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  Souvenir Mining Spoon Leadville.JPG - SOUVENIR MINING SPOON LEADVILLE CO - Sterling silver spoon, 5 3/4 in. long, embossed mining scene of miners working underground in bowl, handle marked ROCKY MOUNTAINS showing a winch lowering a bucket into bowl, special decoration on handle of gold mining tools sledge, pick and shovel, reverse marked with maker’s mark, COLORADO SILVER and engraved LEADVILLE, ca.1910, weight 27.5 gms. [Leadville CO is the highest incorporated city in the United States. A former silver mining town that lies near the headwaters of the Arkansas River in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, the city includes the Leadville Historic District, which preserves many historic structures and sites from Leadville's dynamic mining era. Gold was discovered in the area in late 1859, during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. However the initial discovery, where California Gulch empties into the Arkansas River, was not rich enough to cause excitement. On April 26, 1860, Abe Lee made a rich discovery of placer gold in California Gulch, about a mile east of Leadville, and Oro City was founded at the new diggings. By July 1860, the town and surrounding area had a population of 10,000 and an estimated $2 million in gold was taken out of California Gulch and nearby Iowa Gulch by the end of the first summer. Within a few years the richest part of the placers had been exhausted, and the population of Oro City dwindled to only several hundred. However, in 1874 gold miners at Oro City discovered that the heavy sand that impeded their gold recovery was the lead mineral cerussite that carried a high content of silver. Prospectors traced the cerussite to its source, and by 1876, had discovered several lode silver-lead deposits. A number of silver mines were established on Iron Hill and Carbonate Hill, east of town. The city of Leadville was founded near the new silver deposits in 1877 by mine owners Horace Austin Warner Tabor and August Meyer, setting off the Colorado Silver Boom. By 1880, Leadville was one of the world's largest silver camps, with a population of over 40,000. The city's fortunes declined with the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act in 1893 which resulted in a drop in the price of silver.]  
Souvenir Mining Spoon Reverse Leadville CO
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Souvenir Mining Spoon Leadville | SOUVENIR MINING SPOON LEADVILLE CO - Sterling silver spoon, 5 3/4 in. long, embossed mining scene of miners working underground in bowl, handle marked ROCKY MOUNTAINS showing a winch lowering a bucket into bowl, special decoration on handle of gold mining tools sledge, pick and shovel, reverse marked with maker’s mark, COLORADO SILVER and engraved LEADVILLE, ca.1910, weight 27.5 gms. [Leadville CO is the highest incorporated city in the United States. A former silver mining town that lies near the headwaters of the Arkansas River in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, the city includes the Leadville Historic District, which preserves many historic structures and sites from Leadville's dynamic mining era. Gold was discovered in the area in late 1859, during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. However the initial discovery, where California Gulch empties into the Arkansas River, was not rich enough to cause excitement. On April 26, 1860, Abe Lee made a rich discovery of placer gold in California Gulch, about a mile east of Leadville, and Oro City was founded at the new diggings. By July 1860, the town and surrounding area had a population of 10,000 and an estimated $2 million in gold was taken out of California Gulch and nearby Iowa Gulch by the end of the first summer. Within a few years the richest part of the placers had been exhausted, and the population of Oro City dwindled to only several hundred. However, in 1874 gold miners at Oro City discovered that the heavy sand that impeded their gold recovery was the lead mineral cerussite that carried a high content of silver. Prospectors traced the cerussite to its source, and by 1876, had discovered several lode silver-lead deposits. A number of silver mines were established on Iron Hill and Carbonate Hill, east of town. The city of Leadville was founded near the new silver deposits in 1877 by mine owners Horace Austin Warner Tabor and August Meyer, setting off the Colorado Silver Boom. By 1880, Leadville was one of the world's largest silver camps, with a population of over 40,000. The city's fortunes declined with the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act in 1893 which resulted in a drop in the price of silver.] Download Original Image
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