"In Nevada, there are seven or eight very rich leads now extensively worked. Among them the great Burroughs doubtless claims precedence. Pat Casey's mine, upon this, is said to be the deepest in the mountains - about two hundred and ten feet." Denver, Denver, Colorado March 8, 1862.
"Pat Casey's Night Hands" An original drama and comedy by Jack Langrishe was produced at The Montana Theatre, Central City, CO, 1863. It is a true life mining tale of Pat Casey, the miner who discovered a bonanza while digging a grave. This production was introduced to Deadwood audiences January 20, 1877.
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Pat Casey & His Night Hands
Pat Casey, Irishman, early quartz gold miner of Nevada, Gilpin County, Colorado (vicinity of Black Hawk & Central City, Colorado) to his travels to the Bald Mountain area in the Black Hills, Dakota Territory.
Pat Casey mill stamps repaired by Ophir Company in Black Hawk, Colorado Feb 4, 1864.
Pat Casey's fist in sling at the St. Nicholas after bar-room brawl challenge. Black Hawk, Colorado, Feb 8, 1864.
Pat Casey sells gold interests to Warren Hussey, manager of the Burroughs Lode. Black Hawk, Colorado, April 1865.
Warren Hussey & Co. organized the first stock compnay in New York on the old Pat Casey property. Black Hawk, Colorado, May 1865.
Pat Casey was successful even with bad management as others could not make money from even good ores. Pat Casey placed a bar of cyanide at all times in the trough that watered his mill battery plates as others only sponged their plates clean five minutes an hour.
Pat Casey made lots of money in this Territory, has a road named for him in the mountains, and now remails, like Joe Chaffee, in New York to spend his money. Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado, August 3, 1870.
A little work has been done on the Pat Casey road, a highway less used, probably, than any ohter in Central. Central City, Gilpin County, Colorado, July 4, 1872.
The house just above the old Pat Casey mill in Black Hawk was burned Thursday. It was occupied by Chas. Foreman. Denver, Denver County, Colorado, Feb 13, 1873.
A terrible accident when occurred at Nevada, on Thursday. A miner named William White, who was employed in the Ophir mine, was crossing what is known as the Pat Casey shaft, when, as is supposed, a piece of quartz dropped from a bucket which was being hoisted and struck him on the head, and he was knocked into the main shaft. The shaft is four hundred feet deep. Denver, Dever County, Colorado, May 9, 1874.
Mr. L. M. Black was born in Laurel county, Kentucky, in October 1830. After traveling into the interior of Kansas, Mr. Black's company of five men joined forty-five others, and organized by electing a captgain and started by the Smokey Hill route for Pike's Peak. After reaching the Gregory mine he found it to be very rich, and commenced prospecting, and found a quartz mine; but not knowing anything about its value, and after working about six months, he abandoned it. Soon an Irishman, by the name of Pat Casey, came along and "claimed" it, immediately. Denver, Denver County, Colorado, Aug 18, 1874.
Pat Casey, for whom inquiry is made by Andrew Shanahan and James White, of St. Louis, is in the wholesale tobacco trade in or near Beaver street, New York. He is our famous Colorado Pat Casey, who made a fortune in the Gilpin county mines, and who required "ten pencils a day" to figure up his business and profits. Denver, Denver County, Colorado, Jan 23, 1875.
An excited cephyr leveled to the ground, the other day, the Pat Casey stamp mill, one of the oldes landmarks about Central. Denver, Denver County, Colorado, May 5, 1875.
Capt. I. M. West, formerly of Salina, in this county, who left here for the Black Hills a year ago last spring, called this office. He has an interest in the Roderick Dhu mine at Central City, near Deadwood, and had along with him a fine gold retort, the product of their 20-stamp mill. Martin Lewis, well known in this county and Gilpin, runs the mill. The Bear Butte district yields gold smelting ores, and at Bald Mountain are found rich galenous silvr ores. Among the operations in that country is Pat Casey, formerly so well known in Gilpin county. He has settled down to a steady-going business man, at his old trade, mining and milling free gold ores.
Mr. Newland came on with Capt. West., making the trip from Deadwood to Cheyenne, three hundred miles, in fifty-four hours, and from Cheyenne here in a few hours. The growing business of the Hills will soon extend the C. C. R. R. to Deadwood, and shortly it will be but a pleasant day's ride from there tp tjos tpwm. Capt. West and Mr. Nreland can come home in a day, and Mr. Newfield cantake back a crate of his strawberries, the next morining after being picked from his vines sold in the new Central City to sweeten the palates of Pat Casey's night hands. Boulder, Boulder County, Colorado, Feb 1, 1878.
Although we do not yet consume as many pencils as did our old-time friend Pat Casey, those excellent ones contributed by Messrs. Stebbons & Sons are very acceptable. Golden, Jefferson County, Nov 19. 1879.
