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| Terrain:  By: DevinandJay @ | Hide Date: 05/03/2010 | Status: Available Country: United States | State: Colorado Coordinates: N40° 43.897 W105° 36.033 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0 This is a simple cache, located at ground level in a 12 inch waterproof cylinder. We recently replaced the Ammo can due to it being smuggled. Please reside the container well. Photo of container is in logs. Odds and ends to trade and a log and pencils are all included. IF your approaching this in a light duty car, I would suggest parking on the main road and walking the last 200 feet to the cache. Welcome to Manhattan Colorado, Population Zero. Ghost town with a HUGE amount of history. There are two other caches that have a relationship to Manhattan that are a great visit! Several pictures uploaded from the era. Please feel free to upload your own from this era! *Colorado Spirit Quest #194 - Manhattan Cemetery By Mountain Roamer. GC1TBXN This cemetery is the resting place of the only two mining accident deaths in Manhattan in its existence. Although im sure a few poker/bar fights went south too if ya catch my drift. Located less than one mile from here. IF you visit this cemetery, I have also included a photo of a tree known as the hanging tree. This is just west of the cemetery. This is where the folks would meet for a good old fashioned hanging. *The Mine By Team Red Rubicon. GCGC1TXKY This is what all the fuss was about. One of the actual mine. Its a hard hike or a hard drive to get to but if you can its well worth seeing one of the actual mines. Its probably only a mile or so as the "miner hikes" but if you have a decent GPS, it will probably get you there as you choose. The early Colorado Gold Rush of 1859 had largely bypassed Larimer County, at the northern end of the Front Range in northern Colorado. However in August 1886 two experienced prospectors of the Fort Collins Mining Company, Isaac R. Blevins and John DuBois, discovered gold in the creeks north of the Poudre. News of the discovery brought a flood of prospectors to the area, and by October of that year, 125 claims had been recorded. The camp had a population of approximately 100, most living in tents. The camp included a hotel, meat market, blacksmith shop, general store, livery stable, and saloon. The Fort Collins Courier reported that month that the area had "well-defined veins", with free milling ore containing gold and silver. A test sample brought back to Fort Collins tested nearly 800 USD per ton. Despite the promise of riches, local businessmen in Fort Collins were largely skeptical and reluctant to back further mining enterprises in the area. Nevertheless, by November, enough capital had been raised to begin mining. The following year in 1887, the town population stabilized. The early gold mining operations brought modest success, despite the lack of a mother lode. Based on initial optimism, a town plat and surveying were completed, with the expectation that the town would soon grow from several hundred to 5,000 and would rival Fort Collins. The inability of the miners to find a rich lode, coupled with the increasing costs as the mines were sunk deeper, severely eroded the profitability of the operations. During the next two years capital was difficult to raise, and the population declined. Transportation was a continuing difficulty, as the town was accessible only by steep roads. Optimism swept the town again in 1890 with the discovery of a vein that assayed 420 USD per ton. The town population grew once again, and a schoolhouse was built with an enrollment of 20 students. The years 1890 to 1892 saw the height of the town. In 1892, with the mines reaching 100 feet in depth, the town suffered its first mining disaster, killing two well-respected miners. In 1893 it was discovered that the gold concentrations were diminishing as the mine shafts deepened. By 1896 many miners were selling their claims, and production and transportation costs were making the remaining operations largely unprofitable. The town population had dwindled to 50 prospectors. An unexpected discovery of gold along a bend in the Poudre River that year again revived the town, and by 1898, the population had risen back to nearly 300. The optimism quickly tapered off, however, and the population declined again, with only small occasional strikes to keep up the hopes of those who remained. After the promise of a gold strike in 1911 faded, the town was largely abandoned. In 1930, the Civilian Conservation Corps set up a camp near the site (by then within the Roosevelt National Forest, erecting several new temporary structures. In 1933, the site was completely dismantled by order of United States Forest Service. Interesting side note on the sheriff here, Ollie "Big Nose George" Deetz (1850-1889) - Deetz became the marshal of Manhattan, Colorado in May, 1887. . Like other mining camps of the time, it had a lawless element and city authorities hired Deetz to "get rid of it." He seemingly happily complied, killing three men his first night on the job and collecting a $100 bounty on each man. He continued to "rid" the town of its seedier characters, hanging some of them after planting evidence. A year later he moved northward to Wyoming, and following an alleged bank robbery, he was lynched at Rock Creek on October 5, 1889. The actual town of Manhattan is 1 mile east of here in the open valley you probably came through to get here. Right at the fork. It is now all private property and land. The USGS lists the location of Manhattan right on the cache. (give or take a few feet) Its a great spot to learn some history about this area. Please be sure to watch for muggles in the summer especially on the weekends. Make sure you hide it well (although if your here for the cache its pretty obvious) This one would be a bit hard to find int he dead of winter, although its possible. Its sitting on a southern facing hillside with ample sunshine!
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Leaning up against a short (3 foot) pine tree.
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