As many 25,000 entered the mountains between April and October by ear-ly about 10,000 remained in Colorado by early August 2,000 in Denver a few hundred in Golden, and most of the remainder engaged in the moun-tain placer operations or ever deepening lode mines. As late as September more than 2,000 were counted in the six-square miles gulch region around Central City along the North Fork Clear Creek. ( Abbott, Leonard, and Noel)
This statement goes back from earlier that there were some groups of people that would be going even deep to find more …show more content…
The authors state the following "Between 1860 and 1866 the territory population dropped from 34,277 to 27,931. Another 50,000 or 60,000 may have tried their luck for a year or two before abandoning the Rockies as hopeless" (Abbott, Leonard, and Noel). This goes back to my previous statement that if it wasn 't for the Colorado Gold Rush other territories wouldn 't have been populated or just clearly people went back were they originally came from some of those people left with a good amount of gold others didn 't had that much luck and left empty handed. But most of those miners started a new life here in Colorado with becoming farmers and ranchers with great big lands and growing crops but not everyone would be so lucky because if that had land where crop would not grow properly that it would just be a waste of money. Other of the miners that would stay behind they went to the most popular city like Denver and Colorado Spring to find jobs in different …show more content…
Also if the Colorado Gold Rush didn 't happen the Denver wouldn 't be that big as it is right now because during the Gold Rush all those small cities that would be around are the ones that became all those big city that are right now like Englewood, Lakewood, and Arvada. Many years after that Gold Rush Colorado became a State in August 1, 1876 after Colorado had become a state it opened so many opportunities for jobs for people because the railroad would get started to transport different things from city to city and would make that population of Colorado even