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Oro City, Colorado

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Oro City ~ circa 1874-1879

Oro City is a ghost town in Lake County, Colorado, United States

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Description

The community was an early Colorado gold placer mining town located near Leadville in the California Gulch. Oro is the Spanish word for gold. Oro City was the site of one of the single richest placer gold strikes in Colorado, with estimated gold production of 120,000 to 150,000 troy ounces (4 to 5 metric tons), worth $2.5 to $3 million at the then-price of $20.67 per troy ounce (31.1 grams).[1]

Geography

The site of Oro City is at 39°14′05″N 106°15′08″W / 39.23472°N 106.25222°W / 39.23472; -106.25222. It is in California Gulch, about a mile (1.6 km) northeast of Leadville in the Mosquito Range of Lake County, Colorado, United States.

History

Leadville, from California Gulch, by Thurlow, J. (1831–1878)

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 26 April 1860, Abe Lee made a rich discovery of placer gold on California Gulch six miles (9.7 km) east of the Arkansas River, and Oro City was founded at the new diggings.[2][3] By July 1860, the town and surrounding area had a population of 10,000. An estimated $2 million in gold was taken out the first summer from California Gulch and nearby Iowa Gulch, but within a few years the richest part of the placers had been exhausted, and the population of Oro City was several hundred. Many claims (each measuring 100 feet (30.5 meters) along the stream) were consolidated, and worked by ground sluicing. A ditch was dug in 1877 to provide water for hydraulic mining, but the hydraulic mining was reported to be unsuccessful.[4]

Placer mining had always been hampered by a heavy brown sand. As early as 1874, one of the miners determined that the brown sand was the lead mineral cerussite, and that the sand also carried high values of silver. Some veins of gold ore had already been found, but following the brown sand to its sources in the bedrock led to the discovery of large and rich silver deposits. The silver started a new and larger rush, and Oro City filled with silver prospectors, but most people went instead to the new city of Leadville nearby.[5]: 56  The 1890 census found the population of Oro to be 222.

Notable residents

  • John J. Hoover (died 1880), injured in a 65-foot (19.8-meter) fall in a mineshaft in Oro City in 1871; later convicted of murder in Fairplay, Colorado; lynched by a mob, as he awaited transport to the state penitentiary[6]
  • Horace Tabor, one of the placer miners in Oro City in 1860

See also

References

  1. ^ Ben H. Parker Jr., Gold Placers of Colorado, Book 2, Colorado School of Mines Quarterly, Oct. 1974, v.69 n.4 p.17.
  2. ^ "From the Arkansas River," Rocky Mountain News, 16 May 1860, p. 2.
  3. ^ Mike Flanigan, "Leadville, Cloud City," Denver Post Magazine, 1 Sept. 1985, p. 22.
  4. ^ Ben H. Parker Jr. (1974) Gold Placers of Colorado, book 2, Quarterly of the Colorado School of Mines, v.69, n.4, p.13-19.
  5. ^ Voynick, S.M., 1992, Colorado Gold, Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Company, ISBN 0878424555
  6. ^ Laura King Van Dusen, "Crime and Punishment in 1880s Fairplay: People Protest Light Sentencing, Deliver Frontier Justice", Historic Tales from Park County: Parked in the Past (Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2013), ISBN 978-1-62619-161-7, pp. 89-96

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