Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1879 — Enterprise in Leadville. [ARTICLE]

Enterprise in Leadville.

Ernest Ingeraoll, in the October Hcrlbner. Among the first in Leadville there happened to be a merchant who once handled a wholesale business of three millions a year as a grocer in New °rk City. Failing there, he came to Leadville penniless. But his sagacity seized upon this opportunity, andgetting together sufficient funds, he built a vast shed of slabs and filled It with rows of bunks, two tiers high, capable of accommodating 600 sleepers nightly. His mattresses were thick and soft, his

sheets clean, his coverings warm, the place well ventilated through the thousand cracks that gaped between the unseasoned boards. The proprietor was a man of large size and seveie mien. He furnished a bed for fifty cents, and posted his rules: No talkirg or laughing, or singing, or drinking. If a man cared to sleep himself and let others sleep, be was sure of a good night's rest; if he made a noise he was soon ejected and without redresß. Of course the Mammoth Sleeping Pahu e made money, as it deserved to. 1