Turning Back the Pages
30 Years Ago – August 29, 1980
The flavors of old Mexico have returned to Central City at Poco’s Mexican Restaurant located in the historic Granite Building on Lawrence, former site of the Taos Trading Post, under the ownership of Larry Pallotto, Buzz Freeman, and Richard Gray.
The Jazz Festival enjoyed a reasonable amount of success even through the weekend was cloudy and rainy. Over 2,000 ragtime enthusiasts were on hand Saturday and just under 3500 paid attendance for all three days.
The Parent-Teacher Organization needs help taking the old playground equipment from Clark School and bringing it to the new school. They will also be building more equipment from old telephone poles and tires.
Shari and Arden Larson of Missouri Lakes Filing #3 became the parents of a baby girl, Amanda Elizabeth, on August 20, 1980.
The Black Hawk Conoco station has changed hands and is now under the sole ownership of Marko Lah.
Carl Robbins is fixing up and painting the old hardware store in Black Hawk.
Gertrude “Dude” Moon of Rollinsville writes, “I was so happy last Thursday to join Eva Hood and Cowen and Florence Gooch for a trip in Eva’s Scout to the Tip Top Mine territory and also the London Mines. The mountain area is like a fairyland picture.” She didn’t find as many huckleberries and raspberries as she’d hoped.
Dr. Kenneth Choreley, president emeritus of the Williamsburg Association, visited Central City for several days and stated the town is a gold mine of history, unequalled anywhere, and the business buildings with no modern structures intruding, comprise the finest collection of Victorian buildings in the United States.
Gilpin Medical Clinic announces that we are again in full operation, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and 1 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Thursdays.
Affidavits of Labor were recorded for the Lode Star properties in Hawkeye mining district; the Free Gold Lode in Russell mining district and the placer claims for the Crackerjack in Central mining district, Roulette in Pine and Independent mining districts, and the Applejack in Central mining district.
A comment about the Jazz Festival Parade: One band.
Colorado Sierra Fireman #605 parachuted from an airplane as a way of showing his joy over the success of the Fire Department flea sale, uhm, market. Debbie Olhausen is #3 but will try harder, she says.
Between Estes Park, Central City and points west, most roads lead through Nederland. Lucky for you. That means lunch or dinner, any day of the week, at the High Mountain Grill.
Norman Ford, of Lincoln Hills, reported parties panning gold on private property in Lincoln Hills. A deputy contacted three suspects and advised them of trespassing laws. They agreed to leave.
The summons for one Central City resident reads that he “did unlawfully urinate in the Jenkins parking lot and upon the car of the arresting officer, neither of which is a toilet facility provided for such purpose.”
Mrs. Spellman is the Memorial Chairperson for the Colorado Heart Association in Gilpin County
Dan Monroe of Central City reported the theft of a stool from the Elks Club and identified a suspect in the theft. A Colorado Springs man was taken into custody. Monroe allegedly encountered the man carrying the stool on Main Street and allegedly had words with the man because he recognized the stool as being the type found at the Elks Club bar. The man continued loading the stool into his truck, at which time Monroe notified the police.
60 Years Ago – August 25, 1950
In one of the state’s biggest mining deals in recent years the Uranium Co. of America, a newly organized firm, acquired control of the old Newhouse tunnel and Argo mill and 12 mining properties in Clear Creek and Gilpin Counties.
In the Straw Vote of Wednesday, throughout the County, instituted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and with the cooperation and sanction of the American Legion on the question of legalizing slot machines, the voters of Gilpin County certainly expressed their views on the subject in a no uncertain way. 414 votes were cast with 410 voting for and 4 against.
Remember the good old days when the only thing we had to argue about was whether the National or American league had the better baseball team?
When the curtain rings down Saturday night it will end another successful Opera Season. It will seem a little strange to see the opera house and Teller House in darkness at night.
You’re wondering how summer could have slipped quietly by while you were rapturously engaged in admiring the first signs of spring?
Nothing has been accomplished in securing anything faintly resembling a gymnasium for the entertainment and development of the school kids. Are the kids going to spend their idle hours shooting “snipes” behind the school-house, or shooting baskets in a suitable gymnasium?
The Federal Court of Claims has awarded the Ute Indian tribes of Colorado and Utah $31,700,000 in settlement of a land dispute dating back to 1891.
Fred Thomas has a double switch in his kitchen, one of which controls the kitchen light and the other the light on the front terrace. Recently he stepped into the unlighted kitchen, snapped on the switch to the terrace by mistake, then stepped out upon the terrace and gazed about in amazement wondering why the light was burning.
We may be wrong but we have a hunch that President Truman won’t want rationing and price controls until after November 6.
Uncle Zeke says Aunt Minnie’s judgment is generally better than his and that this was especially shown when they got married.
Black Hawk Fire Department held their annual picnic on Sunday..
PAST REPAST: Lima Bean Casserole – 1 pound large lima beans, ½ cup chopped green pepper, ½ cup chopped onions, 1/3 cup fat, 3 tablespoons light corn syrup, 1 can tomato soup, ½ cup water-Soak beans several hours or overnight in water to cover. Simmer slowly until tender. Brown chopped peppers and onions in the fat and add the light corn syrup, tomato soup, and half cup water. Place drained limas in greased casserole and pour other mixture over them. Bake two hours at 325 degrees. Serves 6.
Geologist G. C. Ridlan is convinced the veins of Quartz Hill and adjacent ground have excellent possibilities of yielding, in addition to gold, zinc, silver, lead, and important quantities of pitchblende.
A modest girl never pursues a man. Nor does a mousetrap pursue a mouse.
90 Years Ago – August 27, 1920
Honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, marines and army nurses who are citizens of the state are eligible for a loan of up to $200 under an act passed by the last General Assembly, to attend school or college this fall.
Frank Kengel, of Detroit, Michigan, was a visitor to this city last week looking after his mining interests. He is the son of William Kengel, who in the early days owned and operated the Galena Mine, on Central City Hill, and Frank has expressed the opinion that he might again take hold and put the mine in shape for working again.
A heavy frost was noticeable Monday morning and a few of the trees on the mountainsides have changed color. Sunday and Monday were about the first pleasant summer days we have had during the month of August, and even then, the nights were cool.
Work on the Homer property, located west of the O.K. Mine, has been suspended for a few days on account of water troubles and the miners are taking a vacation.
County treasurer Henry Altvater informs us that Gilpin County is entirely out of debt, having reached that glorious condition on August 25th.
Don’t be too swift about advising others to give the devil his due. They may hand you over.
Central City schools will open for the fall and winter terms on September 7, the day following Labor Day.
A moonlight picnic and dance is to be given at the Quartz Valley school house on Saturday evening.
The four United States airplanes flying from Mineola, New York to Nome, Alaska arrived there yesterday afternoon. The actual flying time from New York was fifty-five hours. The flight is a forerunner of mail and commercial flights.
Died: In Central City, August 24, 1920, Mrs. Mary M. McLeod, aged 65 years 7 months, 15 days.
Died: In Central City, August 24, 1920, Arthur Liss, of miner’s consumption, aged 52 years, 4 months, 15 days.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Katta, Apex, gave an outdoor beefsteak fry on Wednesday evening of last week.
We have a curious hankering to know the sensation of a hanged man when the jerk comes. But don’t try the experiment in order to satisfy an editorial whim.
Checks are being made out for back pay for railroad employees in Colorado to an amount aggregating $3,500,000 on the wage award recently made by the federal board.
Charles Ray in “Hay, Foot, Straw Foot” and a Ford weekly will be the picture program at the opera house on Saturday.
Several of the Harvey residences on Casey Avenue are in the hands of wreckers and are being torn down and the lumber shipped to the valley for building purposes.
What is considered one of the best crops of dry land wheat that has been cut in Jefferson County has been threshed on the Bonvue farm a mile north of the city limits of Golden.
The dean of the University of Denver has forbidden coeds at that institution from using powder puffs because the beautiful new rug that adorns the floor in front of a large mirror in the women’s study is becoming “horribly ragged” from so many girls lingering in front of the mirror to use their powder puffs.
120 Years Ago – August 29 1890
Silver in New York yesterday was quoted at $1.18 ½ per ounce and lead has advanced to $4.60 per 100 pounds.
Dr. Comer, of Nevadaville, has sold his drug store in that place to Dr. Davis.
The stamp mill of the Hubert Mine Company, Nevadaville, has temporarily closed down. For the present a very small force of miners will be employed at the mine.
It appears that Canadians have been stealing timber from government lands in Minnesota. Not content with that, they have added impudence to theft by hauling the sawed lumber back to the United States and selling it to the people they stole it from. Our northern neighbors need watching. They steal our timber and our sealskins and will not even let us steal their fish. What kind of reciprocity is that, anyway?
Yesterday afternoon a bright blaze was seen issuing from the roof of a tenement building in Nevadaville occupied by the family of Mr. Richard Merely back of the school building, which it is thought was caused from a defective flue. Fortunately the fire was discovered before it gained headway and was put out before it spread. Nevadaville is poorly supplied with water and there is a behoovement for residents to keep lookout.
There were one hundred and eighty-six passengers on the excursion train that left Central and Black Hawk this morning for Denver.
Messrs. Boellert and Fick, the wagon makers of Black Hawk turned out this morning a handsome delivery wagon for Sauer, McShane & Co. this city. It is a dandy and but a fair sample of the work turned out by that firm.
Mr. J. S. Beaman, president of the Pioneers Association of Gilpin County, and other fellow pioneers have enclosed the 90×100 plat of ground in the city cemetery recently donated to that association by the city council.
Born: In Central City, August 21, 1890, to the wife of Richard Magor, a daughter.
Captain Bennet E. Seymour starts out again this morning after a horse which he lost somewhere in the vicinity of James Peak, which he hunted for four days before coming in but could not find. We wish him better luck this time.
Alderman A.C. Reckling and Messrs. James Dorris and Martin Welch left Central at an early hour this morning for Frog Mountain and Rattlesnake Gulch, where they have secured a very promising silver prospect.
Sheriff Hooper yesterday afternoon brought in from Mountain House district a woman who was taken before Judge Thomas of the county court, and a jury summoned to determine the question of her sanity. The jury returned a verdict that she was insane. The sheriff left with her this morning for Pueblo, where she will be placed in the insane asylum.
The machinery for the new concentration mill to be erected in Lump Gulch, Central mining district, for the New Jersey Mining Company has arrived in Black Hawk and is being removed to that point. The mill building is complete and as soon as the machinery is placed, the mill will be started up on ore from the mines worked by this company.
For Sale – A slaughter-house, ranch and growing crops near Central City. Apply to Henry Dennis for terms.
The envelope social is where all are requested to bring a sealed envelope in which they have placed quotations from different authors, scriptures, selections of something original, together with what amount of money they may feel disposed to give to a church.
Saturday’s wrestling match, Cornish style, which took place in Mountain City, was well and fairly conducted. The attendance was very good and the presence of the Nevadaville Cornet Band enlivened the occasion. Sixteen stands out of 32 entries was the result of the match at the close. The throw-off for prizes was postponed until next Saturday.
The superintendent of the Union Pacific has been up in Clear Creek Canyon inspecting the road and says he will send engineers up there to hunt for a safer place to cross the creek than at the forks. The bridge at Forks of Creek will not be replaced until it is known whether or not a better location can be found.
A Black Hawk man, the other night, went home late and admitted himself at night with a back-door key. Just as he entered the house he heard a noise in one of the rooms as though there was a burglar about. Quietly closing the door again, and locking it, he went around to the front door, rang the bell, and his wife came down stairs to let him in.