Mining Crossword

1. In some mining communities, women began to take on ________ roles.
5. Mining towns eventually began to attract more ______.
6. The reason towns were abandoned after the mines were closed was because the _______ of the town relied on the mines.
8. Gold was discovered near Pikes Peak in 18__.
15. A _______ committee was a committee formed by self-appointed volunteers to maintain order in Western communities.
16. People who would extract the deposits of ore, using tools such as picks, shovels, and pans.
18. The amount of settlers coming to Leadville per week in the summer of 1879 was estimated to be around one ______.
20. A location of one of the richest strikes where large amount of silver was discovered in deep deposits of lead.
21. A _____ town was a town that was rapidly abandoned after the mines had been exhausted.
22. _____ mining involved digging deep beneath the surface once a surface deposit had dwindled.
23. Operations and Leadville and similar places in Colorado yielded more than $1 _______ worth of silver and gold, worth much more than that in today's money.
24. Vigilance committees tried their hardest to deal with criminals firmly but ______.

2. Mining spurred the ____________ of Colorado, the Dakota Territory, and Montana.
3. What was a serious problem faced in communities with mining booms?
4. A name for towns that would rapidly grow once an ore of some time was discovered.
5. Discoveries of gold, silver, and copper led to a wave of settlers moving to the _____.
7. Many who panned for gold at Pikes Peak had _____ success.
9. About this thousand many people lived in Virginia City, Nevada after the Comstock strike.
10. A "rising room" was what the first ______ in the West was called.
11. All the mining booms spurred the building of many new _________.
12. A phrase used by many who went to Pikes Peak to pan for gold was "Pikes Peak or ____".
13. What was discovered in the Black Hills?
14. State in which Henry Comstock made a claim of land.
17. The ore that was found widely in the blue-gray mud of Six-Mile Canyon
19. A name for a house (named after a musical instrument) where women would dance with men for the price of a drink.
20. Women also worked in __________.