The Morning News

Cripple Creek, Col., boasts the proud title of the "greatest gold camp on earth," says the Chicago Chronicle. Cripple Creek is seven years old. The first year the output was $600,000. The last year—1898—it was $15,000,000. The total to date is in round numbers $68,000,000. The deepest shaft in Cripple Creek by 200 feet is the John A. Logan, owned by the Stratton Independence Company, which is 1,200 feet deep. Hence Cripple Creek's $68,000,000 output is the record of the first 1,000 feet depth attained only by the most prominent miners, with hundreds of holes less than 500 feet in depth. Cripple Creek's dividends aggregate about $8,250,000. If the profits of private companies are added the amounts must be doubled. Besides $20,000,000 or more has been expended in equipment and other permanent improvements and stored up in reserve funds. Cripple Creek, the city of 30,000 inhabitants, and Cripple Creek, the camp, are substantially the same. Most of the gold has been produced within twenty-five square miles of the city hall and most of the people get their mail at Cripple Creek.