Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-16 | Page 2 | Ghosts of Bygone Day Throng Mining Camp of Colorado in Week's Revival

Ghosts of Bygone Day Thong Throng Mining Camp Cap of Colorado in i Weeks Week's Revival CENTRAL CITY CIT Colo July 16 UP hosts UP-hosts Ghosts UP Ghosts of an forgotten almost age thronged the narrow winding streets street of this thi time old old tt gold camp today Grim weather-beaten weather buildings which once echoed the tramp of gold mad m men who sought fortunes in the hills and streams of ot Colorado again held tenants tenant after nearly a half hal century century cen cen- tury of silence The center of attraction was as the old house where whore the oper opera opera Camille Camic Ca mic mUle mille is to play for a week week A New York cast has been gathered for the presentation which has awakened Central City from its is dreams Tonight was costume night Rough clad miners did the bunny buny hug with dance hall hal girls on the ancient boards of the old Bucket of Blood Slick Slick- haired hared gamblers with fancy fac vests vest flipped cards across the thc moth eaten green felt of the old gambling tables coated Black sheriffs sheri with ivory han dIed guns buckled around their waists waist escorted bustled women through the sidewalk crowds Central City was wa as it i was wa a half cen century uy ago alter after John Johi Gregory found a pocket of gleaming gold In Inthe Inthe the te sands of Clear creek and started a boom that carried Central Centra Cit City to fame as one of the greatest of the time old old gold camps Denver then was just jut a resting place for stage lines that led here Tho The gold camp cobbler was W. W L. L Douglas who Douglas who was wa's was later to become the great shoe manufacturer A young geat prospector sat in front ont of the Teller eUer house the house the hotel were President Grant once stayed stayed and and dreamed a adream adream adream dream that was to railroad railroad rail rail- rai- rai road travel He was George Pullman Many pioneers who saw Central i City when it i was young were back today to aid In the carrying out of the pageant Gregorys Gregory's strike was to tobe tobe tobe be reenacted Sunday the pageant willbe will willbe wi be described over the air in Sri the gold goldcamp's goldcamp's goldcamp's camps camp's first national radio broadcast broad broad- cast I For a week the revival will wi continue continue continue con con- and then Central City will wi sink back into the lethargy that overtook It I after the gold was vas drained from rom the hills his and be again what it Jt has been for years another of the ghost cities cies of the tho west vest west I