Colorado, Its Gold and Silver Mines: Farms and Stock Ranges, and Health and Pleasure Resorts : Tourist's Guide to the Rocky Mountains |
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Page 221 - The relocation of abandoned lode claims shall be by sinking a new discovery shaft, and fixing new boundaries in the same manner as if it were the location of a new claim ; or the relocator may sink the original discovery shaft ten feet deeper than it was at the time of abandonment, and erect new or adopt the old boundaries, renewing the posts, if removed or destroyed.
Page 222 - ... and erect new or adopt the old boundaries, renewing the posts if removed or destroyed. In either case a new location stake shall be erected. In any case, whether the whole or part of an abandoned claim is taken, the location certificate may state that the whole or any part of the new location is located as abandoned proper ty.
Page 110 - ... and covered with verdure. Then the slope of the mountains becomes more perpendicular, and the hills become higher, until suddenly the river is completely shut in by mountains with mighty tops. The roar and rattle of the train grows louder and echoes up and down. The train is fairly in the canon. It moves slowly. The mountain walls are of a dizzy height, and so close together that, looking ahead, they appear simply to form a crevice, a huge, awful, crooked crevice, through which the miserable...
Page 519 - The handsome brick residence of George S. Lee and lady, distinguished for their hospitality, is a landmark of this locality.
Page 205 - Pure silver has 371.25 grains to the dollar; hence, the value of one ounce' should be $1.29,29-7, instead of the varying bullion price $1.10 or $1.15. Had the former been the ruling price, as in by-gone years, Colorado's silver product of 1878 would have had a valuation one million greater than it was. " The British standard of coinage is 1 1 parts of gold to one of alloy, and of silver, 37 parts of silver to 30 alloy.
Page 118 - Probably nineteen twentieths of those goldseekers were as ignorant and inexperienced as regards mining as they well could be, and had but a faint idea of the work to be done or the hardships to be undergone in this wild rush for wealth.
Page 110 - One cannot look up to the top of this wall on account of those projecting, irregular bluffs, but the height to the top, even as measured by the eye, disturbs the faculties and brings on vertigo. The cooped-up Arkansas rushes madly by, a narrow thread, made still more so by the rocks thrown into it. There is not room to step from the train without pitching into the river. Not a word is uttered. The engineer whistles occasionally, and timid folks look for the rocks to fall. It is really a strain on...
Page 215 - Northward extends the main range which, all along its course between Summit and Grand counties on the western slope and Park, Clear Creek, Gilpin, and Boulder on the east, is more or less rich in silver veins. Its extending foot-hills possess veins and alluvial deposits rich in gold. The outlying mountain spurs, hills and gulches are also ribbed with metalliferous veins, some producing silver and copper, others silver and lead, and others gold and -silver, with one or both of the baser metals. Close...
Page 47 - ... comprehension of the meaning of the word depth never before even dreamed of, and never afterward forgotten. The Gorge is 2,008 feet sheer depth, the most precipitous and sublime in its proportions of any chasm on the continent. The opposite wall towers hundreds of feet above us, and if possible to imagine anything more terrifying than the position on this side, that upon the other would be, were its brink safe to approach. Overhanging crags, black and blasted at their summits or bristling with...
Page 218 - There has never been a time or locality more favorable for individual or company investments and organizations than this year of 1879, among the mines of Colorado. With a reasonable amount of ready capital to open and push mining development a harvest is very sure to follow that cannot be blighted by floods, frost, nor insects, nor increased or diminished in value, but one that is sure, substantial and enduring — the pure metal itself. ' As many residents argued at the time, the bonanza at Leadville...