, 1879-04-01
The State Of Society There Among
tho Fifty.Ninors.
Dough.ToWn and 1ts peculiarities-
Lie in the Gold DiEgings.
Some Short Biographical 5ketohes..-
How to Name q Town.
The Old Era and the New.


red molten ore, stands cluster ot tumblc.doMn
log cah'ns. The tnarke Of age arc 7fsiblo Upon
them, roofa, cracked and decayed
t'mbers, and doors stained and wcathcr-heaten,
md perforated with bullet holes. How did thcy
come thcro' Who built themi And when wers
they put together1 Tllero are nos half.a.dozen
men In LcndvIllo to-day, out OF It's Thousands Of
inhabitants, Who can rotate the strange history
Of these oidtine rclica. George Henderson cab.
anti 90 can Gov. Tabor. They came to the place
That Ia now known a. 1cadvllle away back In
80, and have stnyed here ever since. There
were plenty Of other men who cnsne hero With
them. but where hro they nowa Scattered
broadcast eyer the great West, some pooraE
than they wcro then, Hnlne rich, como gono back
to "Amcrlcn" dlsgustcd with tho lottery Of
mining, mud many who died In thelr boots hero
md there.
In 1860 California Gulch was beehive. You
never would think 80 10 look ut It now. Why,
there is nothing at oil to sec except tile black
road winding along through the snow, the pnc-
covrrcd hills On either side, and tho great pilcs
Of stones IN the bed OF the creek washed clean
by tho slulccb. For distance Of three miles the
bottom Of the Eulch presents the same appear
ance. and tho heaps OF rounded boutders benr
witness to the
fAbE AMUUNI LAEQH
that must been expended by tho Rold.huntcrsot oil
those early days. One company alone took out
$50, zoo worth Of gold during tho season Of 1851,
and II Is easy to inlaglnc what quantity Of dirt
ind to bo shoyelcd to produce tlatfresuli. And
the rudcst kind Of machinery, too, was uscd,--
nothing to be compared With tic huge engines
md complicated system Of workings in rocuc
uowadaYs in tic silver dirgIngs. Nobody Ind
any, capttai tlIcn, and as fast aa they made
n few hundreds they spent It In carousaIs
The present City of Leadvitle is .often
called. called slaht1wn because nus % nost ot r.
bark on; 90 with A. similar proprtcty the oil
settlement was known MS Bough-town. Men IN
those days weEo ln too much OF q hurry to even
build houses to 1.-Two in; thry contsuted them
covering tho top md sides with green pine
hougts. Among other Curlositics OF urcllitcct-
rrc At that time was great gambling sn1opn
15u feet long and Is fec: vide, mato out of
boughs. This was in tiIu summer Ut 1901. OF
course II is understood by the readers t),at
gn!ch-lnlnlng can only be carried on in The sum-
tner; tle snow Md leo cftcctually prevent work
during at lcnst SIX months Of tho year. Hcnre
T. wa customary ~ those days for tic people 70
80 down to Denver In tic fall, leaving the camp
deserted, or nearly so, until time to commence
operations again. Therefore bongh.houscs were
sufficient.
They wore wild lot, tho mlucre of 90 md
III. PROBABLY not 60 lnnny downright tlespcra-
dos wcEu here then as aro here now; but 10
those days there was
NO LAW nut MINERS LAW,
and shooting wns common u,l natural occur
renee. Nowadays, whcn miner gets drunk on
tile bad whisky OF Lcnlvillo and wultzes down
Chestnut street With IL cooked revolver In his
lNull, shouting tim seventeen lcct OF mineral
ma assay wny ur,'' ho ts generally capturcd
BY policeman and locked up without, my dial-
appliances Us policemen, and its ideas OF tuntica
were crude. Still tinn must have 4 rcasou for
shooting-eon!o kind Of reason-or he WIS liable
10 grt lyuclle1. Scotty wasa u noted character at
where. ho Ind killed a cattlu-lca!er, und had
tier shot ltts own parl in order TO save dividing
tile 81 100 -whei. ls Ind taken from the nur.
dcred man. With tllc little capital thus nc
aursa he arittca arann tnni s minI4E samps
Guteh. Ono evening ale md his pasd (anotlicr
onc) stnkcd ttlcir lost chip on tic ace mid lost
seo;ty wanted tn borrow some m0noy OF Ills
nasd, H., a!l ref, refused to n believe TINT thna per
turned tic matter oyer III his mind, ut,,i
decided that the Only course for gontlornuu to
prssc t1l such ! cass WIS to shoot. According
ly after dinner the next day ha called his part
ncr out doors, sls0t him through the heart, and
escaDed in the brush. The dead mans friends
took tlnrscs and followed. Meanwhile Sc0tty
had mct Mexican Oh horseback shurt dis
tancc out ol town, l'ad quietly killed hit,,
mounted the lsnd inan'a horse, u,nl gu,supcd
of 10 the mex. camp.. Tie pursucrs foun,l iiIa
plnyiE " freezc.o,lt " with q party Of mIncrs in
cnl!t, mil e tiled with his fioots on, thus cnd-
ins slloft hut crcntfnl career.
THE FlNsT GREAT INFLUX
Of population 10 the camp OF Doughtowp took
p!nrn IN le summer OF 1850, Wien InluurB ca,e
Hooking. In FROM al! directions to the number Uf
5.0VU. lilo ono street running up Thu gulcll
was eloseiY built alhl thckly settled, while tho
hlllssdes above wcrs usso dottcd with ruIu dug
a. they now flourish III Lcalgllr, and concert
anloulis mud tlANca.tiouses wcre plentiful The
ht.ctt wns always lively with loafers. Que day
Il stranger caTne riding along at rapid cation,
ssh M a " hntsS GSs{y ID 1Sgesun but h.
customer on The nidswalh, who covered him
with Ills revolver. hrld said:
:" Hold ou there, straHgcri When Jou 20
tlsongn this yar to%u 90 'fo" SO that folks kn
il Is necs.less to remark that tho l,orscman
needed the puiite request, On his return down
the sulch he purpoho|y walked hfs horse carc-
lulythtoueh tte town, As ha reached ,llu
individual draw a bend On hin, saying:
"btranger, when you 70 through tlIs yar
camp, 10 as II you he'd business and meant to
20 eulncWhur."
AMOau rllE WORST or THE Low ELnNEAr
In tuwu weru California John, who was after
WuIua htlCA III nOAlHHut lJEn11I3,
noted gambler, Bnon Nuacntleld al!as Jutlas,
md Tim Atccurtr, the ,elunt. They welded
good duai Ut power mud were highly rcapcctcd
for their many qualities Of ncrva mud muscle.
Money was nGnuaut, as the d.EgInEs were rtrts
mn! ui,e n.nn With pan could casily wAah ul,t
sls tn sdoa day. Tt'en too, thu product did
not hnYe 10 iIa marketed or aMcted, Az Ia
the, case With tho silver ore. The
dust as. fast d obtained would be
deposited IN a i,aG, aiNl III uYery store aul a.
loon stood a palr 0f scates for weighing. When
o n,Incr bought a slass Of whisky ilc bundled Ills
lust-bng to lilc bagkceper, whD Weighed nut tho
required amount a,rl lau,Il!rd back The rctnaiu-
der. i0ld tu those days. 1t will b1 Remembered,
commanded q htgas premium, a1ni while nov Ii
Is, gul,craiy speuklng, rated 1t so M ounce, It
frequently Ean M to $40 and $5U MI ounce dur.
inE the War. Mr.. ueorge henderson telIs uIo
tt,ut hu oitsn washed ont au outce md half
day, butHtllMtH two ounces. lie rencllbcsH
onH "pan which yielded I1te OUNCES, but ul4s
was considered y marvel, OF coursc,
From lhOl u lStl5 the CAMP wag In fta Clorv,
hut Rttrr tho lhtlor date II begaM 10 walIp.
Fewer miners returned each sutiin.rr, Ailtl In
!etS 1te tnaln street Wna qulto deEertod. IlIen
followed ten, years, during which California
un!eh wa utaeata lr0n BY thu outside wurtl.
ElIIt 10 lVu Her6Uu6 lf3mnDst.f tt,y n,bilAli.u