Cripple Creek

a town in El Paso Co., Col., 50 miles W. of ‘Colorado Springs. It is the trade center for the Cripple Creek mining district, in which the output of gold in the first half of 1902 was $13,936,392, and the total production of the camp to Jan. 1, 1902, was $116,549,287. The town lHfas_ several cyanide mills, smelters and other mining industries. It was founded in 1890, and was ~ nearly destroyed py fire in 1896. Pop.