The Idaho Springs Siftings-News (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
879 issues from 1905 to 1921, published in Idaho Springs, Colorado, digitised for Chronicling America.
In January 1859, George A. Jackson, while casually panning for gold at his camp in the mountains west of the rough mining settlement of Denver City, Colorado, struck it rich, washing out several gold nuggets in his drinking cup. The news of Jackson’s discovery helped set off the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush. Jackson’s original camp changed names several times as it swelled with “Fifty-Niners” seeking the next motherlode: Jackson’s Diggings, Sacramento City, Idahoe, and finally Idaho Springs. By 1866, the gold deposits began to decline, but increased silver mining in the area buoyed Idaho Springs. The Silver Panic of 1893 brought about major economic decline, but the development of logging and ranching kept the town afloat.
The Idaho Springs Siftings started publication on December 22, 1900. It was founded by M.J. Bowen, edited by Fred G. Shaffer, and published by John D. Williamson. When the paper debuted, Shaffer was quoted to have said, “There is a field in Idaho Springs for a progressive, up-to-date Republican newspaper. Siftings will occupy that field.” The Siftings advertised itself as a “fair-fighting, uncompromising Republican paper” and proclaimed in its masthead “The People Say: ‘It’s a Good Paper.'” The Salida Mail noted that the Siftings “differs from the ordinary weekly paper, using book paper, half-tone illustrations and wide column measure. Mechanically it is very neat indeed and in quality of matter it is bright as the average Colorado sunshine.” The Daily Sentinel…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Idaho Springs, Colorado, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress