El Dorado City with its
stamp mill, established in late 1863, was located just a short distance down the same side of the canyon as the older Lucky Jim Camp, and may have supplanted it by the end of the war or shortly thereafter, when the mines had a period of idleness.[5]
Today
The site of Lucky Jim Camp appears barren of any trace of ruins viewed by satellite photos.[1]
^ The town replaced the earlier mining camps of
Alturas and
Louisville established near the Techatticup Mine in 1861, after the destructive
Great Flood of 1862. The Great Flood affected much of the
Western United States in the winter of 1861-1862, including the
Colorado River Basin between
Washington County, Utah and
Yuma, Arizona, causing severe flooding and destruction of settlements, including in El Dorado Canyon. Lucky Jim Camp was located off the canyon floor and above the flood waters, and provided a refuge to those fleeing the lower camps in the flood's path. The name of nearby January Wash may memorialize the event which would have occurred there in January 1862.