Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1909 — GOLD FIND’S ANNIVERSARY [ARTICLE]

GOLD FIND’S ANNIVERSARY

Fifty Years Ago Today Mining Began In the Rocky Mountains. Idaho Springs, Colo., May 7.—This town is celebrating today with speeches and meetings the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of gold in the Rocky mountains. On May 7, 1859, a mining company headed by George W. Jackson, the discoverer of the precious metal at Jackson’s bar, within the present city limits, began placer mining upon the first paying deposits of gold ever opened in the Rocky mountains.