Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 6, 1880, Page 16

16 i THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SAT , THE TRISH FAMINE. ‘A Letter from James Redpath— Starvation in Thirteen ; Counties. What the BRoman-Catholic Clergy Report from Counties Cavan, : Clare, Cork, Donegal, Fermanagh, alway, Kerry,. Leitrim, . “Limerick, Monaghan, Mayo, Ros. common, and Sligo, Vivid Pictures of the Distress Prevailing in the Afflicted Districts. ‘Mr. James Redpath, who snow In Ireland, is investigating the condition of tho people in tho faniine-stricken districts, In the follow- Ing letter he describes brlefy the general ex- tent and causo of the suffering, and futro- tluces brief extracts from numerons letters sent by parish priests to the Natfonal Land Leagnuo Reef Fund Committee,—better known In this country a3 Mr. Parnell’s Cam- mittee, Theso extracts drawn simple but vivid picture of the distress prevailing In the afllicted districts. A SURVEY OF THE FAMINE DISTRICTS, + Correspondence Neto York Tribune “Duntay, Feb. 18.—I have spent four days An interviewing the representative men and reading the official correspondence of the National Land League Retief Fund Commit- tee. This Learuels better known at home as Mr. Parneti's Committee. “1 shall next In- terview the representatives of tha’ Manston Houko Fund and the Duchess of Marl- porongh’s Fund, and report what they have to say, and then travel throughout. the districts that by general agreement tro re- garded as tha most impoverished in this int- poverished Inst. ‘ According to tho leading oMcers of the Land Lengite, thé order in which the hungry: counties shoul be entled—giving precedence ag they rank fn present suiferluyg—tis, Kerry: first, and then Mayo, Galway, Silgo, Donegi), Cork, and Clare. Distress 1s not confined to these counties, but especially afliicts them. The immediate causes of the famine were tho failure of the potato and the corn crops in the west of Ireland. ‘They were rumed by tho heavy rains of Inst spring and summer, Thecounties over whieh hunger now broods are exclusively agrleultural dfstrtets, ale though ulone the coast the Inhabitants added the uncertain pursultof fishing to the culture of the worn-out and barren soll of | the mountatnous regions of West Ireland, ‘This yenr the fisheries tailed, at It isa moder- Ate esthnate that pute the number of persons: now suffering from linger, or sure to suffer from it within a few weeks, unless they tind rellef, at 250,000 sou These persons mruist be supported for atl two montis, or else suffered to div of famine and fever. A telegram hives tenleht tna Dublin paper fn whieh It is stated that the Ameriean contributions are expected to fall off now, as it has been announced that a fand large enough to prevent further suffering In Ire- Jand Hits already been contributed. I trust. no generous Aimerican will be influenced by that reports for there ls nothing more certain than that Iretand will need every dollar that “America can contribute, But Leannot spare the space to-day to do more than introduce the Irish cloud of wit- nesses who speak of whit their own eyes have seen and thelr awn parishioners are suffering. Learried 1 noteot introduction to the editor of the Dublin Nation. ‘This letter brought me Into the company of the lenders of tho Land League, ‘Thelr Secretary at onco authorized mo to examine every letter In thelr oilice, and 1 was invited to attend both their public and business meetings, avajled myself of this couttesy, and Lhaye read every letter, without exception, that the League has reeelved this week. tom suck of them as give a view of the famine L have se- lected such passnges ay may enable you to see how great ealamity ty under whiel ireland is now autterln ‘The writers are mostly ‘the Roman Catholic parish priests, who are brought, by the nature of thelr of- fice, into a closer fntinacy with the poorer elngses than any othor men In Ireland, It fs creditabfe ta the clergy of both relig- fons that, witt rare axceptlons, Catholics aut Protestants are working In harmony in dls buralng tho relief funds everywhere through- out Ireland, : COUNTY KERRY, ‘Tho Rov. James Carmody, Catholle curate, writes (Feb. 13) from Currens, Farrenfore: “ About 250 of the most needy families got quantities of Indinn meal, from one to five stones per fortnight, and though this Is the ‘Very smallest qunntity we consider essential for those only whom wo judge suffering the extremo of want, even to these our scanty geans will not long suffer us to he of ald, > + + Very many farmers are without the menus of doing anything for the comlus year. Thave just glyen tekets for meal to lnrmers who were, two years ago, of the niost respectable in our parish? The Rev. Maurico O'Flaherty, Catholic gine, writes (Feb, 15) trom Ferriter, gles +“ Teg the League, for God's anke, for the sake of soroly-tried and poverty-stricken Poonle, to increase thelr grant. 4... have ministered as Catholic curate in some of Mlegecpatiahes and others I know. protty well, and 1 tearlesty assert that In nono of them Js there such nbject poverty, wide- eprend want, destitution and starvation as in hese five united parishes of Dunquln (on the Blaskett Islands), Dunurlin, Marbin, Ke inalkedar, and Kilquane, ‘There {a 0 popula. tion of about 4,00 sonis, and no mount of word-palntiig atimy command will be able to convey to you the impoverished and wretched state In which these poor oreatures Hving along the sea: tare steeped. know as 9 fet. that many—very mai Binong them have been Whig on turnlpsonce and sometines twice n day for the last threes weeks. 1 am awaru that several—espeelally headsof fnimities—have gone to bed tasting ln order to spare something fur thelr starving ehildren, who were erying for food. Sumo af thicse poorcreatures live todo with one meal of slirabout for twenty-four hours, [Stirabout Is Indian-meal_ bolled with water and a little salt) Inallor nearly all the eases we visited _ @00) nor cow, nor [ee nor sheep, Nor seeds potatoes, nor eredit, nor an Sd else hint they, except the fow stones of meal they had got from our Rolle? Conuutttee, Let me say a word on hehalf of tho Inhabitants of tha Bhaskett Islands. ‘Thy poor creatures are, it posite Wonss off than those on the maln- mani, «How they are living for the Inst fort. night God alone knows, They are separated, from the matniand by three miles of as dan Reruns an ocean as any on the west coast of reland, and Lhave not been alile, and will not be able, should the present stormy weather continue, to reach the mainiand to tell the sad story of their sutferings. Bight of theso poor starving, wretched Islanders. were ojected by Mr. S.. MM. Iussoy same months ago, and will have to leave before March next.” Dr, O'Sullivan reports (Fob. 10), “extreme distress'in all the poverty-stricken and fame ishing poor of the remote and semi-barron mountain P Tish of Abbey Fenlo; '500 nbso- utely destitate fainilles * receive from one te five stones of meal.” Mr, Charles J, O'Connell writes from Port- magee (Feb. 16)that * the prospect of the pea- le is becoming every day more gloomy, dundreds of poor people are to-day in want here,” Cathollo curate, Feb, 16)3 eel ‘rho Rey. Mahony Leyne, of Duagh Listowe? wil e \ “ ‘Tho farmers, Instead of giving employ- ment, are looking out for themselves, and. the landlords are simply doing noting ttls eatiated that there are 1,500 persons In dire destitution tn this parish alone.” The Rev. ‘Thomas Nolan, parish priest, writes from Lixnaw, North Kerry (Feb. 10), Snclosing n ist of elghty-two persons, mostly women, to whons, through “his own exer: tions, he has glyen fron one to two stones of Andian meal. A ‘stone Js fourteen pounds: gyolrdupols, and costs 86 cents in Kerry, [ly a most humbly begs" for ald “for my poor le. the Rev. Thomas Lawler, parlsh priest of the Island of Valentia (Irish statlon of the Atlantic cable), writes (Feb. 14); “Thave no hesitation in saying that more than half of tho Inhabitants “of thls island {Valentia) will require relief meal for che dext few months If starvation ts to bo warded aff. The doctor and myself have made o nouse-to-house visitation, and of the 120 fam- les. we have visited 100 were withouts lanket of any shape or description.” . COUNTY MAYO, an ‘The Rev, Michacl O'Donnell, parish priest of Foxford, sends a plaintive appeal (Feb, “Lsolomnty declare that unless wo get re- lef for the people atonce in this poor, al- most starved out istrict In a short the wo will have to send cofliniess corpses to the {ERNE or we will hove to resort to the cts om (still in patntal memory) of using guupty herring barrels for coflns, God forbid should oxaygernte.” McUarriek writes from Ballyglass je families have had to subsist on turnips for tha past week; that four, als, and even eight children wore found huddled on bundles of straw, with old sacks patched to- gethor for binnkets.” ‘Tho Rev. Janes Hemelly, Catholic curate of Bekan, writes cre, 16) that there nro 600 families on the relief lst, and that fully ont elghtic of these have no other earthly source of getting bread than from the parochial cominittees, COUNTY GATAVAY, Tho Peter's Well (Lengiren) Rellef Com- mittee write (Feb. 18): “the growing needs of our parish are alarining. We aro already stuipplylng rellef to 140 familtes.” The parish priest (the Rev. William Flat- ley) of Kulyara (Feb, 13) Hapleres aids “Crowds are daily around our committec- room erylng out for food, and wo have none to givo then, ag our funds are now at zero, and we have not to-day tringls penny to our erealt, ‘The total nmount received’ by our Committee since the commencement of tho distress from the Government Union Local Committee has been £28 in all ($120), for an Tratngiino aud poor district of over 600 fami- es. ‘The Rov. Thomas MeWaters parish priest of Milltown, Tuam, writes (Feb, 13): “Tn tbls parish, whieh fs seven mites In length and six or seven miles in width, there are over 100 families, holding, with tew ex- ceptions, from one to ten acres of tand. 0! these, 400 have atready been reported to us ns in distress, From morning tu night my house |y surrounded by anxtous applicants for rellef, Some bring with. them Jettors from their more affluent neighbors testifying to thelr distress, One man pttinto my hand no tess than six of these documents (proc: esses for debt)... . Ali the landlords of the parish with the exception of two—Messrs, Kenvan and Berningham—nro’ absentecs, This weok we have given relief to abort 800 fonilies,. After the next distribution our fiuids will be nigh exhausted. ‘Tho small pittance we received from tho Duchess of Marlburough's Fund would not be sufleient to proenra one pond of Indian imeal for of those. Jooking for it." s K, O'Dowd, of Castle Blakenny, 16: “for rellet for the poor and fauine-stricken, rack-rented tenantry of thls immediate Jocallty.”. “It is murder,” he adds, “fo seo stich fine and noble-hearted fellows on the verge of starvition,” "Thomas £, Joyce, of Lenane, writes Feb, 7: There are 1,200 persons on our reliel Jist, and now wo have nota penny, and the people have not a Dit to ent.” COUNTY S100. ‘The Rey. Mark Cooke, the parish priest of Keash, writes (Feb. ne “Wo have w0 familles on our books for Telicf, More require it, But for want of funds we could not five themnny, Even to the 800 on our books we ean give gniy a lite ule, On behalf of those 300 families, or 1,200 souls, we ask you to stretch forth to usa helping hand,” ‘The Caracastla Rellef Committes write fFehy o:" Wo have In this parish hundreds of ‘amifles who, ff left without relief, would inevitably starve in one week.? "The ev. Janes (Canon) MeDermott, parish rest of Buninaddin, writes thanklng the ant Lengzus for a donation of £20, So says: “Lamthe more thankful because of the promptitude with which it was sent,—red- tapeism, which fs fast strangling the people, and eireumiocution being slike dispensed with, It was urgently needed to provent famine making vieting among us... 6. When [ tetl you that there are 400 familles In this parish li) nn impoverished and destitute condition, you may judge how urgently wo want theitssistance of tho charitable through- out the world.” ‘The Rev, Androw Quinn, parish priest of Keverntawn (Heb, 16) writes: + There is no employment whatever for the Inboring classes. ‘The number at present on our books 1s 470 fainilies in need of food, ad about 200 more who are seeking for relief in seed potatoes and not in food, COUNTY DONEGAL, , Dr. Loynes,’ Bishop of Donegal, in ac- knowledging a donatton of £30 from the Na- tlonal Land League, after guarantecing its judicious expenditure, adds; ‘The great diticulty of the Commlttea is not to discover wad assist real objects of charity, but to find means wherewith to render even temporary assistance to tha great multitudes who aro evidently in want, The greatest efforts aro belug made to husband the funds which pub- Hie charity has placed at our disposal, for all feel that the worst Is yet to come, and that pails benevolence must sooner or later reak down under the strain that is put upon it. But every effort to savp up for the future fg sebat definnes by the dally-inercasing mume ber of new applicants and the eyer-growiln importunity of those whose Inst vestige o} patienes has vanishes with thotr last morsal of food. Lam informed on the best authori- ty, that many ure now living on thelr seed po- tatoes, Dr, Patrick McCullough, in behalt of the Rellef Counuittes of Clouniany, writes: “Pits district consists of a larga ponuln= tion of sinall farmers subsisting on small patches of from two to iive ucres of the poor soll of the Innishowen Mountaing—In most cases without fuel or potatoes, ‘To our own personal knowledge over 500 families are on the verge of starvation. Our funds are now exhnusted, and God knows it fs a heartrend- Ing sight tu see theso poor people in hun- dreds seek ald from us tn vain. Returning to the house where the old woman and the naked children depended, Berkely-like, on their Imagination for hent at tho quenched hearth, we find ¢ strong man, Idle and care- worn, leaning nyatnst the binck site wall, Afler commenting mournfully on his own nnd the children's condition, hegaya: ‘Thera are thirty more lke inyself in Killarnays we dire too poor to get any ono to bail us for the fishory money; the people who want money most In thesa bad tlnes won't get any from the Government oMeera, but if we had 21 exch of us to buy a spillard, wo'd try to putu. fagot of clothes on the children, park on. the hearth, anda bit in our am 6,—with the help of Goi!” COUNTY conic, The Rey, Jonn Carver (Roman Catholic Aduinistrator) applies to the Land League foraikto Kilwerth, Ie writes (Feb, 13): “Wo have retloved a great mnaiy dlurlug tho past twp months; the applientions are in- crenslng;, yesterday wo relieved over 100 fnmilies.? ‘ Dennts O'Shea, Secretary of the Castle town Berehayen Committee,—whieh ts coms poset of & Catholle Canon, an Teplsvopat or, and prominent laymon,—writes (Feb, Ad): 4 “ With £50 from the Mansion House Fund and £27 local subseriptions we have given temporary be aplyly lef to 1,731 persons, ‘The nium for food are daily fucreasing, Feyer and alekness of every kind 1s spread: 4 {ng among tho people in’ a most alarming Manners twenty-six cases of fever have been reported this week.” The Distribution Committes of Skit Dis- trlet, Diocese of Ross, writes: “Gur poor people ure In a most wrotehed way! Ho pene {ia persons who have been recent- ‘Tho lev. J Ayal, parish priest of Cahe- tagh, writes (Fob, 14): hive on thelr books 1,450 “the Committes orsOng Who werd found, from a house to house {uspection, to be in urgent want of food, Many of thesy ure fatiners who hava absolutely no means of proctelng seed to provide for. the contng year, ‘Ihe Kandiords are dolng nothing for ‘thelr tenants, but a tow who are promising seed potatoes require ag condition that all rents due be ald which Is an impossibility In thost eases, ‘The Commilties have nearly exhausted | thelr funds iv doting out suinft quantities of meal and tour to tose suitering fram netual hun- er, and It they cannot Reb further supplies ren pane soured fits: four tres will prove fatal to many tls year, and Ite conse. quences extended tnto the next,” . COUNTY CLARE, James Halpta, o large farmer from Rala- Dine, Newmarket or Fergus (hw t 9 brother of our * Aljles O'Hellly 7), writes (heb, £3 “Our district contalus 321 aeres, ‘Tho average poor rite this year Jy 1s, 1sgd. 45 ecnts on $3 on the pour-law valuation of the property) and the poar-rate collector infurins tne that he hing returned a large niumber who are unub& to pay their rates, “Vho popula. tion is over 4,000, ehietly small farmers and Jaborers who are very poor,” ‘Tho Nov. Michael Carey, Catholic curate, writes (Feb. 17) from Quin Districts There are 300 pee 1s ull our relicf-list, and the wumber fs every day increasing, + +. Woary trying to savo tho poorest and most destitute from the bitter pangs of hui wer. ‘The sinuller and poorer classes of farm -ers in tho; district are du many instances Ittle Yemoved from this miserable condition, but au honorable spirit or manliness und self-re- Hance awl provent them from becoming men- M. Quintivant writes (Feb, 18): trite is the: ost aoraly altéted locality in the west of Clare or Galway, There are 3,000 of the 4,500 peuple of this district tn the mountains, Ahere were hundreds toxtay looking for relief.” ‘The ‘Rev, M. i. Kenney, parish priest, writes from Acantii (Feb, 1a): “There is na partof Clare where hunger and inisery prevall to such an alarming exe tent asin iny parishes. ‘Cho potatoes have been an absolute failure.” COUNTY HOSCOMMON, ‘The Rey. I. Irwin, parish priest of Kil- aings, Enniscrone (Feb. 13), writes: “We have at this moment over 3,0000n our rollef lst... . Were It not for tho little allowed us outof the Duchess of Matlbor- ough Band numbers would have ‘perished from sheer starvation. Tha strangest prude of tho desperate condition of our poor ts foutd fn the almost uutyersal aprend of fame ine-fever sun thei, In one large town, And {townslity we have seven-cighths of the Inhabitants passing through this trouble, and other townlands bave been lately visited yy it. “Tho Rey. L Cashel writes from Keatus Feb, 15) that “the distress iv this district Is deep and widespread, and: likely to continue for many weeks, Within tho last fortnight our local committees have ministered to the wants of 466 families, representing 2,230 por- sols. Our funds ato now completely ex- hausted,” COUNTY FERMANAGH. The Rev. James O'Reilly, parish priest of Deerylin, writes (Fel, 17); “There fs great tlestitution here at present. ‘The small farmers and laborers lostthelr har- yest by the destrnetive foods of Lough Erne, ‘The ctops perished for miles niong, its banks, and are lying where thoy grew. We have in this parish v ridge of mountains some seven miles long or more, with a large population, Thoy are In a starving conditton,—in fact, neither food nor fuel.” COUNTY LEITRIS The Rev, P. MeMorrow, Catholle curate, writes (Feb, 8) from Manor Hamilton, that nee jiave now suflering mitch want 600 fani- 4 : Tho Roy. ‘Thomas Smith, parish priest, writes from Lower Drumrefily, Batlinamore (Fob. 17): Lam at present giving rellef te 183 families weekly, aud as there ix na local ald to ngsiat ne, and tho district ts. very ex tensive (nine mltes by three wide), it Is ut- tery Imposstble for mmo to meet the urgbnt distress, ‘The Rev, J, Kelley, Catholic curate. writes from Aughavass, Cuartigalien (Feb, 17): “There are in this parish 230 destitute fai- ilies sutfering the pangsof hungerand on the brink of actual starvation,” ‘The Key, John Suith, parish priest, writes froin Balllnagiera (Feb. 13): “Great distress prevalls at present in tho parish for want of tond, fuel, ete. ‘Tho relief afforded ts not able to cope with the extremo want which prevails; 300. fanillies are actually In want, besteging the comuiittee- rooms, clamoring for bread. I beg for ald to ward of famine and starvation from many a homestead,” COUNTY CAVAN, The Rey, Alexander, Sanders, Episcopal, Seeretary of tho Killesherdorey Relic! Soclety, of which the Catholic parish, priest, the Rey, P. Smith, fs Chairman, writes: “Upward of 1b0 families of tho small farmers and_others throwghout both the Parishes of Killesherdorey and: Ashileld ara at present in mitch poverty and distress,’” dohn MeManus writes from Belturbet (Feb. 3); “Phere are 300 families receiving re- Hef, and the greater number of these aro cases of aggravated dlstress,”” ‘These letters, It will be seen, are all of recent date, I have quoted from the mailsot two days only, for not one of these letters was delivered In Dublin later than forty: eight hours from tho timo of writing. ‘This League alone receives from sixty to elghty siteh letters everyday, ‘Tholrishin America haye tone well, but they must to better yet if they desire to boast that they suffered ‘no Irishman in treland to die of famine. AMES KEDPATH. THE COUNCIL. Still Working on the Latimates—Tho City-Kronsuror’s Way—Polico Jun- tices." The Connell held an adjourned meeting last evening, Mayor Harrison in the chair, and all the Aldermen present except Me- Nurnoy, Moyer (Fitteenth), and Jonas. On motion of Ald, Rawleigh the Counoil resolved itself into Committes of the Whole for at purpose of considering the Appropria- tion bill, BALANIES, Tho salaries of the Controller's office wero first taken up and passed ns follows, tho suns belng the same as Inst year: Controller, $1,500—nn Increase of $125 over the FInauce Conunittee; Chief Clerk, $2,500—an Ine crease of $125; principal bookkeeper, $1,800--an Increase of S00; assistant book- Keeper, $1,500—an increase of 375; Cnshier and Special Assessment Bookkecper, $1,800 an inerease of 300; Warrant-Record Clerk, 31,400—nn inereass of S70; Assistant War- tant-Reecord Clerk, $1;110; two) genoral clerks, $000 each—an increase of $45 each; Tax-Redemption Clerk, $1,000—nn tucrense of S40; messenzer, $30—1n Increase of 315, City-Clork's otllee—City Clerk, $3,250; Dep- uty City Clerk, $2,800, in Increase of S425; First-Assistant Clerk, $1,425, an Increase at Sil} Second-Assistant Clerk, $1,800, an ine crease of $05; messenger, $1,200, au increase of $212.50, Jaw Department—Gorporation Counsel, $6,000 (on sation of Ald, Rawlelah), an ine erese of $1,250; City a\tiorney, 85,0005 Pros: ecuting Attorney, $2,000, an increase of $1,000; assistant to Ch ‘Attorney, $1,800, an increase of S137; assistant to Corporation Cotnsel, $1,600, an Increase of $137.50; elurk to Corperation Cottnse], $1,000, an incrunse of POLICE JUSTICES, Along debates ocenrred over an tem of gato for a Volico Justlea. for the South Y Ald. Cullerton salt thors wore two court. roous at Harrison Street Station and two at Madison Streot, und, as one of the Justlees ant and took all tho changes of venue, he thought the salary ought to be divided. Me moved to make the sunt $3,000, ‘The Mayor sald there was but one Polleo Justice for each division, but it was neees- sary to havo another Justice near by, who, cases of change of venue, would trent erlminals as they deserved, and not let them off with a tight fine, [t was a great cons yentonce too, the polleemen saving time, ‘Tho second Justica (there 1s, however, none u te Bouche Side Court yet) receives his pay y fous, Ald, Swift, referring to the West Side, sald politics was mixed ip with the inatter,— ngersoll, a Democrat, having been put into tha Statlon so as to éut off Morrison, 0 Re- uublivan, whose oflee was noxt door—th aw requiring a erhninal to take a change. dt venue to the nearest Justice, Ald, Cullerton contended that the whole Item ($3,750) could be strleken out, since the statute was not peremptury as to the appolnt- ment of Police Justices, There was no aus thority for tha appropriation. ‘The Justices oceupled the Josidons shuply by virtue of o contract with the Controller. action was tinally postponed In order ta find out by what ‘authority the additional churt-rooius were put into the pollee stations, ‘Tho follawing ttems were then passed: City Collector's oMce—Collector, 83,000, nan Tuceeage of $100; clerks, $3,240, an increase 0! vi When tho item of “CITY TREASURER, $3,400," ‘was renched, Ald, Stauber moved to make it $5,000, “tent bo done,” sald the Mayor, “Tis salary Is fixed by law,” ‘Ifo has two clerks.” rojolned Staubor, “Whom he pays 34,5 Where does the other $000 como from? {t would look better Af fie wot $5,000, “Will you guarantee,” said Ait, “thatho wil not do What he oughtn’t to [ff he got i * No," said Stauber, 7. “Interest,” suggested Dixon, b a That he shouldn't take,” rejoined Stau- er. 3 ean you prevent him?” asked Swift. Btauber didn't reply, . Tho tem was passed, % These salaries were next fixed: City: Physteinn, $1,800; an increase of $90; Scrip Registrar, 81, WOOs An licrense af S80, Tho School Stuking Fund item of $1,000 Wis agrecil to, Then came a snag In the shape of athe ci rie SCHOOL, ESTIMATES, No first item wad “repairs of school- houses, $20,000," over which there was a te- dons debate, some of the Aldermen wanthig tho figures of the Board (83,050) pubatitnted* others to stand hy those of the Finance Com inittee, and ong (Cullerton) to make. the aun what ft wns ‘Inst year, $13,600, though die Would ade $3,400 for “Luckspolnting Bey ‘The Board's figures were agreed to. The Committee then arosa ane asked leave sit again, which was granted. A motion of Ald, Dixor - tendent of Schools be invited to meen aes noxt meeting was agreed to. " ‘The Council then adjourned, . MARCH 6, 188b— x" LEADVILLE. A Dolightful Winter—Much Snow, but No Very Cold Weather. The Output of the Camp for 1880 Estimated at Thirty Million Dollars. Fryer HIN ond Its Hines—tho Amie, Little Pitts. burg, Little Chief, and Chrysolite. Onrbonate Hill—A Rich Strike in the Onli- fornia & Colorado Tunnol, Speciat Correspondence af The Chicago Tribune, LeAvvitLE, Colo, February, 1880.—'The winter season here, contrary to my expecta- Hons, hasbeen asa wholes delighttu one, Thad nerved and prepared myself to meet a winter of Aretlc cold, and winds of most plerelng sharpness, which L expected would sweep from thelr lofty mountain-thrones nerosa theso slopes; and had fatd ina stock of chanots-skin unilerwenr, thick weol-lined German socks, and a double portion of warm Californin blankets. But as yet the oxtras have reposed peacefully in my wardrobe. In November and December it snowed almost dally, and heaped np over mountain and val- loy n heavy white mantic, pure as tho prayer of Innocence, and not solled and flecked, like yours, with the smoke of a hundred thou- sand chininoys, ‘The oldest settlers sny they cannot remember of g 80 GREAT A SNOWFALL, orso uniformly deep a bed of it, ‘This prom- {ses well for the ngricultural interests of the State for the coming season, as the farmers here depen not at ull on rainfall, but on tr- rigation from the sumberless streams, which gathor their supplics from the melting snows. These are distributed over tho prairies and vailey-lands by ditches switcher off from the, bruoks, and thus help to complete the wondrous transformation of silica, and lime, and magnesia into wheat and corn, Fortt- nately, the monntain-snows do not melt sud- denly as with you, cresting a freshet, and then Teaving a drought; but, disappearing first in tho valleys, the IIne gradunily aseends the inountain-sldes, and is not wholly gone from the higher peaks before October storms: begin to heap them up again, And hot alone will the farmer gain by the extraordinary snowfall of this winter,—for many a guleh, whose sands and gravel are tieh with the itaky gold, will have to GIVE UP ITS THEASURES, which ordinarily cannot be worked Iong on account a€ the scarcity of water, True, the great depth hag almost put 2 stop to pros- Pecting for tho precious metals, except with the most adyonturons ond hardy, and in favored localities; but soon the warm sin will have uncovered the craggy peaks, and revealed tho out-cropping velns upon south ern slopes, and the censeless tramp will com- menee agaln. In Leadville and the camp {minediately adjoining for soveral miles, the deep white blanket is seamed and crossed in every direvtlon with reads packed solid by the mstant procession of wagons and 3 going to or coming trom tho in. operation, and by the nurrow, hiard-crusted trail oof — the miner passing to his dally worle in the pros- peet-hole, 'Pheso are packed so hard as or- dinarily to beur the weight of n. horse; but Jet him step a few Inches to either side, and down he sinks to uncomfortable depths. Of tho trails, and over the mountains, the oly means o£ locomotion are show-shars, Of these, to kinds are In use, ‘Che imnost common fs THE NORWEGIAN, which consists only of two long thin boards of some hard wood, about twelve feet long ant four to five inches wide, turned up o Tit tle at the forward oyds, and arranged In. tho middle with a stray to fasten to the foot, Using these, an experienced navigator will mako great time over tho deepest snows. | He can ascend even very steep places by striking out ikea skater in in oblique direction, or asashlp tacks agalust the wind: and goin down when the: way Js clear, with a larga pote which he uses as a brake, carry Ing itvuder his arm or riding It as a boy doey his broomstick, ho will sometiines travel at tho rato of a mile Ina minute, A“ tender- foot” rarely venttres on this style of Jocomo- tion, n3 he fseonscious of n not remote dan- ger of being “telescoped” aguinst somo trea or rock, neninst which his swift but unruly steeds might take him; and he prefers tho safer and slower INDIAN SNOWBIIOF, which Is an oval frame of willow or hickory, about three feet long and 2 foot wide, with'a network of cord crossing It, and a plece of rawhide tn the midds drawn tightly: ON the cords, to which the foot is fastened. ‘These witl notsink deeply into, the snow, and will not slide,—the only trouble in thelr uso aris- ing from the possibility of tripping one shoe against Uke other in stepping, and se flinging: hw hend-tirst into the ¢ Aa snowdrifts, ‘The weather here during January was glorious. ‘The nights were rold, but not ox- tremely 80, rarely descending below zero; ant, In the morning, the grand old sun, Hft- ing his briht face nbove tho lofty summits of the Mosquito Range, ding down a wealth of pleasant warmth, which made this clear, plire, sweot-seented air A LUXURIOUS DATIL, Then, too, wo hayo had but very little wind to compinin of in the camp. Oceasionally, at night a gust has come sudden asa than derholt, and shaken our hotises, just to show us whal it eould doy but ourdays have gen- erally beon serene, ‘Choy say that March and April aro the frolic months of the winds but, whatever surprises may owaltus thon, t feel ke thankhig Nature for her forbear- ance now, Tho result of the fino season to the camp has been, that not only has the output of the mines been handled easily, and outdoor im provements been, progressing continously, but never in her history have so many dwelle Ing-houses. and mereantile buildings been erveted ag have been built during thls whiter, orare In rosrreas now, Leadville understands her mighty wealth of imineral deposits burbod ail arotind her, and, like a conselous Queen, she marches to her throne without a qual of fear or doubt, ‘Think of welty of THIRTY THOUSAND INHANITANTS a thousand miles from any great conmnercial inart or centré, sprung fn two years trom Mitlo miners’ camp fur up the mountain slopes, and already possessing | water- works, — gas-works, - banks, opera-houses, telephonic — communteatia and nearly all the nceessories of metropolitan Juxury| Sho Is already the commerclal rival ot Den ver, and several rallronds are struggling through the gorges and over imowuttuln pisses to reach her soonest, and secure tho varrying trado of her great Importa and vast bullfon returns, She already anticipates commandiig the trade of the vast mineral elds opened to the west of her, and is pro paring to meet the demand. Her mereantile houses Are crowded with business; her jour. nls are full of news ttems, aud her men of enterprise, In order to show that the Lead- yille boom ty not a wild, unreal, crazy out burst of local enthusiasm, it ison Lcessar' to say that, while Clear Creek, G) pln, Boule der, and other counties have for years been working Food and paying mines, yet, out of the grand total ot production of precious metals for the entiro State during A.D, 1870, whieh ts summed nt something over §15,000,- 000, the output of this single young, half fledged camp, with only the crudest appll- Auiees, WAS §19,093,508, For 1880 the nuunber of producing mines here will be multiplied many-fold, LT aee in every direetion new mlnes Which have been de veloped, and ore day by day Joining the grand column, whose nantes did niet appear we ull in the records of fast year; While such great properties ag the Robert E.. Lee; Seouper, wugsier Glass, Colorado Eelnee Binet Prive, Mlner-Ioy, and many others fad only entered mi appearanes as rich producers bé- foro the gntes of 1879 wore closed, Daring the winter 4 great number of prospects have been developed into mines by continuous work, and the alder imines, have greatly Ine erensed thelr facilitles; so that E think It re- quires ho stretch of prophetic vision to fore- cast the output of thiscamp alone for 1880 at not less than ‘Than tothe total for the State will bead en to the total for the will beadded Rightly, fecretions froma the ert almost ogulta,” the vas son country, from which come fabujoys tales of enor usly-rich deposits ant fissure-velns, told tho hardy and fearless prospecters who if penetrated even within the sealed portals of the Uto Indian Reservation, ‘The rleht silyer-beds and golden scams of the Pitkin Distriets the chlorides, brittle allver, and sulphurets of Ruby Camp, Gothic, Roar- Ing Forks, and Coal Creek; the immense three-fold carbonate deposits of Karle River, olores, Kokomo, Carbonateville, Breckin- ridue, and Buekskln; the great argentlferous aalons beds of Penteytvania Guich, forse shoe. and the Upper and South Arkansas Districts; the hundreds of nines in tha Silver Git and San Juan regions, with the nsultl tude of mining-camps too numerous to name, WHE unite to minke a gran total at whilelt THE WOULD SIAL. WONDER, True, ft requires both muscle and money to develop all these; but the muscle and tho money are coming. Alrendy the scouts are beatnging to arrive, and, when the spring. suns shall have melted the snows and opened the gates of the mountains, tt eragay slopes will be covet the valteys nnd with the white tenfs of the army of accupation, gathered from city, and hamlet, and farm-house, all over the Iand, In tho outside camps referred to, there are many first-class imines, aid many others which have been doveloped sumetontly to prove their great value,—of which soon I shall make capeetal mention; and 1 will now speak of a few of tho typical mines of Lead- villo, - FRYER MILL early took the lead as the most Important re- pository of the carbonate-deposits of this vi- cinity, and has this far maintained its pre- embience,—though it may be fiom the fact of its Lelng tha best deve! oped portion of the camp, and the most accessible, Other lorall- tivs are rapidly coming to the front, ‘This is agenily sloping elevation, rising from the clty-limits on the northeast, and les between the Big Evans and Little Stray-Horse Gulehes, [ts areais perhaps a mile from West to vast, and lialfa mile from, north to south. It ls separated from what {s known as:‘Upper fryer Hil by a stlght valley or de- pression oh the. eastern side, At the enstern slope, sand with Hnos_ stretch- ing aeross and into this vatley, are the Climax, Dunkin, Matchless, antl the famous Itobort 5, Lee, of which Intter I fer ae tall ne nit in late fetter, Adjoin- Ing theso on the westis THF, AMIE MINE, owned by the Amie Mining Company. This Is a very fine property, which has been al- most entirely developed since Inst July. It was purelinged of tho locaters Inst June by the Hon.S, B. Elkins and lis brother, of Santa Fé, N. Mex, and ono or two others, for $75, ood; ‘nnd nt, the thu It had only two rudo prospecters’ shafts and no plant,—its sup- pose yalue ‘lgpenelty y nlinost entirely on its Binxtnity. to the Lite Pittsbure and Little Jhivt properties, I remember that Inst july, as I was returning froni n tri New Moex- feo, I met Mr, Elkins, the very plensant Su- perintendent of this inne, who was golng to Leadville with his family to take charge of theproperty. Mavingamplecapital, the work of development was pushed rapidly. Five bulldings for oMees, shaft and ore houses wero billt, und excelicnt machinery was provided, All of the work was done in the ext manner, Withoutregard to expense; and yet in December last Mr, Etkins assure mo that already the entire investment, Incl: ing thecost of tho mine and the improve- ments, had been more than twice repaid to them. from tho net returns of the ore shipped, Lhave been greatly pleased with THE UNDERGROUND WonkINas ofthismine. The mineral deposit Nes In a nearly horizontal position; and Mr. Elkins, contrary to the usual custom, by whieh the 5 ore tramways are lal in the | work- ing levels of the mineral itself, has sunk his shafts through the mineral, and has drifted his working levels and ‘galleries below {t, tlmbering them In the most sub- stantial manner, and faylng his tramways therein, Atcertain intervals in te roof of these levels he has made openings, or shoots, through which ‘the ore [3 loaded into the cars, and conveyed to the hojsting shafts, In this way these levels aro kept clean and free from the ore and waste, and no interruption occtrs to the handling of the ore, [ speak especially of this plan beeause itisexception- al and worthy of Imitation. ‘The next milne to the west of the Aimte is THE CELEDRATED LITTLE SITTSBUNG, whoso oft-repeated lilstory is like a tale of romance, and which founded the fortunes of. the bonanza millionaire, Lieut-Goy, Tabor, The story of how the Bropristor ot the Nttle Arocery In California Gulch “grub- staked” the two Garman shoemakers, Ils and Koch; and how they started with ple! axes, shovels, and a jug of whisky, and got ttred when they reached the summit of Fryer IUill, and so refused to go uny further, but commenced sinking a shaft there, withottt, tho slightest Indication of value below them, and struck tho Little Pittsburg with its chormous wealth of mineral—has been an oft-tuld tale. Goy, Tabor, Senator Chaffee, and others bought out, tho lueky Germs wt 8 prico which enrlehed thom, but which was butaginall percentuge of what the former Kuve realized from it, they. consoll- dated it with the Dives, Winnemue, aud Now Discovery, stocked the prop. erty - at $20,000,000, nnd then — sold the greater poi fon of the stock. Gov, Tahor reinvested most fortunately In other mines, ant now enjoys a princely revenue. ‘The Little Pittaburg is 9 grand property and, tne der the management of Col, Joe Wilson, with Gen, Bearcs as Mining Superintendent, it has for nearly a rent paid monthly divt- den of $100,000, besides piling up n-vast re+ serve fund. Its output ls about 125 tons per day, averaging 100 ounces of silver tothe tun, Adjotning this proporty is THE LITTLE CHIEF, witich Ihave before deseribed, It was pur- ehased over a year ago by John Y, Farwell and others, of Chicago, for $300,000. ‘They developed ft by four shafts, aid numerous rifts, ete, erected — good — buildings and oa camelter; and, after gettlng back in dividends an funonn more than equal to all Its cost snd “their ex- peniitures, thoy sold it Jast fall to n coin pany for. $1,700,000, and it {s sow paylng a fing dividend on the Investment. ‘he ont- putis about eighty. tons per day, but this amount will soon be largely Incrensed. Next ta the west, and altnost overlooking: the city, is the superb property of TUE CHRYSOLITE MINING COMPANY, which {s evidently by far the most valuable niining property In Colorada, It is a eon- Bolldntion of elght or nine first-class mines, fd covers an area of about fifty-six neres, ‘Tho development is conducted under, the charge, of Manager W. a Kova, old Californin and Nevada mine ing expert, and robably . the most selentiic nnd experienced | mineralogist and inetallurgist in the State, Ile also is the managor of the Littl: Chief Mine, ‘The tt derground workings of this iite ara 50 0x- tensive, and the are-boily so great and varied incharacter, that [shall make ft the subject of aspecial letter in the near future, Mr. J. W. Marden, formerly Treasurer of the Pacitls Mail Btenuistiiy Comtany, is the rnecamplished nancial agent of the Chrysollte Company; and iy thoir hands the business ts carrled on with the preeislon of clockwork. Gov, ‘Tabor isn large stockholder In this Company, and draws the comfortable dividend of 350,000 per month from Its Immense returns. Many other mines on this hill are ‘strking the contact” this winter, and will be carly added to tho Ist of rich producers, CARHONATE MILT, © adjoining the clty on the southeast, comes next {it lmportance, y, carry lng Hpon its gentle slopes the splendid Mornlig Star, Kyoning “Star, Carbonute, TAttre iant, Yankee Dooile, Pendery, Glass, mid many other slelty-paying mites, of witch £ luve spoken in former letters, A very important strike, Indfcating tho ex- sstenco of a very rich and hitherto un "1 contact, was recently made in the Call & Colorado ‘Tunuel which penetrates the base. of Carbonate TL about fifty feet above California Quich, and just at tho southern Jhuits of the elty, “Thora had been many prophecles of fallure for this tunnel,—imany so-called experts claiming that Jt was below the contact af the Morning Star, Carbouate, ete,, and far too high forthe lower or Pendery contact; yet the owners pushed alead, and at 500 fect thoy opensd = timer 4 fuels CONTACT, ‘i wileh they followed up, aul uncavered a rich body of hard and sole enrbonates rin- ning seventy-one ounces in silver, and with povkets of chlorides, some of which assayed ‘as high ws 16,000 ounces of silver to the fon, One remarkable feature of this contact | that the hunglng wall Js 1 six-feet bady o! Ihuerock, carrylng forty ounces of silver to the ton, and which rock is so valuable to the ineltersas % flux that they carry It sway from io mines and return all of the silver ‘to the owners, the value of the flux being equal to the eostof reduction, ‘This tunnul fs owned largely by Mr. L. J. Smith and other oficers of the ferchants’ & Mechantes’ Bank of Leadville, aud must prove a yery. valuable property, GF otlier sining discovert in. South Evens 1 ig and Tite Braue and ol T po: 0 18 cainp, whic! thick and fast dusing this wtor, L wilt write S00, - = DB Covent | PAGES. <i SEV “THE BEST SEWING WACHINE IN TRH WoRLD. SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED OATA« LOGUE No. 230, RaAN AGENT WILL DELIVER A MACHINE AT YOUR RESIDENCE, FREE OF CHARGE, SUBJECT TO APPROVAL. ny) ¢ LIGHTNING SEWER” AGENTS WANTED. 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