Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1895 — RICH GOLD FIELD. [ARTICLE]

RICH GOLD FIELD.

Miners Predict Sensational Developments V in Summit County, Col. •Denver, Col., Dec. 3.—Miners who are familiar with all that is being done in the development.jof the vast- gold fields of Colorado predict, that the.mining sensation of 1896 will ceil ter in ‘Summit county It is estimated that the county has yielded in the past $50,000,000 in gold, and not one per cent, of the placer grounds have been worked over. Syndicates have secured thousands of acrek of rich placer grounds in the neighborhood of Breckenridge, and' next spring exploration will be begun on a gigantic scale.