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 THERE is but one short, sure, and comfortable way to get into the 
 Cripple Creek district, and that is by the Colorado Midland Rail- 
 way, from Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Leadville, Aspen, Salt Lake 
 City, Ogden, Pacific Coast, and any intermediate point east or west The 
 Colorado Midland runs to Florissant, at which point it connects direct 
 with Hundley's Stage Line for Fremont, the center of the mining dis- 
 trict. (A new toll road will be completed in a very short time from 
 Hay den Station, on tho Colorado Midland Railway, ten miles east of 
 Florissant, and stages \/ill start from there when the line is ready.) 
 
 There are two daily passenger trains each way, with connections at 
 Ogden, from California and North Pacific Coast points, and at Denver, 
 Colorado Springs and Pueblo, with all lines from the east. In addition, 
 local trains will soon be put on to take care of the intermediate traffic. 
 
 . The stage ride is but two and one-half hours from the railway, over 
 as good a mountain road as can be found in any part of the country. 
 Coupon tickets, either one way or round trip, are on sale at all ticket 
 offices in Colorado and Utah, direct to the camp. 
 
 All further information, relative to the district, can be obtained on 
 application to any agent of the Colorado Midland Railway Company, or 
 
 S. N. NYE, CHAS. S. LEE, 
 
 Passenger Agent, General Passenger Agent, 
 
 COLORADO SPRINGS. DENVER, COLO. 
 
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 CRIPPLE CREEK, like many tinother spot known to fame and his- 
 tory, received its name from an event of importance. Some years 
 ago :, man attempted to cross the creek; his horse stumbled under him, 
 he was thrown and had his leg broken, and from that time the before 
 nameless stream has been known as "Cripple Creek." The name is 
 neither euphoueous nor beautiful, but it is, at least, distinctive, and has 
 at length secured prominent mention in the world's history, and a promi- 
 nent place on the map of the United States. Whatever the name 
 lacks in grace and beauty, the surroundings make ample compensation 
 for. Beautiful, grand, and impressive, as many of the parks of the 
 Rocky Mountains are, none excel that which holds in its wide embrace 
 the marvelous gold mining district which has been opened to the world 
 within the past few months. It is but a few short years that the fierce 
 Ute Indians roamed the park at will and hunted the buffalo, deer, bear, 
 and birds, then profuse in their abundance. Day after day these painted 
 savages devoured the half-raw fl(*h of the game they slaughtered, and 
 stripped the pine trees for the primitive "bark soup," little dreaming 
 that beneath their feet lay untold millions of native gold. The sun 
 shone as brightly as it does to-day, and looked down with as kindly a 
 glance upon the towering hills and undulating valleys of the beautiful 
 park. The vast solitude was unbroken, save by the Indian and the na- 
 tive beasts and birds, until the more adventurous of the white men dis- 
 
covered the rich and bountiful ranges, and began herding cattle in the 
 sheltered valleys. From the arrival of the first white man began the 
 search for the hidden gold, but it is only within a year that the pres- 
 ence of the yellow metal, in large quantities, has been positively d'emon- 
 strated. 
 
 Repeated trials have been made, during the last twenty years, to 
 find gold in this particular district, but so cunningly had the store- 
 house been concealed that even the most expert miners were deceived. 
 There are thousands \\^o remember the mad rush to Mount Pisgah, in 
 
 "bound fob the mines — the first coach." 
 
 April, 1885. It is true, that the supposed rich deposit of gold was 
 deposited there by human hands for speculative purposes; that the great 
 mine in the new El Dorado was *' salted," but there was gold within so 
 short a distance of the place where this piece of knavery was practiced, 
 that it seems almost miraculous the mining district was not located at 
 the time. Many an old prospector has examined the outcroppings, and 
 one was even confident enough to run a tunnel into the hill directly 
 under the spot where one of the richest deposits has since been located, 
 but none succeeded in finding the gold. 
 
 This may seem strange; but if we take into consideration the fact 
 that the most expert miners have since been " fooled " by the ore of this 
 
particular district, the wonder is accounted for. The gold ore was un- 
 like any other, and was deposited in so unusual a manner that no one 
 dreamed of looking at it for gold. In opening one of the mines, ore 
 that ran thousands of dollars to the ton was thrown upon the dump as 
 worthless. In order to explain how difficult it was to convince people 
 that gold really existed in large quantities in the Cripple Creek district, 
 and to give a brief history of its discovery, we append an article from 
 the Rocky Mountain News,ot February 28th: 
 
 " Away back in the sixties, when Hayden's party i>assed through 
 this region, it came pretty close to discovering this camp. A man named 
 Wood thought he saw promising indications on what is now Requa Creek, 
 and in 1874, he, with Messrs. Requa, McGee, Brown, Coburn and Root, 
 came over and dug a shaft fifteen feet deejf, from which a tunnel was run. 
 Wood was the man with the money, and conceived an idea that the others 
 were not treating him fairly. The property was abandoned. Good 
 mines are now opened on Squaw gulch and Wilson creek, which are on 
 each side of Requa, and the men of 1874 might have done well had they 
 continued operations. After that, prospectors poked around the hills 
 from time to time, and it was a well known fact that colors of gold could 
 be found in almost any stream, but the right man and the right place 
 never came together. 
 
 " In 1879, one Calkins, working for W. W. Montelius, the Denver music 
 man, went to work on Poverty gulch and ran a tunnel in for some dis- 
 tance. It is there, caved in and dilapidated, and forms an object lesson 
 of fate, because it missed the mineral by about a hair's breadth. The 
 Gold King is so short a distance above it, and to the right, that a stone 
 may be thrown down from one to the other. If Calkins had the favor 
 of fortune, Cripple Creek would have been opened thirteen years ago, 
 and he would have reaped great profit, because he had the place to 
 himself. 
 
 " The Pisgah excitement was another effort in the right direction, 
 though it missed the mark. Cripple Creek lies east of Mount Pisgah, 
 while the fields that came to nothing were west of it. Many of the dis- 
 appointed men who went out of that country on foot, cursing their luck 
 and the lack of Pullmans, wquld have done better had they turned to 
 the east and investigated. 
 
 "Robert Womack was the first man to find gold at Cripple Creek, 
 and, unlike the discoverer of Creede, is said to be out of the good things 
 that others found in his footsteps. Near the end of 1890, he found some 
 good-looking stuflf which he carried to Colorado Springs to interest capi- 
 
tal. The men with money had the Pisgah boom in mind, and took little 
 Btock in his assertions. He finally induced F. F. Friesbee, Dr. Grannis, 
 and E. De La Vergne to have the ore assayed, and it ran over 200 ounces. 
 They came out to the camp January 24, 1891, and under the guidance of 
 George W. Kerr, an old timer, who still resides at Cripple Creek, prosper- 
 ous and happy, they took samples out of old prospect holes and from 
 the hillsides, which assayed from $6 to $250 They returned and took up 
 the El Dorado, after riding past the hill where the Blue Bell is located, 
 refusing to touch it. The El Dorado is northeast oi the town, close to 
 
 THE FIRST HOUSE. 
 
 Cripple Creek and not very far from the Gold King. In partnership 
 with De La Vergne and Frisbee, were J. F. Seldomridge and Judge E. 
 A. Colburn. About the same time, Martin brothers took up claims on 
 Globe Hill, which lies north of Gold Hill. 
 
 "Just one year ago, yesterday, the Blue Bell was located by M. C. 
 Lankford, W. L. Spell, J. E. Handbury, George W. Carr and J. S. Lentz. 
 The first assay showed $43. Then the f a(5t that there was something in 
 the Cripple Creek district began to be told over the State and prospec- 
 tors began to make their way in rapidly. Colorado Springs, being first 
 on the ground, lost no time in getting on the inside, and the prominent 
 men of that city have large holdings. The belief is abroad in the camp 
 that they would have considerably more were it not for the reports 
 
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 made by Professor Lamb, who was not favorably impressed by the 
 prospects. 
 
 " During the past summer and fall, ground was taken up rapidly, the 
 value of the placer deposits attracted attention, and nothing but the 
 absence of shipments prevented the great rush which commenced in 
 the early part of December — less than three months ago^when it was 
 learned that ore was coming out and that there was at least some solid 
 backing for all the talk. 
 
 " The real history of the camp is thus but a matter of days. The 
 next six months will add volumes to it. 
 
 "Cripple Creek has many odd features besides those under the 
 ground. Snow doesn't lie deep. The last week past the gulches and 
 hills around the town were practically bare. On the east side of the 
 ridge, there was probably three times as much, though only a couple of 
 miles away. Even there it was not deep. At night, fires may be seen 
 flaring up in the distance. There is no occasion to become alarmed. 
 They are merely the bonfires of industrious prospectors, who wush to 
 keep the ground thawed out so they can work next day. 
 
 "A couple of saloons boast of drawing cards in the form of pictures, 
 which would cause Anthony Comstock to expire on the spot. Of 
 another class, was the artist who constructed a water color effort which 
 is much admired in the headquarters of one of the. assayers. It has the 
 virtuous appearance of a study in whitewash, but it is labeled 'Michael 
 Angels, price $8,000.' . At «the same place, is a queer gnarled rootr 
 mounted with ten-penny nails, which the tenderfoot is solemnl y told is a 
 petrified chicken." 
 
 The Cripple Creek mining district is practically in the Pike's Peak 
 district, lying in the basin and range of parks between Pike's Peak and 
 Mount Pisgah, ten miles southwest of the former, and three miles south 
 by east from the latter. As the crow would fly (provided there were any), 
 the district is distant from Denver seventy miles; from Colorado Springs 
 twenty miles, and from Pueblo forty-four miles, but so difficult is it 
 to cross the mountains, that the actual distances to be traversed be- 
 tween these places and the district are much greater. The only feasible 
 route is by rail from Denver, Colorado Springs, and Pueblo, via the 
 Colorado Midland Railway to Florissant, and thence by stage to Fremont, 
 the wonderful town of this most wonderful gold district. 
 
 The mineral belt included in the district is about eight by twelve 
 miles in extent, including township fifteen south, in ranges sixty-nine 
 and seventy west; sections one to six to township sixteen south, and 
 
iaii{,'e sixty-nine west, and the same sections in township sixteen south, 
 and range seventy west. This gives a territory of nearly one hundred 
 square miles; and when the snow is off the ground in the out-lying dis- 
 tricts, the boundaries will be extended considerably. The district con- 
 sists of a series of beautiful natural parks, with a mean altitude of 9,500 
 feet above sea level, sheltered on the east by the Pike's Peak range, 
 and on the west by the Sangro de Christo. So well is it guarded against 
 the cold winds and heavy snows, that it is warmer by fifteen degrees than 
 the Hayden Divide, a thousand feet lower down. The snow does not 
 remain on the ground any length of time, for the warm air of the basin 
 
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 PIONEER KTOBE. 
 
 and the bright sunshine soon cause it to disappear. The cattle graze all 
 winter without difficulty, and even in midwinter there are glimpses 
 of green valleys and wooded hillsides.^ The mountains are smooth, 
 rounded and softly outlined, wooded to the top, and springing up from 
 rich, grassy valleys. Mount Pisgah, ten thousand four hundred feet above 
 sea level, stands sentry over the district and looks directly upon the 
 snow -crowned head of Pike's Peak, thirteen miles distant. 
 
 It would be difficult to conceive of a lovelier and grander spot. The 
 Rocky Mountains, usually rugged and stern looking, are here smoothed 
 over with grassy plains and gently rolling hillsides and valleys. The 
 bare and jagged rocks, so common in the mountain districts, have be- 
 come covered with soil, and trees and grass spring gently over their 
 rugged forms. For untold ages, the wind and water have worn the hills 
 
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 down until they roll with a prairie-like evenness. No landscape gardener 
 could design a more beautiful park than nature has here completed. 
 
 Notwithstanding its proximity to the larger cities of the State, 
 Cripple Creek's first settlers had no easy time of it. There was scarcely 
 the semblance of a road into the district, and it required two days to 
 haul into the camp a wagon load of supplies, where now double the 
 quantity can be brought in in a few hours. To Mr. Peter Hettic be- 
 longs the distinction of having established the first store in Cripple 
 Creek. The now prosperous and comfortably-situated merchant still 
 " does business at the old stand," and laughs as he tells of his first expe- 
 riences. In May, 1891, he put up a tent and stocked it with goods, and 
 by the 7th of July he had erected and moved into the log store-house 
 he still occupies. At first, there was no money in the camp, and the good 
 old custom of trading supplies for gold was in vogue. Many an ounce 
 of " dust " has gone into the pioneer merchant's hands in exchange for 
 the necessaries of life. The first stock of goods consisted of a barrel of 
 bottled beer, five gallons of unclassified whiskey, five or six pounds of 
 tobacco, crackers, cheese," bacon, and some dried beans. The first order 
 sent to Denver, after the business had been established, amounted to the 
 munificent sum of $25, and was considered a long invoice at that. These 
 pioneers were not so comfortably housed and fed as people might imagine, 
 and their "grub stakes" often consisted of very short commons. Space 
 forbids the detailing of many humorous and pathetic occurrences inci- 
 dent to a mining camp. The first comers had many difficulties to over- 
 come and many privations to contend with; but they " made their stake," 
 and are correspondingly happy. Those coming in now have the comforts 
 and conveniences of the larger places, and the town of Fremont is quite 
 metropolitan in its character. Fremont has had a wonderful growth 
 and bids fair to become a most important town, aside from its distinc- 
 tion as the central point of the greatest gold-mining district of the age. 
 
 The town has two newspapers, the Crusher^ the pioneer sheet, and 
 the Prospector, established a short time after. A very few weeks more 
 and one of the above papers will appear as a daily. 
 
 THE BANK OF CRIPPLE CREEK. 
 
 This is the only bank in the camp. It is a private institution, and 
 has a number of first-class men connected with it. It is in charge of 
 J. M. Parker, a gentleman well fitted to run the business. The bank 
 has ample capital to handle the business of the camp. 
 
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 FREMONT. 
 
 UPON a series of easy-rolling mounds, shut in and sheltered by min- 
 oral-beariug mountains on the north and east, lies the thriving 
 settlement of Fremont. It is principally located upon the Hayden Placer, 
 taken up in the spring of 1891, which has been extensively worked as 
 a placer claim, yielding rich returns, until, on account of its favorable 
 situation, the encroachments of settlers compelled the locators to plat 
 
 and dispose of a portion of the ground for town purposes. As new 
 discoveries of mineral were made in the vicinity, miners' cabins were 
 hastily erected, stores were opened, a postoffice established, churches 
 built, until now a city stands marking the enterprise of man, inspired 
 by the prospect of acquiring a share of nature's hidden wealth. 
 
 The present structures are now becoming quite pretentious, and in 
 spite of the obstacles to bo overcome in getting material into the camp, 
 buildings, for trade and residence, that would be a credit to any city are 
 being erected, overshadowing in their massive proportions the primitive 
 huts that were the homes of the early prospectors. 
 
 Here is the postoffice; opposite is the Bank of Cripple Creek, the 
 telegraph and express offices. On all sides are stores, carrying immense 
 
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 stocks of merchandise, freely interspersed with hotels, restaurants, and 
 lodging-houses, affording every accommodation for residents and so- 
 journers. Upon this tract, a magnificent hotel, of one hundred and 
 twenty-five rooms, is under way, from whose broad verandas may be 
 seen the sun-kindled peaks of the Sangre de Christo range to the south- 
 west, while within may be found luxuriously-furnished apartments, with 
 such urban features as electric bells, electric lights, open fire-places, and 
 every facility for comfort. 
 
 From the north, leading into Bison street, comes the new road from 
 Hayden Divide, along which runs the telegraph and telephone wires. 
 
 Here, too, will be the terminus of the extension of the Bear Creek 
 toll Toad, which will give direct and easy communication with Colorado 
 Springs. 
 
 Water will be furnished by a pipe-line, carrying the pure water of 
 Beaver Creek through the streets of the Hayden Placer, thus meeting 
 what has heretofore been the great want of the camp. The Hayden 
 Placer Company still have lots for sale, at reasonable rates, in their 
 rich and beautiful tract, where all these improvements are located; out 
 of which, in the intervals of other occupations, the thrifty purchaser 
 may wash out the glittering, golden nuggets that abound in the soil. 
 The Company have reserved a large portion of the tract, not yet en- 
 croached upon by buildings, for placer work, which they propose to 
 conduct on a large scale. For further particulars and prices, address 
 J. M. Parker, at Fremont, or the oflBcers of the Company, at Colorado 
 Springs, as follows: F. W. Howbert, President; H. C. McCreery, Vice 
 President; S. H. Kinsley, Secretary; and J. C. Plumb, Treasurer. 
 
 Report of Prof. Geo. H. Stone upon The Hayden 
 
 Placer. 
 
 THE geological structure of the region in question is as follows: This 
 placer is situated in the midst of a volcanic region, containing 
 numerous cones, ridges, and dikes of volcanic origin. The central mass 
 of the cones consists of lava, but the flanks of the cones and ridges are 
 covered with a considerable thickness of volcanic conglomerate, or tufa, 
 composed of the mixed blocks, stones, cinders and dust blown out of 
 the crarters, and which, falling on the lower slopes of the mountains, were 
 subsequently more or less cemented or consolidated into rock. The 
 
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 tufa has often weathered into a loose mass of no longer cemented gravel, 
 and thus erodes easily. The result is, that the valleys and gulches of 
 the region contain deep sheets of volcanic gravel — i. e., fragments of 
 disintegrated tufa, mixed with more or less wash from the higher lava 
 masses, or the bodies of granite which here and there protrude through 
 the volcanic rock. 
 
 Beneath the drifted or washed gravel is usually found, at a depth 
 of ten to forty feet, remains of the original sheet of volcanic tufa. This 
 forms a more or less continuous sheet, and, technically, may be considered 
 as fragmental rock in place. It is rather easily du^;:. and practically 
 
 forms the bed-rock of the placer mines, since the gold settled down 
 through the more porous surface wash, and is most abundant on the 
 top, or in the upper layers of the tufa. The tract in question is thus 
 cleatly shown to have the proper structure of placers. 
 
 Several trenches and shafts have been dug on the property. I have 
 panned gravel in all of these workings, and always found colors and 
 black sand, and the richer layera gave thirty to seventy -five colors of 
 granular gold per pan. The ground is undoubtedly placer. 
 
 The elevation of the place is about 9,300 feet, which is above the 
 elevation of general agriculture. The land comprised in this location is 
 too uneven, and the gulches too narrow, to enable the land to be easily 
 
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 or profitably irrigated. The local supply of water is inadequate for 
 irrigation, and the land is not worth bringing in irrigation water for 
 from abroad. Practically, the land is valuable only for grazing and for 
 placers. It is highly probable the pannings at the various workings 
 fairly represent the ground. If this be so, the land is much more useful 
 for its mineral than as grazing land. In my opinion it is so. 
 
 (Signed) George H. Stone. 
 
 Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19th day of February, 1892. 
 [seal] Ira Harris, N. P. 
 
 The Cripple Creek Consolidated Mining Co. 
 
 Of Colorado Springs, was among the first companies to organize for the 
 purpose of assisting in the development of the new and promising gold 
 fields of Cripple Creek. The Company is made up of some of the most 
 careful and conservative business men of Colorado Springs, who can 
 command sufficient capital to carry out any legitimate enterprise they 
 may engage in. This Company now owns and controls a large number 
 of the most desirable mining properties in the district, on which thorough 
 development work is being pushed. This Company is capitalized for 
 $2,000,000. Two million shares, par value $1. Stock not assessable. A 
 limited number of the shares of the stock of this Company, just placed 
 on sale at ten cents per share, is being rapidly absorbed. The Directors 
 of the Company are: Jos. P. Humphrey, President, John G. Shields, 
 Vice President; F. W. Howbert, Second Vice President; H. S. Ervay, 
 Treasurer; George Macklin, Secretary; Louis R. Ehrich, J. L. Marston, 
 D. I. Christopher, H.C. McCreery. Principal office of the Company is at 
 112 Pike's Peak avenue, Colorado Springs, Colo. 
 
 L. E. DWINELL & CO. 
 
 The above firm are real estate, loan, and insurance agents, and 
 notary public; also, agents for real estate, consisting of choice improved 
 and unimproved property, vacant lots, selected acreage, garden tracts, 
 cultivated farms, and fine irrigated ranches; also, loan money on good 
 Becurity, and write insurance in reliable companies, at low rates. Min- 
 ing stocks bought and sold. Address, Room 11, Bank Building, Colo- 
 o-ado Springs. 
 
HUNDLEY'S STAGE LINE. 
 
 HUNDLEY'S STAGE LINE of mountain climbers and original Con- 
 cord coaches carries the passenger from Florissant, on his arrival 
 there, to the mining camp, twenty miles away. This is the official line 
 of the Midland, and owned by one of the Company, who originated and 
 planned the beautiful carriage drive, now so famous, to the summit of 
 old colossal Pike's Peak. The drive to the camp passes through some 
 of the most pleasant valleys, skirting mountains that rise to far-reaching 
 heights, and down gentle slopes, along which the coaches swiftly roll 
 behind a team of •ix well-trained horses, urged by drivers of rare cour- 
 age and experience. April first will see this popular stage line on the 
 new toll road, which leaves the Midland at Hayden's Divide, thus mak- 
 ing the shortest line to Fremont by fifteen miles, and reducing the time 
 about one hour and thirty minutes, which will then seem to the traveler 
 as a pleasant trip, capped by a beautiful mountain drive, most of the 
 way in full view of famous "Pike's Peak." In purchasing tickets, ask 
 for through tickets by the Midland Railroad and Hundlej^ Stage Line, 
 thus securing a seat and avoiding the rush on the arrival of the train. 
 
 Genuine Mine Interests, Cheap. 
 
 T. B. Pyles, editor of the Beacon, at Florissant, Colorado, one of the 
 first prospectors in the camp, has extensive interests; and instead of 
 stocking his mines, offers half, quarter, or smaller interests, for sale at a 
 small advance over first cost. The Beacon lode, a 150-foot vein of $25 
 ore, is one of his. All will be developed to pay-dirt. Mr. Pyles offers a 
 good opportunity to all who wish to obtain real interests at low figures. 
 
THE ^E^Y CLARENDON HOTEL. 
 
 THE present proprietors of the Continental Hotel have in the course 
 of construction, and will soon occupy, the big, new hotel, which 
 will be known as the Clarendon. Mr. Wolfe, the genial host of the Con- 
 tinental, will be in charge, and will make his guests more comfortable 
 than ever. The new building will be three steries, fronting 100 feet 
 west by 125 feet south, and 125 feet deep. The location is the most 
 beautiful and advantageous in Fremont, and will contain 125 rooms, 
 with parlors, bar and billiard rooms, large reception rooms, three private 
 offices, bath rooms, barber shop, telegraph office, express office, and stage 
 line offices — all stages arriving and departing from the Clarendon. The 
 building will be furnished throughout with Brussels and Moquette 
 carpets, and the furniture will be elegantly finished and of latest de- 
 signs. The ladies' parlor will contain a grand piano, of the latest make. 
 The entire building will be supplied with hand fire-grenades, electric 
 onunciators, bells, and everything that can lend to comfort, convenience 
 and safety. The furniture will be supplied by the De La Vergno Fur- 
 niture Company, and will be of the latest and most elegant design. 
 The dining room will seat one hundred guests. There will be three 
 stores in the building, to be used by the mining men for ore and milling 
 offices and ore sample rooms. Everything will be as complete as money 
 can make or brains suggest, the location will be convenient for those 
 who wish to inspect the mines, the scenery is grand and picturesque, 
 the air very invigorating, and Mr. Wolfe's guests will receive the best 
 of everything, including the very best care this well-known and univer- 
 sally admired host can bestow. The Clarendon will be open for business 
 about April 20, and in the meantime the Continental is at the old place. 
 
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 Cripple Creek Toll Road, Land and Improvement 
 Company. 
 
 THE new toll road, running between Hayden's Divide and Fremont, 
 which will be completed April first, will be known as the Cripple 
 Creek Toll Road, constructed by the above-named Company, of which 
 the Directors are well known, and the most substantial business men 
 in this section of this country. They are: John A. Himebaugh, J. E. 
 Davidson, William Lennox, R. Clough, and W. Rowell, of whom R. Clough 
 is President; John A. Himebaugh, Vice President and Treasurer; W. 
 Rowell, Secretary, and J. E. Davidson, General Manager. The road, as 
 completed, leaves Hayden's Divide, the nearest railroad station on the 
 Colorado Midland, to the now -famous gold mines of Cripple Creek, as it 
 is popularly known, at an altitude of 9,000 feet, and, skirting the foot- 
 hills of Pike's Peak, it passes along an easy grade, over a fine road-bed, 
 of an estimated cost of $10,000, through scenery not surpassed by any 
 other in America; winding along under overhanging mountains, crossing 
 Four Mile Creek some seven miles from Hayden, probably one of the 
 most beautiful points along the drive. When completed, the stages, in 
 connection with the Colorado Midland Railroad suburban trains from 
 Denver, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, and intermediate points, will carry 
 the passenger the round trip to the camp in one day, giving the visitor 
 four hours among the many mines, reducing the distance fifteen miles, 
 and lessening the time two hours each way. 
 
 KISSEL & OTIS. 
 
 One of the leading real estate firms of Colorado is Messrs. Kissel & 
 Otis, office 104 Pike's Peak avenue, Colorado Springs. They are heavy 
 dealers in real estate, representing a number of eastern capitalists; also, 
 do a large business in placing loans and investments for their numerous 
 correspondents. In addition, they are general agents for the purchase 
 and sale of all the best mining stocks of the Cripple Creek mining 
 companies. .-.._-,^ 
 
 The De La Yergne Furniture Co. 
 
 The De La Vergne Furniture Company are the only furniture deal- 
 ers in Cripple Creek. They carry a large and well selected stock, being 
 a branch of their large wholesale and retail establishment in Colorado 
 Springs. The store is under the management of J. F. Hardy. 
 
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 The Virginia M. Consolidated Mining Co. 
 
 IT is now nearly forty years since "To Pike's Peak or Bust" was dis- 
 played on the wagon covers of the hardy pioneers en route to the 
 Colorado gold fields, and yet, remarkable as it may seem, the actual dis- 
 covery of gold, in large quantities, in the gulches and foot-hills of Pike's 
 Peak is now for the first time being realized. Mining, at its best, is 
 more or less chance and opportunity. The elements of chance and 
 opportunity are the preponderating features in the newly-discovered 
 gold fields of Cpipple Creek, and the Virginia M. Consolidated Mining 
 Company was incorporated with a view to reaping a golden harvest from 
 both. The Company now owns, controls, and are actively engaged in 
 developing several of the most promising properties in the new field. 
 Among these, are the Virginia M. lode, the Midland lode, the Lincoln 
 lode, the Road placer, of twenty acres. On these claims, but little work 
 has yet been done; but enough is "in sight" to justify the highest hopes 
 of the directory. 
 
 In an illustrated article on the Cripple Creek gold camp, the Denver 
 Rocky Mountain Neivs,ot Sunday, February 28, 1892, contains the fol- 
 lowing: 
 
 " The Virginia M. Consolidated Mining Company became incorpo- 
 rated by the filing of articles with the Secretary of State, February 20, 
 1892, by Messrs. E. W. Sells, D. M. Sells, and H. A. Dunn. The Board of 
 Directors, for the first year, consists of the following gentlemen: B. H. 
 Bryant, President; S. N. Nye, Vice President; E. W. Sells, Treasurer; 
 
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 D. M. Sells, Secretary; William A. Welch, Manager;- H. Collbran, H. A. 
 Dunn. The first act of the corporation was to purchase the Vir- 
 ginia M. lode, located on the south slope of Mineral Hill, and the Road 
 placer, located along and across the gulch between Mineral and Tender- 
 foot Hills. 
 
 "The purchase of the Lincoln lode, located in Squaw Gulch, was 
 consummated immediately afterwards, at what is understood to be one 
 of the highest prices paid outright for any one claim in the district. 
 
 " The Company also holds a bond for six months on the Midland, 
 located on the south slope of Rhyolite Mountain. 
 
 "It is probable that more development work will be required on the 
 Virginia M. and Midland lodes to reach the contact of the granite and 
 porphyry, on account of a greater depth of wash than was the case on 
 the Lincoln lode, on account of nature having left thereon but a short 
 distance between the surface and the granite-porphyry contact. 
 
 "However, before purchasing the Virginia M. and Midland lodes, 
 the Company secured an opinion, from one of the most noted geologists 
 of the country, upon these two claims, and he pronounced them as among 
 the best in the Cripple Creek district, and as certain of carrying the 
 granite-porphyry contact, between which the true veins of this district 
 are to be found. Mention should also be made of the fact that on both 
 of these claims the Company's expert found chimneys, or blow-outs, of 
 vein matter." 
 
 On the same date, in the same paper, in an article giving a general 
 description of the active Cripple Creek camp, the following paragraph 
 appears: 
 
 "In the little gulch between the Blue Bell Hill and Gold Hill there 
 are several prospects, among which is the Lincoln, owned by the Virginia 
 M. Company. It has shown assays of $28 to S40 gold.'' 
 
 The President o! the Virginia M. Company is Mr. Bryant, the Chief 
 Engineer of the Colorado Midland Railway. The directory includes Mr. 
 Collbran, the General Manager, and Mr. Sells, Auditor of the Midland 
 Railway Company. The fact that the Virginia M. Company is under the 
 control of these careful, competent, and successful railway officials, is 
 a sufficient guarantee that the affairs of the Company will be conserva- 
 tively and economically managed. A limited number of shares of stock 
 will be placed upon the market for further development work and the 
 purchase of machinery. 
 
 For full information concerning our prospects, address 
 
 D. M. Sells, Secretary, 
 No. Ill Hagerman Block, Colorado Springs, Colo. 
 
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 The Buena Vista Mining Company. 
 
 THE Buena Vista mine is situated on Bull Mountain, west of Grassy 
 Gulch. It was discovered in July, 1891, by Mr. Dougherty, pros- 
 pector, who had recently started in the new camp. He found a small 
 vein two or three inches in the porphyry. Sinking on this, it opened up, 
 until at twelve or fifteen feet he had a vein of from four to five inches 
 in width. The value of the vein matter was sufficient to warrant further 
 development. Dougherty, not having sufficient funds to develop the 
 property, took in as partners Steven Blair and William Steele, giving 
 them a half interest for sinking the shaft to a depth of thirty-five feet. 
 When the shaft had been sunk to this depth, Messrs. Pourtales and 
 Parrish, who were looking over the camp for investment, arrived at the 
 Buena Vista, and were particularly pleased with the appearance of 
 things. Mr. Parrish had had a large experience in mining, and thought 
 the chances for a good mine were here. However, to make assurance 
 doubly sure, the services of Mr. Newberry, of Aspen, were engaged, and, 
 in company with Messrs. Pourtales and Parrish, he made a trip to the 
 camp, and examined the Buena Vista. His opinion coincided so thor- 
 oughly with Mr. Parrish's as to the value of the property that a bond 
 and lease were at once made, and a contract let to sink the shaft to a 
 depth of seventy-five feet. The result of this forty feet of sinking was 
 the shipment of a car-load, of eigteen tons, of ore to the Omaha and 
 
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 Grant Smelting and Refining Company, in Denver. The first real mill 
 run from the property gave a net return of over $120 per ton. A few 
 more feet were sunk on the shaft, when levels were started north and 
 south, developing a large vein of ore, averaging over $100 per ton. The 
 levels are about fifty feet in length. The shaft is being sunk, and at 
 this time has reached a depth of 130 feet. At the bottom of the shaft 
 the vein is three feet wide, and gives an average assay of about $100 per 
 ton. Assorted samples from the vein have given as high as $500, The 
 net result of this dead work, including the sinking of the first forty feet 
 of the shaft in the bond and lease, has been a surplus of about $2,000 
 over and above the expenses of development. 
 
 The fissure is filled with quartz, and is from two to three feet in 
 width. It has been steadily increasing in size, since the shaft was 
 thirty-five feet deep. The country rock is porphyry, which is impreg- 
 nated with value chiefly in the seams. The country rock from the shaft 
 and levels has an average value of over $25 per ton, while assorted sam- 
 ples have run as high as $800 to the ton. The value in the vein consists 
 of about sixty per cent, of free gold, the balance being divided between 
 telluride of gold and iron pyrites. 
 
 The Company is stocked for $70,000, and most of the stock is owned 
 by Messrs. Pourtales and Parrish. 
 
 The work is being carried on under the general management of Mr. 
 Parrish, with Mr. T. P. McDonald as local Superintendent. 
 
 The First National Bank of Colorado Springs. 
 
 There is no more exact measure of the solid prosperity and advance 
 of any city than that which is furnished by the growth and stability of 
 its banking institutions. The First National Bank of Colorado Springs^ 
 occuping spacious and handsome quarters in the new Bank Block, has 
 fully kept pace with the city's rapid and substantial growth, and may 
 now be justly classed among the foremost financial institutions of the 
 State. We quote the following suggestive figures from its statement 
 of March 1st, 1892: Capital, $100,000; surplus, and undivided profits, 
 $125,152.64; deposits, $912,481.56; total resources, $1,162,316.37. The 
 oflBcers of the First National Bank are: J. J. Hagerman, President; 
 J. A. Hayes, Cashier; A. Sutton, Assistant Cashier. The Board of 
 Directors is composed of the following: J. J. Hagerman, Louis R. Ehrich, 
 Irving Howbert, B. F. Crowell, E. J. Eaton, and J. A. Hayes. 
 
The Calumet Mining and Milling Co, 
 
 THE " Morning Star " and " Burns " lodes were located in August, 1891, 
 by Patrick Burns, an old and well-known prospector. Later on, Mr. 
 John J. Mullin, the present manager, bought a half interest in the mines, 
 and they were then worked by the firm of Mullin & Bro. In January, 
 1892, the Calumet Mining and Milling Company was organized, and pur- 
 chased the properties from the firm. The officers of the Company are: 
 President, Major John Hulbert, a well-known mining man, and Presi- 
 dent of the Pike's Peak Cog Road; Vice President, Mr. W. Putnam Page, 
 a well-known business man of Boston, Massachusetts; Secretary and 
 Treasurer, Mr. Robt. D. Weir, senior member of Weir & Rupp, Mani- 
 tou; and Manager, Mr. John. J. Mullin, one of the earliest to come into 
 the camp, and a man of well-known business capacity, energy, and fit- 
 ness. The capital stock of the Company is 8700,000, fully paid, and 
 the shares are non -assessable. Of this amount, 8300,000 constitute the 
 treasury stock. The object of this Company is to operate the mines of 
 the Calumet Mining and Milling Company, in the Cripple Creek mining 
 district. Their property consists of the Morning Star and the Burns 
 lodes, situate and described as follows: The Morning Star is on the east 
 
slope of Bull Mountain, and is the extension of the famous Buena Vista 
 mine, which was surveyed along the vein which runs through the Morn- 
 ing Star. Depth of fifty feet, and ore will soon be shipped. The Burns 
 lode is nearer the top of Bull Mountain, and lies joining the Pharmacist 
 lode on the east. For full information, address 
 
 RoBT. D. Weir, Secretary^ 
 
 Manitou, Colo. 
 
 Graham & Spraguc, Mining Stock Brokers. 
 
 One of the leading firms in the mining business is Graham & Sprague. 
 They only commenced business on March 1st, l?ut in the first two weeks 
 sold over 150,000 shares of stock. They are both reliable business men, 
 and are thoroughly acquainted in Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek. 
 Mr. R. H. Graham, the senior member of the firm, was for some time 
 advertising manager of the Daily Gazette and was formerly connected 
 with Chicago and Denver dailies. Mr. J. A. Sprague was for a good 
 many years cashier of the Gazette Printing Company of this city. 
 They are the official brokers for the following companies: Big Pocket, 
 Myrtle, Star of the West, Equitable, Jeff Davis, and Mount Rosa. They 
 also buy and sell all other stocks on commission. Persons desiring any 
 information in regard to mines or stocks would do well to correspond 
 with them. They have stocks of all the principal companies of Cripple 
 Creek and Aspen, and also, several valuable interests in mining proper- 
 ties for sale. Their office is located at 112 Pike's Peak Avenue, Colorado 
 Springs, Colo. 
 
 CRIPPLE CREEK PROSPECTS. 
 
 EDITORIAL FROM COLORADO SPRINGS GAZETTE OF MARCH 20, 1802. 
 
 THERE can be no doubt whatever, that at the present time there are 
 thousands of people in the Eastern States who are watching with 
 eager eyes the developments in the Colorado mines, and as soon as the 
 warm weather comes these capitalists and laborers will go in throngs to 
 the mining camps which offer the best prospects for wealth. The fact 
 that some of the camps have been overdone is both an advantage and 
 a detriment to Cripple Creek. It is a detriment because it shows how 
 possible it is to make a great deal of smoke from little flame, to get a 
 reputation on the product of a single noiine, and to draw immense crowds 
 
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 on very slender foundation. It is an advantage, because it has removed 
 from Cripple Creek some of its strongest rivals to public attention and 
 popular favor. 
 
 For the next few weeks Cripple Creek will be the center of attraction. 
 It will receive more attention than any other new camp, more than most 
 old ones. It will be most carefully scrutinized, it will be criticised, it 
 will be extravagantly praised, and bitterly blamed. At the end of two 
 or three months the leaders of public opinion will have made up their 
 
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 minds about the new mines, and as that opinion is bound to be distinctly 
 favorable, there will follow the greatest rush to the mines that has ever 
 been known in the history of the State, the early days of Leadville not 
 excepted. The next few weeks will be the period of examination, after 
 that will come the marvelous growth. 
 
 For this period of scrutiny, Cripple Creek is now in good condition. 
 The thing that makes a mining district is the mines. It does not make 
 any difference how many people there are at Fremont, or what town lots 
 are worth there or at Lawrence, or even what mining stocks are worth 
 in Colorado Springs. The thing that counts is the mines and the ore 
 that is being taken out of them. 
 
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 During the paf5t week a repreBentative of the Gazette was in the 
 district. His report consists not of his own opinions, but of facts, things 
 which he saw, and the opinions of some of the best mining experts in the 
 country. He visited every accessible mine in the district. Nearly every 
 one of them is working two or three shifts of men. That is the best fact 
 that has been recorded about Cripple Creek. Another fact is, that every 
 man who wishes to work can find employment. Wages have risen, and 
 there are no idle men in Fremont, except those who are idle from choice. 
 
 FANNING tiQluli. 
 
 A most significant fact is that the tunnels and shafts are being perma- 
 nently timbered. There is evidence that the owners of the mines are nt)t 
 only satisfied that they have ore, and are willing to put up the money to 
 prove it, but they also expect to keep on taking out ore for a long time 
 to come, and are making arrangements for it now. 
 
 In short, at the time when it can most readily draw the attention of 
 the State and of the whole country, Cripple Creek finds itself not at the 
 end of a wave of prosperity, but at its beginning; not with an over- 
 infiated real estate boom dragging it down, but with the mining inter- 
 est far in the ascendant; with more people going in than are coming 
 out; with a winter well past, and a summer well begun; with a propor- 
 tion between honest, hard work and speculation that is remarkable for a 
 new camp, and would not discredit any of any age. 
 
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 THE PIKE'S PEAK ROUTE. 
 
 TO THE traveler within the State, or the tourist en route from ocean 
 to ocean, there is no trip so delightful and satisfactory as that from 
 (Colorado Springs to Grand Junction or Salt Lake City, over the Pike's 
 Peak Route. Not only does the Pike's Peak Route disclose the wonder- 
 ful beauties of the mountain ranges en masse, but by its bold course into 
 
 the very heart of the giant 
 ranges, it discloses, in details of 
 marvelous beauty, boldness and 
 grandeur, the whole tremendous 
 fabric of "the great back-bone 
 of the earth." 
 
 The Pike's Peak Route crosses 
 the three great ranges of the 
 Rocky Mountains in Colorado, 
 climbs as many lofty passes, tra- 
 verses three canons, which are 
 peculiarly typical of the wild 
 and rugged, the mild and beau- 
 tiful, and the awful and sublime, 
 in the mountain scenery, follows 
 the beautiful valleys of two of 
 the greatest rivers of Colorado, 
 crosses one of the three greatest 
 parks lying within the Rocky 
 Mountain chain, passes through 
 the leading summer resorts of 
 the State, touches the two great- 
 est mining camps of the world, 
 and all the way over a solid and 
 magnificent road-bed, on a line which for railway engineering is the 
 wonder of the world. 
 
 The Colorado Midland Railway is the standard-gauge road crossing 
 the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. From Denver it runs directly west 
 through Colorado Springs, an all-the-year-round health resort; a clean, 
 pleasant, beautiful town, with all the conveniences and luxuries of a 
 metropolitan city; to Manitou, the famous, the romantic, the beautiful, 
 with its innumerable novelties and attractions, and its world-famous min- 
 eral waters — one of the finest summer and winter resorts in the world. 
 
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 Then come Cascade Canon, nestling in a picturesque spot at the base 
 of Pike's Peak; Ute Park, in the center of the famous Ute Pass, over- 
 looking a lovely valley, hemmed in by lofty mountains; Green Mountain 
 Falls, a cosmopolitan resort, which became famous in a season, and 
 whose fame is rapidly spreading from day to day; Woodland Park, 
 at the head of the Ute Pass, with a view of Pike's Peak, which once seen 
 is never forgotten; and then Manitou Park, to complete the list of re- 
 sorts in Ute Pass, one of the most beautiful parks in all Colorado. A 
 
 coach and four convey the traveler from the station to the park, seven 
 miles distant. 
 
 From Ute Pass the road extends west over the Hayden Divide, down 
 to and through Granite Canon, across South Park, over Trout Creek 
 Pass, and down to Buena Vista, in the Arkansas Valley, and thence to 
 Leadville. The route from Leadville west is over the Saguache Range, 
 or Continental Divide, passing through the Hagerman Tunnel at an alti- 
 tude of 11,528 feet — the highest operating railroad in the United States. 
 From the summit of the Snowy Range the road passes down the Pacific 
 Slope, circling Hell Gate, passing through the Red Rock Canon to the 
 Roaring Fork of the Grand River and Glenwood Springs. 
 
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 COLORADO SPRINGS. 
 
 THE discovery and development of the Cripple Creek gold nelds must, 
 of necessity, have an important bearing on the growth and pros- 
 perity of Colorado Springs, the principal city of the Pike's Peak region, 
 and distant but fifteen miles, in an air line, from the new El Dorado. 
 This city, founded about twenty years ago, is situated seventy -five miles 
 south of Denver, at the foot of Pike's Peak, and at the entrance to 
 Ute Pass, and in the midst of the most famous scenery of the Rocky 
 Mountain region. It has grown to a city of 13,000 inhabitants, chiefly 
 through its increasing fame as a health resort and charming residence 
 city; though of late years, and principally since the building of the 
 Colorado Midland Railway, in 1886, it has attained considerable import- 
 ance as a commercial center. Its unrivalled climate and magnificent 
 scenery — which may be said, without exaggeration, to have become 
 world-famous — annually bring to Colorado Springs thousands of health 
 and pleasure seekers. 
 
 Because of its altitude of 6.000 feet above the sea, and its far inland 
 location, Colorado Springs possesses a climate which, the year round, 
 has no superior upon the globe. This climate is characterized by a 
 light, dry and tonic atmosphere, warm winters and cool summers, and 
 by an abundance of sunshine and a preponderance of clear weather. 
 For many forms of chronic disease it has been found to be a specific. 
 Asthmatics are almost invariably relieved; consumption, in its earlier 
 stages, is arrested and cured, and amelioration afforded at all stages; the 
 weak and debilitated are built up, and the long train of evils brought on 
 by over- work is banished. Tens of thousands owe their lives to the fact 
 that they availed themselves in season of the wonderful curative prop- 
 erties of the Colorado climate. 
 
 No less wonderful than its climate are the scenic surroundings of 
 Colorado Springs. Within a radius of five or six miles, are such world- 
 famous scenic features as the Garden of the Gods, Manitou Springs, the 
 Cheyenne Canons, Glen Eyrie, Monument Park, Blair Athol, and a 
 dozen others, all within easy riding or driving distance, over the finest 
 of natural roads — Manitou and the Cheyenne Canons being likewise 
 accessible by electric railway. The ascent of Pike's Peak, however, 
 which towers over 8,000 feet above the plain on which Colorado Springs 
 stands, has for many visitors the supreme interest. This ascent may be 
 accomplished by pony or burro over one of the several trails; or behind 
 a four-in-hand, over the Cascade wagon road; or in one of the handsome 
 
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 observation cars of the newly-completed cog railway. But however the 
 ascent is accomplished, it is sure to be crowded with experiences never 
 to be forgotten. 
 
 Not only is Colorado Springs thus highly favored in location and 
 environment, but is itself a most beautiful and attractive city, with a 
 notably intelligent and progressive population, who enjoy all the com- 
 forts and conveniences, and a large share of the pleasures and advan- 
 tages which attach to modern city life. Its broad avenues, bordered 
 with trees, are lined with beautiful and costly residences. It is amply 
 provided with hotels of the several classes, and with large numbers of 
 boarding houses and rentable cottages and villas. It has twenty-five 
 miles of finely equipped electric railway, is lighted by electricity, is sup- 
 plied with the purest of water from the base of Pike's Peak, and has a 
 complete sewerage system. It is the seat of the State Mute and Blind 
 Institute, of the Childs-Drexel Home for Union Printers, and of Colo- 
 rado College, which is taking high rank among the educational institu- 
 tions of the land. It has three banks; numerous church edifices; its 
 public schools are excelled by none; it has a beautiful opera house, 
 seating 850; flourishing clubs, and the Broadmoor Casino, which ranks 
 with similar establishments found at the French, German and Italian 
 spas. Six lines of railway center in Colorado Springs, giving it a posi- 
 tion upon two of the most popular of the great transcontinental lines, 
 and connecting it directly with all points north, south and east, and 
 with all the mining camps and great scenic features of the westward- 
 lying mountains. 
 
 Visitors to the Cripple Creek gold fields are advised to stop over at 
 Colorado Springs, where the family can be delightfully domiciled at one 
 of the numerous hotels or boarding houses, and enjoy the pleasures of 
 this famous resort while the rougher trip to the mines is being under- 
 taken. For combining business with pleasure during this summer's 
 outing, we can suggest no more delightful and attractive arrangement. 
 From Colorado Springs to the mines is but a few hours' journey, via the 
 Colorado Midland Railway, enabling one to go in the morning and re- 
 turn, if desired, the same evening, after spending several hours at the 
 camp. 
 
The Gazette Printing Co., Colorado Sprin,--. Colo,