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...museum visitors watched, Charley Turquoise and his helper squatted in the sand, crosslegged, smoothed it carefully with a long paddle, began carefully covering it with colored pictures of angular, oblong-bodied gods and animals. Their pigment, which they lifted in handfuls from five different bowls beside them, was powdered rock and charcoal-white, blue, yellow, black and red. Trickling each handful in a fine stream between thumb and forefinger, they drew lines and wedge-shaped patches as accurately as draughtsmen, pinched off a dot or a spot of color here & there as featly as if they were salting the tail...
...Composer Marc Blitzstein (The Cradle Will Rock), to write a musical play...
...Colorado's famous old Cripple Creek mining district, which produced $24,986.990 worth of gold in its peak year (1901), men have been boring a tunnel for 20 months in search of pay dirt. Last month they found it. Water gushed from the rock, sent them scurrying from their tunnel. Soon the flow reached 20,000 gallons a minute-enough to cover an acre of ground to a depth of 100 ft. in a single day. The water level in Cripple Creek's long-flooded mines dropped fast. By last week the 2,600-foot-deep Ajax mine...
...Cripple Creek field (said to be named for a stream in which a cow once acquired a limp by getting stuck in the mud) is 36 square miles of volcanic rock on the southwestern slope of Pikes Peak. There, half-century ago, men's fortunes boiled as furiously as had the prehistoric lava which formed the plateau. A cowhand named Bob Womack, after digging so many holes that he endangered the lives of his employers' cattle, made the first strike in 1891, went on a spree, and discovered next morning that he had sold his claim...
After 1900 the Cripple Creek boom flattened out. Although the field was 9,500-11,000 ft. above sea level, the miners, as they went deeper, met a mass of spongy rock in a pocket of granite where water had collected for centuries. One tunnel, blasted through the granite in 1903, drained away some of the water. Another, finished just before World War I, gave Cripple Creek another lease on life. But by 1930 the boom days were gone...