The Cedar Creek Mining District in Mineral County, Montana on the eastern side of the Bitterroot Mountains, south-west of the present town of Superior. The district includes Cedar, quartz and Trout Creek and its tributaries, which originate near the north-west extension of the Bitterroot range. The streams flowing north-east of the Clark Fork River. Mineral County is from Missoula and Sanders counties adjacent and linked to the stateIdaho.
Mineral County
Mineral County covers 1,223 miles square. Your country is 82% National Forest and is managed by SU Forest Service. 3% of the country is part of the state of Montana and 15% privately owned. The region is rich in mining history lends his name.
The majority of the population topography is quite rugged with elevations up to 2500 to 8000 meters above sea level.
There are 87 kilometers of river, 650 km of waterways and over 50 mountain lakes complimentthe endless pastures, majestic waterfalls and breathtaking views.
Mineral County was started after the construction of the Mullan Road built in 1859. Before clearing and cut the wire, very thick forests of giant cedars, ponderosa pine, hemlock, larch and fir trees around the area was difficult and dangerous journey. Captain Mullan forbade all his men in search of gold for fear of a "gold rush" may be interfering with the trackConstruction.
On September 11, 1865, the first two claims were found on the St. Regis River. WW Johnson, who had worked as a surveyor on the path Mullan, Gold filed a complaint, "the gold and silver quartz Missoula Ledge," and Peter Toft announced "Beaver gold and silver quartz ledge. Sketchy records history does not indicate whether the request was never actually worked.
The history of the Cedar Creek Gold Rush
In the fall of 1868, a French Canadian prospector, Louis Barrettehad no luck and dreams, the gold fields of Northern Idaho are working to implement it. Discouraged and broke, he left for Canada from the French stock Frenchtown, Montana, along Mullen Road. Barrette hope that the goodness of his fellow citizens would protect him from the harsh winter, Montana.
Trip from Idaho to Montana, bars followed the St. Joe River in the heart of its sources' Alene Mountains. As he rode along the path, he saw a deep pool at theMontana side, the gold diggers in his eyes, looked promising. However, the winter was moving and needed to go to Frenchtown first snowfall in the high country prevented his body.
Barrette stated that he and supplies, and return to the perspective of the region in spring.
On his trip to Frenchtown met Adolph Lozeau Barrette, a young French Canadian who ran a ranch about five miles east of the mouth of Cedar Creek. Lozeau Forty Mile House hadwas a stop for hikers traveling the road Mullen for two years. Lozeau would be like a central figure in the legend of the Cedar Creek Gold Rush.
Luck and circumstances behind the hair clip return to the valley of his dreams. It was not until the late autumn of 1869, the hair clip in the position of equipment and materials back and was fit to Cedar Creek. Barrette and his partner, Basil Lanthier through the steep ravine covered with cedar wood on saddle horses, accompanied by a series of packetsThe horses laden with enough food to last for several weeks.
Bars & Lanthier Frenchtown leaving was not a well-kept secret. Rumors and speculation about the success of their research were common gossip. All ears waiting for a new gold strike or other failure to hear.
Tired, but happy to partner with Cedar Creek has arrived, and then further up the river about four miles until you reach a meadow at the mouth of Cayuse Creek. Lahti wasSet up their base camp and bars line the stream.
Lady Luck has smiled! On October 9, 1869, were discovered about the Nuggets, where the waters of Cedar Creek, Cayuse Creek combined. happy "Gold Fever" Lanthier bars and not with their first opportunity and was determined to focus our exploration of the canyon for the rich Overcome.
Aware of the famous attack inevitable once the news of their discovery was that they wanted the best site in the area and is connected tobefore the swarming crowd of miners who would race for a strike had the opportunity to file a claim.
Finally, looking ahead to the vicinity of 10 ounces of gold, has founded two wells test bars obtained his alleged discovery of the "Louisville Bar" which is now within the boundaries of Cink's mine.
It was now the end of November. Winter mountain and grabbed the bars and Lathi supplies were running dangerously low. The two miners back to Lozeau Ranchto supply. Lozeau showed gold and sailors for his help to travel to Frenchtown for provisions. Bars and Lahti knew if he returned to stock market speculators, who would follow back to their discovery.
News of a gold strike was a greater mystery of Adolph could hold. Loosened by alcohol, "they struck gold," slipped to Lozeau lips and running! With the daylight in the morning after more than 100 miners were frantically scrambling up and down the drain.
In the earlyDecember, a miner's meeting was the Mining District of hair clips, and called the city of Louisville to claim the discovery as bars the district headquarters. bad feelings arose when the newspaper Deer Lodge, the "New Northwest," reports that the city of Louisville with his wife Louise was named after Louis Lozeau and hairstyles. Adolph had Lozeau credit for the discovery, as he had never taken part in the strike partner.
Like the gold miners from all overRest Area on Cedar Creek, pulled hair clip Mining District, the rules for the submission of applications to create. The length of a loan is limited to 200 meters, width exceed 9 m above the ground on the shore above the high water mark on each side of the stream. Each new arrival was a right, except for the hair clip, the additional demand can claim his number one discovery was allowed.
Word of a strike gold guide the wind and spread like wildfire. The strike was in Cedar Creekis no exception. Prospectors flocked to the frenzy. A correspondent of the newspaper New Northwest, writing Missoula reported. "Missoula was wild for a week." "Hoteliers, shopkeepers, civil servants, men's slippers and inactivity are all gone ...".
This intense migration in a remote area and restricted presented enormous challenges in terms of scarcity of food and shelter. Nearly 60 trains in the canyon mule sale rubber boots, tarps, bacon and beans spilled. Accommodation wasinsufficient by the majority of the apartments just shacks brush, branches and canvas. Newspapers warned the miners to go "well dressed, sharp and overlapping.
Bad weather, food shortages and dangerous conditions did not deter those who have had a gold rush. drainage within a month full of snow was divided into nearly 2,500 separate applications. Tempers ran high, violence was widespread and jumping request was rampant. An estimated 3,000 men who winteredYear in the throat and has been exhibited three times as many others. That first winter was only men, since there are no women on the Creek in 1869.
Keepers, blacksmiths and merchants were, like the Cedar Creek miners upset potential. New residents of Louisville, Mugginsville, Cedar Junction and Lincoln City was pleased to see how this ambitious entrepreneur opened for business travelers. mining camps were created and moved quickly toward the center of the ring left in placethe district. The Helena Daily Herald reported on March 3, 1870 that "Louisville had 680 houses, 91 Cedar Junction wages are $ 4. - $ 5 a day." "... Louisville ... prospecting is running as high as $ 1,250.00 a frying pan."
The population of the district has gone up from 10,000, according to some estimates. In 1870, Forest City, Cedar Creek itself, has reached a population of 7,000 and was considered as a commercial center for many area cities including Missoula. As in every gold rush, whiskey flowed,Fortunes were won and lost and lives forever changed.
The first production from the Cedar Creek Rush was estimated as high as $ 10 million. The gold was extracted from Cedar Creek has been particularly good, some gold, 982 fine and the recovery was not for them as high as 960-970 unusually good. At the time of the Cedar Creek Gold Strike was trading at $ 20.50 per ounce. If you apply the current price of gold in excess of $ 1,000.00 an ounce on the calculation of the figures are actuallyimpressive. The miners are known to shut his mouth, but some are known to boast, it is impossible to know the true value of the strike, but it was credible and treasure a great adventure.
Cedar Creek also had its share of hard rock mining. The Amador copper mine was discovered in 1889 by cutting a large reservoir 165 feet below the bed of Cedar Creek, but has not been fully worked until 1900. A settlement was 11 miles down below the mine, a railway line linkingthe two. Potential investors were on the train from the east and the shares sold to the mine and brought a lot in townsite. Cedar Creek to a small hut built to process the ore. In 1919, the railway line for the mineral have been removed from the truck. Much of the old track bed, the basis for the Cedar Creek Road as it is today.
There was placer mining activities along these rivers and their tributaries, nearly every year until the Second World War. From 1946 to today, a handful ofHardy mountain people put their search for the elusive Gold ore. Welcome to Cedar Creek and can be found in the color of the bottom of your pan!
