Tom Schweich  

1900s

May 5, 1900. The landslide below the old smelter moved again (VanHorn, 1972).

May 26, 1900. A great mass of rock broke off the face of Castle Rock with a report like a cannon (VanHorn, 1972).

November 8, 1902. The ground north of Clear Creek and below the smelter is moving the Colorado and Southern Railroad tracks (VanHorn, 1972).

November 29, 1902. A man almost stepped into a cave-in of an old coal cavern southwest of Golden (VanHorn, 1972).

March 14, 1903. A yawning chasm that should be fenced has formed at the little [new] White Ash Coal mine [called the New (Little) White Ash in the present report] north of Golden (VanHorn, 1972).

April 4, 1903. A flow of 40,000 gallons of water per day from an old coal mine was intercepted by the tunnel through the Laramie Formation for the Welch Ditch southwest of Golden (VanHorn, 1972).

1904

1906

Photograph taken 1906.

1907

The Leopold Schweich Trust Fund was set up in 1907, a gift from Constance Schweich in memory of her father. It provided for public lectures to be delivered on subjects related to ‘the archaeology, art, history, languages and literature of Ancient Civilization with reference to Biblical Study’. A special lecture has been commissioned this year to mark the centenary of the Schweich lectures.

April 20, 1907. A man was buried alive in a ditch being dug for a retaining wall on the landslide below the smelter (VanHorn, 1972).

May 4, 1907. Cracks opened in the ground below the Tramway Quarry [SE 1/4 sec. 22, T. 3 S., R. 70 W.] on the south side of North Table Mountain and the ground seemed to be moving. A huge mass of rock ploughed down the mountain below the quarry (VanHorn, 1972).

June 15, 1907. Ground near 14th and Ford Streets in Golden caved into Kinney Run [Kenneys Creek] (VanHorn, 1972).

July 13, 1907. A flood on Clear Creek was caused by a cloudburst near Black Hawk. Water was as much as 5 feet deep on 11th Street and was running 2 feet over the top of the Ford Street bridge. The Washington Street bridge was moved off its abutments. There was much damage to the railroad west of Golden and flood debris was found 20 "feet above the bed of Clear Creek. Damage amounted to about $50,000 [reported in the Oct. 20, 1907, issue] (VanHorn, 1972).

September 16, 1907. A 12- by 12- by 12-foot boulder fell from the Tramway Quarry [SE 1/4 sec. 22, T. 3 S., R. 70 W.] on the south side of North Table Mountain and lodged in the Church Ditch just above a house (VanHorn, 1972).

July 10, 1909. A cloudburst west of Golden caused Clear Creek to rise 5 feet in 20 minutes. Lawns and irrigation ditches were covered with sand and boulders (VanHorn, 1972).

July 31, 1909. A flood on Tucker Gulch washed out all bridges between Golden Gate Canyon and Clear Creek except the Colorado and Southern Railroad bridge which was completely covered with water. Flood waters reached to Washington Avenue (VanHorn,1972).

April 4, 1914. A man was seriously injured at the rock quarry on North Table Mountain when pieces of basalt [latite] fell from the cliff without warning (VanHorn, 1972).

July 18, 1914. On Saturday morning the biggest slide ever reported here took place just east of the Frank Owen's Ranch on South Table Mountain. Large crevices opened just below the Welch [Golden Canal] Ditch. A great mass of earth several hundred feet across moved several feet down the mountain. Some ground moved as a unit but some was badly cracked. The Agricultural Ditch was destroyed and the level ground at the base of the mountain was lifted into a ridge 15 feet high (VanHorn, 1972).