Did you know* that signing up with City Market (Kroger/King Soopers) or by installing an iGive add-on to your internet browser toolbar, your online shopping can trigger automatic donations to the Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership from those organizations? Yes, a small percentage of your payments for your online purchases will be directed to our nonprofit if you … Read more
Winter tour offers chance to glide back into history by Tori Sheets, tori@ouraynews.com Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership and Ouray County Historical Society are partnering up to offer adventurous snowshoers and cross country skiers an opportunity to explore a few historical mines in the Red Mountain mining district on Jan. 30. Don Paulson, curator of the Ouray County Historical Museum, is leading a limited group of 20 … Read more
GLIDE BACK INTO HISTORY: HISTORIAN LEADS RED MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT TOUR Special to the Mirror from the Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership RED MOUNTAIN–More than 12 million dollars in silver ore was produced by the Yankee Girl Mine up Red Mountain Pass between 1882 and the late 1890s. Today, the mine is defunct and only a few … Read more
