AN ELDORADO. lEADVILLR THE CKNTKR OP Till: MINING INDUSTRY. Million Have ripen Produced Strange Tales or the Klndlng of lincxpcrtnit 1' ortunns by Impo cuulous Prospectors. T EADVILLE, writes Frank O. I f Cnrpentor iu the Woshing I V ton Btar, is one of tbo great trenstire Tnnlts of the United States. Within the past seventeen years Uncle Sam has drawn upon it to the extent of more than 8200,000,000, Lot it has to-day more than one hun dred produolug mines and its unde veloped riches are incalculable It contains some of the richest gold and soma of the most wonderful silver mines of the world. The territory surrounding it is being reprospeoted, new mines are being opened and ome of the old mines are so wonderful in their production that their owners do cot wnnt tbera mentioned in the news papers. Such a one is the "Little Johnny," which now bas nn output of 810,000 worth of gold a day, and which, I nm toM, could be made to produce, if the owners wished" ft, guO, 000 in gold daily for years to come. In one of the banks there there is about o peck of specimens of the pure gold which lins been taken from it. The gold in the vein is in the chape of or dinary gold ore, but in places there are flukes and scales of pure metal, and every now aud then a rich pocket is struck in which it lies in lumps. The doily output of tho "Little Johnny" is now about 200 tons, aud the aver age value of the ore is nearly $50. There are now six shafts on tho prop erty, the two deepest of-which aro 700 feet. Gold is struck About 300 feet below the ground, and it is said that the whole area of more, than 100 acres is mineralized. Lcadville is one of tho greatest sil ver camps of the United States. Mill ions upon millions hnve been taken out of the earth back of the city and scattered broadcast over tho world. The city itself is nnlcrlaid with pre cious minerals. About a year ago Major A. V, llohn struck a silver mine ran first norsE n creede. on the edge of the town, the ore of whioh averaged 100 ounces of silver, with now and then a jump to as high is from 800 to 1000 ounces. It has been fonnd that this vein extends right under Leadville, and it is question now as to whether Leadville can hold its silver or whether it is to go to others. If Leadville gets it it will be the richest city in the world, and sin gle pockets of ore under tho streets will probably pay more than the city debt and leave a big surplus in the treasury. Leadville claims that tho treets were dedicated to tho munici pality, and that all that is under them belongs to the city. The original own ers of the land are now churning that they gave the ground only as a right of way, and so the question hangs in the courts. Many of the silver mines of Lead ville are so rich that they can be worked at a profit, notwitstanding the low prioe of silver. In the Moffat and Smith mines there are 550 men on the pay roll as miners, and it takes about three men to handle and care for the ore to eaoh miner. There are 8000 men at work in the Leadville mining district, and laborers get from from 82 to 83 per day. The Wolfton mine has reocntiy struck an immense body of ore, neither end of whioh has yet been found, bnt in whioh 108,000 tons of silver-bearing rook have been blocked out, This, it is estimated, will pay at least 88 ton above all expenses of LEADYTLLE'S handling and smelting, making the ore in this mine alone worth at least 8364,. 000. Mr. Moffat told me in my inter view that his best mine hid been the "Maid of Erin," for whioh he had paid about 8100,000, and ont of whioh him elf and hi partners had made 83, 000, 000. Thi mine is still being worked, and there are other great silver mine here whioh are shipping ore. I paid a visit the other day to this five-million dollar maiden. The Maid of Erin silver mine lie on the hills just above Leadville. It is surrounded by mountains of waste rook, and it hat immense frame bniidings, something like those of great faotory. A look at it give yon some idea ef the enor mous cost of silver mining. The en. fine whioh moves its machinery have ten great boilers, and Its furnaces are o large that tea men are eonstantly hoveling coal into them to keep the fires alive. They eat up from twenty five to thirl tone of coal day, and the coal bill for the furnaoet alone V&ouati le (10? daily. rit hundred dollars a day is paid for wages to the mioerr, and the maohinery is of the most costly description. After dress ing in miners' clothes I went down in to the shn't. Stepping on the eleva tor 1 was dropped hundreds of feet, past tunnel alter tunnel running oil into the vein, until I was at last more than a thousand feet below tho surface. llunning off from the shafts are these great pipes or'tiinnela, out of whioh have been cut the silver And lead. They are lighted by electricity. Thoy are driven this way and that, so that they form a labyrinth like tbe avenues in tbe Catacombs of Home. You could lose yourt elf in this mine. It con nects with tho great Henrietta mine, And you might wander about from tun nel to tnnnel without finding your way to the shaft. This is a wet mino, ami it takes an enormous amount of money to wall it with timbers. Many such mines con tain forests of great log', and it is es timated that there is more than 87,000,. 000 worth of lumber and timber used 4L i ir MAID OF EIUN MINE. LEADVILLE. in the mines of Leadville alone. Each of those tunnels is roofed end walled with big pino log?, aud the stopes, or coves, cut away Irom the tunnels iu order to get the (diver ont, hare to be almost filled with timbers, for fear their sides may cave in. No one who has not gone through a groat mine cau appreciate the amount of water whioh flows into it. In the bottom ot the Maid of Eriu streams of ice-cold water flow through the tunuels like bo many mountain brooks. Overhead are pipos for steam and for compressed air to run tho drills. There is a railroad track in eaoh tun , nel and board upon which you can walk to keep ont of the stream. The water is taken out of the mine by enormous steam pumps. Nino hun dred feet below the surface of tho ground I found au immeuso engine room, a large part of the machinery of which consisted of pumps, which work away there day and night. Thoy carry out of the mine 000 gallons of water a minute, or 51,000 gallous an hour. If they were stopped for two or three hours the mine would bo fillod, and it would cost a fortune to open it again. Standing on the dump of tho Maid of Erin you get a good view of Lead villo. It lies in a nest in the Rookies and it is surrounded by some of tho most picturesque scenery of the Uni ted States. Imagine an amphitheatre, the walls of which are snow-capped mountains, and in one side of the arena there is a mass of dnst colored houses. Let there be buildings ot red and yellow brick, log cabins covered with dust, woodon shanties and com fortable homes, all dusted with yol low, put mountains of broken rook hero and there through it and let im mense frame buildings, which mark the sites of smelters, show ont below it, and you have a faint idea of the city of Leadville as it looks to-day. It is a city of schools and churobes, a city of wealth and manufactures, a town of gold and silver and lead. It contains about 12,000 people, but it does more business than a town of three times the size in the East It is the highest town of its size in the United States. There are parts ot it whioh are alive with brimstone and when you drive in the dirootion of the smelters yon have to cover your nostrils and mouth with your handkerchief in order to be able to breath. Tbe brimstone comes from ORE TEAMS. the sulphur in the ore, whioh is liberated by tbe terrible heat of the melting furnaces. Mixed with this sxell is the dnst, whioh, when the wind blows, fills all parts of the oity. The gold and silver ore is hauled tq the smelters through the streets in enormous wagons, eaoh ot whioh is drvvn by four horses. Tbera is an almost oontinuous procession of these wagons going through from daylight until dark, and the prsoions dirt under foot is ground to powder. Speaking of gold dust, plaeer min ing is still done near Leadville. This has been ooo of the greatest planer mining oamps of the world. California Galoh, whioh lies Just below Leadville, has prodneed the enormous amount of 833,000,000 worth of gold. This was the great gold mining cam? of 1869 and I860, when the words "Pike's Peak or bust" should have been "California Gulch or busk" The work was then done in old pant or rooking cradle and the atoriea ot the gold nnggeta and the gold dost found were carried nil over the world. Two million and a half dollars' worth cf gold were taken out of this gnloh in 1800. The men who panned it noted that there was a heavy black sand mixed with the gold, but they did not realize that this sand was carbonate of lead until years afterward, when it was discovered that the lead was rich with silver And tho mining bogan which made Leadville one of the greatest silver camps of the world. One of,the first big silver mines opened was dis covered by the Gallagher Brothers, two poor Irishmen, and another was opened by Fryer, from whom Fryer Hill, one of tbe most famous mining districts here, was named. Fryer livod iu a squatty little cabin on tbe side of the bill, and he was looked upon by his neighbors as utterly worthless and good for nothing. One day he went into the pines back of his cabin and dug A holo. He struck ore almost at tbe grass roots, and opened np a mine which yielded more than a million dollars. Another famoui mino was known as "Dead Man's Claim," aud the man who acted as gravo digger on a certain occasion became its owner. A well known miner had died, and his friouds. who wanted to give him a good send off into the other world, hired a man to dig his gravo for 820. It was in the midst of tbe winter. There were ten feet of snow ou the grouud, nud the grave had to go six feet below that. In order to keep tbo deceased iu proper condition until tho grave was dug ho was laid away in tbe anow for the time. Nothing was heard of the grave digger for three days, and then tbe hoys, wishing to carry out tho romaindcr of tho fuuetal, went out to see him. They found him digging away with alt his might, but they found also that he had put up the stakes aud gono through the ceroinon ics which gave him a miner's claim to nil the land about tbo grave. In go ing down into the earth he had struck pay ore, and tbe rock which ho got out was worth about 800 a ton. The mourners at onoe staked out claims adjoining his, end the deceased was forgotten. lie romainod in the snow bank until tho spring sun thawed him out, when he was awarded an ordinary burial in another part of the camp. Mining has never been done to care- A CAB OF SILVER BOCK. fully as to-day, and aoienoe has never done so muoh to make tbe production of gold and silver cheap. , Take the Creede camp, which has made so many men rich. Creede was a poor pros- Sector when he discovered tbe "Holy ones," whioh, in 1892, netted more than one and one-half million dollars. Creede sold it for 810,000. He made other strikes, and he has now an in oome ot a thousand dollars a day, Still he tramped the mountains for twenty years before he made his big strike, and he was fifty before be be came millionaire. He made the bulk of his fortune out of tbe Amethyst and other mine, and the great re oeipt ot tbe Holy Mosea went to Dave Moffat and hi partner. A man named Renniger was riding through the mountain about Creede on one, of these little donkey known a burro. He had ' another bnrro to oarry hit piok and prospeoting tool. He was grub (taker, that is, some man had furnished himtool and gro eerie for a certain time with the un derstanding that the capitalist should have half what '.he dUoovered. One night, when Renniger camped, hi burros strayed away, and he spent day in finding them. When he did find them he looked at tbe rookt upon whioh they were (tending and saw that they contained ailver. He located on that apot what is known as the "Last Chance" mine, whioh paid 8250,000 in dividends from it surface production, and whioh has produoed fortunes. Near this mine Creede, now a partner of Moffat, discovered the "Amethyst" mine, whioh, in 1892, produoed 81,400,000 worth of silver, and wbioh m now capitalised at 83, 000,000. Tbi mine now belong to Senator Woloott and other. II ii very rich. . Not far from Lead r 111 is tho great mining eamp known as Aspen. It is in Pitkin Crnnty, out of whioh has been dug motl than 810,000,000 worth of silver ore. Aspen produoed, iu 1801, 810,000,000 worth of silver. It is sit. uatod on an enormous silver lode, which is said to be from eight to twelve milos long, and which, before silver droppod, was producing tho white metal at the rate of 81,000, 000 a month. At Aspen is tho famous Mo lie Oibson silver mine, the aver age ore of whioh is worth 8000 a ton, and of which single car loads of ore have netted more than 800,000. There is one mine nt Aspen wbioh has taken out more than 87,000,000 from an Area of about half an aore of grouud, the works of the mine going dowu nearly 1700 foet below tht surface. A CfCLIXO PllEXOMESO. The Remarkable Performance of a Imily of Denver. Among the women of plnok and en orgy in Denver is a dainty littlo lady, Mrs. Rbinohart, who is surprising tha world at large by her wonderful ex ploits upon tho wheel. Mrs. Rhino hart is tbo wiio of one ot Donver's lead. Ing photographers. She Is a native of California, having lived in Colorado bnt five yearn. On September 20, lHilj, Mrs. Rhinnhnrt took her first ride, and, finding that she enjoyed it, she invented in a wheel. December 14 she mailo her first century, and when April arrived sho had ridden three centuries, and, in company with her husband, had toured old Mexico upon her wheel. Up to the present date Mrs. Rbinohart has ridden forty four couturies in all, and during July gained a world-wido famo by riding ten centuries in ten consecutive days. She followed that July 22 with a double century, which she accomplished in twenty hours and twenty miuutep, riding the lust forty miles in darkness, mud and rain. Feeling confident that MRS. RniVEHATtT. sho could lower her record for 203 miles, Mrs. Rbinohart started out on the morning of August 7 nt 3.23 and in seven hour and fifty ininutos cov ered a distance ot 102 miles. After rosting thirty minutes she started once more, and accomplished the second 102 miles in nine hours and forty-Uvo minutes, making the entire 201 miles in seventeen hours and thirty-five minutes. Mrs. Rhinebart'a reoord is one that is not equaled by many raalo bicyclists, and probably by no lady ridor in tbe country. She rides purely for pleasure. She has never cared to break any record and has refused to enter oontests. She is an easy, graooful rider, Averaging thirteen miles an hour, coming out fresh and untired at the end ot trips that few coold endure. Her fastest riding is always done near the finish. When she began riding Mrs. Rhine hart was an invalid. She is now the pioture of health, and laughs mesi heartily over the dismal prediction that she is killing herself riding. She is a slight young woman, with large brown eyes, golden hair, and it per feot gypsy in color. Her riding cos tume is a short divided ekirt, sweater, golf hose and low shoes. During her long rides she is particular that her olothing shall be very loose, so that every muiole may have full play. Trick or tbe Bifie. A well-known rifle (hot say: "It it not generally known that an orange hit in the exaot center by a rifle ball will vanish at onoe from sight Suoh, however, is the fact, and that is my way of making an orange disappear shooting it through the center, wbioh soatter it into suoh infinitesimal piece that it i at onoe lost to light." Tired of Pruning. Mr. Eillum (the butoher) "That bill must be paid, sir it' been runniug too long now." Mr. Hsrdup "Well, say, o-oo couldn't you let it stand awhile?" Ntw York Herald. lr MODES OF THE DAY. LATE D.i!VKrjOPMRNT) IJf THE WOULD or fashion. Fashtonr)blo Shapes anil Colors In Mllllnsrr Broad lint of Whlto Crinoline llronilcloth and Braldlng-A New Veil. T ARQE hat Bre very general, I f and the generality of these I , 1 are wider from side to side, and rather shallow in front, and the back ia invariably turnod np and filled in with flowers or ribbon bows. Of tbe hats in quiet tones, Mnok and whito is extremely fashion able, the Bbape cither in white rice straw, or ohip, bonod with black vel vet, stretched quite tight in tbe old fashioned je, or dead white fanoy HAT OF WHITE CRtNOirxlS. crinolino with irregular scalloped edge. There is a new shape, with ronnd brim and high "jam pot" crown, whioh i very striking when sparingly trimmod, end this is a favorite in whito chip, with broad band of blaok rolvet, and a big bucklo in front, tho edge with narrow velvet binding, and one large cluster of tall blaok plume at tbe aide. More beooming i the broad white orinoline hat shown here with J this with an edge of fancy black and white orinoline. .. The brim may be curved or bent, to suit the wearer, but hat are worn quite straight and very forward, and tbe back turned up and filled in to meet the email ooil of hair. The hat shown in the accompanying illustration can be kept to blaok and white, with pink rose at the baok ; or a white hat is charming with dahlia or heliotrope ribbon, a blaok plum's paste bnokle, and band of black velvet round the orown. A blaok bat with a white edge i also effective, with shot rose and crimson ribbon, blaok plume, and pink rose ; and tbe style of the trimming can be oopiedin any of these combination. The band ronnd the orown i ont on tho bias, and in forming the ribbon loop eaoh end ia pleated up separate ly and tied round with stont eotton or fine wire. The plum it aewn to the HKCOMIN'O FALL CArt. HANDSOME WAIST FOR CONCERT OR PABTT. back and the crown, and should b high and stiff. Home Queen, nnoADCLOTH OR LAMES)' OLOTIf. Broadcloth or ladles' cloth is always In fashion when braiding is revived, and, as has been already stated, braid ing is very largely to be used. Even on velvet and camel's-hair serges, there are rows of braiding, while tha smooth cloths are fairly covered with it. From 81-50 upwards ladies' cloth can be bought, which is wide, and if well sponged, is a most satisfactory material : but in buying any ot these smooth cloths it is well not to choose too heavy a weight, particularly if tho skirt is to bo braided ; weight does not mean warmth iu cloth or woolen materials, aud that we have only learned, many of us, through hard ex perience. In coats and tight-fitting waists the smooth cloths are more be coir ing than tbe rough ones, for they seem to fill tbe figure better, probably on account of being more closely woven. But this year it is not sale to say arbitrarily that either one is tho only possible material. All tho differ cnt shades of blue, brown, green and gray, besides black, are fashionable, but black leads all in the smooth cloths. In the mixed cloths there is a popper ami salt combination which is immensely fashionable, but not be coming to everybody, as it really has a gray shade which needs a pink and white complexion to bear well. This last material fur hard wear is simply unsurpassable, and is being used by a great many women for both bicycling aud shopping, made in one jooket waist with two skirts, one short and one long really two gowns out of one. Harper's Bazar. NEw'fTTLES) IN PETTICOATS. The petticoat of lawn, cambrio or batiste, which for a while has been rather under a cloud, has come baok to fashionable favor, and that this should be carefully chosen to harmonize with all else that is worn is proof of the growing thought and taste ol modern drees. Some very well dressed women, however, never wear anything bnt a white petticoat of very fine fabric, fearing the effect that the greater thiokness of a satin or glace taffeta mieht have upon the close fit below the waist of tbe present fashionable , skirt The petticoat ot wnite or colored cotton is best suited to wear under light dresses, with frill or flounces around the bottom. A MANIA FOB "BtrNCHTOBSa." . Fashion designer! seem to be afflict ed with a mania for laoe, loops, lap pets, bows, bouquets and buno bines. Wherever a fabrio can be puffed up or looped up, or wherever there seems to bean exonae for massing in material, ' there are ruffles and putt and pompa dours gathered together. Of course, it depend muoh on the artist whether or not these things are beautiful or otherwise. It requires great (kill to create really elegant things, even though one may have fine material to work with. Ribbon it uitd at if trimming thU falh
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