Show I t BIG MONEY IH MINES I I HOANJIO HTOIIII H PHOM OKIlIM OIIKPK VMIOII SUIUASS THAT OP MONTI OHIUSTO A Look it Strlllm the rtrfenlir lUo li A < 1I1 llnU 7a UiHIua lhl IliWt and Hit lrtuliali TAt llrllatit Mnr and III VI ntrt llm a Giitmei t rtiimhr a Temitttr Midi tlo74 Rtmtitt if Ike v Donor MittStne IItnl CM Iy AJW l > a Mmtit Meal til Ore 1 MXif Albert aid Aw It lijlMhtam af CiVfilt Ottt aril t Qnttr Itittt Aloof 1JIH fll fropyriss led lira er stank o CIlor sis i i I s-is i 11 Correpon < r tt Ibt a two I I I Cmm Cum Aujuil iih V i t i < 1 IIOUSANIW AIr IN + mining Hundreds make A living Ten amass a I t I i competency but It It I only I d t now mil thin ting who by J 1 I a lucky IIIDke 01 the rick I finds an enormous fortune i and keeps II David Modal the mining I i ling lays the sal lord are not so great I it la other buslneues t It It I certAin I that I the tucceiiet ire more phenomenal I write today not of the lalluics but ol + the t luccciiei the millionaires ol Ctl pic Creek Out cl this gold l camp within five an has come f ijoooooo The gold dug out last 1 jear was worth J I 000020 ami this rear the oulpul prom rate to be fully at large 7 he stories I f J heir of gold lug out and gold In fight 4 nuke my availclont mouth water and i1 like the hungry ragged newsboy en ides street outside the confectionery store I i press my note against the glass and long 1 i lot the itches within STRATTON 1IIK MINING KINO t i Take for Instance W S Stratton 1 a ho Diane the great Independence l mine which has been turning out nearly 1001 a day fur the pail car and In which It li estimated there are Irons four loteten i million dollar of cold In tight How i would l you like to own that It would be enough for yourself and your family fur age to come It It I one ol the rich oil goldman mine of the world and file gold-man who own It was working five teats it I ago AI i carpenter bench Up lo that I time lie would have been glad 1 leD < r lure to have netted Irons the work of hit lands Jjo a month Mil mine last year II Is said produced 960000 at a 1 COO of about 10 cents on tile dollar Ladtheoreissalrich Ihll hUo he tuck his woikmcn for fur that he 11111 not be able lo lowest the money IIhkb he receive front the cold l which they get out Solar lie has spent hit surplus m buying oilier mines 1 and 1 he hai today properties which 1 1 1am I told mile I him the largest Individual owner of gold I mlneiln the world 1 doubt whether he knows himself what he li worth I know that no one can figure upon lilt I j r oiiilnllllti I am told that Mart nil Iltld and other Chinico capllalittt uf I lered Mm Ijwo u i for III Independ erce mire alone and long mo he irMed an oUr Il joooouo for n He dots net hk e lu talk built It and I doubt wheher on diet of ioo oouo would tempt him He says tint the cold 11 In lln mine and cant tun waIt > wa-It I Is safer there than In 1 the Mir III deposit sold the belt bank lor him h l lJd Mother lash HOW HTKATTOM DTKICI nAn n-An 11111 I would not like lu be Win field Jxolt biianon I would not ex chat ge traces with him lor all his mil lion 1 hH thouftit came lorrlbly uw nat Ine n-at I rat with hm in i lil > illu office > over a blccle afore in Colorado Springs the other day end wu then him flu ey ail listened 10 Iinl t He li only Itriy eight ears cf or bUll he look to be mole than 1lr lllthlr It as while II the driven I triow and his inuially 1 I < < ark o mpt > ion like been ct angid to a mahogany brown by the hsidhlpt of Ml usurious career and the anilely of fin IUnt fur cold lie H net > oul In the extienr and he hold I believe little capacity for luppmew 7le tory ol lib Hie li that ol a man who uidctotcd I himself lo finding a mine and who after twenty care ol 1 allure hat at tau succeeded t He list luccceded by lucK and work more than by any ipcilil ability and though he ll a man ot good ctimmuii stated I judge ou might find ninety men Julie tt good out ul any one hundred carpenter > < that you cotnd le led Barn In InUUcu hutlnx learned the carpenter s Hade lie citified oul lu Colorado Springs WIKII he was along about twenty iunul age He began at once lo prospect for gold He wonted at his fraud In the winter to Kt the money necessary lo keep him alive In the mountain m the costumers and day alter day and tar alter tar he climbed the aunts and wandered over the hills looking lor mines At one time he had saved tro thousand dotaft 1 He Invested this In A noon and lull It lie I h I n than 01 few auumcnll out ol little Intellectual iciomce He 1 failed a Uam and CIII and up until liMi he wu words practically holblrc Ho had al this lime a louie In tuoriJu bpriiiEi sihirh I was mortgaged I and II was In MAT cot thai r ear mat lie ren tiered almost desperate by tin repialeJ talons went to prcipici abut Ctipplo Lrcck He teamed that there was tome sold In lie boulders or llujt which lay upon the ctailng landj ol thu teKlon I but up lo lint time no one la 1 cunsldereit the lock to be words much At Stratton walked over the heals he noticed one lIon the corner of whit i I tome lamer f proiprctor find I clupie I ell I He picked a up I the IMOKCII t piece and lent II lo Denver la be a > a ed II yitl 1 Jed cover Ins 11 I the ton Isis aa n imptlie lo blr rmn He it nut Kniheied n wnjron lead of other stone lln < aauul toe plAce An I Hiit this to lot as atria llitrtili 1 I ml that the atl alto worth close Ito a Ion Tim Imwttir showed Sun tu i n at leer was gold lime and lotukto out a claim about the llc loulj r and acne lo work It was the 1oufih of July when he LrtJ to mine and litt name filltitopeny line Independence r In honor of the day He found gold Amosllroin the gins rooll Tne sire grew richer ai lu dug down and after a shoot lime lie loiinu luc cn Audit cores filled I with gel I hoe cold did nut run rcsu Cody noaii ass teem would tMamc > ei at big as the nviiace pal lor and sumetlniei the tocx Cum lunn the rich on would extend only to be tliof a tumbler He sunk hi > 01 i a t however aid Ian out 0AIo Ire II iwo lo three hundred feet on timer I Jo Hi on i beijun to hud cold everywhere Lven tat rock llnj on fie surface of the ground titled hint a fortune her I wen some grin boulders near hU shall He I hid horse I rokcn up with dynn nitc and from Ilicni alone ho not 6uou > ll was not however all clear saliag Alone Al-one lime Urn gold teemed to Iou I plated out and ho oflered to sell the I mine for 150000 illS oiler was re lured and w liin n few f ilaS alter tills he made another rich strike oud lor twenty live toys he look out about ft oooc day At Present Ie I 11 I good bilnetn > u und Seven hunjitd feet doan s Into Urn earth and there i is no doubt whatever lui that tnere ate mil lions ol dollars worth ol told 1 between the Itself which have been alicady mined Tie mine seems lo be glowing richer as It KOti downatd and hU I refused lIn lor 1 i < wuco was In the mind ol n my Laos I a Rood business decision The IIAIIITf OP A MILLIONtlDK A nun whoic Income has been about 13 f a Hay finds It lord jump at once to lot Spending ol lion two lo three thousand and dollars ti day Mri ration at present It I not attempting lo live up to ills intone Die hllli yellow collate In which he lives In Colorado Sprang dUI I ventute coil mote triton fsoo tnd Ihe tettaut girl who will Her Ictvei rollid up came tu the door when I CJl eJ lojktil as though ale niiKhl linn it hard anywhere lo eel mute Thartfteanonut r Just below file mine Sitaitoii bat I another hoax It Ins only five towns and It oil In lIe neighbor hunt ul a thuuuml del an I mil told 1 Hut he It building a house al Colorado bpiinui I woks taut coil him 1 something 1 1 tike 1s wine c1 fluofscnseeof 01 the most unpieitnlloui intuit and hit secludes hlniKlf In order tu keep air Ihe beggars Fr 1 some wicks be I lad lu have u policeman police-man Ills home at Cnple Lrcek to keep the crowd away Iron him 1 and hit pilvale tictclaty Ill 1 a me Hut 1 here clle Abut Iwo hundred biding I lei 1 ten a day 110 I Is not u mean man but he has old of the Possibilities nor the pleasure ol xlvlui His clurilio lu tar have been iurchY lndiIJual and in must tins to lilendt plot lung no hit duvet sated hit life and that U I nit titter by kct IQJ mo hurdled in the toad distinct an ailcnipled lull away At cola rnd l ol the drive btJlton i gato Ihe man check lor Jluoo He bat given hit u r Ii iorr wile wno itbiuraled Ircm him SOOIO and 1 am told he frequently lauds checks or blue to his sister 1 wno list wttlt him I Its 1 II 01 I v ry enI live n to being nked I r u ny a Id II friend ol Ins tells me ut I 1s I enter never says n word atut wamiog a dollar I hive heard it MiitgiMeil mat ll she il d su it would ro be lotthcoui Ing She just nuts an I IR Rive her a check our un taD or live hnndied dollars dol-lars at the ipnit motet him flow fllUK POOR NmN MUik I msl LIONS S niton received more tha i < l Joeo last rear In dividends glum nit tuck m the Portland told mine I hit films bet Jut back of lue hullotl nee und lu enottnoui frame buihliui cats be seen for mile about Cripple creek In iluel owners lie three men wnu were almost down on their uppers five yean sEObut who through is I me now enormoiuly wealthy Heir mine oourcJ 10IOn note than f UOIJOOO toil i ul cod and Us ptetidcni lattice F I liuriis ta > that If I li item worked to In lull rat icily it could tutu out mote Urn lio 000000 this Year At iho lime Stratton dlicov erect the Independence nn tutees was working at Im trade an a plumber One al his J Mrmer Jamie l > uyle was men sawing and planing n a i reenter and the tnlrd partner unit Hainan was wotknu on the load in Colorado Springs holding a scraper for IS testis an hour It was lltnun who ditcov ltd the mice His claim at the sail was nut bigger than the average city lot but Hie plopcllv surroundlnic il r wliKli hat since been purchased by these Mute men now embraces about A linn cited and filly acre llaruan had been working lot sonic time on hit hnle city lotculai while Hums and Doric had staked out a dales a little fmlbtr ui > the mountain Their claim was rather ells lu lIe Independence They bail worked at t II for Santa lime and y < l diKotered nothing Harnan I had been doing some prospecting sir Stratton He tad been doan In end Indeptmlenie mine and he knew Its wonderful runes Hi t thought s that Hums and Uolc hAd a good thing and 1 lie asked them how much thev would gIVe him If he wojld lake the claim and how that It alas Wall some Ihmg They replied then wuiild glto him u third loftiest He at once went U work and 1 soon slnn pay rockn which was wonderfully taluiu Fur I some time they tried lu keep the lad a secret fur they knrtv II bat II lave MofU and Hie other capitalists who were wuikmg about them thuuld lean ol the value ol the property they would buy ill it 1 ale cUlms stout nI 5j Hey Kit their one out In secret and rattled n down from the mine at night DJCks I As the ore Rot tidier Iho sacks were not largo enough lu cArry all they wanted hJ one night they look a wagon up to the mine and prepared to haul it away by Ihe wriron loaj hy over loaded their wagon however and It biakeilown bush as they were about lo 1 leave the mine Hie next day the ore was found on the tide ol the hill with the broken waccti near It Ihliihowed the value of the mine and from that time < n they hauled their ore out They bad however lo fight far their tights Oher miners tiled to jump their dale rood Hums tool a shut gun and drove them out atlho point of it They I had forty seven lawtuils clout Iluir Hue but their ore was so valuable that they were able lo pay for the best legal talent and held their own They Ross Stratton loC lo-C In with them and ICy added the < tnni lce tnd oilier mine lo their Property until u li now one of the matt valuable the world I retldent Iurni estimates tint Iluir average output li worth 70a ton and he says Ihat ill ri Is one freak of < r in the mine that It I sort I stout Isow n lon thi rock funning fun-ning nineteen ounces ol gold to III ion Al rise telling value of Hi I > viand l stock Ihe proper li worth Let Men thou ow slid is iiioooo and I venture you could not ouy It 1 for 6 000000 liny pall Last year more than 40030 IndividmJ and nnill last year Mays May-s are Paying 3 cents a share In dividends emery munm They have oven a plKgj In little stuckhAders that they will pay iS per cent In dividends 111s year and tney chins that they hive not Iwgun lu gel near the end of their tYondeifil gold l treasure The mine has nun It U I Slit five miles of workings and lit machln cry is l some ef she flnrv known TIIK norms Milk Many cf the best mines here litve no stock on Ihe maiktt The olden miner min-er of Colorado say that Cripple l Creek will last for filly years sons ml kind of fabulous ffitlmlies are mule at to the amount ol gold l which will be turnout turn-out Governor Grunt the manger cis Grant and Omaha tmtlleis at Denver Is reported as saying Dial In Seventeen years Cripple Creek will produce few ona ore worth ol gold file result nf this belief It that the owners ol the mines hold their property very 111r Thite are mere hales In the ground here which 1 have so far produced nothing but rather are cnpiullied lot intlllimi One rather sanguine operator opera-tor tells me that ho doe not believe you rould buy all the mines of this region today for Jiooooocco Cash and the man who expects to conic oCripple Crick and git Something for lIolhlOI will go i way toriowful Use property uhicti litomlict well Is the 1 Doctor mine fo it situated on stamen TI and Is as yet lirely I more than n prt peel but m owners I am told would not take a million lor It It It the prop erty of two men who rime lo the Hockles with a little money and brought the Uilcf mho and the Doctor 1 mine two claims which lay lido by side on Rosen Hill Fner unent their first money the Chief Il filled la pay and they all last got I 400 0 In the hole They then nave the ttoik up for a lime In disgust Shortly after mil a miner cams la them and olletcl to leant the mines and gives them a portion ol the profits Trvfih acquiesceJ aid ho went to work vrihtnufcA weeks he had taken out fSooou trout a cycle great loJewhlili he dIScovered lie struck cryilalliiil god m the quarts by shooting down the tides ol their clJ worklnjt with dynamited and 1 the ro ulil Is mat the Doctor It I now A vale uable property IIOU IINtTRS HTIAL COLt It Is generally known that a large part of the Cripple Crack ore itoi I Avery a-very low grade Much of II bat lobe reduced by the cyanide process In order lo pay but III there are spots In neatly every mine where large I amount of high I grade gold hate been found lea liljh grade > uro ol Ihe Valor imnoateiaget about f no a Ion and use average tame ol I the shipments i of Cripple Creek ore last 1 year is estimated al tea a Ion Now aud men a tick pocket is struck bon ever which will pay a thousand dollars und upward a ton and such places are In the nines are carefully watched lor fear the mineis will laity away the gold Ihemaniger one of the big tott gold mines told me Hut he often Had lha liiliuri scanned before they loll lha mine and in certain parts ol Ihe mine they wcie always relinked tu cruttge their clothe upon coming in and going out Not long ago a miner I seas tuperted of Aleilm ore Mil cabin war searched an I liter than was i worth oft rich goidbearmg rock was luund lie had lanicj out Ihe t cset pieces from lime to time In hit piikct und tllp < clhir had taken oul timelyline pounds which was worth j 16 a pound or ft 516 wonh ol oreN ItAIINO I ore-N Speaking Ihe teasing ol the DJC lar retie toe custom ol leasing mines livery li-very common here Men will take mines and work ihttn for a certain time for a fixed price or lur A portion ul the gold gotten out There are ininy men sew ties e good prospects who Have not this money to work trial and one will a mojcrate areooiu ul capital Call cither get n lease I on uch prospect or bit > a sharo la them lane for instance In-stance the Anchoili Itlaiid seine Hm stock of which was telling for four cents n share about a year cr to ago ll hat Ilili year sold lor fs a than and It Is practically not lor sole In the exchanges Ihis mine was 01 cncd up by a lee Ill I-ll was not contuleed worth mutts until man named Malonejr from Ut kou cam traKIt Cripple Creek 011 file war 10 1tRIIIh II looked nt fire mine And lenient II Ho spent f 7500 In opening it up nnd In one year I am told hi took ooooo worth of gold out of It 1117lCase I Ilan now cxpited and Ihe mines will be worked by Ihe stockholders stock-holders MiLUONAtnu OP Luirri Carted I could give numerous otber Instances In-stances at foitune making In mines 1 could lind perhaps ten tnousand times At many niilancei of men losing In mines but inluuij It In I reality legitimate 1 legiti-mate bjine and I believe d followed slut Ihe tame care Invcaugalon and business ability > at are required to give success In other builnessei the chances ul mining money are Cild Here lor iniuncr u Hit ol Hie millionaires of Ci pplt Creak KI given by an old miner I I do not vouch lor the truth of hit enl malI W b Stratton inns worth nothing It now worth Jiooixooo limes Jo 1 lluini James Doyle and Jonn Hair I son cacti worth more than a million nude out of the Portland doll Cloys piontrittt oll lantM It McRmnic a friend of Siral ton and one ol hit advueis has made u ml Hon Daild I H Mount long a millionaire life easily mane Iwo or more Cautions out of Crtjple Creek Ho Collins Ihe Florence I and Cripple Creek railroad whlcli costa million but whlcli payctl for Itself In tin luantiu and is still nukIng nuk-Ing money IrVing llowbatl of Colorado bprlngi I the owner ol the Anchor Ieland has made a million Coeu bniitn Mofhis partner has I also made a lotluim out of tipple Creek J 1 Maynatd of Ulica New York paid ficoo lot the Moots mine on I 1t1IIrn Kavcnllli 1 1 Illumine 1 u slid 10 pro duce now Irom lU eighteen thousand dollars a month An ollir ol 6ouoou I hat been refused for II but Mayuaid mid his partner asks f looooou K C Shannon tvnu beat Atros Cum muigt nl for Congress s It RAW lu have made n quarter ol a million out IIr the AnchorU Wind ant the 1ort + and nod me II flaw Ou it King mine which ion Us owner fjou li SAW lu be worm neatly u iiiului In ihort inure are about ten men who him made something then i mil lion dollars out ol Cripple Creek Intro ore one hundred iiui who have made more than < 5n apiece anti Iher are perhaps one Ihouttnil mn uhohavemaetrfsouw > apiece N fly nil ol Hm ii oney tae gone lo Colorado peo le tinge Ihe I 1teach are now m I I vesiln largely and hue some ol tile best prrpertles bret fit bre-t l i Gt 71 ° s Lwt11 |