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CLIMATE AND WATER-HOW TO MAKE MONEY, ETC.

lungs, and the air freed from the malarious poison of the low-lands, gives the lungs a healthy development.

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San Juan to run a thousand stamp mills the year round. (Engines will be used only in hoisting works at the The air is not "bracing," as many mines.) This will be an immense writers tell you; that is the character saving in the treatment of ores. of sea breezes, but the mountain air the frequency of these mountain of Colorado is pure, and has a happy streams is another excellent feature; effect upon both mind and body. they are found on every mountain Young man, go to San Juan, get a and in nearly every gulch, so pure mine, and be happy. and sparkling that life gains a new inspiration with each draught.

WATER POWER.

There is sufficient water power in

HOW TO MAKE MONEY, AND HOW TO LOSE IT.

People are led to regard mining enterprises as hazardous more from habit than anything else, forgetting that many of those engaged in mercantile pursuits fail at some period of their business history.

In mining undertakings more men fail in the beginning, than in the steady pursuit of that business. More failures come from speculations in mining property, than in a legitimate effort to produce the precious metals. Any one who will take the trouble to read Raymond's reports of the min ing industries of the different mineral producing States and Territories, will be satisfied of this fact.

for failure is almost certain if you do. Because a smelter on the Mexican plan can be built for $500, and a quantity of silver saved in the process thus employed, it does not prove that a man with $20,000 capital will not fail if he undertakes the business of smelting.

A Smelter that would cost $50,000 should, to make it a success, have $50,000 besides, used in buying ores, and $100,000 would be better. The profits of smelting are so great that men are led into the undertaking with too small a capital, and fail. It would be better if persons with from five to twenty thousand dollars, who desired to engage in the treatment of silver ores, Smelting the ores of the San Juan were to find in the San Juan country a country may be made a success, by large body of low grade ore, where the observing the known conditions of gangue being so impregnated with silsuccess, but it will not do to adopt ver that it required separation, and put those cheap expedients in smelting, up concentration works. Five to eight

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tons could be reduced to one, and ore running $25 per ton, which would be entirely useless as smelting ore, by concentration could be made to run $200 per ton with a cost of concentration of from one to three dollars per

ton.

The machinery for concentration is very simple and inexpensive, consisting of :

Crusher and Roller, 26 tons daily capacity, cost...

Cost of Jig...

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be of a kind that they may be concentrated to make their treatment profitable, and, as before stated, should be in large bodies. A two or three-foot vein, running twenty-dollar milling ores, could not be made profitable; yet a thirty-foot vein, running that amount per ton, might be made to pay largely.

The sale of mining property is liable. to great abuse, from the fact that so $1,200 00 few purchasing property are ac600 00 quainted with the true value of a $1,800 00 mine; yet, with due care, nothing promises a larger return for the amount of money required to purchase than first-class mining property in the San Juan country. There is so great a mining interest there that the development of the country must be very rapid and extensive, and everything is made thereby more marketable.

A building costing $1,000 would about complete the expense. It would cost to operate this: Three men, at $4 per day...

$12 00 In connection with the concentration of ores a regular sampling business could be done, for there are many of the high grade ores in San Juan, which owing to the want of smelting facilities, will be shipped out of the country by parties buying ores. The buying of ores necessitates the sampling of them, and a crusher is required in sampling, and that you have already in your concentration machinery.

The Blake Crusher, with Cornish rollers, and the Rouse or Parsons jig, with a number of tubes, is the machinery usually employed.

The Crusher, to a great extent, has taken the place of the Stamp Mill.

There are many features of the country peculiarly encouraging te prospectors; the great number of mines daily discovered and the constant demand for them on the part of capitalists, who are willing to buy them at nominal prices and take the risk of their ultimate value. This encourages prospectors to make public many discoveries that otherwise might not be considered of sufficient importance to warrant any attention.

With the large mining population in San Juan, and the rapid increase which is sure to follow, every branch of business peculiar to a mining country must prosper. One thing is certain, there is more silver deposited

There are a large number of mines owned by parties in San Juan, practically valueless to their owners, which, if capital were employed in their development, might be made to pay largely. All low-grade ores should in the San Juan country than can be

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found in any other mining country those capable of properly developing yet discovered, and fortune awaits it.

THE SAN JUAN MINER, WHO IS HE?

Bret Harte, Joaquin Miller, and a season, and although differing in charnumber of other clever writers, cast-acter, the measure of pleasure and ing about for "a hero to adorn a tale," | enjoyment is at least equal to that seem to find a field for all their found in the older States. enthusiasm and talent in the extreme Western character, and many are led into the error of thinking that in the West, the knife and gun, the horse and spur, are the true symbols of all that is remarkable in western life.

It is true that human nature freed from the restraints of society often presents in the West many features that, in the East, would be regarded reckless and lawless, being a strange mingling of strength, virtue, cupidity and disregard of human life; but these are extreme cases, and we would not in consequence have any of the many thousands who are going into the San Juan country, this season, believe that he is to mingle with a strange and primitive civilization, where all the customs of the country are ignored, and law a fitful caprice of man's passions.

The habit which once existed with men, of leaving all the comforts of life behind upon going West, is no longer practiced, and is entirely unnecessary. All that is required to make life desirable may be found in San Juan this

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Life and property are as secure in San Juan as in Massachusetts, and society is free from the error and hypocrisy common to the polished circles of the East, its best tokens being an independent manhood and a desire, in the development of this new Eldorado, to give every man a chance.

No wonder the returned miner is full of hope and good cheer, and speaks well of the country.

"The man

The rude cabin above the trail upon the mountain side, covered with poles. and gravel has an air of welcome about it, and a true pleasure is experienced in the quiet cordiality with which you are received. in buckskin, with his hounds crouching behind him, and a noble buck suspended from a spruce pole, one end of which is thrust between the logs of the cabin where the chinking has fallen out, and the other supported by two forked sticks describing a letter "A," which the romance writer has given in such true fidelity, proves to be a very ordinary looking individual dressed in overalls and blouse and

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Kansas.

slouch hat, who has just come from his mine, a few yards distant, to sharpen some tools at the blacksmith shop, which so many of these miners have for their own convenience. He may be from Illinois, Ohio, Missouri or Kansas, who having come to Colorado by the Kansas Pacific Railway, is sure to be a sensible fellow, and you are shown some rich specimens of silver ore, invited to stay to dinner, and made generally welcome. Or he may be an old miner from California, Ne

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vada, Arizona, Utah or New Mexico, and you ask him to tell you all about mineral and mining, and you are rewarded with a few careful observations, for those old miners do not talk much to strangers of the secrets of their success, and you depart, satisfied that if you have not met a man who has given you information sufficient upon which to write a work on mining, you have at least met a gentleman.

OUTFIT AND COST OF SAME.

Persons going into the San Juan | shoes to wear about camp, a soft hat country to prospect, require from $300 and overalls and blouse, and you have to $500 cash, beside the following outfit. all that is necessary for comfort and $0 60 convenience.

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FOOD.

75 A man will eat about one pound of 25 flour per day, one-half pound of beef

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50 or one-fourth pound bacon.

10

Dried

10 fruits, such as apples, currants and 10 prunes, should be used freely with heavy diet, to insure perfect health.

$5.40

THE BEDDING, consisting of three double blankets and one poncho, would cost about $12.

CLOTHING.

One substantial suit of clothes, one pair of heavy boots, the soles filled with hob-nails, with perhaps a pair of

MULES AND BOROS

are a great assistance to the prospector after he arrives in a mining country, as well as in going in. A good mule will cost in San Juan from $100 to $150; a pony about $75, and a Boro about $30. But a person who does not choose to be to this expense

Miners and Merchants should order their Freight shipped via Kansas Pacific

Railway.

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OUTFIT AND COST OF SAME-HUNTING AND FISHING.

may find facilities for getting in with freighters who are daily starting into the country.

While a tent is a very good thing, it should only be taken when transportation is ample; very few take them, as sleeping in the open air is attended with no suffering or inconvenience in

that climate.

MINING TOOLS.

out of seven-eighths or one-inch steel and three in number-four are some-' times used-No. 1, 18 inches long, No. 2, 26 inches long, and No. 3, 36 inches long. You also want one striking hammer-a six pound cost about $4.50. Also, one breaking hammer, eight pounds, cost about $6.00; one tracing pick, cost $2.00; one prospecting pole pick, cost $2.00; one long-handled shovel, cost $1.50; four gads made of square one and one-fourth inch steel, eight inches long; also powder and fuse. This gives a general idea of an outfit as used in San Juan and it is about all that is necessary for a season

The best steel for gads is Jessup & Sons English steel. This can be seldom found except in the larger cities in the States, but all the mining towns in Colorado keep all varieties. It costs from 35c to 40c per pound. Drills of prospecting in the Rocky Mounfor prospecting work should be made tains.

HUNTING AND FISHING.

Game and fish are abundant in San or mountain trout, which weigh in Juan and along the routes leading into that country.

some instances four and five pounds.

But the most remarkable trout "deposit" in San Juan may be found west from Silverton twenty-five miles, in the San Miguel lake, which has an elevation of 9,720 feet, around which is the San Miguel group of mountains, the highest of which is about 14,000 feet high. The margin of the lake almost describes a circle, and its depths are beyond any efforts yet made to ascertain them. Two persons caught with hooks, last season, three hundred pounds of trout in one day

The Rio Grande river and many of the smaller streams that are tributary to it are alive with tront. In the early part of the season, before the swell of the snow-waters subsides, trout fishing is not attended with the success one can have later in the season, or in the months of June, July and August and even as late as November. The Rio Grande furnishes specimens of a larger species than what are commonly known as brook Remember that the Kansas Pacific Railway is the only line to Denver without change.

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