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... Forks to treat ore brought down from the Red Cloud mine at Mineral Point . The miners in the meantime pitched their tents in the dense timber which covered the future townsite , and as the mines were developed and more men moved in ...
... Forks to treat ore brought down from the Red Cloud mine at Mineral Point . The miners in the meantime pitched their tents in the dense timber which covered the future townsite , and as the mines were developed and more men moved in ...
Page 408
... Forks was responded to by the mayor , who said that Animas Forks was incorporated as a town seven months ago . He men- tioned that the streets since then had been somewhat graded and that a building committee was making plans to erect a ...
... Forks was responded to by the mayor , who said that Animas Forks was incorporated as a town seven months ago . He men- tioned that the streets since then had been somewhat graded and that a building committee was making plans to erect a ...
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... Forks , no cabin was safe from December to March ; and al- though sleighing was good all the way to Eureka , riders were always in dan- ger from slides . The railroad spur to the Forks , completed in the early nineteen - hundreds ...
... Forks , no cabin was safe from December to March ; and al- though sleighing was good all the way to Eureka , riders were always in dan- ger from slides . The railroad spur to the Forks , completed in the early nineteen - hundreds ...
Contents
Gold in the Hills | 1 |
Victor its dumps and the Ajax mine frontispiece | 3 |
Central City Starts a Hobby | 10 |
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