Jumpstart mine sapphire falls6/3/2023 Hobson for surmising that the blue stones might be sapphires and his guess was confirmed by a jeweler in Helena. A variation is that the teacher lived in Maine, but was a friend of a local miner, who had mailed her a small box with some gold and a few "blue pebbles" in it. One story credits a local school teacher for recognizing the blue pebbles as sapphires. In 1894, the "blue pebbles" were recognized as sapphires. The mining camp at Yogo City only flourished for roughly three years and eventually the population dwindled to only a few individuals. Prospectors noticed "Blue pebbles" in their sluice boxes along with small quantities of gold. ![]() During a gold rush in 1878, about a thousand miners came to Yogo Creek, which was one of the gold-bearing streams in Montana not yet actively mined.
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