New Colorado and the Santa Fé trail . nateproperties which have puzzled the geologists and experts, delighted theworkmen and smelters, and enriched the finders and owners. There aremany of them, but one speciman may stand for all. Here, at a very mod-erate depth, was a great body of mineral through which shafts and horizon-tal levels ran, and in marked contrast to the following up of a vein nowthree feet and now three inches wide : here the inquisitive wanderer could 102 NKW COLORADO AND THE SANTA FE TKAIL. ^Nalk comfortably around a <2;reat block of ore, and amuse liimself by ci-plierini:;
New Colorado and the Santa Fé trail . nateproperties which have puzzled the geologists and experts, delighted theworkmen and smelters, and enriched the finders and owners. There aremany of them, but one speciman may stand for all. Here, at a very mod-erate depth, was a great body of mineral through which shafts and horizon-tal levels ran, and in marked contrast to the following up of a vein nowthree feet and now three inches wide : here the inquisitive wanderer could 102 NKW COLORADO AND THE SANTA FE TKAIL. ^Nalk comfortably around a <2;reat block of ore, and amuse liimself by ci-plierini:; uj) its cubic contents. Only a portion of the property liad pre-pumably been opened up, and yet of the dividends, was it not written inthe financial columns? But, says the doubter, I am not sure that this will all last.* Herewe are at the bottom of the deposit, and large as it is, there arc limitswhich must ultimately be reached in four directions. Now, in the SanJuan country, you can look up in the canons and see true fissure veins. A WALL STUKET MANS KXPKRIKNCE IN stretchino; for 3000 feet on their sides, and know that they go through tliecrust of the earth. Yes, says another, but that ore is harder and more expensive towork, and the veins pinch (or contract to very small dimensions), and, asthe miners say, you cant see into them farther than the end of the am not sure but that it is better to buy a barrel full of pork, than to buya barrel with the hope of filling it. * The collapse of tlie stock of the company, in 1880, offers a curious commentaryon this remark. THE HONEST MINEHS OF LEADVILLE. 103 And so went on the discussion. It need not be said that the man whocould solve the questions raised would be the deadliest bull or bear thatever broke loose in Wall Street. Wiser was that clear-headed mining su-perintendent who, feeling confident that the deposit which he was work-ing was underlaid, at a greater or less depth, by othci*s, ordered a dia-mond dr
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