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Other miners left the streams to scramble up the mountainsides looking for float
or exposed ore . This ore was also profitable , but by 1862 or ' 63 most of the
easily obtained gold in the stream beds or at the grass roots had been found and
...
Other miners left the streams to scramble up the mountainsides looking for float
or exposed ore . This ore was also profitable , but by 1862 or ' 63 most of the
easily obtained gold in the stream beds or at the grass roots had been found and
...
Page 85
Crossing a log footbridge over a rushing stream we picked up the trail and went
merrily along until it ended in a thicket of bushes and trees on the brink of the
same little stream . This we jumped , only to find we were on an island with the
main ...
Crossing a log footbridge over a rushing stream we picked up the trail and went
merrily along until it ended in a thicket of bushes and trees on the brink of the
same little stream . This we jumped , only to find we were on an island with the
main ...
Page 101
There were quite a few good - sized buildings to be seen . and some machinery
and rusty boilers , while across the stream the land was gouged out and piled up
from hydraulic operations of considerable extent , which began in 1912 and ...
There were quite a few good - sized buildings to be seen . and some machinery
and rusty boilers , while across the stream the land was gouged out and piled up
from hydraulic operations of considerable extent , which began in 1912 and ...
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Contents
Gold in the Hills | 1 |
The Aspen Country | 218 |
Off the Beaten Track | 246 |
Copyright | |
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Stampede to Timberline: The Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Colorado Muriel Sibell Wolle No preview available - 1991 |
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