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DONNER LAKE BOATING

ings are sandwiched in between the
guiches, ravines, mines, rocks, and pro-
jecting mountain crags in the most irregu-
lar manner.

Gold, in paying qnautities was first dis-
covered in this section of country, at this
place, by John H. Gregory, May 6th, 1859.
During the summer, the great rush of gold-
seekers commenced in earnest, and the
mountains were overrun with prospectors,
every day bringing reports of rich placer
diggings or quartz discoveries.

Close upon the discovery of gold, came
the newspaper. The Rocky Mountain Gold
Reporter and Mountain City Herald were
established Aug. 6th, 1859, by Mr. Thos.
Gibson, at this time, one of Omaha’s
most esteemed citizens. The Post, a
weekly, is the only paper published here
now.

Quartz mills are numerous in and
around Black Hawk; the rattling of their
descending stamps, night and day, speaks
in thunder tones of the great wealth of this

ls as

PARTY.

mountain country, one of the great treas-
ure-chambers of the American Continent.

The railroad, when completed, will keep
up Clear Creek, to the east of Black Hawk,
where it will make a curve to the west
bank and follow it down through the
more elevated part of the city, and run up
the mountain side—as previously described
—gaining sufficient altitude to reach Spring
Gulch, close to Central, to the old Mon-
tana mill where the depot will be located.
But, until this road is completed, passen-
gers will take the “bus” at the depot just
below Black Hawk, and ride up through
the city—through Gregory Gulch, the old
town of Mountain City, and along a street,
built up, most of the way—passing several
quartz mills, for a distance of about two
miles, when we are at

CENTRAL Orry—county seat of Gilpin
county; altitude 8,240 feet, being about
800 feet higher than Black Hawk. The
city has a permanent population of about
4,000, and, like the people of Black Hawk,