{"id":25,"date":"2023-06-17T17:18:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T17:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2023-06-18T17:34:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T17:34:44","slug":"exploration-and-settlement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/index.php\/exploration-and-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploration and Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Exploration-and-Settlement-Picture-1024x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Exploration-and-Settlement-Picture-1024x180.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Exploration-and-Settlement-Picture-300x53.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Exploration-and-Settlement-Picture-768x135.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Exploration-and-Settlement-Picture-1536x271.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Exploration-and-Settlement-Picture-2048x361.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Exploration-and-Settlement-Picture-1568x276.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of Mineral County\u2019s first industries was gold mining, but placer and hard-rock miners quickly branched out from one precious mineral into others: operators large and small looked for zinc, silver, copper, quartz, and lead. Timber investors set up sawmills and lumber yards to harvest the forests. Access to trails and recreation spaces gave rise to a bustling tourism industry.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-twentytwentyone-image-frame\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Captain-John-Mullan.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\" width=\"228\" height=\"257\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Lieutenant (later Captain) John Mullan, who created the first military road in the Northwest, from 1859-1860.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Mineral County\u2019s first industries was gold mining, but placer and hard-rock miners quickly branched out from one precious mineral into others: operators large and small looked for zinc, silver, copper, quartz, and lead. Timber investors set up sawmills and lumber yards to harvest the forests. Access to trails and recreation spaces gave rise&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/index.php\/exploration-and-settlement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exploration and Settlement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mineralmthistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}