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... 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 extremely ...
... 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 extremely ...
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... Valley . At first lone ranchers staked off homesteads near the sites of Ula and Dora , but it was Carl Wulsten and his Ger- man colony that first settled this fertile valley between two watersheds the Wet Mountain and the Sangre de ...
... Valley . At first lone ranchers staked off homesteads near the sites of Ula and Dora , but it was Carl Wulsten and his Ger- man colony that first settled this fertile valley between two watersheds the Wet Mountain and the Sangre de ...
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... valley , whose eastern boundary is the Sangre de Cristo range . The valley is vast , and the highway which runs the length of it lies straight ahead , mile after mile . After lengthy driving I saw a few trees in the distance which I ...
... valley , whose eastern boundary is the Sangre de Cristo range . The valley is vast , and the highway which runs the length of it lies straight ahead , mile after mile . After lengthy driving I saw a few trees in the distance which I ...
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Gold in the Hills | 1 |
West of the Divide | 7 |
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