Show TOWN ALMOST aE depopulated POPULATED DE once prosperous uty city ope colorado Is being decorte 1 aw A special to the salt lae lake herald from aspen colo says the recent slump in price of silver is virtually a disaster to this once prosperous city and has brought great distress to for merly happy homes at the present price of the white metal not a mine mind in the camp can be worked at a prof profit and almost the entire population 0 of the toa n must give up old assoria eions many of them of a lifetime and seek other places to make a livelihood in this exodus sons daughters par ants and children must necessarily be separated and there is great dejection over the prospect every outgoing train carries people who have forsaken their homes here being unable to sell them at any price to seek work or mal e a new start in life in other sections of the clou aspen has haa been known heretofore as the greatest s iver mining camp in the united states and at one time the greatest in the world the city is sit in a pretty valley surrounded by three huge mountains which abound in the white metal which may never see the light of day during the bust ling days of 1887 to 1893 aspen boasted of a population of 15 0 00 but today scarcely 1500 remain after the panic of 1892 1812 93 and until a few weeks ago all of the large properties have been worked under lease and the miners made a I 1 atle better than wages while silver was between 60 50 and 60 cents an ounce |