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Ghost Town
In NorthernColorado
LongsPeak 
PioneerClimbers
Outlaws
In EarlyColorado
Skiing
SteamboatSprings
 
LostGoldMine
In NorthColorado
Mesa Verde
The WomenWho Saved It
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In theEarly West
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nother research study says thePSAtest (prostate specificantigen) may not be an accurateindicator of whether a man has alethal prostate cancer, according tothe Journal of the National CancerInstitute.An earlier study at HarvardMedical School reached similarconclusions. The problem, saidresearchers, is that the PSAissimply not accurate enough todetect a cancer that needs serioustreatment.In many cases involving oldermen, doctors take a wait-and-seeattitude because most men aremore likely to die “with” a prostatecancer than “from” it. Suchcancers can spread so slowly thatmen die from something elserather than the cancer.Many doctors still rely on thePSAtest, however, because theybelieve that a sudden rapid rise inthe PSAlevel might indicate aprostate cancer that needs treat-ment.Researchers are working on anew prostate cancer test they hope
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will be more accurate. Called aprostate cancer antigen (EPCA-2),the test focuses on a blood proteinproduced by prostate cancer.Levels of that protein may give amore accurate indication of thepresence of cancer.Information on the new test wasreported recently in the medical journal Urology. Researchers saythe test can distinguish betweencancers that are confined to theprostate and those that have spreadoutside the gland.The older PSAtest is moregeneral and sometimes indicatescancer when there is none. ThePSAalso may not indicate acancer when there actually is one.The uncertainty causes manyunnecessary biopsies for men.Over 1 million American mencurrently have such biopsies eachyear, to find only about 200,000cancers. Prostate cancer is themost common malignancy amongmen. More than 27,000 Americanmen die from it each year. If caught early, it can be successfullytreated and often cured.
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I
s there a lost gold mine up thePoudre Canyon west of FortCollins?Some pioneers said there was,and a 1914 Rocky Mountain Newsarticle recalled the story, whichinvolved an accidental hangingand a lost boy who was nearlykilled by a bear.In the 1860s, two prospectorsknown as Hans and Michaelshowed up at the military town of Camp Collins. They had gold withthem and used it to buy liquor fora spree that lasted several days.Then they left.Other men at Camp Collinsthought nothing of it until theprospectors showed up again withgold. The locals asked where theyhad found it. Hans and Michaelrefused to say. Even when drunk,they would tell no one.One of the locals followed theprospectors. He lost their trailbecause of a snow storm butreported they headed up PoudreCanyon.The next time the prospectorsarrived, they had considerablymore gold with them, and theytraded their burro for an ox. Theyloaded more mining supplies thanusual in a wagon and left.The locals were more interestedthan ever, figuring the prospectorshad found a rich vein.But the next time the prospec-tors came down, things hadchanged. They said a bear hadkilled their ox. They traded goldfor liquor as usual, but they quar-reled with each other, drinkingheavily for several days.Then one night, they fought.Michael hit Hans with a pistol buttand killed him. He may not haveintended to kill him; both werevery drunk.The locals figured this was theirchance. They seized Michael andthreatened to hang him if he didn’tshare his secret.He refused to talk; so the menput a rope around his neck, threwthe rope over a tree branch andpulled him up for a few seconds.They intended only to scarehim. But when they let him down,he was dead. The locals quicklylost interest in the gold because of the incident.Afew years later, a boybecame lost in Poudre Canyonwhile hunting alone. Peoplesearched for him, but within acouple of days he came riding inon his own.He had been scared out of hiswits. While wandering through thecanyon, he said he had spent anight in an old log cabin he stum-bled upon.The next day, the boy said hepicked up a bleached bone nearthe cabin and put it in his saddlebag. He followed a trail from thecabin to a mine. He entered themine and discovered a large bearwith cubs.The bear came after him, andthe boy barely escaped with hislife, managing to get to his horseand ride blindly down the canyon.Some of the local men realizedthat the bone the boy brought backwas from an ox. They figured hehad accidentally found the mine of Michael and Hans. But the boy hadbeen so lost and frightened that hecould not remember where thecabin was.No one ever reported findingthe mine, and the tale may benothing more than a fabrication. Itis typical of the “lost gold mine”stories that circulated in earlyColorado.Most historians don’t mentionthe story. But it might have beenhushed up because of the hanging.If the mine is up there, it mightbe near a dilapidated log cabin andsome bleached ox bones.________________
COVER PICTURE: The Poudre River in the upper canyon, nearthe Big South access area. SeniorVoice photo.
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Lost Gold Mine on the Poudre
Profile Rock in the upperPoudre Canyon, looking east. Some people see two faces here.SeniorVoice photo.
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