I'm Thinking Someone Was STEALING Gold
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
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South Pass City Wyoming was home to the Carissa Mine. The original town was located about 10 miles away and was a stage stop and pony express station however once gold was discovered and miners moved into the are, the town moved closer to where the miners were located.
The original outpost was located about 10 miles away but once miners moved into the area close to where the mining activity was, this outpost moved closer to where the mining was taking place and became known as South Pass City. By 1868, South Pass City boasted around 250 buildings with close to 1500 people, and had hundreds of mining claims staked in the vicinity. The towns main street was said to have a half mile long. The had numerous hotels, restaurants, general stores, a couple of newspapers, 2 or 3 doctors and dozens of saloons.
There were several small lode mines in this camp There was the Duncan Mine and also the B&H Mine. However the largest mine in the area was the Carissa Mine. This was one of the first lode claims in the area to be mines. Because there was little infastructure all mining and milling was was done by hand. It is said that Henry Reedall crushed all his ore by hand over the first winter and recovered about 15 thousand dollars worth of gold for his efforts by the spring of 1868. Then in July of 1868 a six stamp mill was brought into the area by November that year they had crushed a little over 1000 tons of gold ore and by July of 1869 there was a total of three mills with a total of twenty-six stamps were operating in the district.
But it didn't last long and by the early 1870s the mines had all but shut down. The so called bonanaza grades were not what miners had hoped for. For the next decade or so the area saw little mining as most people left for greener pastures and the population is said to have dropped to less than 200. Then in 1885 a man by the name of Bolivar Roberts, aquired the Carissa mine and the adjoining claims and formed the Carissa Gold Mining Company. Robert is said to have extracted about one million dollars from the mine and then leased the mine out.
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I'm thinking someone was stealing gold from this mine. If you listen the one mine owner only got around 4100 ounces and was paid $20.60 per ounce but another guy comes in and mines for a year and makes a million bucks. What do you think?
I agree. Something is wrong with those numbers!
Only three things I can think of.
1) The first guy mined the majority of the high grade ore to make his million.
2) The first guy lied about how much he had made and how rich the ore was. This made the mine more attractive and in turn, more expensive to lease.
3) The real amount the first guy mined has been lost to time and has been continuously over inflated through the decades until we arrived to the present day estimate of a million.
4100 ounces is roughly 1/10th of the million (at $20.60 per ounce) the first guy made. It would take one heck of a thief to make 37000 ounces disappear.
I have a feeling the first guys numbers were simply misreported.
Good story friend me and the beagle enjoyed it.
Thanks for watching this morning.
Great history and boy the mine changed hand a lot great talk and seeing the mine area ⛏️ thank you
@@casedoumasr656 Mines changing hands. And the trend continues to this day. Thanks for watching!!
Interesting story very refreshing to have videos without annoying music or background sound effects 👍👍👍
Thank you for the video
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for wachin today.
The last voice you used sounded so much better for this topic. It sounded like an old miner to me!
Strange. Same narrator. Thanks for watching.
Now this one will be a great old mine to visit, very rare to have the original buildings intact like this. Louis L'Amour's book Bendigo Shafter is set in the beginning days and settling of this area. The winters in this part of Wyoming are brutal!
Great job bringing this one to us, thanks!
Thanks for stopping by today. Appreciate it.
Another great video! Keep them coming, thank you.
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Awesome video.
Thanks for the visit. See ya next week.
Great episode! The area is so beautiful! Hoping to make it out there this summer. My father and brother own claims in the area. It’s been a while since I’ve played in the dirt and water with an old gold pan! 😎
Thank you for watching. If you get to do any prospecting out that way, remember to bring home some nuggets.
If possible, would you do Idaho Springs and Central City in Colorado? Great Series.
I will look into these 2 places for sure. There are 15 other videos on deck so it will be a while. Thank you for watching.
Interesting as usual. Your stories always show how hard the miners worked for very little gain. I've done a little of that work. My grandfather grew up on his parents ranch outside Prescott Az. They had many mining claims on their property. You had to a certain amount of work to keep the claims active. I used to spend my summers there as a teenager and did of that mining work.
Had to do some of that work.
I mined for years. Even with modern equipment it can be a tough way to make a living but not anything near to what the old timers had to go through. They were a very tough breed of men. Hey thanks again for watching. Always appreciated.
A lot of the towns in Victoria Australia during our gold rush were nothing more than tent cities 👌 Mostly the towns established today are located on the main diggings ! Some areas would have been cleaned out & other areas not so 👌 There is still a lot of potential in small scale reef mining at certain locations available 👍
Thanks for watching.