LEADVILLE COLORADO 1886/87 LETTERS on LEADVILLE LETTERHEAD & POSTAL COVERS for Sale

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LEADVILLE COLORADO 1886/87 LETTERS on LEADVILLE LETTERHEAD & POSTAL COVERS For Sale

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LEADVILLE COLORADO 1886/87 LETTERS on LEADVILLE LETTERHEAD & POSTAL COVERS:
$65.00

We are offering two letters from Geo. H. Ferris, apparently a lead miner (1886 & 1887) on Leadville, Colorado letterhead. One has a nice steel-cut engraving of what appears to be a mining site - with a man chipping away with a pick-ax, while another man appears to be working a sluice box (which captured water from the mountains and was filled with rocks & debris that separated precious minerals from dirt). A small cabin is nearby, and the Great Rocky Mountains are in the background.
One letter, dated Sept. 3, 1885, is to George's brother, Fred in Norwalk, Connecticut. The envelope has a 2 cent George Washington cancelled stamp, and Leadville & Norwalk postmarks. It's filled with brotherly talk - he refers to his brother's trip on a boat and says, "Well, now you speak of the captain's nieces being on board just as if they were baggage. Now if you could not make the time more pleasant for the girls, you are no good. Brace up and get some style about you". George asks how business is back east and says, "Everyone has said for the past 3 years it has been dull - now they want a few rustlers from here" [cattle rustlers?]....."I'm heartily sick of Leadville and I do not believe I can winter here again. I have got a touch of the Rheumatism"....
The second letter, dated Oct. 3, 1887, is to his parents in Norwalk. The envelope has a 2 cent George Washington stamp imprinted onto the envelope and Leadville & Norwalk postmarks. He writes about the pleasant time he spent at "The Springs" [Colorado Springs?]. "It is quite a lovely place and a fine location. I should like to live there, but it's not a workingman's town". George refers to the day-shift [at the mine, we assume] and says that the lead has gone down. [At one time Leadville had the largest lead-zinc-silver deposits in the world.]