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cattle range. In 1891 the output of gold in the district was valued at $449, in 1892 at $583,010, and in the next three years at $2,010,367, $2,908,702 and $6,879,137 respectively. From 1891 to 1906 the See also:

TOTAL

total See also:

PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production of gold was valued at $168,584,331; in 19051 the product of gold was valued at $15,411,724, the total for the whole See also:

state being valued at $25,023,973; in 1906 the output for the district was valued at $14,253,245, out of $23,210;629 for the entire state. The development of the See also:

CAMP (from Lat. campus, field)

camp into a yellow-See also:

PINE (Lat. Pinus, Gr. srlrur)

pine See also:

TOWN

town and then into something more like a substantial city was marvellously rapid.

The first railway was completed in 1894. In the same See also:

YEAR

year a See also:

GREAT

great strike—one of the most famous in See also:

AMERICAN

American See also:

INDUSTRIAL

industrial history—threatening See also:

CIVIL

civil See also:

war, temporarily closed the mines; in 1896 See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire almost destroyed the city; in 1903–1904 a second strike, lasting more than a year and greater than the first, occurred. The first strike, which was for an eight-See also:

HOUR

hour See also:

day and $3.00 wage, was won by the miners. The second, for the recognition outright of the See also:

union organization of the miners, secured only a reaffirmation of the former conditions. The ores are almost exclusively gold, tellurides being the most characteristic See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form, and occur in fissure See also:

VEINS

veins. Outcroppings were very rare, as the veins were covered with loose See also:

WASH, THE

wash, and this accounted for the See also:

LATE

late opening of the See also:

field. The field covers a district about 8X 10 m. Some peculiarities of the ores have required the use of new methods in their treatment, and in See also:

general the development of mining methods and machinery is of a wonderful See also:

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character. The whole surrounding See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country is seamed with See also:

MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles of tunnels in See also:

GRANITE (adapted from the Ital. granite, grained; Lat. granum, grain)

granite, and the hillsides are dotted everywhere with enormous dumps. The most famous mines have been the " See also:

Independence " (189') and the " See also:

PORT

Port-See also:

LAND

land " (1892). The latter had in 1904 more than 25 M. of workings above the Iroo-ft. level. In 1903 the El Paso drain was completed, to unwater the western See also:

HALF

half of the field to the 88o-ft. level, greatly increasing many mine values and outputs; in 1906 the See also:

WORK

work of drainage was again taken up, and work on a See also:

long See also:

BORE

bore was begun in May 1907.

There are smelters and See also:

CYANIDE

cyanide extracters in the district, but the bulk of the ore product is shipped to other places for treatment. Among the towns around Cripple Creek in the same mining district is See also:

Victor, pop. (1910) 3162, incorporated in 1894, chartered as a city in 1898. See W. Lindgren and F. L. Ransome, See also:

GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

Geology and Gold Deposits of the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, with maps (See also:

Washington, 1906), being Professional See also:

Paper No. 54 of the See also:

UNITED

United States See also:

GEOLOGICAL

Geological Survey; and See also:

Benjamin McKie Rastall, The Labor History of the Cripple Creek District; A Study in Industrial See also:

EVOLUTION

Evolution (See also:

Madison, Wis., 1908), a full See also:

account of the strikes of 1894 and of 1903–1904.

End of Article: CRIPPLE CREEK

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