THE PRINTERBOY LODE
CALIFORNIA GULCH
COLORADO




Did you ever have a dream?
Did you ever follow through?
Did your hard work make that dream come true?

The Printerboy was developed in the summer of 1868. That year the yield of the mine, owned at the time by J. Marshall Paul, of Philadelphia, and managed by Charles L. Hill was extremely large, and resulted in renewed excitement in the gulch. Large jars of gold were taken to national banks in Denver, Philadelphia, and New York to be put on display.

Because the area mining was centered around The Printerboy, Oro City moved two and a half miles up the gulch to be closer to production.

In the mid 1800s the Wells family purchased the mine. In 1882 the mine, as well as others in the area, flooded making it very expensive to mine the ore. Joseph Wells always contended that there was plenty of gold left in the mine and that someday it would be profitable to mine again. The mine remained in the family of George Wells until the late 1940s.

Update 2004 -- Have found out the Printer Boy mine is stock is still in the family! More information will be added very soon. Please enjoy the pictures of what is left of a dream and return again.

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~~ Other Lake County/Leadville Pages of Interest ~~

Early History of the Leadville Area of Colorado.

Meet some newsworthy residents 

       Yes, there really was an Unsinkable Molly Brown

       H.A.W. Tabor built an empire with silver
 
       Baby Doe Tabor was a beautiful women when Horace Tabor met her

Other residents of the Area

Some Lake County Colorado area history

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Last updated: 7 October 2005