Only the most experienced wagon drivers were trusted to haul freight down the narrow and steep road from the mines at Gold Hill to Blue River. They hauled heavy machinery, food, and lumber up the trail and gold and precious minerals down. “Of all the magnificent mineral wealth locked in the Oregon treasure vaults by the hand of Nature herself, none are of greater value or promise than those of the Lucky Boy Mining Company…on that famous elevation known as Gold Hill.” — The Morning Oregonian, Friday, January 1, 1904.