres. Two of these hava been extensively dovcleped. From base to apex there are cuts, tunnels and shafts iu the solid ore, and some of these are moro than forty feet in the solid mineral, and in no place has the) bottom or limit of the ore been reached. |