Show SAYS CHERRY CREEK GREEK I IS MM RIPE fOR BOOM Ledge of Ore Opened Which Runs a Ton in Gold S S Cherr Cherry Creel Is beginning to lcd fee eel the I lse I of or activity which Js so Apparent In Ely lily ml said John Wearne the veteran veteran storekeeper In tho the tO town 1 near ar l Egan ISgan ca cl canyon nyon on to the tile Ely News Mr Ir 11 Wearne J is visiting friends at t EJ Ely and Is vel very much Impressed by hr the kaleidoscopic changes which lob have haAc taken place But Dut Ely Mr Ir fr observed c Is bigger and better In a descriptive ces sense than the tho m e name namo of a town The rho development of or the mines here hero Is doing wonders for tho the surrounding country county an anti and especially for Cherry ChelT Creek When hen hen you ou refer to tho the Ely district these days ays you OU mean menn the tho entire entre Steptoe valley from flom Curries Currie's down I Cherry Creel Creek is centrally located In Inthis inthis inthis this district and anc Us its Is mines rich Ingold in ingold ingold gold and aid sliver silver and formerly the glory on Pine Pino county aro are attracting attracting attract attract- ing almost as much attention as ns the properties In JI the tho copper bolt belt here and ami the Jea lead mines mino at Duck Ducic Creek I Everything I Is II humming in our om camp just now In preparation for the spring rush Sever l new now mines were erp opened up UI a few v days before I r left heft lef one ono o of which showed a n ledge hedge of or gold sold fifteen inches wide Avide and eight feet long running to the ton That Is a sample of the Cherry Creek Creck crop- crop plugs pings Some pessimists have referred re- re erred to those thee ledges as a stringers stringers Well eJ J perhaps the they are but you OU can never tell what these teI stringers are aro going to amount to until you ou go after aftel hem with wih shaft work Arc le lC Opening That has been the trouble at Cherr Cher- Cher r y Creek heretofore Mr 11 carne Wearne added added add- add ed d people came in who were going to o set the tho world afire afre but who had n nothing more substantial than the gift gir or of f gab tor for working working tools tools Now a few tew ow men with wih real mone money are beginning to open pen up the mines of or the district in a asmal small mall smal wa way and the results are arc satis- satis sats lying ying In tho the extreme The surface showings around Cherry Creek run principally to gold golt sl sliver silver e I and lead led but jut In spots where depth has been heen the shafts drop Ito into copper ore re somewhat after the fashion of the theold gold Jold old mines around El Ely It I Is 19 only a question of a short time now when Cherr Cherry herry C Creek eek will wi he be In the swim wih El Ely Our population has ha Increased increased in- in creased recently to live five hundred or Ol more lore and we are arc exp expecting to o double that lat before midsummer I |