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The Whale mine at the head of Hall Valley was located in 1869, at an altitude of
12,530 feet, and from the first was a bonanza. Hall built one of the first smelters in
the state to treat the ore from this mine, which was silver-bearing barite and ...
The Whale mine at the head of Hall Valley was located in 1869, at an altitude of
12,530 feet, and from the first was a bonanza. Hall built one of the first smelters in
the state to treat the ore from this mine, which was silver-bearing barite and ...
Page 282
Perhaps we missed it, or perhaps it is unmarked. At any rate, as the sun sank
behind the Sangre de Cristo Range, we left the quiet grove and drove on down
the valley road to West- cliffe. the county seat of Custer county. The county-seat
has ...
Perhaps we missed it, or perhaps it is unmarked. At any rate, as the sun sank
behind the Sangre de Cristo Range, we left the quiet grove and drove on down
the valley road to West- cliffe. the county seat of Custer county. The county-seat
has ...
Page 296
Villa Grove Leaving Salida we drove through Poncha Springs and on over
Poncha Pass into the San Luis valley, whose eastern boundary is the Sangre de
Cristo range. The valley is vast, and the highway which runs the length of it lies ...
Villa Grove Leaving Salida we drove through Poncha Springs and on over
Poncha Pass into the San Luis valley, whose eastern boundary is the Sangre de
Cristo range. The valley is vast, and the highway which runs the length of it lies ...
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Contents
Central City panorama | 6 |
Preface | 8 |
Gold in the Hills | 10 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Stampede to timberline: the ghost towns and mining camps of Colorado |
| Illustrated by | Muriel Sibell Wolle |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Sage Books, 1949 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Aug 2010 |
| Length | 544 pages |
| Subjects | › › › Cities and towns, Ruined, extinct, etc Colorado Extinct cities History / United States / State & Local / West Mines and mineral resources Technology & Engineering / Mining |
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