| Show i JB JHC i y th fhe the 0 1 san juan country adjoining tile the southwestern 8 tern part bouhe territory of colorado bordor border ing ulion ullon upon the rio eio grando grande south lies a tract of mountain country nive five millionaires million aeres acres in extent which has ilag just beem UY UTU government by treaty with the ute indians it is olie one of the bichest richest mille mineral ral rai thus far explored and will attract the strong and investigating ftfe stid attention 0 tile tiie west ivest it is about hundred miles U lles iles from deliver denver to the boundary and took us nive five days buggy riding and seven soven days on horseback to reach 1 if f we fodill it a mountain district with little or no farming land al and no timber except scrub pinte pine in ash and but rich beyond conception in ores silver gold copper and iron as aswell well weli as coal only one mine has been really developed develop edy and that only in part it ac is called the little giant and andis is owned by a chicago company they have spent about in working it and their stock is about their ma machinery chiner is very poor and works badly yet I 1 waa wai was told by a 1 good many persons there that they thoy were ero eto taking out 1093 a day ill ift gold they are about to put up a 15 stamp mill and the inai Inar manager lawer claims that when it ia is up they tiley gan can can take out put a week their Thel ryel vein yein f is a foot and and a half hair thie thick k and nd is calculated upon to yield a ton toil ali there re is another rich mine near ly by which I 1 think is is really A sa continuation of the same lead that tha is being negotiated 4 for by chica chicago par Yar parties ties the tile little i giant people say it is richer than theirs the wile little giant claim that their dinels mino is worth vt orth a million as boonas the tile treaty is ratified by the government and dud they can give a 1 title which they til cy heretofore have been unable to do it being held only in jn a miners claim one 04 jolan man has A a silver lead six aix feet thich thick th I 1 ick lck that he has rigi ligi figured ired up to be worth 1 I dont suppose lie he could raise raise in tho the world there was wag a mine called the green mountain which it was claimed would yield to the ton then there is a 4 lead c called ailed the tile silver star which is forty i f leet cot thick an ancl anil J yields good pay ore there is copper cro ero cropping p ing out for miles in veins that loo look to be from twenty to forty feet thick but no brie bile one takes up co copper because there is so taumi naumi goad gold aud and silver sliver you ean can seo any amount of copper along the face of the ohe mountains und and right in the tho cohere af pf the tract there thele ie is a nich rich iron lk deposit IQ I 1 they claim that tile tho M silver sliver xer ver leads lead sare saro are more valuable tb than an the tho gold because the vellis veins arol aroi aie aio mu n ull uil h thicker and richer the streams aro are mele moto water courses except file the animus niven river er ti upon 0 n which these mihe mine mme ame soro roro are aro loc located iten tiie tilo tile the altitude of these those mine mines P is boog to feet r and the mouin moun bains ru run ciup up it all ali I 1 around them IS to feet high I 1 the peaks a ane are 11 e tery very r rocky and ragged and hud are ire lifted high above the timber line I 1 have been been bet n through every overy part of thorest tilo tho west from british columbia to mexico I 1 dont think thero there Is any where else so great a conglomeration of mountains as in this san juan juau country tho the whole of those aftel acres is just jut lut one ono duc due grand mass of peaks the road lacs laes makes a descent at one place of feet in two miles it crosses tho the range hati gaa at t an altitude of feet the highest wagon road toad in the ld cy any one ono ori oil may ma y go in and preempt pre empt it ift as a s they do prairie land all aff thatis that is required is that the person who 1 locates a claim shall dig a h hole hoie and posta post a notice and thereafter for fise flye years put loo worth of work per annum into it as they say gay 1 at the end of fl nive five ve years ilek liek in go to the land and brid pay when a patent issues to linn illin securing the prop property erly okly absolutely if a man wan nan neglects to ii oric ork his hib loo worth any year the tho claim is U open to the first comen comer ills his labor ia to bo be rated at miners wages waged if ho lie desires to buy the land outright lle lie can have it for 5 all an acro aero the nearest towns are arc ool del norte norto aud and loma on the tiie rio grande tilo the scenery along the Rio ulo Grande Is favory vory vary fine but blut that liver river does not riot touch the mines they are arc aw asi I 1 have sald saia 0 on u the Anin animus itil an and d its headwaters there is a canyon cartron on the A animus which I 1 did not see see but it is sald said to he be a wonderful place from ain aln to feet deep and twenty five miles long with a fall of the ani anis i mus taw which at that point is flomo borne 1 forty neet feet wide having a sheer h eer descent of nearly six hund hundred red rod feet two companies have applied for charters charter each of which cont contee r plates putting a good road over th tiie tile e ra ranges which wll wil ch by the way are arc C called al i thio fi T J ne and san juan and a hotel is isaiou about to be erected in the vicinity of those opened next spring I 1 there will probably be an influx of fe people opi c and in a year or two if any faith ia ja to bo be pub put in prospects tho the rl new c w acquisition will have attained as wide a celebrity as the revada nevada mines about virginia city ev ex |
