San Juan Guide from Topeka, Kansas • 4

4 ZMj-A-IP, SHOWING ONLY DIRECT ROUTE jtta.iv mines, VIA Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe R. R. TOPEKA, KANSAS, JUNE, 1870. The San Juan Guide Is publish! under tlio auspices of the Passenger Department of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, for the purpose of supplying the large demand now being made for reliable information in regard to the San Juan country. This papi will bo furnished muck upon application to T.

J. Anderson, General Pas enger Agent, Topeka, Kansas, or to Eli Lewis, General Traveling Agent, and Samuel B. IIynes, General Agent, 102 North Fourth Street, St. Louis, Mo. N.

It. Warwick, General Southern Ag. 138 Vine Street, Cincinnati, Ohio; M. Solomon, Northwestern Agent, 57 Dearborn Street, Chicago; L. II.

Nutting, General Eastern Agent, 23D Broadway, New York, of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Ituilroad. Our Map. Particular attention is called to our map. It is chiefly designed to give the location of the towns, main routes of travel, mountain passes and mineral districts. It is in all respects the st map of the San Juan country ever published, and a careful examination of it will enable the reader to correctly understand the main features of the geography of Southwestern Colorado, and that the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Kailroud is the shortest and best route to all that section of country.

MM San Juan Bureau of Correspondence. Hon. Sidney Clarice, who has traveled extensively in the San Juan country, has established a Bureau of Correspondence at Topeka, Kansas, and is prepared to give any info, mation that may bo required, lie will arrange for parties going to the mines, and furnish transportation from the end of the railroad when desired. Copies of the San Juan Guide furnished free. Address Sidney Clarke, Topeka, Kansas.

Woodward Tlernan HaleSt.Louls SAN JUAN IN BRIEF. Rates of Fare. The rates of fare published on our eighth have been fixed to accommodate all classes of travel. From Kansas City or Atchison to Pueblo: First Class, $35; Second Class, $30; Emigrant Kate, $20. It will be seen that through tickets can be obtained for Del Norte, Lake City, Kosita, Trinidad and Santa Fe.

Colorado Springs and Fairplay Stages. i This route is from Colorado Springs via Manitou Springs, Ute Pass, Summit Park, Petrified Forest, Florissant, Hot and Sulphur Springs, and is replete with romantic scent ry. The road is the best in the country, and is second to no other in its equipment, coaches and good covered spring wagons being used. Connections made with stages for Alma, Mt. Lincoln, Breckeuridgo, Granite, Helena, California Gulch, Twiu Lakes, and all points south and west.

A fine view of Mt. Lincoln and the. Snowy Range can be had at the entrance to the Park. The distance from Colorado Springs to Fairplay is eighty miles. Stages leave for Manitou daily, and for Fairplay Monday, Wednesday and Friday, returning alternate days.

Fare to Manitou, 75 cents to Fairplay, $10. I The country along the lower 300 miles of the Main Line of the Denvc Grande Railway, the Rio Grande Vulley, will bo chiefly devoted to fruit-growing and wine-making. For this, it is probably not surpassed in the United States. Being nea.ly 1, 00 miles nearer the renter of population than California, itsgrapes. which are iquully good, will command all the large markets in the Uniicd States The dairyman is In his element in Snn Juan.

Ilis cows live during the entire year without feed ng, anti not only live, but do well. Every pound of butter finds a ready purchaser, and the great number of travelers and miners coining anil going create such a demand for nil farm and dairy products that they always command a good price. Wheat and oats, when properly cultivated, yield abundantly in the valleys along tho numerous streams in San Juan All kinds of vegetables grow most luxuriantly. Beans, peas, potatoes, radishes, turnips, lettuce, and In fact everything that grows, can bo raised by the gardener, and finds a ready sale in tho Del Norte markets at a good price Different religious denominations hold service at stated times at Del Norte. The' Presbyterians and Methodists eacli have a ri gular pastor, holding services alternately on the Sabba h.

The Catholics have services once each month, and occasionally at other times by visiting pastors. The Jethodists have a small building of their own. The Presbyterians hold their services in the court-house, but expect soon to erect a house of worship The Rio Grande, as well as all its tributaries, and in fact all of the streams in this part of tho Territory, have in them an abundance of trout, and tin furnish a portion of tho food as well as sport to a great many of the people. There is a Territorial law against the taking of iisli from any stream by any means except the hook and line, but they are so plentiful in the Rio Grando that an expei ienced fisherman has actually taken in one day over one hundred and twenty pounds of trout with a hook and lino. A writer In the Chicago Interior, speaking of organised emigration to Southern Colorado, saj I know of nothing in the history of human progress which shows greater advance than the contrast between the old and tho new plan of emigration.

Tho old emigrant gave up almost everything the new one, we might almost say, gains almost everything. Our fathers, when they sought a new home, abandoned country, law, order, comfort, education. We carry with us our schools, lyceums, churches, political and civil organization, and may even start with advantages which we did not possess in the old home. Stamp Hills, Reduction and Smelting Works. Good Grass for Stock.

On all the routes of travel from Del Norte and Saguache into the mines there is good grass for stock. The mountain grasses are exceedingly nutritious. Between Pueblo, Cucharas and Del Norte, and between Canon City and Del Norte, the grass is not so abundant, but hay and grain can always be procured at the numerous ranches. No Taxes. There are no taxes on mining property previous to obtaining a patent from the United States.

All other tuxes are light. All the mining towns in San Juan are good points to sell goods. The merchants of Del Norte shipped 225,0 0 lbs. of wool last year. Two hundred acres of land are under cultivation near Parrott City.

The new Methodist Church building at Del Norte is progressing finely. The Bank of Sau Juan is now open and ready for business at Del Norte. 8ome of the merchants at Silverton carry stocks of goods valued at There has not been a case of sickness at lverton during the past winter. Freighting with ox, mule and horse teams is a good business In San Juan. Bronchial affections are speedily cui ed by the Southern Colorado climate.

La Plata county, before its recent division, was larger than the State of New Jersey. One mercantile house in Del Norte sold goods amounting to $125,000 last season. Business lots in Del Norte range from $300 upwards. Good residence lots $40 to 00. Two hundred teams are ready to roll out from Denver, for Lake City, in the early spring.

Au irrigati ditch Is to be commenced seven miles lelow Del Norte, extending 20 miles. Lorna district lies directly across tho Rio Grande from Del Norte. Leads bearing gold ere in 1874. San Juan will send specimens of her free gold, tellurium, gray cop. per, and high grade silver ores to the Centennial.

Many Eastern capitalists are availing themselves of opportunities jn San Juan to secure some of the best mining property. The gold and silver product of Co'orado up to 1872, according to the report of the Director of the Mint, was $21,4 1 ho last San Juan Prospector says that emigration hue begun to flow into Del Norte. Each coach bears its burden of human freight. Parrott City, on tho La Plata river, is the new county scat of La Plata county, and Silt erton 1b the county seat of the new county of San Juan. Colorado is almost square in form, and has an area of square mile1, or enough territory to make thirteen States as large as Massachusetts.

Surrounding Del Norte, and extending many miles in some direoilons, are beautiful valleys, all of which are capable of bringing forth heavy crops when properly cultivated. M. R. Moore, formerlyof Topeka, Informs us that sinco his arrival at Del Norte, on the 14th of March, 1875, there has not been a single day during which the sun has not been visible. Del Norte has a planing mill, kept in operation during the greater part of the year.

Doors, sash and mouldings are manufactured, and the work is as neat and.substantiul as that done elsewhere. The Prospector, published at Del Norte, the Chronicle, published at Saguache, the Silver World, published at Lake City, and the Miner, published at Silverton, are all good papers devoted to mining news The Prospector gives statistics of schools inRio Grande county: Total amount expended on schools during the year. $1,78 72. Pupils, 320; attending school, 97. Teachers pay, males $60 per month, ft males $48.70.

Muddy roads are unknown in San Juan. The macadamized or graded roads and Btreots of our Eastern cities are no belter than nature has given in the hard gravel beds that are made so by constant travel on the streets and principal roads. To the northwest of Parrott City, which is on the La Plata River, twenty -five miles north of the southern line of Colorado, are the famous San Miguel Placer Mines that have created so great an excitement in the Animas country during the last season Wild fruits of all kinds ab iund. The cultivated orchards of Easlern States furnish no better blackberries, raspberries, gooseberries, currants, than can be found on the mountain sides and along the streams tributary to the Rio Grande. Strawberries are found almo everywhere.

Tho Uncompaligre Valley Wagon Toll Road I ompany is to construct a wagon road from Uncompahgre City, nt the junction of Uncompahgre river and Canon creek, to the Lake Fork of the Gunnison, about one mile northwest of tho confluence of that stream and Indian creek. It will furnish by far the best outlet for the mines in the lower part of Uncompahgro district. Estimate of Square Miles and Square Acres in Organized Counties in San Juan Population. Surveyor-General Searight furnishes the following estimate. Many of the boundary lines follow mountain ranges and courses of streams, making it difficult in all cases to give accurate figures.

Altitude of the Principal Places and Peaks, Taken from Haydens Report. The Golden State Mining Company will put up a stamp mill in the Summit Parties at Council Bluffs, Iowa, will put mining machinery Into Burrows Park the coming season. William Beck of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, are putting up a ten stamp mill on Cottonwood Creek, Snngre de Cristo mines Messrs. Greene Co.s smelting works at Silverton cost $70,000, and the Rough Ready works cost $20,000. Both are in successful operation.

Gold and sliver ores are reduced In small quantities, for sampling purposes, at Del Norte. Ores running 70 ounces and upward in silver are bought. The Colorado Mining Land Company has been recently organized in Buffalo to work mines in San Juan. J. Beuell is the Secretary and Treasurer of the Company.

The Dakota San Juan Kilning Company are the owners of some of the bwt proporty in the Upper Animas country. They have taken active steps toward the election of reduction works. Geo. IV Green Co. are Intending to put works at Silver Glen, Henson creek, as soon as the road Is completed so as to permit the transportation of their machinery to the desired point.

It is reported that lirbircio Parrott, of San Francisco, who is interested on tho La Plata, has just consummated a tale of mining property in that locality for $3,000,000. Tho purchasers are a German company. The firm of Morey Sperry, of New York, will furnisli Messrs. Dodge Adams a 6tamp mill, to be put up in the Alamosa District early in the summer, A tunnel from which the ore is taken intersects at right angles eleven lodes. The officers of the San Juan Consolidated Mining Company are: W.

Tankersley, President; Hon. Thos. M. Bowen, Secretary and Treasurer, Del Norte This Company will put a thirty stamp mill in the Summit district the coming season. Sea Jlight.

Bear Creek Pass, San Juan. .12000 AMIS Ulf J. LACiiiO. Iliqht 6100 Pikes Peak 14149 Mount Lincoln 14201- Sultan San Juan 13330 Kendall 13380 Galena 13294 Sanders lrak, 13994 Lizard Peak, 13100 Mt. Wilson, Mt.

SheffcN, 14158 Juan. .14255 Engineer ..12971 Mt.Camby, ..13274 Pass east Sultan .10400 Pass west Sultan ..11570 Mineral Creek Pass, .11098 It il II II II 1 II II II II II .1 II Lake Fork Pass, Cunningham Pass, Hamilton Pass, Silverton, Howardsville, Animas Forks, Mineral City, Del Norte, Saguache, Los Pinos Agency, Lake City, San Cristoval Lake, Antelope Park, Eureka, Ouray, .12540 ...12090 9400 9700 ...11200 ...11500 7807 7740 9299 8550 9000 9000 9000 oooo.