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are the Alaska, Acapulco and Victory, and all were included in the property 

 acquired by the company, which was organized on a basis of a capital stock of 

 $2,000,000, in shares of $25 each. Attracted by the reports of the richness of 

 the San Juan veins, Messrs. Tabor and Rische investigated the country, and pur- 

 chased in the Red Roger and Saxon. Afterward they tried to buy out the 

 mines above named, but could only get a one half interest, which they now hold. 

 The new company will work their mines, using all the force that can be 

 operated advantageously and for the present will sell their ore. Their property 

 is most advantageously located in respect to reduction works, it being four miles 

 to the San Juan reducing works at Gladstone : three miles to Animas Forks con- 

 centrating works; ten miles to Ouray, where there are three smelters; eleven to 

 Silverton and twenty-two to Lake City. In the Adelphia is a vein of gray cop- 

 per, with spar and pyrites, of five feet of mineral which averages five hundred 

 ounces, it runs all the way from ninety ounces to eleven hundred. The property 

 is a veritable bonanza and is held for profit and not for sale. The purchase is a 

 significant fact, showing that the true fissure veins of the San Juan country are 

 regarded as good investments, even by men who made their fortunes in carbon- 

 ate fields. It proves that all the capital and all the enterprise will not locate in 

 one place or in one spot, but that the wonderful resources of Southwestern Colo- 

 rado are beginning to receive due recognitition and suitable acknowledgement. 



— Denver Democrat. 



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The comparatively new business of exporting live cattle from this country to 

 Great Britain has had very remarkable vicissitudes — at times returning good 

 profits, and at others entailing heavy losses. Several hundred head per week are 

 being shipped from our port, but it may be rather premature to judge what will 

 be the final result in this department of the business if the existing restrictions are 

 long maintained. It looks, however 1 , as if there might be a renewal on a much 

 larger scale of the former only partially successful effort of shipping dressed beef. 

 This branch of the business has of late excited a great deal of attention so far as 

 Boston is concerned, and quite extensive preparations are under way for its de- 

 velopment. One of our Liverpool lines has already several steamers fitted with 

 refrigerator accommodations on a liberal scale, and similar arrangements are be- 

 ing introduced into another line. In fact, one steamer was delayed here a day 

 the present week, so as to be supplied with a refrigerator room. One of the very 

 largest cattle dealers of this country is in town, partly to make arrangements as to 

 sending dressed beef of his own to Liverpool, and he has forwarded several heavy 

 shipments lately from this port. Last year, a number of the shipments of beef 

 arrived on the other side in poor and unprofitable order, owing to long voyages 

 or inadequate refrigerator arrangements, or both. The refrigerators already in- 



