The world's desire--gold
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Published by O. W. CRAWFORD. CHICAGO Printed by M. B. HILLY
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Copyright, 1896 By O. W. Crawford
OLD, bright, hard, yellow, and eold,
Spurned by the young, hugged by the old,
To the very verge of the church yard mould."
— That the Past-
Symbol: Au. Atomic weight, 196; hardness, 2; specific gravity, 19; color, pale yellow; lustre, metallic; ductile and jalleable.
— That V the Mineralogist.
Jt is for what men wear out their lives.
— Thai 'j the If ur/ran Race.
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Be as business-like in mining as you would be in manufacturing.
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At The
Beginning
PENINGS or fissures have been made in the rocks, probably by volcanic action. Into these fissures vein matter has been thrown. The rocks adjoining the veins originally contained the gold. In tensely hot water, with great solvent power, in ages of work, it is thought, took the gold from the rocks, and left it in the
veins.
'A'co*i+ry roc-k.oir'iytonalty Corrtatnc.d old.
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Where It Is Found
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UCH of the gold of the world was found formerly in gravel or the sands of rivers, or on the slopes of mountains. This gold came from the tearing down by nature of gold bearing veins. The gold of the ancients, and the gold of '49 was found so. Such gold is called alluvial or placer gold. To-day much is found in quartz or lode mining as in Cripple Creek and Cripple Park.
Ancient.
Gold IS where you find it.
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Veins
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How Gold Appears In Veins
One threc-dollar-a-day miner is worth a dozen roll-top desks and ribbon-trimmed waste baskets.
may appear in scales, plates or masses. Or it may be so minute that it is not visible to the naked eye, and yet the ore be rich in gold, as are some ores in Cripple Creek.
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What
Tellurium
Is
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r is a metal ; the color is a tin-white. It is very brittle, and is seldom found in a native state.
It is a base with which the precious metals are found in combination.
When it unites with gold the ore is called "Telluride of Gold."
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Kind Of
Cripple Cr] Ores
RES of precious metals are generally named from a prominent constituent that is in the ore with the metal. Thus the ores of Cripple Creek are called "Tellurides of Gold."
Do not expect to get rich in a minute.
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n-BT R A OV M IT E. HBSStTB PET XITE.
The Tellurides
aboemt
HE Tellurides form a iarnily, and only certain ones are found in Cripple Creek. Hence it is conven ient to give the ore its exact name, — as Sylvanite, Calaverite. The name of the former comes from Transylvania, Europe. It is also called ''graphic tellclurium, from the occasional resemblance of its crystals to the Hebrew characters.
I'he name Calaverite probably comes from Calaveras Co., California.
CAL.AveRTa
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Find a vein — then (fig.
(IHE ore is composed of gold tellurium, and a trace 1 of silver. Its appearance is very beautiful, and I frequently is that of burnished silver. Such are Cripple Creek's richest ores, and they can be seen in all the noted mines of that district.
What Makes
Amine
Valuable
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Heat
Shows
The
Gold
O the unpracticed eye valuable sylvanite ore does not appear rich as it has not the gold color. Very intense heat causes the tellurium to pass off in a purple flame, and the gold to appear in beau tiful bubbles upon the rock. This is called roasting. Such treatment produces the beautiful specimens of Cripple Creek ores.
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Peculiar But Important
HE mines of Cripple Creek, unlike those of many other camps, increase in value with depth. Sylvanite generally comes with depth.
Examples : All the good mines of the camp. This is a peculiar but most important fact to the owner or investor.
ANNA ue£t l' SHAFT
All the gold in the world came out of the sands and the rocks.
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c:riPoi_s.
OOD ore, cheap transportation, and abundant facil ities to treat it properly. Many mines have the first qualification, and are valueless, due to the lark of the last two.
Appearance
And
Composition
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Transportation And Treatment Facilities Of Cripple Creek
is treated, for the smelter.
WO railways enter the camp, and afford direct communication to the smelters at Denver and Pueblo. All the mines are near the chlorination and the cyanide works, where the low grade ore Tlie richer ore is loaded on the near-by railways
The successful and inexpensive processes of treating gold ores
are rapidly removing the elements of chance from honest mining.
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Cripple Park, Colo.
RIPPLE Park is situated on Cur rent Creek twen ty-five miles west of Cripple Creek. The noted mining engineer, C. H. Clark, says: "The geological formation of this country is identical with that of the Cripple Creek District. The Trachyte, Phonolite and Porphyry are all of finer texture, and the viens are better defined and show more permanency."
The recent rich finds in the Park assure the reader that all the gold mines are not yet discovered.
Cripple Park is about 2000 feet lower than Cripple Creek. A daily coach line connects it with Howbert, 1 1 miles away, on the Colorado Midland R. R.
Age Eighteen
Ow Gold Is Taken Rom The Ores
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Cyanjoc
amalgamation, cyanide, chlorination smelting. The processes in brief are : lift-fUfTalgamation the ore is powdered and mixed with mer cury which seizes the gold. The amalgam (the gold and mercury) is now retorted. The mercury becomes a vapor and the gold is left.
By cyanide the ore is treated with a solution of cyanide of potassium. The cyanide searches every cranny of the rock and takes the gold into the solution. The solution is drawn off and the gold thrown down by certain salts of iron or on TZinr shavings.
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Smelting
ilHE chlorinatiou process operates ia somewhat a I similar manner to the cyanide, but uses chlorine ! instead of cyanide.
In smelting, the ore is mixed with a flux. The mixture is treated with intense heat, and the gold finally separated. High grade ores are treated by smelting ; low grade ' by cyanide or chlorination.
High salaried officers and splendid offices wont make a gold mine.
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f. G WHITE. PRtHOENT
C. M MacNEU.L,Vic£ President
Victor* Colorado*
E. U. WHITE, Treas. and M'gr
The Victor Ore Sampling Compan:
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Net Amount to Mine Unclosed stege fiyd our check,, Xo
HE entire shipment of ore is sampled by smelter or sampling works, an assay of the sample is made and the value of the ore per ton is found.
A check is drawn for the amount thus ascertained
I NO Company
in full set-
and it is immediately sent the shipper.
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A Mining Claim
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Title
HEN a claim is located and staked with a location notice and an assessment shaft dug ten feet deep as required by the government, then the claim may be surveyed and recorded. This gives a discov erer s possessory title which holds the property for one vear. When $500 worth of work or improvement has been done on the claim then the government of the U. S. will give to the legal owner of the claim a patent deed.
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Dykes
|YKES are vast masses of rocks thrown up by I eruptive forces. Plainly, dykes are stone walls formed by nature. Except small portions which come to the surface, or "crop," dykes are under ground. In Cripple Creek the dykes are mainly of rock called phonolite, and porphyry.
Ore is generally found near these dykes.
Anybody may find a gold mine, but it takes a miner to develop one.
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N many mining districts there is but one vein, ex tending miles, and to be off the vein or dyke, makes the property valueless. In Cripple Creek, in the eruptive era, were thrown up any number of dykes. A proof of this is shown on Raven hill, where are situated the Raven, Alice Raven, Catharine, Elkton, Doc tor and other mines on different dykes. Other hills illustrate this also. Hence, in Cripple Creek, claims near a pay mine indicate there are other dykes or veins in the surrounding property.
Proximity To Pay Mines Of Value In Cripple Creek
That 5 A P-Act*.
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Expense Of Wet Mines
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HE Anchoria-Leland stock advanced from 5c to $s within a year ; the Portland from 37c to 1 1.7 5; C- C. C. from 5c to 30c ; Union from 20c to 40c ; Isabella from 17c to 50c. Many dividend-paying mines pay from 24 to 50 per cent, annually.
tvXIKtlMC e.XCH AMQE
Profits Of Mining Investments
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n LOCKS of brick and stone business buildings already attest the Chicago result of the conflagration which in a mad march mowed down hundreds of acres of tinder box houses in Cripple Creek. Fire crucial test of cities. Watch what comes up oiit of es of Cripple Creek.
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f 1 1 I delights of camping in the mountains find an
accentuated attraction in the possibility of discovering in your rambles a gold mine. In the Crip-
.WPSI pie Creek district the tenderfeet " find the mines. A gold pan and a prospector's hammer will afford you inspiriting diversion and perhaps a fortune.
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Buffalo
m
Bear
|HE game in the mountains adjacent to Cripple 1 Park consists of grouse, deer and bear. Grouse and deer are plentiful and bear abound on Thirty- i nine Mile, Thirty-one Mile, Bald and Black j
Colorado'S
Game
mountains, all of which are within a few miles of the camp.
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Vacation Tiivie
Oampin* OmT.
r was in Switzerland. " What a beautiful scene ! " said an American to a near by Englishmen.
'True" was the reply, 'but there are many finer." " Impossible " said the American. Not at all. In America in the Rocky Mountains." The American had not seen them. Few Americans have. They cross the jSrffan but have never stood on Mountain Crest at Cripple -Tark, breathing the electric air, with Pikes Peak banked up against the Eastern sky and the eternal snow clad Sangre de Christo's ragged range, cold and white, piercing the flaming light of the setting sun.
ON T-we.
For Fun Or
jITH the new gold developments at Cripple Park will rapidly come swarms of ubiquitous prospectors, and the big game will be driven back farther in the i mountains.
HE following parties will cheerfully give in formation about hunt ing, camping and mining at Cripple Park : Dr. A. Harvey, Corner Ruby and Sylvanite Streets, Cripple Park, Colo. ; McCart, Burbridge Investment Co., Gardner Block, Cripple / Creek, Colo., and O. W. Crawford, Masonic Temple, Chicago,
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Cripple Park Springs
I those at Cripple Park are among the most
I wonderful. Imagine a spring which has built up
a mountain of solid soda in the summit of which it bubbles and sparkles with all the fire of Champagne — a delicious table water just as it comes from the spring. The Indians called it Quleeka and claimed If you drink the water always you will live always."