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Show DfiEEDE BON ANZAS. Mining Mm of I tah and Colorado Notes of eneral Interest. (Icorgc Arthur Rice has returned from a trip to ( reede,; Colo. In speaking of the wonderful ne w camp he said today: "it is the greatest camp for its age, that has ever been known. It is today what Leadvllle was in 189Q, There are four mines then that are shipping ore every day The Last Chance i shipping liri tons of 0 ore daily, and the Holy Moses and the Amethyst each ship about thirty tons of $100 ore. The Ethel is a low grade mine and produces an output eichday f twenty tons. The total value of the output is $ir.(KKl a day. "About 3dtK) people are already in the camp and hundreds are arriving on every train. There are plenty of good claims there but 1 can't see what all of those people ars going to do. The four mines operated employ only 908 men. The ore is soft and easily extracted and there is not a hoistiug plant in ramp. The Last Chance has a six-root six-root vein of ore and is a veritable bonanza. Heal estate is booming and prices are out of sight. Business lots are selling at J(KKI each and there are no titles conveyed. con-veyed. The, lots are held on sipiatter's rights. Three danco halls are open and saloons and gambling booses aro in full blast at every turn. Many buildings are going np. Lumber is per thousand, and plenty of it to be had. "The camp reminds one of Leadvllle in the palmy days of 1SS0, but I would not give it as my opinion that it will ever equal that place. I am satisfied, however' that before the snow melts Creede's population will be from T000 to 10,000 people.'' Mr. Rice stated that ho would probably erect sampling works in the new camp. A Negro Makes a Find. The Denver Minimj Jmirnal says: The excitement ex-citement attending the discoveries at Creeds camp is increasing daily and every train bears new recruits from Denver to the point of interest. Mark Watrous returned on a flying trip from Creede Saturday. He was buttonholed all day by a crowd of interested inquirers. He states that a negro prospector pros-pector made one of the richest finds yet brought to light at Creede. The latest reports re-ports state that a chamber has been encountered encoun-tered in the Holy Moses which runs $700 to the too. C. Creede's Boom. But oh, what a difference In the springtime. spring-time. The world is preparing to move on Creede. From all parts of the country they are coming. You hear the big boom being discussed iu the hotels, on the trains, in otliccs and stores, and the newspapers are full of it. There are 100 wagons now en route from Dakota, loaded with prospectors who expect to get here by the time the snow is off. Other sections are sending delegations delega-tions to swell the one big boom since 187U. Creede Candle. Cripple Creek. The mineral of the Cripple Creek district is found In a porphyry belt five miles wide by ten miles in lenlith. and is almost invariably invaria-bly goldjquartz. The blowouts discovered on every hill and the lava and burned nusrtl would seem to indicate that the mineral found is the result of volcanic action, and the similarity of all ore in the district is evidence evi-dence that it all came from a common source. It has been forehed up through the soft porphyry, leaving the adjoining granite undisturbed. Tile Cyanide Treatment. W. A. Hodges, the well known assayer, in discus-inir the cyanide process of treating ores, said today that when a mine is convenient con-venient to a railroad and can ship cheap enough, the smelter is the proper place to send ore. The cyanide method is all ri:'lc and would do its work, but. Mr. Bodges was doubtful if it was any cheaper than the regulation reg-ulation roasting. Swarming SO Creede. The Highland, Colorado, Lmwr says: "The fact than Sau Juan miners are swarming to Creede is alone proof positive 'hat there is something there besidesr barcn quartz. A dollar goes a short way with a San Juaner. When he shouts Hie bears run in feur through the forest, and don't you disremem-bcr disremem-bcr it." Tailing- The Sampson will ship another lot of ore tomorrow. This mine is getting out a large amount of profitable ore. Steward got, in nineteen tons of Utah and a lot of Monarch of Northern Light today. Hodges has 150 tons of Ontario, nineteen of Utah and ten of South Galena this afternoon. after-noon. Curric is working on a lot of sampl 's hut his client has forbidden him to give out any information cither as to where it is from or the results of assay. |