From the Early Days column of the Weekly Register-Call on January 8, 1897
By Mary Peery
At the Bobtail Mine near Central City in the early days, Pat Casey held forth as the greatest character in the camp and his night shift had a reputation for belligerency all over the mountains. There was a large number of Cornishmen in one tunnel who were great wrestlers and frequently sent challenges to other parties, which were seldom accepted, as the men of Cornwall are strong and expert. But the shifts in another tunnel, Irishmen, Englishmen, and Americans, easily got even when it came to boxing or real earnest fighting. So the bad blood grew until fights were of almost daily occurrence. Several men were disabled and Casey announced the first man caught fighting would be discharged without questions as to the merits of the case.
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