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A once prosperous mining town in Boulder county;
daily mails and express; money order post-office; daily stages to Central,
Nederland and Boulder; Rocky Mountain Telegraph Line. Population
400. The principal lodes are the Caribou, No-Name, [Albert Landon]
Sherman, Poorman, Idaho, Virginia, Grand View, Morning Star, Wabash, Arapahoe,
Homestake, Ten-Forty, Great Republic, Seventy-Thirty, and Norwood.
They produced $50.00 per month. Principal tunnels are the Caribou,
Idaho, Air Line, Summit, Two-Seventeen and Red Cross.
There is little
left of Caribou, the town, unless you use your imagination; unless you
know the history. About 7 miles, at 10,000 feet, up the a winding
road, only wide enough for one car, with a view that goes forever, you
first past the Historical Caribou Silver Mine, one of few still in operation.
The rock barracks, or bunkers where the miners lived still stands. Going
on, the road is no longer drivable. Ahead you see main street of
Caribou, a dirt road that leads through town. At one time the town
buildings, stores and saloons stood to the right of the road, where now
only rock foundations lie, and to the left, the houses stood. Only
one wooden house remains, with a view of snow glaciers to the north and
right at eye level, and to the south, past the bunkers, a view of the valley
below. Passing through a forgotten ghost town, climbing on foot about
1/2 mile, the neglected cemetery is fenced, the aspen trees quake in the
wind as though to whisper the secrets of the glories days of Caribou.
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