Mining In Colorado From 1870 To 1900

Railroads in Colorado, 1858-1948 | History Colorado

Railroads in Colorado, 1858-1948 - Railroads played a significant role in the overall development of Colorado. The document was created as a result of a Colorado State Historical Fund grant awarded to Colorado State Parks for the purpose of preparing a historic context that would assist in evaluation and planning efforts related to railroad …Web

Big Five Mining Company

The first mining districts in Colorado were organized in Boulder County. The county was divided into eight distinct mining districts: Gold Hill, Grand Island, Ward, Boulder, Sugar …Web

Early Days of Coal Mining in Northern Illinois — Illinois Labor …

An account of issues, events, and personalities associated with coal mining in the latter part of the 19th century to early 20th. ... and it was the nation's largest union for several decades following 1900. An industrial union protects those who produce a certain product, regardless of what part they play in producing it--miners, auto workers ...Web

Durango, Colorado – Railroad Town of the Southwest

Durango, Colorado, located along the Million Dollar Highway, is the county seat of La Plata County and the most populous town in southwest Colorado.. This area was once the home of the Ancestral Puebloans for centuries before the Ute Indians made this land their territory. Miners began to make their way into the area in the 1860s but were pushed out by the …Web

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: Amid tragedy, Indiana coal …

The earliest records of coal production in Indiana date from 1840 when 9,682 tons were mined. Pennsylvania, West ia and Ohio were top producing states. Mining machines were first usedWeb

Clothing | Colorado Miners | Doing History Keeping the Past

The woman is wearing a print dress with sleeves puffed at the shoulders and a long white apron. Puffed sleeves were in style in the late 1800s. The men are wearing dark work shirts, pants, and leather boots. Men and women in the mining camps of Colorado mostly wore the kind of clothes they had worn back home.Web

What Denver Looked like in the late 19th Century Through

Federal Mint building at West Colfax and Delaware Street in Denver, Colorado. The two-story granite building has marble lunettes above arched and rectangular windows and a bracketed cornice. The roof is under construction and a crane is next to the building. Shows an American flag hung from a pole, a bicycle and a wood frame building.Web

U.S. History, Go West Young Man! Westward …

To varying degrees, the original California Gold Rush repeated itself throughout Colorado and Nevada for the next two decades. In 1859, Henry T. P. Comstock, a Canadian-born fur trapper, began gold mining in …Web

Colorado State Archives • FamilySearch

Historic Mine Report Files Index Municipal Incorporations Territorial Incorporations ... Boulder County (1862 - 1900) Chaffee County (1878 - 1979) Costilla County (1876-1914) Custer County (1879 - 1989) ... (Colorado) 1870 Federal Census Index Colorado 1900 Census Indian Industrial Schools IndexWeb

A Timeline of Colorado's Mining History

Ouray Colorado – Western Mining History

The Beaumont Hotel was built in 1886-87. Many of Ouray's remaining historic buildings were built during the 1880s and 1890s, including the Beaumont Hotel, Wright's Opera House, the County Courthouse, the Western Hotel, and the St. Elmo Hotel. Ouray is one of the West's best preserved mining towns from the late 1800s.Web

Frontier in Transition: A History of Southwestern …

Until 1881, agriculture in southwestern Colorado was confined to limited areas, being basically nothing more than a service industry for mining camps and developing towns. Mining was the initial engine for economic …Web

Leadville Colorado – Western Mining History

Leadville, Colorado - Likely taken spring of 1877. As mining activity spread through the upper Arkansas River Valley, Oro city split into Upper and Lower Oro as the population spread out to work the different areas. …Web

Prices and Wages by Decade: 1880-1889

Wages in the United States, 1880-1889. Unskilled occupations - Average wages, 1840-1891. Shows average daily wage earnings for a sample of laborers, yard hands, watchmen, teamsters, quarrymen, coal-heavers, helpers, unskilled factory operatives, without any geographic breakouts. Source: Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 13 (1905).Web

Early Mining and Transportation in Southwestern Colorado 1860 …

By 1873, Coloradans pressed for a revision of the 1868 Ute Indian Treaty, which legally barred entrance to the southwestern Colorado mining frontier. The Brunot Treaty, …Web

Trinidad, Colorado – Coal Queen of Colorado – Legends of America

In 1864, coal mining in southern Colorado began in the area, with the earliest mines located at Starkville and Engleville near Trinidad. A call went out to Europe for a trained labor force of miners. ... In 1870, more stores opened in the town, and log and adobe buildings lined Main and Commercial Streets. During these busy times of the Santa ...Web

1870s-1900s: Copper and Development

The Copper Kings were highly influential in the early development of the area and in shaping of the events that took place throughout Montana. The first two Copper Kings, Marcus Daly and William Clark, became active in the Butte area in the 1870s. Daly arrived in 1876 representing the Walker Brothers, entrepreneurs from Salt Lake City.Web

Occupations: 19th century coal miners

In the 19 th century, one of the biggest advances to mining safety was the invention of the safety lamp by Sir Humphry Davy, subsequently, it became known as the 'Davy lamp'. The lamp helped to prevent explosions caused by the presence of methane in the pits. Methane was also known as 'firedamp' and 'minedamp'.Web

Mine Accident and Fatality Resources by State

From the beginning of the Colorado gold rush in 1859 to the winter of 2006 avalanches killed 693 people. Colorado Mine Accident Index (Non-Fatal) Years covered: 1883-1900 Colorado Mining Fatalities. Alphabetical digest of Colorado mining fatalities from 1884-1981. Colorado Mining Fatalities.Web

Mines, Mining and Miners | Denver Public Library History

Indexes of mining accidents occurring in Colorado from 1884 to 1981. Includes first and last name, county, name of mine, date of accident, and type of accident. Mining Index to Hollister, Henderson and …Web

The Historical Statistics of the Colorado Mining Industry

Inspector of Coal Mines of the State o Colorado for the years of 1889-90, Denver: Collier and C eaveland Lith Co., 1890. State of Colorado, Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the State Inspector of Coal Mines, 1940, Denver: Bradford Robinson Co. 1941. Colorado Department of Natural Resources, Oil and Gas Statistics.Web

Mines and Mining | History Colorado

Colorado City Directories (Search our online index to identify available volumes) Colorado State Business Directories (1875-1956) Colorado Mining Directories – 1879, 1883, …Web

Incredible Photos of Colorado Mining Scenes

In the photo below, miners are posing at the cages of the Ajax shaft ca. 1900. Miners pose at the shaft of the Ajax Mine – Victor, Colorado. The crew of the Moon Anchor Mine enjoyed a magnificent view of the ever …Web

Map, Available Online, 1800 to 1899, Colorado | Library of Congress

Map of Southwestern Colorado Insets: Railroad systems reaching Durango [from Denver, Salt Lake City, Albuquerque, and Phoenix] -- Plat of Needle Mountain mines -- Plat of Durango and surroundings -- Plat of mines at La Plata Mountains, California Mining District -- Plat of San Juan Co., Utah. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site …Web

The American West, 1865-1900

The American West, 1865-1900 [Cattle, horses, and people at the fair with stables in the background] Popular Graphic Arts. The completion of the railroads to the West following the Civil War opened up vast areas of the region to settlement and economic development. White settlers from the East poured across the Mississippi to mine, farm, and ranch.Web

WEST CENTRAL COLORADO'S MINING FRONTIER

The 1870's witnessed a new wave of mining excitement throughout much of Colorado's high country. ... Wales, and Ireland, was the leading source of immigrants to west-central Colorado's mines. Italians also came in significant numbers to work underground. ... Copper was one. It was mined from 1899 to 1902 in the Unaweep area and from 1900 to ...Web

Mine Tales: When the gold rush came to Pinos Altos, New Mexico

Concerted efforts to mine the area followed with the establishment of the Pinos Altos Mining Co., organized in 1866. That year, Virgil Mastin introduced the camp's first stamp mill to process ...Web

Mining | 20th Century Colorado | Doing History …

Coal mining was an important industry in Colorado from the 1880s until the 1940s. Boys as young as 10 to 12-years-old worked in coalmines in Colorado. Some helped shovel coal into carts deep in the mines.Web

Early Mining in Northeastern Colorado

This hard-selling Colorado mines to Europeans, firmly established by 1870, continued, through local entrepreneurs, well into the twentieth century. ... These businesses added to the region's economic growth between 1870 and 1900. Another industry that developed in response to miners' demands was lumbering. Underground works required wood for ...Web

Mining Towns in the Western United States

Mining towns sprang up in remote places throughout the western frontier. Colorado experienced an enormous silver boom at Leadville in the 1870's. That same decade, gold discoveries in the Black Hills of South Dakota would start a new gold, and the famous town of Deadwood was established among the mines there. Deadwood, South Dakota 1876.Web