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| Dedrick Canon City was the major community on the Canyon Creek in the days of the sluice box and rocker and hydraulic mining. The town of Dedrick developed with the quartz mining on the mountains. The town developed about 1890 and was named in honor of D.C. Dedrick, original locator of the Chloride Mine. Only a few rock cellars and foundations remain as evidence that human beings once lived here. |
| Most of the townsite has been flattened by bulldozers - 9/2000 |
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| Dedrick A mining town was settled here on Corral Bar in 1890, and named after Chloride Mine locator Dan C. Dedrick. The Post office was established May 4, 1891. By 1902 the town boasted a school, 2 stores, 2 hotels, a restaurant, lodging house, livery, assay house, 3 saloons and many homes. 200 men were employed in the mines in the area including Buck's Ranch, Ralston, Annie, Maple, Nason-Thayer, Chloride-Bailey and the Globe. The Globe assayed at $760 per ton, September 20, 1890. The Globe and the Chloride used tranline buckets to bring the ore to the two mills on Canyon Creek. The 40 stamp Globe Mill was 20 stories tall. Mining activity slowed by the mid 1920's. With the lack of ore Dedrick faded and the post office closed December 31, 1941. |
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| The Chloride-Bailey Mine was two and one-half miles Northeast of Dedrick at about the 5000 foot elevation. In 1896 the Chloride was owned by S.L. Blake, C.W. Smith, and H.R. Given of Weaverville. I found one concrete piller and a few partially buried and burnt timbers. |
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| Old pack trail / water ditch path about 50 feet above the Chloride-Bailey Mill site. |
| Water Wheel |
| Water Wheel |
| Lots of tin cans here. |
| This pipe headed down this mine shaft. |
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