Show F SK 1 www i ft u w G j t sf i orfil fourthly july stratton tk 0 tn 0 i n te to prospecting dapre paring to that ills big working on seemed 1 0 H I 1 f i his horre dorfie headlong liea speed to tb crr cripp Creek creeed liki d a granite plater later when hi his es assayed he found a clula run nUis SD goll at d and suver silver ot bua ode pf af the richest rich j strikes aae 11 eva ver nade la the hiso tory rf r tg f I stratton 10 h 1 creek ivas one of ma 1 l had been work agine to rich treasure suii bevery I te very the then these piece of if float loose ore 1 carrie daway from its natural 1 the these j float wera ot surprising urpal ing rich aa only one of sever several U abo had been figuring out 0 f atthe the nearby earby country rought bethe yode parent vein can ile he lilka 74 as thor hughly a as 8 possible ellaina eliminated ted in his big mind ledge after ledge until he carte down boti 0 o one that was the nought of thit that morning in colorado colorados Colora doh springs 4 and it was the right one prior ito to stratton his etotle ehrike ahe the cripple creek district had endured a bad name e some placer gold had been washed out but there had been ft a num number 6 er 0 of r reported ported e strikes that had bad been proved false miners and prospectors prospect ori org jjr were wary of the district tala tony may jiin been one reason why if t stood ft undiscovered discovered until a ljra ago for miles around the only building w wad the old bennett ayers broken box ranch whose still stands in the south corner of the town bob womack had bad prospected poverty er ty golch famous in cripple creek history before the arrival of stratton Thio through tigh Woi Wonia nack ck stratton had tott met on one eDick dick 11 a veteran mountaineer k and prospector and it vii was houghton Hough toc who put him on the trail of 1 his I famous strike meanwhile scores of minos minis were tunk sunk in the th cripple creek district ill strict by VW the anti annual al output in precious metals was compilations i by the united rates geological 1 barvey indicate that the district produced 54 worth of gold between 1801 nod 1905 1101 together r with which fine ounces i of allver were recovered the are those of the dl rector of the united states tat mint cripple creek gains added interest that it was the inet of the great be bonanza nanza strikes and gold rushes alor to the klondike rush ot of 1898 |