MINEBK00514

• County: San Juan
• Document: Manager
• Suffix: B

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~l. A. Lee,
Cocs:issioner of Limes,
Denver, Colorado.
Sir:-
I herewith submit the following review of tl:e mining, smelting attd mill-
operaticns in San Juan County during the year 1900.
An era of aotivity and prosperity verging closely upon a real mining
fairly some up the situation in San Juan County during t2:e past seaeo~t. It
not a boom, or excitement, based upon the discovery of rich ore in a new dis-
eitl~ the usual attendant stampede, but is a healthy substantial growth and
along conservative and safe lines, in every branch of tits business.
!e the natural sequence of leKitimate and intelligent effort, applief by pract-
lend eY.illed operators, in a mining district of almost unlimited reaourcea~
There conditions require modern applied ocience and the best talent to obl~ain
.most favorable results is converting the Tae ores into bullion or the aemi-
product, suitable for the smelters.
In those respects San Juan County hoe already attained a high degree of
and hsa adrsaced rapidly in the past yeas.
Ia tozmmags sad value of product, San Juan will show a greater increase
any of its neighboring mining counties, the past year. :its increase will
,Pro>tably exceed that of 3E~99 by fifty per cent.
T11e force of men employed uadergsound and in the mills emsltera and
transportation is nearly double the number engaged one year ago.
17hile progress in mining and esploiting new ore reserves has been un_
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