92 Years Ago
The March 16, 1933 Colorado Transcript reported that workmen digging in Clear Creek near the pumping plant had struck gold. The City was digging a sump pit under the Creek to be used for water storage. They had reached a depth of twelve feet when they noticed “sizable” gold nuggets in the gravel they were extracting.
City Marshal Gary Kerr…, a veteran miner, estimates that the gravel will pay more than a dollar a yard in gold….
Old time placer miners declare that, in their belief, the gold placer field in the bed of Clear creek has been merely scratched in the operations of years gone by, and that with depth substantial values may be found. As the new gold strike is on city property and in immediate proximity to the city pumping plant, it is extremely doubtful if any mining rights may be acquired there.
