Arrived with his father and brothers on June 20, 1859 to the gold fields in Boulder County. Discovered the area where water was diverted from the South St. Vrain River where James and his brothers dug the first Left Hand Ditch. This ditch is still used today and is located above the town of Ward, Boulder County, Colorado. This sight became the location of the Colorado Water Wars when men from Longmont came up and dynamited this damn that James and his brothers had built. This water fed into the Left Hand Creek which brought water to the farms of the Niwot area. Frustrated with the failures of the gold fields, James enlisted with David H. Nichols to serve with the Colorado Third. Tragically, he was a participant in the Sand Creek Massacre under the leadership of Col. Chivington. He married the widow of a fellow miner, Phoebe Anne Evans Steele. Who cared for him in his final days as he was quite ill and disabled. James did not have any children.
Arrived with his father and brothers on June 20, 1859 to the gold fields in Boulder County. Discovered the area where water was diverted from the South St. Vrain River where James and his brothers dug the first Left Hand Ditch. This ditch is still used today and is located above the town of Ward, Boulder County, Colorado. This sight became the location of the Colorado Water Wars when men from Longmont came up and dynamited this damn that James and his brothers had built. This water fed into the Left Hand Creek which brought water to the farms of the Niwot area. Frustrated with the failures of the gold fields, James enlisted with David H. Nichols to serve with the Colorado Third. Tragically, he was a participant in the Sand Creek Massacre under the leadership of Col. Chivington. He married the widow of a fellow miner, Phoebe Anne Evans Steele. Who cared for him in his final days as he was quite ill and disabled. James did not have any children.
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