Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Among the Silver Seams of Colorado
The mountains are entirely free from precipitous gorges and canons. Their broad slopes offer no difficulty to travel, and wagon roads of easy grades traverse them in every direction. The winter time sees no stopping of the work, even in prospecting. The snows that fall on the lower slopes are very transient, and the open mines are worked with the same facility as in the summer time.
In this respect Georgetown has a tremendous advantage over the towns of the San Juan and Gunnison country, where the working of the mines is hindered by tremendous snowfalls, and are virtually inaccessible for months in the year.
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