For a few years it looked like the [prospector] boom would simply shift else where in the North Fork. Sometime in the early 1880s, for example, Lulu City spawned yet another mining camp called Dutchtown. But Dutchtown, located at timberline high on the flanks of Lead and Cirrus mountains, hardly sat in an ideal site for expansion. It merely served as home for a number of former Lulu City residents no longer welcome there because of an evening's drunken brawl. "Some of the more peaceful citizens of Lulu City were pretty badly damaged," read one account, "including one woman who came out of the fracas with a broken arm, one man with several broken ribs, and one fellow lost an eye."  Dutchtown owed its existence to a handful of miners sentenced by brute force into exile. These unruly miners stuck with their Dutchtown camp through 1884 and then their cabins too were vacated.

Credits and Sources:

“Rocky Mountain National Park: A History. Chapter 4: Dreams with Silver Lining.” National Park Service. Park History Program. Accessed June 12, 2015. http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/romo/buchholtz/chap4.htm

“Rocky Mountain National Park: A History. Chapter 4: Dreams with Silver Lining.” National Park Service. Park History Program. Accessed June 12, 2015. http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/romo/buchholtz/chap4.htm