The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-12-22
CRIPPLE CREEK.
How the Famous Mining Town
Sprang Into Existence.
For Many Fean the Rich Gold RieIds
Were Csed . Cattle Raneh-Tke
Discovery "s Drunksa
Blaeksnnlth-

The site Of Cripple Creek was for ten
years COW pasture Of two long-limbed /
old Rentuckians Of the names OF Bob /
and .Bill- Wonax, who took up a sec
ton of land here under the desert land
act about 1916 In the early days Of
gold excitement in Colorado, when
people crossed the plains with Pixies
Peak or Bust painted on their wagons,
some little gold was washed out here,
but not enough to encourage anyone to
stay. So the prospectors passed on
into the mountains and left the land
for the Womax brothers to feed their
cattle on
They didn't dream says the Chicago
Record that gold was there, and be-
coming tired Of the place about seven
years ago sold it TO Bennett & Myers
firm of real estate agents IN Denver
who had loaned them money. There
were 400 or 500 cattle on the place. and
several hundred miles OF fencing,
which inclosed about 5000 acres of
governments land. Ee. all this Bennett
& Myers paid $50, 0Co, and when they
got the title they organized the Pixies
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:" pu. sne sok oh sne nes
Lew Assoeo nis ProciA-
nation ordering the cattlemen to tear
down ali the fences they had erected
upon public land That practically de-
prived the new company Of 5000 acres
of pasturage and knocked the profits
out branching in Colorado.
~ eo1 ua' A1sl, Dsnhets q Myers
got letter from t0eH foreman at tne
ranch' say ing .na' Roia naa oeen ais-
cosefa ana .ne prospec'ofs
"eie uiRsins no4ss AL OVER the piAee'
iN gus ~, 'ne 80
$500 eo"s nAa AiIedy i.e1
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year was about s"e'Vo' IN LsS-
reached sl'soo'eoo, anu IN 1888 S2,4oo,
eo Inc miners strike iast spring pu
s.anu'ns oeesNeeI ioor anu a'e mon u
, tuat were a.suaiAS "aste0, the sleI'
1is year VIZ aserae e'Oo'uoo mon ~ q
eolat oi oS'Seo'0Oo- During M ,ni
month .ies expect 70 reaeh 'he Sl,oo,
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l han "orAS Win improves
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Is eie owners oi hie'st oi 'ne HAne
were men without eapiIAl 20 asFeiol
! then, anu lhey We're eompelieo 20 put
: Ter aiohs Win the most prini'iv'
|. apparatus uhtii theE had lnaae enousi
10 uuy modern lnaeninery-
, Inc independence NINE when IS ne
.ne hose sauaoie IN Sn
Srippie cleek district Is good liius
tralion- II was oiseosereo and IS oSne'
i, os Han naineo w ?. OF bI Stra'
, eoh' e1E pehtef AT Soiofaoo springs
who came up TO tue camp TO spend IN
foorta OF JuIE III Iss-- Nanderiu:
, over wnas Is SHOWN as Battle noun
1a, uea- .he s.ss ei sas present so~i
hiS COMPANION that he was r-oine I,
throw his hat down the h;Il and io.,a Z