| Show A WOMANS MINING CAMP mrs pearl pearl payne is the first woman on record whose name promises to be perpetuated as the designation of a colorado mining camp she is in denver on business connected with the mining interests she has acquired in the country wherein through her influence and the power of her capital a growing town has been started around numerous promising prospects prospect bearing gold silver and copper in pa paying Y quantities mrs payne came to colorado two years ago from newcastle ind where she had been the head of a millinery business which had to be abandoned in order that she could seek a climate affording health requisites locating in victor she invested in mining leases and stocks with success in some and i losses in others the possibilities for making money out of mining bining she said this morning attracted me but I 1 concluded the better way was to get in on the ground floor of a new camp I 1 met james V malone one of the best prospectors in the state and grub staked him over a year ago he drifted away from victor and ultimately got into the region keeping me posted on his movements three months ago came the news that he had found a bonanza and had located claims as well as a town and had named it pearl city in remembrance of the assistance I 1 bad given him I 1 have a large interest in all the properties malone has hae located and we have developed them sufficiently to show that there are values of considerable sid erable magnitude in them mrs payne is about 30 years of age and possesses a business mind apparently she says she has her experience in the western mining field and has had her wits alta sharpened ened by association with the mining world she had the table top covered with specimens and picked up samples of the ore from her properties and examined and described them in a manner that showed her familiarity with such matters then continuing to explain she remarked 1 I have the utmost confidence in the region becoming a great camp malone who was the first one to make a location at pearl city has bag prospected all the way from british colombia to mexico he was the first locator of claims at puma city and has hai the reputation of being honest the properties to which we have title at pearl city show clearly defined veins between walls of granite the vein matter Is composed of porphyry highly crystallized crystall zed iron carbonates metallic sulphur ets and carry considerable copper five assane assays show how per ton from the little johnny none on ra ran n I 1 lower 0 w than 2260 2250 five hundred pounds of the ore taken from the breast of the little johnny and smelted smelter at pueblo gave a total value of assays essays on ona ore from the christmas gift another of our properties turned returned and one gave principally in gold this claim is being worked in conjunction with the little johnny and the tunnel will cut the christmas gift vein others have come into the camp which is twelve miles south of whitewater on the D R G railroad and twenty one miles from grand junction the grand junction foundry company has a force of men developing the last bast chance mine wherein there is 1500 worth of ore in sight there are numerous other prospectors actively at ailt work on claims and all are enthusiastic at the outlook the mineral for formation matlon is similar to that at butte mont ani and with proper development we bel believe leure will prove as rich ProA prospector malone malme has considerable faith in the theory that it is an extension of the butte formation running southerly and northwesterly because it is on a a direct line with the great montana camp k stages run from whitewater and grand junction to pearl city connecting with the trains and there has haa already commenced quite a rush into the region I 1 expect to make a W success out of this venture because I 1 feel certain that it can be done when the country contains the wealth in mineral deposits 1 I have found no obstacles to a woman being engaged in mining the miners all treat me with the utmost re respect and consideration wherever I 1 go and I 1 have found them all gentled gentle men under all circumstances deaver post |
