Show FAMOUS MINING STRIKES 4 F Dy By THOMAS E E. E STEWARD t 09 f ta f I tt d d i i t 44 Diggings at Deadwood Tim financial panic of ot 1817 was a prime Influence In bringing about the rush ruMi of prospectors Into the hills bills of ot Colorado In flint year which led It'd to the tile discovery cry of ot ninny many famous mines tames and ond resulted directly In the founding of Denver and both In III 1858 and nf ot many minor settlements settlement unc uncertainties resulting from the panic rondo made many daring souls willing to risk their future in inthe the Western wilderness In nn an effort to recoup losses In lu At 11 about lit the same name time n amount of gold was collected and exhibited by hy a 0 party of cl civilized Cherokee Indians who nn said 10 tile they had found It In lit the Colorado hills lIrly In Ut 1858 n party 11 of Georgians headed by W V. J J. J went Into what was then called time the Peak lak country In spare search of gold They anally finally final anal ly Iy made n II minor strike at nt the mouth of ot n a gulch leading lending Into the latte river rier Shout about t seven C miles malice below time tho present site kite of ot Denver en mind and when new news of this find timid reached the outside world worl the rush to Colorado be begun began un Clear Creek county destined to become be come corne one of lOt Colorados Colorado's richest mining districts first firt yielded precious metal In tn April when one George Glorge A A. Jackson Judson made III a n strike on what was called Chicago o creek crek That year ear was Willi marked b by an un of prospectors who not riot only explored streams olon along the foothills of the limo Hockles but penetrated pene Irne deeply Into the thc mountains The Deadwood 1 Diggings were developed de on South creek and the history history his his- tory of Colorado as os one of the nations nation's na na- tion's richest sources of metallic ore ore and metal had imad begun Discovery of the lode or actual vein from which placer pIncer gold previously pre found hind had been washed down soon follow followed when wl John II Gregory located lo 10 what was called the Gregory lode lodl also In Clear Cleur Creek county Several Several Sev Rev eral lodes loIes were were found near Georgetown George town then known as os Elizabethtown and IL in 1850 ISCA gold dl diggings were located In the Upper Union or I Empire dis dis- As a consequence of these discoveries dIsco eries erles and the Inrush of population congress passed a bill on February 20 1801 organizing time the territory of Colo Colo- rado Co Col William Gilpin soon lIoon after was appointed the time first territorial gov gov- Settlement of the Colorado mining districts was accompanied by the usual riotous camp life with many violent deaths over gay dance halls and repeated Instances of ot fortunes easily snatched from nature and as easily spun away awny across the gambling tables of the towns 1849 1849 The 1849 The Marvelous Year YearA A ABOUT BOUT a year after oCter the discovery L 1 of gold Jold at ot Sutter's rain mash the gold of California began to attract the greatest Influx of ot Immigrants that America had bad known up ull to that time People from nil all t sections of If Europe made their way overland across Panama or around the Horn to Join the bearded crowds of rough gay jay adventurous oll men an and youths tt who ho were t seeking fortune along the golden streams of that most westerly west west- westerly erly state The rhe output of gold guld from the new diggings on the Feather Yuba American Amen Ameri can and Stanislaus rivers surpassed anything the world had known Some miners working with crude methods made as liS much as liS 1000 In a n single day all nil th the tho printers and readers readers read read- ers too of the Californian hud had gone off ofT gold digging the time publisher decided to combine a tour of the gold camps with a n little digging venture of his bis own Upon Ulon his return when he resumed re re- smiled publication he reported that h he hud had easily made from rota 44 H to a aday aday aday day with his pan timid and had bad averaged about Gold dust became the currency of ot the period but hut it was produced so rapidly that It dropped In price from 18 to about 1 au nn ounce and prices rose ruse proportionately as always happens happens hap hap- pens when a n curr currency ne depreciates Until the formation of ot the Vigilance committees there was ices no law but that of ot the Ihl flat 1st till the pistol anti ond the bowie bowle knife Th These l' l placer operations II actually t II II II tio ho more than scratched the surface of ot the Ila placer tr and nud gravel 1 gold golt deposits of California but th they came to yield 1 us as hl high h RS as s V a 1 year In th the period pe pt from 1010 to t lS tt IS t Then the output output out out- put started to go du due clue to the fact filet that many tunny of the more easily worked diggings hind hall hero been exhausted and machinery machinery ma mil chinery r hud had not wt been 1111 dl doused Il ed that aunt enabled en sim th the miners to tn work the deep and henry heavy gravel 1 deposits 1110 The first of If the placer pincer tools tOll was the I pan Inu which u II nun man held In Iu his hand hund I He lie kept It under water until the I heavier hl grate crawl had bad tIn ben washed noshed away then gradually II 1111 let out the light lighter er stuff tufT I while hilI the gold poM sank to the I I bottom When he hat bad a n plum pan I he set its contents us to dry Ir after hi at-hi which ch the light sand said was I blown O II away mind and only the heat heavy gold golddust golddust du dust t remained After the lIll pun pen cattle came I the lime cradle or Ir rocker amid it In turn gave gU way to a more and r h larger r rocker Known 11 as ns the Lung Long I Tom film Ii 1 Eventually en tt when lieu liln capital tI be bl began gum gan to help hrip la In the lIil development was teas lilt In III this process prIsa 11 II imam or canal was built through I which hll-h II the tle Ill I'll entire tire flow lIow of or u II stream was diverted so su II tint that the ruin mIn et PIS IS I'S s might work the gold t bearing laud saud JIM and gravel I ravel In III the river bottom if ti un tear i o pat or r Unite Union |