Looking for Photos of Cache Creek Ditch Options

[Gayle]

It has been a while since I posted or chatted. I've appreciated the mining explanations I received in the past and hope someone can help me with my latest request.

On Saturday, I am giving a presentation at the Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium. The theme is Rush To The Rockies: The 1859 Pikes Peak or Bust Gold Rush. For more information on the symposium you can visit this link http://ppld.org/SpecialCollections/2009Symposium/default.asp

I am talking about the Cash Creek Miners. This morning as I'm fine-tuning my PowerPoint Presentation, I thought it would be great to have a photograph of the Cache Creek Ditch built in 1861-1862 that brought water from Lake Creek to Cache Creek. I wondered if any of you who have prospected in the Cache Creek area might have taken a picture? Or if you might know of anyone who has a picture?

I've been to Cache Creek a couple of times, but never went past the mining camp.

Thank you for your help. If you have a photo, you can e-mail it to me at gcgresham@msn.com I will give credit to the photographer on the PowerPoint slide.

Gayle Gresham
http://ColoradoReflections.blogspot.com

[ASTROBLEME]

It has been a while since I posted or chatted. I've appreciated the mining explanations I received in the past and hope someone can help me with my latest request.

On Saturday, I am giving a presentation at the Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium. The theme is Rush To The Rockies: The 1859 Pikes Peak or Bust Gold Rush. For more information on the symposium you can visit this link http://ppld.org/SpecialCollections/2009Symposium/default.asp

I am talking about the Cash Creek Miners. This morning as I'm fine-tuning my PowerPoint Presentation, I thought it would be great to have a photograph of the Cache Creek Ditch built in 1861-1862 that brought water from Lake Creek to Cache Creek. I wondered if any of you who have prospected in the Cache Creek area might have taken a picture? Or if you might know of anyone who has a picture?

I've been to Cache Creek a couple of times, but never went past the mining camp.

Thank you for your help. If you have a photo, you can e-mail it to me at gcgresham@msn.com I will give credit to the photographer on the PowerPoint slide.

Gayle Gresham
http://ColoradoReflections.blogspot.com

Hi Gayle:

I checked all the photos from my adventures in that area but didn't have anything that showed the present day ditch.

There is an old photo that shows part of the ditch running along the hillside above the cabins at Cache (Cash) Creek. The ditch crosses the wagon road and you can see a couple of places where it had washed out and ran down the hill. The photo is on the digitized photo site of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, under the name William G. Chamberlain, Call Number X-19192.

Here's a URL link

http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10019192+X-19192

Take care,

ASTROBLEME

[Gayle]

Hi Gayle:

I checked all the photos from my adventures in that area but didn't have anything that showed the present day ditch.

There is an old photo that shows part of the ditch running along the hillside above the cabins at Cache (Cash) Creek. The ditch crosses the wagon road and you can see a couple of places where it had washed out and ran down the hill. The photo is on the digitized photo site of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, under the name William G. Chamberlain, Call Number X-19192.

Here's a URL link

http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10019192+X-19192

Take care,

ASTROBLEME

Thank you! I have the picture in my PowerPoint, but didn't think about that being the ditch. I've been trying to figure out what direction the picture was taken from. I haven't been able to line up the mountains with the pictures I have. Do you have any ideas?

[Gayle]

I have a photo of Cache Creek on my blog http://coloradoreflections.blogspot.com/20...ache-creek.html You can click on it to make it bigger. The picture is taken from the Granite Cemetery looking west. Is that the ditch at about the center of the photo going northwest? It looks like there are some trees along it.

I've been to Cache Creek twice, but I've not had anyone with me who could tell me where things were exactly.