Eldorado Creek

In Tacoma, it was said that a barber by the name of Uly Gaisford had a claim that he staked on the Creek but did not know what its real value was. He moved to Circle City to continue on with his work as a barber and was later shocked when $50,000 worth was retrieved from it. The entire Bonanza Creek had been staked at the ending of August. A man named Antone Standler, who was a young immigrant that had come from Austria and who did not know English, was very tired, hungry and desolate. He was accompanied by three other men who were Frank Keller, Frank Phiscator, Jay Whipple, and a farm boy. They were all walking down a stream which was later known as ElDorado Creek, discovered gold and staked a claim. This ended up being one of the richest streams in the world. There were some Scottish men from Nanaimo on the Vancouver Island, staked some claims on Eldorado Creek but these men did not know just how rich this area was. The Scottish men then gave up a couple of the claims they had made because they wanted to be able to keep rights on another brook that did not turn out to be a large amount. There was a man by the name of Charlie Anderson who got drunk and bought a claim on Eldorado Creek for the value of $800. When he was sober he decided he wanted his money back but was not able to get it back. He went to go and see the claim he had bought and later on discovered the claim that obtained one million dollars worth of gold in the bedrock which was now his. It was said that the geography of Eldorado Creek was completely wrong, but nearly all of the claims (one to forty) turned out to have been worth half a million dollars. Remember that this was during the time when everything was sold for cents, making these people into astronomically rich individuals.