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Page 78
... close enough to touch . One empty house stands stranded in the middle of the gulch , and by scrambling over loose stones we reached it and explored its interior . No furniture was left in it , but wallpaper of the nineties or early ...
... close enough to touch . One empty house stands stranded in the middle of the gulch , and by scrambling over loose stones we reached it and explored its interior . No furniture was left in it , but wallpaper of the nineties or early ...
Page 198
... close by and when a mining boom in the vicinity brought men to the region . Both anthracite and bituminous coal were found in the mines , the former being the only such deposit located west of the Pennsylvania coal fields . The town ...
... close by and when a mining boom in the vicinity brought men to the region . Both anthracite and bituminous coal were found in the mines , the former being the only such deposit located west of the Pennsylvania coal fields . The town ...
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... close to the city , which was a hot bed of Unionism . All the city officials were members of the Western Federation of Miners , and not until the strike was in the hands of the militia in 1904 did a mere handful of non - union citi ...
... close to the city , which was a hot bed of Unionism . All the city officials were members of the Western Federation of Miners , and not until the strike was in the hands of the militia in 1904 did a mere handful of non - union citi ...
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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