On To Leadville

The tide of emigration - or perhaps we should say adventurers, for very few of them are seeking new homes - is setting in the direction of Leadville, Colorado, asdecidedly as it did toward Pike's Peak, the Black Hills and other localities where gold or silver was supposed to have been discovered in large quantities in years gone by. Mr.Wm.C.Miller,recently of theBiddle, House, who has just landed in this ElDorado in company with 25 other Detroiters, writes back to a friend a short but graphic sketch of that remarkable city. He says: Imagine a valley at the very top of the Rocky Mountains.beautifully nndulating and covering about 5,000 acres with a city springing up all over it like magie. People are coming in at the rate of 500 a day, but it does not seem to add one to the population, as they are off to the hills the next day, The hotels are the worst in the world and the saloons (with few exceptions) are no better. The streets are lined from moniing till night with immense freight teams (eight mules) and the demand for transportation is not supplied even then. There are a hundred or more gambling places here all open and on the first Hoor. The games are keno.faro, short faro, high-ball poker, monte and in fact every known game of chance flourishes, never resting nights, week days or Sundays, the dealers and operators standing watch as systematically as a hotel clerk. There are four theatres doiug well and seven churches doing f airly. There are upwards of fif ty dance houses, while grocery, dry goods, hardware, drug and general stores are springing up so rapidly that one cannot keep track of thein. Ohestnut st.reet is bHilt up solidly on botli sides for over a mile in distance and is the great thoroughfare. A trip up and down the street will show one more villainous faces than there are in the State of Michigan. (By the way, Michigan is a pretty good place to live in.) There are the "sure thing" gamblers, square ones, road agents, ready to cut a throat for $50, thugs and all kinds of depraved humanity. However, Leadville has a good pólice forcé, headed by Marshal Duggan, as good and fearless a man as I ever saw. Tou can bet high they are all afraid of him, as they know he means business. We add to Mr. Miller's sketch of the city, some account of the principal mines, which we flnd in a letter from Leadville in the New York Tribune : The best mines thus far operated lie upon four hills, or mountains, called Fryer, Carbonate, Iron, and Long and Derry. These hills stretch in a line along the eastern limits of the town for a distance of about six miles. Fryer Ilill lies at the northern en8 of the line, and Long and Derry at the southern. Upon the first named hill are found the Little Pittsburg, New Discovery, Little Chief, Dives, Chrysolite, Carboniferous, and Vulture, the best known because the first discovered.and up to this time the best paving because best worked. The first four named belong to the "Consolidated Mining Company," of which Messrs. Taber and ex-Senator Chaffee are the principal partners. These mines yield a larger output of ore than any other four in the district, and are regarded as the most valuable. Immediatély joining the Consolidated Company's mines, and embraced in the same belt, are the Carboniferous, Chrysolite, Vulture, Eaton, Pandora and Fairview, all yielding high grade ore, and owned by Borden, Taber & Co. One of these latter mines, the Vulture, is perhaps the best worked and therefore the best paying mine in the combination, if not in the belt. A few months ago this propertv was regarded as utterly valueless, but during the past month lts yield has been enermous. Not less than $58,000, I am inf ormed, was placed to the credit of the mine in bank during the past thirty days, and all the proceeds of the work of only four men. While there are miles upon miles of territory to the east and south of Leadville that are covered with the cabins of the adventurous miners, there are scores of miles to the north and west of this camp and but a few miles distant, where the foot of the prospector never yet tiod, all lying in the same mineral belt, and as promising of future wealth as this camp was one year ago. The principal mines named in this latter aggregate a daily output of ore of about 450 tons, to which may be added 150 tons from the numerous smaller mines in the vicinity of Leadville. This ore is valued at from $50 to $600 per ton, yielding an aggregate daily revenue of not less than $50,000 ; some place the figures as high as $100,000. If the latter figures should prove to be the correct ones, the yearly production of this camp alone will reach the enormous figure of $36,500,00.