Mining Stuff
Taken in Cripple Creep, Colorado.
By 1900 there were over 500 mines operating in the Cripple Creek district. The great wealth coming out of the mines turned Cripple Creek into a bustling and prosperous city of over 35,000 people. 75 Saloons and numerous brothels parted miners from their pay. A stock market was created to match remote investors with local mining interests. Cripple Creek was also the site of some of the worst labor conflicts in American history, culminating in the state militia being called in to break strike in 1903.
The city population was 1,189 at the 2010 United States Census.
Mining Stuff
Taken in Cripple Creep, Colorado.
By 1900 there were over 500 mines operating in the Cripple Creek district. The great wealth coming out of the mines turned Cripple Creek into a bustling and prosperous city of over 35,000 people. 75 Saloons and numerous brothels parted miners from their pay. A stock market was created to match remote investors with local mining interests. Cripple Creek was also the site of some of the worst labor conflicts in American history, culminating in the state militia being called in to break strike in 1903.
The city population was 1,189 at the 2010 United States Census.