Messrs. Geo. F. Batchelder, John L. McNeil, Isaac E. Blake, O. P. Whitcomb, W. C. Wynkoop, Henry E. Wood, A. H. Weber, M. E. Smith, C. E. Taylor, H. B. Gillespie, E. F. Halleck, Frank A. Miller, and H. Van F. Furman. Mr. W. C. Wynkoop held the office of secretary for about two months, at the end of which time he was compelled to resign, owing to a pressure of other business. The board of directors elected Mr. D. H. McLelland to succeed Mr. Wynkoop, and the former remained in office until October 21st, when he also resigned, and Mr. J. M. Hogan was chosen to the vacancy. Mr. E. F. Halleck some time ago tendered his resignation as a director, and Mr. George O. Keeler was elected to succeed him. The changes above noted are the only ones that have been made in the original list of officers. The following properties have been listed : The Emmons Silver Mine, of Lake and Park Counties; Hon. George F. Batchelder, President. Amity, Leadville; Geo. O. Keeler, president. May-Mazeppa, in Gunnison County, Col.; Charles E. Taylor, president. Silver Cord, Leadville, Lake County; Gov. James B. Grant, president. Bix Six, Leadville, Lake County; S. C. Houck, president. Pay Rock Siver Mine, Clear Creek County; Hon. James H. Platt, president. Argonaut Consolidated Mine, Clear Creek County; G. D. Johnson, president. Hard Money Mine, Gilpin County; Cash Gold Mining Co., Boulder Coun ty; Ralph Voorhess, president. Diamond B. Silver Mine Co., Summit County; A. F. Beattie, president. Bates-Hunter Mining Co., Gilpin County; Hon. Joseph M. Marshall, Rialto Mining Co., Gilpin County; ty; Col. D. W. Strickland, Golden Treasurer Mining Co., Gilpin County; Judge Harley B. Morse, president. Morning Glim, Gunnison County; W. Tabor, president. Brownlow Gold Mining and Milling Co., Park County; Hon. George F. Batchelder, president. Mollie Gibson, Aspen; Col. H. B. Gillespie, president. Potosi Consolidated, Boulder County; W. H. Nicholson, president. Aspen United, Pitkin County; Wm. Langdon, president. Whale, San Juan Co.; E. K. Smith, president. Oro, Summit Co.; H. H. Loomis, president. Clay County Mine, Gilpin County; Col. Geo. E. Randolph, president. Calliope, Ouray County; D. C. Hart well, president. Bankok-Cora Belle, Leadville; D. S. Covert, president. The objects of this exchange are set forth, in part, by the following editorial clipped from the Mining Industry, a paper ably conducted in the interests it represents : "For years the Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade and the Real Estate Exchange and the Manufacturers Exchange of this city tried to induce capitalists to invest money in boring wells here to prospect for gas or oil. The United States Geological Survey made a careful survey of this region of country, about 30 miles square, with Denver near the center, principally for the purpose of determining the chances here for finding gas, oil and an abundance of artesian water. The result of the survey which gave hopes for finding oil or gas, was published by the Colorado Scientific Society, and by the Industry. Following it the papers announced several times that companies had been organized to bore such wells, and that work would immediately begin. But somehow the capital was not forthcoming, and work did not begin. But one day Mr. J. O. Bosworth, the president of the Denver Natural Gas and Oil company came to the editor of the Industry to ask about the possibility of raising necessary funds through the Mining Exchange. The result was that the stock of the company was listed, and in one day enough money was raised to sink several wells. In other words the Mining Exchange in one day did more to test the oil and gas resources about Denver then all other organizations and individuals have done in all the years since the agitation of the question began." In a recent public address, President Batchelder said: "The Mining Exchange is made up of business men, two hundred in number, most of them experienced miners. It is located at the converging center of daily and hourly railway, telegraph and telephone communication with the mining districts. It requires good,strong proof of titles, qualities and values before listing. If a property is not yet opened up as a mine, but has a perfect title, has discovered good ore, and gives good promise of paying dividends when developed, it is listed as a prospect and sales permitted on the Board only of that portion of the stock which will supply the cash needed for its development. The Mining Exchange has stimulated It work in many mining districts. producing mines. It has put two per cent. per month into the hands of many investors who never saw a mine. It has given still larger profits to investors who bought and sold the stocks of mines and prospects on the Exchange, and it is the only investment offered anywhere that I know of where the capital can be re alized upon, withdrawn and reinvested in a day. This is done on the Colorado Mining Stock Exchange every day in the week, Sunday excepted. The Exchange has been crowded out of its rooms, too large and commodious at first, and now occupies and fills the Chamber of Commerce, the largest open floor in the city. We have bought a lot 100x125 feet, one block from the postoffice, at $160,000, on which will soon be erected a $250,000 building." H. D. T. HON. GEORGE F. BATCHELDER. HON. GEORGE F. BATCHELDER, president of the Colorado Mining Stock Exchange, was born in the town of Bedford, Hillsborough County, N. H., January 16th, 1829. His father, Otis Batchelder, (the son of a Revolutionary soldier, who was with Washington at Valley Forge,) removed in 1836 to Littleton, N. H., where he continued for many years in the mercantile business, an enterprising and highly respected citizen, until his death in 1869. The son spent his boyhood until the age of seventeen, alternately attending school, and as clerk in the different stores in town, being usually called to the aid of any of the merchants who were going to market for their semi-annual supplies. At seventeen he entered the Academy at Johnsbury, Vt.; and when eighteen accepted a position as clerk in a store in Montpelier. His employers, Messrs, Burbank & Langdon, were among the most prominent business men in the State. Mr. Batchelder lived in the family of Mr. Burbank. After remaining four years and declining an offered partnership, he went to Passaic, N. J., where he taught school for three years; this to acquire an opportunity for study. Returning to his old home in 1855, he then married Miss Amelia E. Beane, a niece of his former employer, and a member of the Burbank family when young Batchelder was there as a clerk. He started in the store on a capital of $800, and settled down as a married man. In 1856 he was president of the Fremont Club of Littleton. The next year Mr. Batchelder, with his In 1874 Mr. Batchelder sold out and went to Chicago, and engaged in the machinery business: but times were dull, property was depreciating in value, and he saw the savings of his years of labor in Minnesota wasting away, till at last he voluntarily gave up all his possessions in settlement of his debts. The discovery of carbonate ore at Leadville attracted his attention, and he went there in March, 1879. Having a good knowledge of surveying, he studied the formation, geography, and topography of the vicinity, and from his own surveys and maps discovered the direction and size, now so well known, of the Leadville mineral belt. Not having capital to purchase mines of known value, he bought his claims in the more distant portions of the belt, viz: Iron Hill, Iowa Gulch, and Horse Shoe Gulch. The Emmons Mining Company, of which he is president, now owns a large area of this property, to which Mr. Batchelder was piloted by Sloan Lee, in June, 1879. (This fact gave origin to the poem from the pen of Mr. Batchelder, entitled, "Sloan Lee on the Mountain," which appeared in the January number of the MAGAZINE OF WESTERN HISTORY, 1890.) Mr. Batchelder is also president of the Brownlow Mining Company, a gold mine near Alma, Col. Within a short time past the writer has seen two retorts from the Brownlow mine which brought $2,200 each. at the Denver Mint. He is also an officer and director in several other mining companies, and though he has not derived much income from them, as yet, and calls himself mine-poor, yet he is regarded in business circles as a successful man. In 1888 Mr. Batchelder removed with his family to Denver, and continued to look after his various mining interests in several counties from that point. In 1889 he joined hands with a number of enterprising business men of Colorado and aided in forming this exchange. His experience in mercantile and political life, and in dealing with business men and miners; his thorough study of mining and treating ores; his integrity and independence of character, have fitted him for the prominent and successful work in which he is now engaged, namely, President of the Colorado Mining Stock Exchange. HENRY DUDLEY TEETOR. THE MAY-MAZEPPA SILVER MINE. COLONEL CHARLES EDMUND TAYLOR, PRESIDENT AND MANAGER. FOUR of the oldest families of old Virginia-Thurston, Wright, Anderson and Taylor--have a worthy representative in Colonel Charles Edmund Taylor, now of Denver, and President of the famous May-Mazeppa Consolidated Milling and Mining Milling and Mining Company, and Vice-President of the Colorado Mining Stock Exchange. His highly esteemed father, Dr. Thomas W. Taylor, resides at Henderson, Ky. This son was born July 4th, 1847. His grandfather, Charles Mynn Taylor, was born in Virginia in 1799, and removed to Kentucky in early life. His great-grandfather, Major Edmund H. Taylor, was in the Revolutionary war, and later in the Northwestern Army under General Anthony Wayne. His commission as ensign, is dated November 21st, 1793, and is signed by John Knox, Secretary of War. President John Adams commissioned him Captain, and afterwards Major in the old U.S. Army. The writer has seen these old commissions in the residence of Col. Taylor, where they are prized and priceless heirlooms, while they adorn his parlor walls. as home pictures. Major Taylor was in command of the Territory of Indiana at one time, with headquarters at the point now known as Jeffersonville. This warrior-ancestor married into the Thurston family, well known to be the Thurstons of England, who, because of their loyalty to Charles I., came to Virginia as Cavaliers, during the Protectorate, and founded a branch of that aristocratic family. President Zachary Taylor derived his lineage from the same source. These facts are necessary to be understood to appreciate the leading characteristics of Col. Taylor-high mindedness and intrepedity. At fifteen he entered the Confederate army as a member of Company A, 11th Kentucky Regiment. From 1863 to the close of the war he was as courageous a Confederate as he is now an energetic business man, and the remarkably successful manager of immense mining affairs. Much of this determination of character was derived directly from his mother-an Anderson of Scotch-Covenanter stock that preserved Presbyterianism to England and America through the shedding of consecrated blood and martyrdom at the stake. When the mother died twelve years of age. the son was Her dying |