Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1880 — Near to the Skies. [ARTICLE]

Near to the Skies.

The highest mine in the United States, and probably in the world, is the Present Help, situated on Mount Lincoln, in the main range of the Rocky mountains, Park county, Col. According to Prof. Hayden’s Government surveys, the mountain is 14,297 feet high, and the mine’s boarding-house, built alongside the main shaft, is only 140 feet below the extreme summit. This leaves it 14,157 feet above the sea level, and makes it undoubtedly the highest inhabited hoqse in tbe world,