A district wide survey naming Summitville, Jasper and Platora. The paper and the date are both unknown and the curator would like to hear from anyone who recognises it.
A survey of the county's mining written for a general reader. It describes an immense dike of porphyry and porphyritic quartzite several thousand feet in width and nearly twelve miles long extending along the Alamosa river, whose intersections with mineral veins mark the camps of Summitville, Jasper and Platora.
On Jasper it reports that Monte Vista people are behind the Jasper Mining company, which has done a large amount of work in the district, and that a mill will be put in this year for the treatment of the low grade ores in sight. The familiar problem is stated again: small veins and streaks show marvelously rich ore, but transportation costs are such that even the high grade cannot be moved at a profit.
It also carries the only production figure anywhere in this collection. The old Tewksbury mine at Summitville is a wonder that has produced over $3,000,000 in its day. That is Summitville and not Jasper, so it is recorded here and kept out of the Jasper ledger.
Neither the paper nor the date is known. Nothing on the cutting names either. The references to Summitville's revival under leasers and to a mill still to be built put it somewhere around the turn of the century, but that is an impression rather than a finding, and it is left undated here rather than guessed at. It is the last item in the clippings for that reason.
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