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Show I NOTES CAMP'S GROWTH. Old-Timer . of Xeadville Is Pleased With Outlook. Conrad Hansen, an old-timer of Lcad-ville, Lcad-ville, spent yesterday In Salt Lako on his return from Boise, where ho has large business Interests. Ho proceeded on his way home last night. In speaking of the famous old camp, ho said that It was greater now and had a. more promising futuro than at any period In Its history. Tho developments that had been going on for tho past year and a half, or sinco tho strike, had disclosed oro bodies which could not be worked out in a generation. A number of tho mines were being much troubled with water, and he mentioned tho Penrose as ono which It requires a pumping capacity of 2000 gallons a minute min-ute to keep down. Tho Coronado, although al-though some dlstanco from tho Penrose, la owned by tho same people, and tho two aro operated altornatelv, tho ono being be-ing devoted to pumping and tho other to oro extraction. New pumps having a large capneity aro being Installed, which when In placo will permit of a larger output. The other mines aro holding their own and tho whole district. In Its palmiest days, never ooked moro promising thnn now. There Is but ono smelter running in tho old parap, that of the Arkansas Valley company, com-pany, which employs 1000 men. With reference to the town itself, he said Its population was about 10.000. but that It did not have tho air of plenty that formorly characterized It In tho clays beforo tho strike men wcro employed who were spenders of money and who left a largo part of their earnings In tho town. Sinco tho strike they had been superseded by Austrlans and Italians, whoso earnings wcro largely sent back home. Mr. Hansen was ono of tho largest sawmill men and lumber dealers In tho early days of '78 and '70. Ho aftorward bocamo largely Interested In minwj. Ho recalled tho fact that in tho years mentioned, men-tioned, when tho great stampede oc-r.' oc-r.' th ro many "knockers" and doubting Thomases who sold tho formation forma-tion wasn't right, and that tho mines would not hold ouL Ho said tho "am thing occurred in Aspen and subsequently in Crlpplo Creek, and ho had no doubt was being repeated in Goldlleld. Ills mo to is: "When you find a mining camp which has a good showing on tho surface, sur-face, stay with It and you will win out " |