Although miners never found commercially valuable amounts of gold in the region, the reports led to an increase in the region's population.
So the miners found copper first and later tin.
Were the miners making some new arrangements, finding some other, darker, way to break out of the food trap?
By this time the miners had found most of the gold, and the town was no longer important.
They all wanted to see what was going on, what the miners had found.
It was the only way they could help the people who needed them-be where the miners could find them.
Unfortunately, the miners coming into Denver found no jobs and no help.
By digging soughs, miners found they could lower the water table and allow mines to be worked deeper.
"The miners found this river a long time ago," the President said.
The miners sometimes found masses of native copper up to hundreds of tons.