Show c s. s ry xa S s o x f is FAMOUS MINING STRIKES By 87 THOMAS E. E STEWARD fo s. s SS s. s s. s X Cripple Creek 0 N N TIlE THE Fourth of Jul July n househ named Stratton who gave odd moments to prospecting was In Colorado Springs preparing to celebrate Sud Suddenly eny something that his mind hud had been working on seemed to become clear He got on his horse I rode at headlong speed to Cripple Creek and sank a n pick into n fi granite ledge A few days later when his samples hn had been ns assayed m C he found himself In possession of ot a claim running running run run- ning fling n a ton In him gold goll and sliver silver And he was discoverer J of or one of the richest strikes ever eer made In the history history his his- tory toty of ot mining Stratton's hunch at Cripple Cr Creek k was 1 not mere luck He lIe was one of many prospectors who woo had been een working workIng workIng work- work Ing the region hoping to find rich treasure Ever Every now and then the these e emen men picked up I a n piece of or float loose ore carried away from Its natural natu ral gal vein eln by mountain torrents These pieces of float were of ot surprising rIchness richness richness rich rIch- ness and Stratton n was only one of several who laud hind been lIeen figuring out which part of the nearby country ml might ht be e the lode or parent vein lIe He had laud gone over the territory as IiI thoroughly thor thor- thoroughly as 35 and had eliminated In mis mind ledge after ledge until he came came- down to one That was theone theone the tho one he thought th of ot that morning in Colorado Springs and It was the time right one Prior to Stratton's historic historic his his- torte strike the Cripple Cre Creek k district had endured a bad name Some placer gold had been washed out our but there had been heen a n number of ot reported strikes that had been proved false Miners and prospectors were wary of or the dis dl This may ha have been heen one reason reason rea rea- son Eon why wIlY It stood undiscovered until a n abare abare bare generation n ago o. o For miles around the only building was the old Bennett Myers Broken Box Dox ranch whose still st stands In the south corner of ot the time town no Bob Womack had prospected Poverty Poverty Pov POY- erty gulch famous in Cripple Creek history r before the time arrival l of Strat Strat- ton Through Womack Stratton had met one Dick Houghton a veteran mountaineer and prospector and it was Houghton who put him on the trail of cof his llis famous strike Meanwhile scores of mines were sunk In the Cripple Creek district n By r 1000 1900 the annual output t In precious lous metals was Compilations by the United States geological survey urvey In Indicate that the Cripple Creek district produced 5 worth of gold old between IS 1891 1801 1 and loo together with which fine ounces of ot silver were recovered ered The sur e surveys survey's s figures are those of the time dIrector director di dl- rector of the United States mint Cripple Creek elc gains added Interest from the fact that it was leas the last of the gre great t bonanza strikes and hold gold old rushes prior to the Klon Klondike rush of 1808 1898 The Tin Mines of the World A its name nanie has come to A. A xi 11 have ha a n meaning almost of 01 scorn due uc to comic aspects of oC the lowly 10 tin can enn In a vacant lot tin Is one of the time most Important of the time worlds world's metals and is also one whose history Is closely close close- I ly us associated with romance The tin Un mines of Lands Land's End in III Cornwall England proun probably l were ere the first mines yielding anything but hut sold gold goldor I or gems beams to be worked In all nil Europe rimey are supposed to have havo h been cn in use as long ago ngo as the Bronze n age e before before before be be- fore mUll man discovered lion Iron or 01 knew how to make steel It is known that th time the people of ut ancient T Tyre re and after them theta the Romans and und probably the Carthaginians Car Cur sent ships to England with wall slaves es who ork worked d UH these se mines for fort t their ell tin Until the early carty part of the present century British h tin mines held an un Im him Important 1 place In world production but their output has fallen nearl nearly to tn nothing nothing noth noth- ing anti against the time competition of much larger and richer deposits now worked in Im other p parts of or the time world H By tIm the Irony of ot fate fute PotosI In Boll Bolivia which was WIlS u a world center of silver sliver production years eals ago ugo under the Spanish h and hind had all nil the characteristics I 1 tics of time tile most niost roaring roa rimming minim lamps camps tins has come down from rom the PI pre precious lops dons metals to become today tollay the single sin sin- Hingle single gle largest center of tin production Where the bearded mind and the thE- thErn grasping rn representatives of lit the Spanish kings killed stole timid and cheated h lu an un to satisfy their lust for sliver silver and find gold cold the A Indians toll to today u bringing up UJ the looking dull ore that enriches s British and American In Investors yes tors Vying ing with Bolivia ln as IlS a n center of or I tin production Is the Malay balay peninsula Until ten years n ago o tho Limo Malay states stateR I usually produced more tin per pr year car titan than did Bolivia but hut the time scale swung S In It furor favor of South Americas America's mountain republic In recent years Slain Slam mind and southern China Chinn are ure other Important tin producing districts rime Tha Chinese are constant u users rg of I tinfoil I with which they wrap u allet variety n of things ranging from foods and firecrackers lire fire 1 0 crackers to Idols and st gods d It is still said that Chinese se earn their living I beating tin limn Into Ino tinfoil by tho the old aid IOl famed hand methods and und that the they usa uso several se thousand tons tens of tin in iii this manner every year Mexico has Imis Leon become a mo moderate elare producer pro ducer cr of tin Un in recent rf yean 1111 and ami 1 there ul also aho o have been heen discoveries In Africa ACrIe which continent seems defined dl in lI lo to reveal roveal ro- ro re-I re v veal al colossal deposits of practically every mineral 1 that mankind wants V lutS i 1 i 1921 ra f- f fW W a ar r i |