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COLORADO. 



a busy mining center. A considerable variety 

 of ores are found, and smelting-works have 

 been established within the year. In Illinois 

 Gulch chlorides, horn silver, and silver glance 

 have been taken out, besides rich deposits of 

 drift -gold ; silver carbonates have been worked 

 on Nigger Hill, and chlorides and carbonates 

 on Mineral Hill, Gibson Hill, Carbonate Flats, 

 and at other points. 



Rico is a carbonate camp on the Rio Dolores, 

 which was first settled in the spring of 1879. 

 It is situated forty-five miles from Silverton, 

 on the mesa lands of the Dolores Mountains. 

 The surface ores yield silver only ; the lodes im- 

 prove below and contain considerable gold. 

 The mines developed have yielded from $100 

 to $600 or more a ton. 



Tomichi, another new settlement of promise, 

 situated on the summit of the Great Divide 

 near the head-waters of the South Arkansas, 

 and at the source of Tomichi Creek, gives 

 quartz-ore containing silver glance associated 

 with pyrites and native brittle silver, inclosed 

 in metamorphic granite. The ores are very 

 rich, some assaying over $600 a ton. 



Of the many camps in the Gunnison coun- 

 try, where, according to all indications, some 

 of the most valuable deposits on the continent 

 will be found, Aspen is that which is at pres- 

 ent attracting the most attention, and is sec- 

 ond to no camp in the Gunnison country, unless, 

 perhaps, the Ten Mile. Its ores smelt freely, as- 

 say well near the surface, and improve with the 

 depth of the developments. There are large 

 bodies of galena-ore carrying native silver, 

 carbonate of lead in large quantities, black sul- 

 phurets, ruby and brittle silver, with chlorides 

 and bromides, and various oxides of iron, anti- 

 mony, and manganese. The geological forma- 

 tion of this remarkable silver belt, extending 

 fifteen miles in a northwest direction to Castle 

 Forks, consists of granite, schistose rocks, 

 quartzite, limestone, spars, trachytic rock, and 

 drift. The whole mass of Aspen Mountain 

 seems to be veined with rich bodies of high- 

 grade ores. 



An anti-Chinese riot took place in Denver 

 on the 31st of October. A fear had long pos- 

 sessed the miners and other workingmen of 

 the State lest the Chinese should be brought in 

 from California to compete with them in their 

 occupations. This feeling had been wrought 

 upon by the recent publication of the forged 

 Garfield letter, and the popular hatred of the 

 Chinese inflamed to a dangerous pitch. The 

 exciting cause of the Denver riot was a fight 

 in a saloon over a game between a white man 

 and a Chinaman. A mob immediately gathered 

 in the streets, which soon numbered over 1,500 

 excited men, and rushed toward the district in- 

 habited by the Chinese, shouting threats of 

 murder and destruction. During the day they 

 were kept back by the police and firemen, 

 who stretched ropes across the streets leading 

 to the threatened quarter, and poured water 

 from the engines into the crowd as often as it 



threatened to break through the cordon. Near- 

 ly all the Chinese in the place, about 160 alto- 

 gether, were found by the police and escorted 

 to the jail for safety. Several were caught 

 by the mob and maltreated, and two of these 

 beaten to death. In the evening the rioters 

 broke into many houses occupied by Chinese 

 as dwellings and laundries, and destroyed their 

 household goods and washing utensils and the 

 clothes of their customers. A couple of thou- 

 sand special policemen were sworn in. Upon 

 an attempted renewal of the disturbances the 

 ensuing morning many rioters were arrested. 

 Several hundred were also arrested upon war- 

 rants. 



The Republican Convention to nominate 

 delegates to vote for a Presidential candidate 

 at Chicago, met at Denver, May 25th, request- 

 ed the delegation to support the candidacy of 

 Grant, and named Elaine as their alternate 

 choice. The following resolutions upon the 

 TJte difficulty and upon silver coinage formed 

 a part of their platform : 



Resolved, That we are uncompromisingly opposed to 

 monometalism, and declare our firm determination to 

 use all legal and proper means to reestablish silver as 

 the equal of gold as a money metal ; that we are in favor 

 of the free and unlimited coinage of silver with gold. 



Resolved, That the Democratic Congress of the Uni- 

 ted States, in its treatment of the Indian question, has 

 failed to discharge a high public duty imposed upon it 

 by the progress of civilization. That we do not rec- 

 ognize the claim that any treaty exists between the 

 national Government and the Utes, the treaty which 

 did exist having first been violated in the most savage 

 and brutal manner by the Indians themselves. We 

 therefore most heartily pledge the cooperation of the 

 Eepublican party of Colorado to the doctrine of speedy 

 removal. 



The Democratic Convention to select dele- 

 gates for the Presidential Convention came to- 

 gether at Denver, June 3d. The resolutions 

 adopted read as follows : 



Resolved.! That we, the Democracy of Colorado, are 

 in favor of the full and unlimited coinage of silver. 



Resolved, That we will support the nominee of the 

 Cincinnati Convention. 



Resolved, That the Utes must go. 



The Greenback-Labor Convention was held 

 at Denver, June 15th. The national platform 

 and nominations were endorsed, and Rev. A. 

 J. Chittenden was nominated for Governor. 



The regular State Convention of the Demo- 

 cratic party was held at Leadville, August 18th. 

 The nominations were John S. Hough, of Hins- 

 dale, for Governor; W. S. Stover, for Lieuten- 

 ant-Go vernor; Charles O. Unfug, for Secretary; 

 Dr. A. Y. Hull, for Treasurer ; R. G. Bray, for 

 Auditor ; and J. C. Stallcup, for Attorney-Gen- 

 eral. R. S. Morrison was put in nomination 

 for member of Congress. The following reso- 

 lutions were adopted, in spite of earnest pro- 

 tests from J. Y. Marshall, of Leadville, and 

 others, by a large majority vote : 



Resolved, 1. That we reiterate the words of our 

 standard-bearer, that the military should be at all 

 times subordinate to the civil law. 



2. That whereas, it is provided by the Constitution 

 of the State that the supreme executive power is lodged 



