LEADVILLE. THE CITY. MINES AND BULLION PRODUCT. PERSONAL HISTORIES OF PROMINENT CITIZENS. FACTS AND FIGURES NEVER BEFORE GIVEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Kent, L.A.:

Published by Denver: Daily Times Steam Printing House and Blank Book Manufactory, 1880.

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A rare guide to the business of mining during the Colorado Silver Boom, targeting potential miners and mine investors and published just three years after the founding of Leadville. The text describes the basic geography and climate of the area as well as the principal mining districts; provides brief histories and production values for the sixteen Leadville smelting companies during 1879; discusses how ore is bought and sold as well as the ore prices that could be attained; and provides a current mining outlook. A complete review of the city itself follows - with a list of its elected officials, departments, and commerce, as well as brief biographies of nine "Representative Men" who struck it rich in Leadville, and how they did so. The book ends with a discussion of the mines outside of the Leadville district and the railways that then serviced the state. The advertisements that precede and follow the text is also targeted to miners and investors, representing Leadville businesses from hotels, clothiers, and railways to abstract offices, banks, steam fitters, and machine shops. "One of the earliest histories of the noted mining camp. Kent, a trained newspaper man, reached the diggings at the inception of the boom, in September of '77 and spent upwards of two years at the mines. He saw Leadville grow from a wild mountain camp of some three-hundred prospectors to a thriving city of more than thirty-five thousand inhabitants. He gives a detailed account of the town's first days; murders and clashes; difficulties of settlement; beginnings of law & order; town organization; mining discoveries; the various camps; banking and other establishments; railroad development." - Eberstadt. Rare Book Hub locates only three copies in the market since 1940 (two of those offered by the Eberstadts). A rare and important guide, providing the basics of the mining business in Colorado to prospective investors and men eager to strike it rich as miners during the height of the Colorado Silver Boom. HOWES K95. LINGENFELTER CO:2020. WILCOX p.67. WYNAR 1116. EBERSTADT 115:309. Modern three-quarter orange morocco and cloth, spine gilt with raised bands. Photostat of original front wrapper bound in at front. Ex-Denver Public Library, with ink stamp and identification numbers on verso of titlepage; a previous inked identification mark effaced from titlepage. Fore-edge of final leaf reinforced on verso. Internally clean and bright. Overall very good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: LEADVILLE. THE CITY. MINES AND BULLION PRODUCT. PERSONAL HISTORIES OF PROMINENT CITIZENS. FACTS AND FIGURES NEVER BEFORE GIVEN TO THE PUBLIC.
• Publisher: Denver: Daily Times Steam Printing House and Blank Book Manufactory, 1880.