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Gilson Gulch and Freighter's Friend Mine
Collins, George Arthur Lakes Library Colorado Digitization Project Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive
Collins, George
Arthur Lakes Library
Colorado Digitization Project
Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive
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1895?-1915?
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Photograph showing the Freighter's Friend Mine and the small town of Gilson Gulch, which were located in a gulch at the base of Seaton Mountain northeast of Idaho Springs. Note the school children standing on top of a tailings pile in the photograph. Gilson Gulch was founded by the Gilson family in the late 1870s or early 1880s following the discovery of a rich gold-bearing lode. The small town, which was composed mostly of Italians along with a few Frenchmen and Germans, was built in close proximity to the mines. Gilson Gulch was never incorporated and probably never had more than 100 - 200 residents. In 1893, the Dumont family arrived in Gilson Gulch and built a small hotel (shown in the photograph) and a saloon. The Freighter's Friend Mine was discovered by Captain Jack in 1866, and it was located on the Gem-Franklin vein. In addition to Freighter's Friend, there were a number of mines on the hillsides surrounding Gilson Gulch, including the Gem, Dove's Nest, Garden, Franklin mines, which were all located on the Gem-Franklin vein, became the Consolidated Franklin Mine, and over their entire histories approximately 125,000 ounces of gold.
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