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Article: Leadville
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- The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Leadville , mining city (1990 pop. 2,629), alt. c.10,200 ft (3,110 m), seat of Lake co., central Colo., near the headwaters of the Arkansas River, in the Rocky Mts.; inc. 1878. Some mining and smelting are still carried on (at nearby Climax are huge deposits of molybdenum), and farming, ranching, and the tourist trade have kept this famous city from becoming another ghost town. Rich placer gold deposits were discovered c.1860 in California Gulch. Oro City, the principal camp, flourished for about two years. The camps were virtually deserted until 1877, when the discovery of carbonates of lead with a high ...
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Article: MARCH IN SEPTEMBER? ONLY UP IN LEADVILLE.(Spotlight)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);
September 17, 2005 ;
700+ words
... ... incorporated city - 10,152-foot-high Leadville. That got Judge Neil Reynolds, a fifth-generation Leadville citizen, and other Irish poobahs to ... on the Saturday closest to Sept. 17. Leadville is then at its best, under deep blue ...
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