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GEMSTONE & MINERALS

The Carmen Lucia Ruby donated to Smithsonian’s National Gem Collection Page 3

HOT PROMOS/NUGGETS Black Hawk, Central City promos, specials and giveaways Pages 4-8

HUMOR

Dorothy Rosby Update and undone Page 9

WESTERN FOOTPRINTS Swan Song of the Neponset Ranch Page 12

COUPONS • COLORADO HISTORY • CASINO GUIDE •GAMING • MAP • ENTER TAINMENT

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The Last Hand

A salute to Labor Day It’s Labor Day 2016 and we salute our gaming community’s labor force, along with all the other folks in America who have toiled in the fields, factories, armies, farms and ranches, oilfields, coalmines, bars and restaurants and garages, not to mention handymen, roofers, street pavers, janitors, police and firefighters, taxi drivers, chefs, waiters, waitresses, electricians, stock brokers, journalists, snow plowers, teachers, city, state and federal employees, insurance folks, doctors, nurses, clerks, welders, pilots, stewardesses, blackjack dealers, and the list goes on and on.

But, since this is a gaming newspaper full of history about gold miners and gold mining, we must remember the early-day mining folks who worked so hard under such harsh conditions.

In the early days, they didn’t have showers, maybe a bath in a copper tub with water heated in pans on the wood and coal stove. We’ve all seen the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood films with the cowboys taking a bath somewhere in a hotel or brothel.

Very little medical facilities or medications. The remedy in the Civil War was just to amputate the wounded or broken limb. Whisky was about the only medication available, remember Lonesome Dove?

Food had to be stored in a cellar or cool place, and it wouldn’t last long.

Miners dined on bean, potatoes, buckskin, and no doubt some hunters combed the nearby mountains for big game.

Fresh milk, eggs, butter and cream came from local cows and chickens.

Bread from sacks of grain and corn that women would grind into flour.

I read where the Central City Register-Call had to use wallpaper to print upon, until a wagon load of newsprint arrived via wagons because of Indian raids.

Coors and others came along with beer that quenched the miners’ throats after a hard day, week and month of hard-rock mining. Hard liquor was the drink of the day and needed refrigeration to last a long life—far longer than the men who drank it.

No doubt there were some early-day stills located around Gilpin County.

Famed Horace Tabor made his fortune selling supplies to the miners in the early Leadville mining boom.

Men and women of the Gold Rush

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To advertise, call Sharon dinners, parades, and foot Not everyone loves their 303-503-1388 and horseback races. The jobs, but folks make the was the fastest-growing best of it, year after year, Managing Editor business in town. and paycheck after payBecky Osterwald BY BOB SWEENEY The pioneers died check. gambler@villagerpublishing.com young, worked hard, but they knew Workers need jobs and compahow to play as well.

Design/Production Manager Throughout history, there have nies and corporations need profits for owners and stockholders.

This Tom McTighe been people doing labor for themproduction@villagerpublishing.com selves and for others. That’s how free takes teamwork, sweat, and sometimes tears to accomplish. enterprise works.

Design/Production The past 25 years of the gambling Immigrants heard about this Renee Novitsky great country where one could get industry have not been easy. The renee@villagerpublishing.com a piece of free land called a “home- gaming business has endured tough stead.” Live on 160 acres for three times and conditions to reach this Accounting years, fence it, and build a cabin and 25-year anniversary coming in OcPat McLachlan the land became yours. The West is tober. accounting@villagerpublishing.com full of deserted, rotting log cabins The success of the industry has from failed homesteads, where the been achieved by management and a dreams ended with droughts, deaths huge labor force estimated at 10,000 www.coloradogambler.com coloradogambler cogambler and disease. workers who keep these casinos Like gold mining, few made foropen and operating 24/7. It takes tunes, and the same was true of the an extreme amount of organization, small dry farms in the West.

Throughout the building of Amer- teamwork, skill, and capital, to keep ica, some of the miners and the “gan- all of these operations moving fordydancers” labored to bring the rail- ward successfully.

Labor of love, you bet it has been, roads to haul in lumber, brick, food, and supplies and haul out carloads some have quit, many have moved of cattle raised on huge ranches on to other careers, but 10,000 of us sprawling across eastern Colorado still labor in the industry, selling our and Kansas. Texas longhorns were ads, writing our columns, preparing driven north to catch the cattle cars the wonderful foods and beverages, in Dodge City. and dealing the cards.

John L. Lewis started orgaThe dealers have become so nized labor to protect the early-day skilled and friendly. We know their coalminers from the tycoons who names, they know ours. They are the paid low wages to workers in script used at the company store. They front line of the industry who deal in worked long days in hazardous con- many ways, day and night, with their ditions, dying early from black-lung customers. They take our money and disease, with the coal dust coating we try to take it back, what a chalthe inside of their lung. Kids fol- lenge.

Labor Day is a time to walk up a lowed their fathers into these deepshaft mines. table, or a casino worker and just say In Southern Colorado striking “Thank You!” for all you do for the miners were killed in the famous customers who come here.

Ludlow Massacre. Labor unions Without you this would be an started to protect the workers from empty town and the tumbleweeds their bosses and employers. The would still be blowing down main coalmine owners got the message street. A show of gratitude is with and started to treat their workers a few dollars to honor the waiters, better.

We celebrate Labor Day to honor waitresses, the bar tenders, dealers the workforce of America, all kinds, and the parking lot attendants. They colors, creeds, and genders. Togeth- work very hard and depend on tips to er, this nation has prospered, gone make a living just like everyone else. through major wars, depressions, They don’t own the place.

Hurrah for Labor Day and for the strikes, epidemics, and has created a country governed by laws and rep- great American workers.

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Gemstone & Minerals

The Carmen Lucia ruby

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he Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History displays one of the world’s largest and finest ruby gemstones called the Carmen Lucia Ruby. The spectacular 23.1 - carat Burmese ruby, set in a platinum ring with diamonds, was donated by businessman and philanthropist Dr. Peter Buck in memory of his wife Carmen Lucia.

In the 1930’s a large oval-shaped ruby was mined in the Mogok region of Burma, now known as Myanmar, the classic source of great rubies. This ruby is one of the largest fine faceted Burnese rubies in the world. Burmese rubies are prized for their color. This ruby is a bright red with undertones of pink and purple, a coveted hue known to gem dealers as “pigeon blood red.”

This stone is now known as the Carmen Lucia Ruby. This is the story of this beautiful ruby and the lady it was named after.

Who or where the stone was first cut is unclear. It is not known who owned the stone before international gem dealers bought it about 30 years ago.

It is not so unusual to have remarkable stones remain in private family vaults. When such a treasure surfaces, it causes a major stir in the gem world.

Carmen Buck, born in Brazil, was a collector of jewels, as well as a philanthropist dedicated to medical research. She had learned of the ruby from jeweler Frank Cappiello of Danbury, Conn., who in 2002, had heard that it might be coming on the market after many years in private hands. At

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that time, she was fighting cancer and hoped to celebrate a recovery by purchasing the stone. She died in 2003.

Carmen’s husband, Dr. Peter Buck is ranked No. 165 in Forbes Magazine’s most wealthy and is worth $1.5 billion. He is a former nuclear scientist and co-owner of the Subway sandwich restaurant chain. On one occasion, Mrs. Buck noticed photos of the ruby on Frank Cappiello’s desk. But Carmen Lucia Buck had recently been diagnosed with cancer and was receiving radiation treatment at the time she saw those photos. Cappiello knew this was not the time to sell jewelry, but the time to simply be a friend.

It was only after Mrs. Buck died that Cappiello remembered she liked the ruby. After all, Mrs. Buck was generous with her fortune. She was always giving gifts

to her family and friends. Cappiello recalls that she had built a few hospitals in her hometown of Minas Gerais, Brazil. And when the appropriate time arose, Cap-

piello suggested to Dr. Buck that the ruby, the one his wife had admired, would be a terrific gift to

the American people - if he would consider it.

Knowing that his now deceased wife liked the ruby, now set in a platinum ring with another ruby of the same quality and accented with cut diamonds, he decided to buy the ring and donate it to the Smithsonian’s National Gem Collection. When the romantic aura of a ring is combined with the drama of a precious jewel, the effect can be very powerful. It is a token of love that rings are most endearing. Dr. Buck named it the Carmen Lucia Ruby. This ruby is the largest faceted ruby in the museum’s National Gem Collection and is one of the finest Burmese rubies known to exist in the world. “Already,” Dr. Buck said, “the ring has probably been seen by more people than had seen it since it was first unearthed in the 1930s.”

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Bourbon Street Buffet Bourbon Street Café has a new look, new menu and new flavors!

Feel at home with our Fried Chicken Dinner or Mountain Man Meatloaf starting at $12 or satisfy your sweet tooth with hot and fresh beignets!

Lucky’s Restaurant Lucky’s is closed for remodeling but Bourbon Street Café has everything to satisfy your hunger. Head up to the third floor of the Mardi Gras Casino and taste what you’ve been missing!

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Earn entries with every 100 points for that day of play. On Oct. 1 from 1 p.m.Midnight every hour we will have one drawing winner for $150 in Z-Play. Earn entries from Aug. 3 – Oct. 1 with every 250 points at 9:30 p.m. we will have one Hawaii trip winner and four $500 Z-Play winners.

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Sign up for a new Club Z card at Johnny Z’s and receive up to $100 in Z-Play the same day! See Club Z for complete details.

Don’t want to pay for Breakfast?

On Mondays and Tuesdays just earn 10 same day base points before 11 a.m. and receive a voucher for a free Double Down Breakfast and Wednesday through Sunday just earn 20 same day base points before 11 a.m.! Receive your voucher from the promotional kiosk.

Prime Rib dinner

Join us every Friday this month for our $3.99 Prime Rib dinner special after you earn 50 same day base points or earn 25 same day base points and receive your Prime Rib dinner for $7.77. Receive your voucher from the promotional kiosk.

Want to convert your comps Come celebrate your to free gas? birthday with us Earn Turbo, Nitro or Flame status and redeem your comps for up to $20 in gas each day!

New and existing members play our kiosk game to win free Z-Play.

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Earn 75 same day base points, redeem your bus ticket at Club Z and receive $25 in Z-Play. Earn 500 same day base points and get an additional $5 in Z-Play.

Join us every Saturday in September at 9:30 p.m. in the Z Spot Pit for our 55” TV Giveaway drawing. Entries are earned every day the Z Spot Pit is open with every one hour of table games play.

Get reimbursed for your ATM fees

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Stop by the Z Stop Gas Station to use our ATM and bring your receipt to Johnny Z’s within two hours from the time on your receipt. You will receive $5 in Z-Play or $3 Cash back!

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Stop by Z Cafe located on the 2nd floor of Johnny Z’s to get your favorite cappuccino, latte, mocha and much more.

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Central City Nuggets Touchdown Progressive

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Qualify Fri. Sept. 2, 5-11 p.m., Sat. and Sun. Sept. 3 and 4, 2-11 p.m. Two hourly winners play a hand of War for a share of $250 Insta-Play and car finalist entries! $300 Cash Prize at 11 p.m.! Qualify and win hourly $1,000 cash prizes – Labor Day, Sept 5, 2 p.m. – 9 p.m.! Win the Car – Labor Day, Sept 5, at 10 p.m.! Earn entries even easier with just 50 base points on your Player’s Club card! Don’t miss the final weekend to win prizes and finalist entries for our Labor Day Blowout Event!

Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 5 is our final blowout event! Qualifying drawings and War games will be held hourly from 2 p.m. -10 p.m. with $1,000 cash and 50 finalist entries as the prize for winning! Then, at 10 p.m. we draw 10 names from our Finalist Barrel who draw envelopes filled with $200 Insta-Play prizes--one of them with the key to a Brand New 2016 Honda HR-V!

Fridays 6-11 p.m., Saturdays 2-11 p.m., Sunday 2-6 p.m. – Sept. 9 - Oct. 1, $700 Progressive Prize Start – Hourly $300 Cash Prizes. Three “Downs” to Find a Present Winner, or the Prize Progresses, Last Nightly Drawing must go! Win up to $3,100! Earn entries with just 50 base points on your Player’s Club card! Entry barrel emptied after each weekend’s drawing – earn entries starting each Monday for that week’s game! We will take Three “Downs”to draw up to three names looking for a present winner, and if no one scores, the $300 “Field Goal” cash prize adds to the Touchdown Progressive which starts at“Touchdown” $700 cash! The final drawing of the night is in overtime, so the game goes on until we draw a present winner who pulls down the nightly progressive, up to $3,100 cash!

Bonus entry Tuesdays

Earn 2X Entries on slots and video poker for our weekend drawings and boost your chances to win with all your play on Tuesdays from 8am to midnight!

Bonus bus Tuesdays

Bus riders have lots of reason to visit Century on Tuesdays! Regular shuttle bus riders will only need to earn 100 base points on Tuesdays to receive $20 Insta-Play for their ticket! Bus groups who schedule with us on Tuesdays will receive double their play benefit, up to $10 in Insta-Play and $10 in InstaComp! Tuesday is the best day to bus to Century!

Central City events

Century Casino is the best place to enjoy the full roster of Central City events! Park in our free covered parking, enjoy our welcoming casino floor, and you’re right next to Main Street! Hot Rod Hill Climb – Friday and Saturday, Sept. 16 and 17. The Central City Parkway will be closed Friday from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. – 7 p.m. to host to an exciting weekend of classic cars and hot rod showdowns (so plan your trip)! Main Street will be packed with vendors, food, and fun all day and into the night!

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20. Current Era (2) 21. You can get this as a punishment in several countries (6) 22. Net Operating income (3) 23. Member of Utah Native American Tribe (3) 24. Pitching stat (3) 25. Missed and longed for the return (5) 26. East Germany (3) 28. Hawaiian name (3) 30. Pitching relief (2)

DOWN: 1. Largest ski area in North America (8) 2. 500 city (12) 3. The process of being set free (12) 4. Seattle state (2) 5. Little town up the road from Black Hawk (4) 6. Donald and Hillary hope to get this (7) 7. French thought (5) 8. British car and aircraft engine (2) 10. Written or composed (6)

12. This very moment (3) 16. For example (2) 18. Glorify (5) 21. Things you take with your feet (5) 23. Not in the top 25 in the AP Poll (8) 27. Hill up the road from Ameristar (4) 29. International body (2) 31. Major TV network (3) 33. Before Ray, Me (3) 34. Three Dice game Bo (3)

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Horoscopes ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, you may feel a bit disconnected from your feelings this week. It’s alright to pull back for a time and get things straight in your head. Things will soon return to the status quo.

LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, things that you say or do this week may seem like they are scripted out of a movie. Rather than putting on an act, let others know how you truly feel.

SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, let your emotions guide you in the week ahead. While it’s important to apply critical thinking to big decisions, this week you will benefit from an emotional approach.

TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, take constructive criticism in stride this week. Criticism can sometimes sting, but this critique is meant to assist you in the long run.

VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, if you open yourself up to change, you may find that there are plenty of additional opportunities coming your way. Be receptive to new ideas this week.

GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, this week you are acutely aware of a strong emotional bond between yourself and someone who is off-limits. You may need to rein in your feelings and keep things friendly.

CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 It can be difficult to separate work life from home life, Capricorn. But that’s just what you have to do in the days ahead. Otherwise, neither will get your full attention.

LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, your natural ability to interact gracefully with others will serve you well in many different applications. This is especially helpful in a managerial capacity.

CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 Holding on to a bunch of material belongings simply because they bring you comfort may bog you down with unnecessary stuff, Cancer. Start cleaning up.

AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 You may be eager to learn more about someone this week, even if this person is not in your immediate circle of friends, Aquarius. Explore the possibilities that lie ahead.

SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, this week your loved ones will chip in and take the burden off of you in some way. Make sure they know how much you appreciate them.

PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, sticking to a firm schedule might be nearly impossible in the next few days. Make things a bit more fluid so you have some wiggle room.

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Swan song of Neponset Ranch

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n 1910 summer at the ranch, the t h e children were pretty well ranch grown. The two eldest was in married, and the others its heywere probably more atday. They were ustached to their lives in ing up-to-date steam Boston. farming machinery There were four Chapin their fields where man brothers who were they were growing part owners of the ranch. grain. They had a McGeorge was spending Cormick’s grain bindmore and more time in © Anna Lee Ames Frohlich er which was pulled the east. Oliver E. Chapby horses. It was used to cut the man had land investments in Florgrain and tie it into bundles. After ida and a home in Sharon, Masthe bundles had dried they could sachusetts. William Chapman had be threshed and the grain was put a ranch in Montana that was his into sacks. McCormick’s inventions main focus. This left James Edwin had been crucial in opening up ag- Chapman as the main caretaker riculture in the West. and a vice-president of Neponset The Chapman’s steam plow at Land and Livestock His wife GerNeponset Land and Livestock was trude and their son Ralph lived a Peerless Plowing Locomotive with him in Evanston, Wyoming. made by the Geiser Manufacturing J.E. Chapman was much apCo., of Waynesboro, Pennsylva- preciated in the town of Evanston. nia in about 1908. Why does this Aside from overseeing the ranch steam traction engine have horses just over the border in Utah, he had and a wagon with it? It is because been a member of the senate of the to create steam it needed to be 10th and 11th Wyoming legislature. supplied constantly with water When he came west in 1884, he and fuel. These steam plows could went into the cattle business, but he plow, grade, haul, and do other had switched to raising sheep and tough jobs. In the 1890’s they were used extensively to break the prai- was one of the wealthiest sheepmen rie sod. It would not be long, how- in the west. Recently he had been ever, before these machines were close to completing an irrigation replaced by the more efficient in- project that would benefit pioneers in the area. His ability to look at the ternal combustion engine.

Some neighboring ranchers broad view of things and his refined thought that the Chapmans’ use of character and integrity brought him heavy equipment was superfluous. many friendships.

At 6 a.m. in the early morning of The use of steam machinery by a family who had in the last genera- Sunday, August 3, 1913 J.E. arose tion developed the steam shovel early, probably to build the fire in seems logical. From the looks of the kitchen range. He was planning their crops in family pictures, it a hunting trip that day, and he was appears that they did well. examining a 30-30 rifle when his 1910 is the last year that I have dog “Tommy” jumped up on him photographs of the ranch. My and exploded the gun. The shot grandmother Beth had her own went completely through him just camera that summer. There are below the stomach severely injurmany pictures of visiting friends ing his intestines. and family, vistas of the ranch, A neighboring doctor heard the sheep herds, and farm equipment. shot, and within a few minutes three Since the early 1900’s Alice Ames doctors were at the house doing evChapman, George Chapman’s erything they could to relieve Chapsecond wife, had been talking the children to the east in the winters man’s pain. By 8 a.m. J.E. was on for education and culture. They the No.1 train to Salt Lake City aclived in Jamaica Plain, a suburb of companied by a doctor and a trained Boston, and in the winters George nurse. Arriving in Salt Lake City at had a job at a nearby woven hose 11:25 a.m., Mr. Chapman was on company to be with his family. By the operating table by 1 o’clock, but 1910, when they had a wonderful the wound proved to be fatal.

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J.E. Chapman’s brother George made a record run from the ranch in his car to get to the No. 9 train, and, after being located on the ranch, his son Ralph rode his horse 20 miles in one hour to reach the train. Mr. Chapman’s brother and son and his wife Gertrude Robinson Chapman were all at his side when he passed on August 4, 1913 at 55 years of age.

The Episcopal Church in Evanston was too small to accommodate all the family and friends who

James E. Chapman and his dog

Threshing grain at Neponset

wished to honor the life of this fine man. His body was taken by train back to Forest Hills Cemetery in Massachusetts where the family was met by Senator C.D. Clark of Wyoming, a close friend of the Chapman family.

These goodbyes to James Edwin Chapman proved to be the beginning of farewells to Neponset Land and Livestock as well. J.E.’s son Ralph was killed in WWI, and the Chapman family began selling off parcels of the ranch to nearby Morman ranchers. By 1918 all of the ranch had been sold.

Today the ranch is known as Deseret Land and Livestock and is owned by the Morman Church.

It is beautiful and well-run and a

fine testimony to those who have put their efforts into it for over 130 years.

Steam plow, serviced by horse team at Neponset Ranch.

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Reserve Casino Hotel - 24/7

BJ, P, C, R, VP

700

119

SD, D, B, SB, V

free valet and self parking

1-800-924-6646/reservecasinohotel.com

The Brass Ass - 24/7

BJ, P, C, R, VP

250

No

SD

free covered self parking

800-635-LUCK/triplecrowncasino.com

Bronco & Buffalo Billy’s - 24/7

BJ, P, C, R, VP

750

23

SD

free self parking

877-989-2142/broncobillyscasino.com

Century Casino - 24/7

BJ, R,

448

21

SD

free self parking

719-689-0333/cripple-creek.cnty.com

Colorado Grande - 24/7

BJ, R, VP

211

5

SD, SB

free self parking

877-244-9469/coloradogrande.com

Double Eagle & Gold Creek - 24/7

BJ, P ,C, R, VP

700+

158

SD, SB

free valet and covered self parking

800-711-7234/decasino.com

Johnny Nolon’s - 24/7

VP

255

No

SD

free self parking w/validation

719-689-2080/johnnynolons.com

J.P. McGill’s - 24/7 Fri/Sat

VP

300

40

SD

validated self parking

800-635-LUCK/triplecrowncasinos.com

Midnight Rose - 24/7

P, VP

400

19

SD, B

validated self parking

800-635-LUCK/triplecrowncasinos.com

Wildwood Casino- 24/7

BJ, P, C, R, VP, TH 530

68

SD, D, B

Climate controlled self parking

877-945-3963/playwildwood.com

Games Key

Food Key

BJ - Blackjack,P - Poker, C - Craps, R - Roulette, TH - Texas Holdem’, VP-Video Poker

B-Buffet, D-Deli, SD-Sitdown, SB-Snackbar, V-Vending Machine

This information is subject to change without notice.

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