Way Back!

From the September 4, 1875 edition of the Colorado Springs Gazette: FROM SILVERTON. Editor of the Gazette; We have witnessed during the last week an old fashioned gold excitement, such as we read of during ‘56 when Pike’s Peak had a name, whose millions were untold, but this time it is over at Sam McGill Lakes, due west from Silverton, 20 miles. Suffice to say that somebody washed a ...