The earliest clipping in the collection. W. S. Judd cuts a vein 382 feet into Cornwall mountain, and the Chieftain expects it to rival the Comstock.
The earliest clipping the museum holds, reprinted from the Alamosa Independent and now the start of the record by five years. W. S. Judd had been running a cross-cut tunnel into the west end of Cornwall mountain and at 382 feet struck a vein of dark quartz carrying galena with copper and iron pyrites. He had run thirty feet into it without reaching the far wall.
The grades given are per ton, not quantities. The vein runs over twenty-five dollars in silver, and is very rich in gold and could be mined and milled for less than seven dollars a ton. Strikes on Jones mountain are said to assay as high as over $100, and the Cornwall company's cross-cut to the Perry group is expected to meet a vein running $300 in one streak at 900 feet.
The tunnel is called the Minneapolis and is supposed to be an extension of the Guadaloupe lode, which is the same Guadalupe group that Alva Adams patented and that is still being leased in the 1913 clippings thirty one years later.
Read the last lines as promotion. The company behind Judd are worth in the millions, a smelter was to go up at once, and the strike insures the building of the railroad to Cornwall and the Summit from Alamosa. No railroad was ever built to Cornwall.