Boulder City

Pat Hart
Apr 11, 2025
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By Pat Hart

April 11, 2025

This is a site of extraordinary human endeavor and legend. There were both heroes and villains. In the mid to late 1800s thousands of miners raced to the Northwest. In 1923, Boulder City was the site of the Idaho Gold and Ruby Mining Company. Neither gold nor rubies existed.

Yet the town boasted a post office, bank, school house, bachelor’s quarters, a saw mill and more. Two liquor licenses were issued. The main fork of Boulder Creek was dammed and large-scale hydraulic mining took place. The placer scar remains today.

Project work will be to aid the Forest Service in interpreting remnants of the city. It may include fence construction and plantings.