Pack Train, 1905

Entitled: Pack train leaving Ouray with supplies for the mines, Colorado. Ouray, Colorado was originally established by miners chasing silver and gold in the surrounding mountains, the town at one time boasted more horses and mules than people. Prospectors arrived in the area in 1875. In 1877, William Weston and George Barber found the Gertrude and Una gold veins in Imogene Basin, six miles south southwest of Ouray. Thomas Walsh acquired the two veins and all the open ground nearby. In 1897 he opened the Camp Bird Mine, adding a twenty-stamp mill in 1898, and a forty-stamp mill in 1899. The mine produced almost 200, 000 ounces of gold by 1902, when Walsh sold out to Camp Bird, Ltd. By 1916, Camp Bird, Ltd. had produced over one million ounces of gold. Cropped stereograph by H.C. White Company, 1905

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Colorado Cropped Goldmine Mule Ouray Packhorses Prospecting Prospector Stereograph

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