Kent, L.A.:

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

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