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GEORGETOWN. 41

“The position of Georgetown relative to the mining
interest there is not only important, but the basis of a -
‘grand and prosperous growth. The great silver district
is about 30 miles long from east to west, and about 18
miles broad from north to south, and Georgetown is
as nearly in the centre as the nature of the face of the
country will admit.

“Within this area there are millions of dollars worth
of ore in sight, and the mills and furnaces of the
Stewart, Spanish Bar, Idaho, Masonville, Whale and
Lebanon companies. The total value of ore shipments
from this region last year was $1,518,653.60, and the
present monthly shipments from Georgetown alone
average $80,000. The yield of silver in Clear Creek
County has advanced from $15,000 per annum, in 1867,
to $1,773,841 in 1872, and is constantly increasing.

“Georgetown is feeling the stimulus of this increasing
product, and with new discoveries, improvements of
old mines, erection of mills and furnaces, and better
freighting facilities, the place is going ahead with a
substantial prosperity unexcelled in Colorado. The
total marketable production of Clear Creek County is
about 215 tons per day. This all consists of ore carry-
ing over 80 ounces to the ton, As will be seen, George-
town is really living off the gleanings of its richest ores.
The great body of mineral hasn’t been touched.

“For a while last winter the mills refused to treat
ore that run less than 300 ounces to the ton; and still
the country lives.

In Nevada the mills work, with profit, ores that run