Coalville Times | 1901-11-29 | Page 5 | [Illegible] Near Denver, Cot

Baealla User Denver, Cat, Dr. Edward Goldsmith aald that during th summer he bad visited th volcaule region about fifteen miles north ot Denver, and bad been struck by soma pecullsrltle ot the formation. At on place the basalt appeared to him to form a aolld crator. This, how-aver, how-aver, showed no depression on th summit. At another a baaallla dike extended for about two miles. Ths molten eruption had evidently been sjeoted through the cretaceous formation forma-tion and then, after It had hardened, th surrounding material bad been worn away by erosion, leaving th baaaltto columna standing, towering to bslght of some eighty feet. It waa In this locality, b continued, that gold washing flrst took plac, and as thsrs Is nowber ls that tha gold oould hava com from, bs thought It highly probsbls that It originated In the lava outflow. Dr. Ooldsmlth alao described sum o( th mineral found la th region and gave an to-Urestlng to-Urestlng account of a gold mis a had visited.