The boom time. The sherman silver purchase act was passed, and that ensured that the federal government would purchase a large quantity of silver at the tabor familya multifacetted story. Horace Austin Warner tabor was born in vermont and married his first wife, named augusta, also from new england. They married and tried their hand for a brief period in the late 1850s in farming in kansas and came out to colorado during the gold rush in 1859. They eventually settled in the leadville area where they ran a store. One of the things that horace did was what is called grub stake, some of the mining prospectors, which he gave them goods. They didnt have to pay him, they paid him with shares of should they strike it rich, he would get x percentage, and one of them did. That gave him initial resources to invest in other mining interests, and he got very lucky and struck it big on several different occasions and became very, very wealthy. In some circles he was known as the silver king of colo
Information for cspan radio and cspan television. Plus podcast times for our popular public affairs, book and history programs. Stay up to date on all the election coverage. Cspans radio app means you always have cspan on the go. Cspan is in denver, colorado learning more about the citys rich history. The milehigh city was built on the boom and bust of the silver industry. We visited the History Colorado Center to learn more about the silver mining crash of 1893. The gold rush begins in 1859, actually in the denver area where gold was first discovered. But silver mining really hits its heyday in the 1880s, late 1870s and really 1880s was the boom time. The sherman silver purchase act was passed and that ensured that the federal government would purchase a large quantity of silver at a fixed price. And the government was subsidizing the silver industry. So president Grover Cleveland determined to repeal silver act, which he did in 1893 and the price of silver immediately plummeted. So p
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%%title%% %%sep%% %%primary category%% %%sep%% %%sitename%% %%sep%% The 2024 Nedbank Namibia Windhoek Power Pedal Series third leg (WPP3) will take place at Matchless Mine outside of Windhoek on Sunday.