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THE ELK MOUNTAIN PILOT, j Irwin, Gunnison Co., Colorado. THURSDAY, JULY i, iB3o. Freight; are coming in very rapidly. Bill-heads, letter-heads and envel oi-es printed at the Pilot office. A great many bear and deer have been seen near the camp the past week. The number of documents filed for record, at the county clerk’s office, during last week, was 175. The stars and stripes were hurled to the breeze, over the new hotel, on Ninth St., last Saturday. The rain cf last week washed away the little patches of snow that have remained on the mountain sides j since last winter. Harding Brothers, hardware dealers, j have put down a hewed log sidewalk i in front of their store on Ninth street, the first sidewalk in camp. The levers of piscatorial sport have been jerking the festive mountain trout out of our neighboring streams since the water has grown low. Ten years ago the census of Colo rado showed a population of less than 50,000. The present census, it is be lieved, will make it foot up over 200,- 000. Elder Warren, of Rosita, is in the camp for the;purpose of organizing a Methodist church. All followers of John Wesley are -requested to come forward. — The terrific blasts from cur mines resound and echo in our mountains! and valleys like the voice cf artillery on the field of battle. Its one con tinual rolling b-o-o-m ! night and day. W. H. Haynes, largely interest- ] ed in shoep raising in El Paso coun- , ty, has iiAerested himself in our camp 1 and is now building two large busi- : ness housetop Ninth St., above .the 1 postoffice. The material used in printing the Pilot was purchased of that cld reli able printers’ warehouse cf S. P. Rounds & Co. The appearance of our paper is evidence 'enough as to the quality [of type manufactured by the above mentioned house. Campers in this vicinity should be careful about building" large'fires as well as leaving them burning while away from camp. Our forest is of j dense growth and the pines very! combustible. If a fire once gels started in our forest it will be almost impossible to stop its ravages until fall. The Elk Mountain Pilot, pub lished at Irwin, (Ruby district) by Lacey & Phillips, -made its first ap pearance Wednesday evening. The boys had a severe experience in getting into that camp, and encountered many difficulties in getting our their first issue, but dispite all, they have issued a handsome and spicy paper, which was duly appreciated by the wide-awake people of the camp. The first six copies were sold at auction, bringing! $l5B, the first $55, and the others J smaller sums, making a handsome purse for the enterprising, plucky pub- J.shers. —Gunnison Review. IMPORTANT MINING DE CISIONS. The following recent decisions of the General ;Land Cilice, received b the local oiiice at Lake City, are pub lished for they information of the | public : Mill Sites —Land contiguous only ■ to the surface ground of a load claim J is not within the prohibition of sec tion 2337 revised statutes, and this) ordinarily occurs when the mill site is contiguous to the side lines of thej lode claim. When the mill site abuts against the end lines of the lode claim, it is not subject to entry. Expenditure. —.Annual expendi tures upon lode claims are necessary to the date of payment and entry; and the fact that proceedings in court under an adverse claim have been pending for four years, does not waive this requirement. SSOO expenditures, essential to au thorize entry, improvements made by ; f jrmer locators who had abandoned; their claim, cannot be included. Relocation. —The claim is not subject to relocation as abandoned ground until the expiration t>f the year next succeeding that for which the annual expenditure has been made. FACTS ABOUT IRWIN. What it Costs to Live—The Disadmlage « of the Past, in the Matter of Building, Overcome, Etc., Etc. It may be very interesting to our readers at a distance to know some thing about how we live in Irwin, what it costs to live, etc. Of course, every body read the articles that were pub lished in Denver and elsewhere, about the enormous cost of living and poor accommodations during the winter and early spring; but since the camp has been accessible by teams, and the roads in comparative good condition, accommodations,board and everything pertaining to one’s comforts are not more expensive than any other place j the same distance from railroad trans jportation —seventy-five miles.’ Provisions are reasonable enough, | considering the wages that arc paid miners and mechanics. Fiour can be bought at £lO a hundred, and bacon at from £lB to S2O. There are about ten restaurants or eating houses where a man can get a good meal at seventy five cents, also restaurants on the European plan, where persons can get ! what they call for, served up in good style. There are also numerous lodg ing places, where a tired traveler can enjoy a night of sweet repose for the small sum of fifty cents. You don’t have to lay on the soft side of a plank with a rock for a pillow, either, but you will receive kind and polite atten tion at the hands of attendants, who will furnish you with a good single bed that has nice, clean sheets and pillow slips, and after you get' locked in the arms of old “Morph.,” you wouldn’t know any difference but what you were sleeping in a Fifth Avenue hotel. The disadvantage in net obtaining lumber until the present, has beer an obstacle to enterprise that could not have been avoided ; ’ nevertheless most of our merchants have erected hewed log houses, while some have resorted to the use of large tents, only for temporary use. The first steam whistle that ever turned itself loose in this camp was heard from Eckerly’s saw mill last -Friday, and the resound ing shrill seemed to have quite a stim ulating effect- upon business, and con tracts for log buildings seemed to de cline at least fifty per cent from that time on. The aforesaid mill fs now running night and day to its utmost capacity. ! Following close upon this mill there i are no less than half a dozen others that have fallen in line, and will soon be producing lumber with equal ca pacity. The question may be asked, “What use wiil be made of all the lum ber that will be cu! by so many mills? then again it will be so cheap—being sold now at £25 and £30 —that the market will be glutted, and then 1 will build.” The man who contem plates building, need not expect lum ber to be much lower this season, for i you must take into consideration that there are no less than fifteen large business houses to be erected, and from , j four to six hotels to accommodate the j public, besides buildings for saloons, I restaurants, bakeries, meat markets, and various ether buildings that go to make an enterprising town, and also dwellings to accommodate at least two thousand working miners. The question may be asked again i by the stranger who may anticipate I doing business here, “What have you; in tin camp to support such a popula tion as spoken of above?” and the : answer is enjphatically, RICH PAYING MINES. i There are no less than a dozen mines 1 working forces from ten men up to j ; forty, while there are hundreds cfpros-1 • peer holes that are being worked by ; smaller forces. These mines are all sacking ore ready for shipment, and it is a fact beyond doubt that there is not another mining camp in the State, or perhaps in the country, that can pro duce as many high grade ore mines as are found in this camp, and it is no uncommon thing for mines here to sack ore, carrying ruby and brittle silver that will give mill returns "all the way from 500 to 1,000 ounces. And it is ; proof conclusive that all the rich leads \ ; have not yet been found from the! | strikes that are being made almost daily, as for instance the Mount Diabola lode that was struck two weeks ago is evidence that there are rich leads still existing here, waiting only for the persevering prospector to on cover than. HARDWARE TUCKER t&M^CKITST WILL KHEP A FULL LINE OV HARDWARE, TINWARE, Miners ’ Builders? TOOLS AND MATERIAL Ninth St., One Bolck Above the Postoffice. A Share of Public Patronage Solicited. IBWllsr, COLO. J. P. DENHAM ft C.E ROBERTS, Embaimers and Undertakers. 2IETALIC AND PLAIN CASES, COFFINS, Ac. Contractors and BuslJcrs. IBWIIT, - - COLO. DAISY LODGINGS! The only first-class lodging house in town. Nice Spring Cots, Soft Mattresses and Neat Bedding. Rear of Postoffice, Ruby Camp. Bon Ton Lodg i 11 g HOUSE! NINTH STREET, ABOVE POSTOFFICE, IRWIN Browning ft Kirkpatrick, Propr’a Clean BoJi, New Outfit and Everything First Cl.ua, H. R. HAMMOND, commission; FORWARDING AND STORAGE CORN, HAY, OATS, FLOUR and GRAIN, sales: Consifjnmeuta and corresjxradenco solicited, at warehouse etroet, opposite the postoffleo. O-TTLTINISOfyT, - COLO 9 CRESTED BUTTE ! This town is located at vJTJisrcTioisr of COAL CREEK, SLATE RIVER, WASHINGTON GULCH, . . AND EAST RIVER. Sinally Jirtant from RUBY CAMP, MINES OF SLATE RIVER, GOTHIC AND. WanMngton G-ulolx. PLEASANTEST LOCATION OF ANY TOWN IN THE DISTRICT PROSPECTORS, SPECULATORS ft TOURISTS Wiil And it the best p'.ace for their HEA L>Q,TTALF,TLS,S. For further Infonnatiou au.l town IoU »n Uy tj CRESTED BUTTE TOY. N GO. FOR COAL! LIME! EASTERN AND NATIVE LUMBER j SHINGLES, Latli,' Snsli, Door*, G-LASS, ' j Building Paper, Etc, Etc. G-o to H. F. SMITH, Crested - Butte. THE "RUBY Miming AND REAL ESTATE EXCHAIsTG-E COR. NINTH ST. AND AYE. F. —o— BOUGHT AND SOLD. Iton Lots for hi, Ruby Cany, CoL, THE PIONEER JOURNAL OP RUBY CAMP. THE ELK MOUNTAIN PILOT / ♦ ♦ Gives Reliable and Accurate Information Relative to the many RICH SINES OF THE Great Gunnison Mineral Fields. THE OPENING OF THE UTE RESERVATION! . | TO THE i WHITE MAN! 0 j J PUBLISHED AT Irwin,, Colorado, JLT I • | S 3 A. TEAR | • * THE BEST ADVERTISER m southern COLORADO! J. E.BLACK&CO. DEALERS IN HARDWARE, dhugs Aim* MxrozonsTßß, AGENTS FOB Hazard Powder ; ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF TOOLS, STEEL X IR, O XT,’ PIOES, ©JSOUSZjS, GADS, WHEELBARROWS, ETC. CORNER TENTH ST. and AYE. E. IRWIN, COLORADO. o— WSF' We have eight six-mule teams, loaded qt the end of the track, destined for Irwin. UioKell c So Owen®, * • Dealers !n • DRUGrS, CHEMICALS, PALMS, OHS, GLASS, PERFUMERY, [ETC. AUu a large stock hi Cigars and Tobacco. Proscriptions Cirefull/ Compounded. Ninth St., above Postoffice, Irwjn. BASYE & CO!, ————HXCELSIOIIr-— —■ BfZ :EJ Ji. T UI T 5. EEL EJ T, Wholesale and retail dcajcre iu XX'iittoi-, Hgge, iEtacon. —A l *? the LeadvJUo— J T^ES'TAUnA'JKIT, Who •* eels can be had at'all. hour?, day and r'ght. PKICKS SEASONABLE. Ave. 8., Bet. 9th arl 10th St., Irwin. Joyce, Preutjce acA Co., • * Tobacco, Cigars. THE FINEST STATIONERY, Books, Papers, Notions, Etc. * P. O. BUILDING, . - . IRWIN. Shurileft & Co., . (SUCCESSORS TO JAS. V. KELLY) WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN Dry Goods,. ✓ Boots and Shoes,- Miners’ Supplies j ’JLXTZD CLOTHIITG-! 0 W» ARE ROW RECEIVING The Largest Stock of Goads D Ever br nglit to the Gunnison cnnntry. ami are pjepored i. furnhh the good people of Gunnison aud her adjacent MINING CAMPS With articicfe iu thii lino at * EJk.STEE.Ii7 PRICES (Freight Added.) . * 0 • * REMEMBER THE PLACE, KfliTC OLD STAND OS MAK ST. C3-TJXTX7XSOXT. • ' Forwarding & Commission. i PRINTING! SV e are now prep*rad_t* pilot CARDS, BILL HEADS. LETTER HEADS, FIXE ENVELOP** ROTE HEADS, «DU CHECK* CERTIFICATE PLACARDS. DIiPLAT Bnj® Denver & South Pai'k H R. TO —n» LEADVILLE, KOKOMO, TEN MILE, GUNNISON VALUBY BUENA VISTA, FAIRPLAY, ALMA, DUDLEY, ST. JOHNS, HAMILTON • . BRECKINRIDGE • MONTEZUMA, . MORRISON, SHORTEST and MOST LIREGT ROUTS all points al*ove. This road pome* through the renowned Platte ration, and croMM the Senoeh® llange, attaining the highest devuti* n of auj ndlrouj in North Ainiwi. h--V'.(ws) ft*, t. aftordiug the touriet m 4 pleasure seeker the most delightful aui} varied moaft® tuiu scenery, ami the Lest hunting and fUhiug gnmadH Less Staging and Better Tima than « Any Other Ronto. C. W. FISHER, .V. 8. KUGHH, GcuTSup’t Gaul Fr't APaaAgL THE OLD RELIABLE Hannibal&St.Jo 2rTJk.IIjIRO_A.iD THE PIONEER ROUTB * Petw««n thf Missoari & Mississippi Rivera iu Spito of Opposition U STILL THE FAVORITE With the true ding public who "pr r«cl vautug a it allonfur the comfort uua piaavar, •f its i<tt‘rou». EJH O'.:ii ;rr>:.>, iail tb.'cu. UiJvM' DAY (I.ACUKB, RLCLIN.XG «r.AT COAt'/110, A AT' PI LLilAlf t»LLE i£M a ■' It€fco xrrx-jr liw* j.Uiing Through X)ny Umjhofl, Seat Cars urni i’cHmau cie**;)#ia to OHICAG-O Iky Coaches aud IV. lie ah to “T O In 153 XI) Q Xl.r ough i)y.y (i*J. w to INDiANAPLIS I • AND 13 j ALWAYS ON TIME. The pul Mr dou't forgot this »nd aiway, take St, ■ U® RELIABLE.” Jxo. B. Carson, F. E. Morse, General M »ua. ;r. Gca’l Pa*. * ■S/ZuTIE! ATCHISON, • ’ TOFEKA & • SANTA FE The Vupnlar Soutlmru Line fr. m D.avar, Loadvin* to.d all points in Southern Colorado, b AteLVton, Km* I :--m City, and all cu-item dtiei. All paat nger traits ('luippe l with air Onk®Kfl> plalfulJit, and the modern imprutemeuUi. I ullniHti ram on nil train, between Puabtojuda* Mire-juri ri.er. The only lino via (Mural > Spring, and HaUton Through tickets on tale at ail the principal lUtleaa. Rate, nlwave w low ae. by other tinea l’agagi checked to deetinatiou. T. J. ANDBR3OF. Gen'l T'kt Ag't, Denver, Cda ■—*AM) mb GnANDE r. xu Tim only and mutt direst Uaa (B ; COLORADO SPRINGS, MAsni'U. I’LLDLO, CANOiX. LEADVILLE, . tILVKR CUFF, LL SIORO, TRINIDAD, ALAMOSA, and all ponra L\' TOE SAN JEAN COENTET, SOPHEB I'OLOEAEO AND .NEW MEM Connecting at Pueblo with train, on th, AT. 011. R'y for all p/int» north, cart and iouth. EXa'BSIOS TICKETS On «a!e to Colorado' Veto Pm and Almmm. Erpiipineut the beet, and rate, as low a, th, IoVMd. , For further informatlim, apj'iy J 8. R. AIXSLXE, G. F. A P. Ag’t, Denw, Oola. S. A. SHEPPERD, T’kt Ag't, Denver, Colo. T. V. Brown, Station Agent, 19th AW/nfatfc. Dww, (Me