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GUIDEBOOK OF THE. WESTERN UNITED STATES, 
Leadville, like most other mining camps, was built around mills 
and mine dumps, and much of it is therefore not beautiful. 
Any description of mining operations in a mountainous region 
like that surrounding Leadville, particularly of those of the early 
of the finding of gold in this gulch 
spread with PES anaes and 
eager miners flocked in 
Large papers of a oe 
metal were obtained from the e 
Estimates of the gold pro- 
r differ widely, some 
being as high as $10,000,000 a“ others 
as low as $3,000,000, rich 
habitants. 
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hundred. Some prospect- 
ing was done for the veins which sup- 
plied the gold of the placers, and sev- 
eral mines that gave a fitful gleam of 
the camp were located, 
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fornia, and to these men silver ore was 
comparatively unknown and worthless. 
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osperity 
the settlement consisted of a few log 
cabins on the edge of California Gulch, 
with an estimated population of 200; 
its business houses consisted of a “ ten 
ve groce 
almost SS difficult road to Colo- 
d s. In petitioning for a 
names Cerusite (the 
mineralogical name for lead = 
nate) and Agassiz were proposed bu 
rejected as being too scientific. ced 
City was suggested, but finally a com- 
promise was reached on Leadville, 
three years ors the city 
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business houses, constructed of brick 
and stone. Its assessable property is 
estimated to have been $30;000,000, 
and $1,400,000 was expended in 
in new buildings and improvements. 
production of gold, silver, and lead 
amounted to $15,000, 
This burst of development was con-— 
a little more than $9,006,000 
The value of the total yearly metal- 
lie output of the district from 1877 
to and including 1917 is shown in 
figure 26. This diagram shows also 
the values of the different metals that 
make up the output. The total pro- 
duction, as shown by the diagram, is 
