Colonel Hart's Mining Rush: A Small Army Descends on the Methow Valley
With 85 men already at work and 400 more expected, Colonel Hart's mining operations in the Slate Creek district are bringing sudden prosperity—and a few bewildered settlers—to the Methow Valley.
“The suddenness with which the change from darkness to light—as it were, from poverty and idleness to prosperity and progressive life—has come upon them seems to have completely upset the inhabitants of the peaceful and productive valley of the Methow.”