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Page 463
... dumps , city streets and buildings , all clinging to the side of a steep hill . In Victor the mines are both above the city and under it , with tier upon tier of shaft houses and terraced dumps filling the mountainside and spilling into ...
... dumps , city streets and buildings , all clinging to the side of a steep hill . In Victor the mines are both above the city and under it , with tier upon tier of shaft houses and terraced dumps filling the mountainside and spilling into ...
Page 549
... dumps , and what had been roads branching off toward them . Farther on were more shallow diggings out of which aspens were growing . I hurried on , squeezed under a barbed wire fence , and climbed to the top of a hill from which I could ...
... dumps , and what had been roads branching off toward them . Farther on were more shallow diggings out of which aspens were growing . I hurried on , squeezed under a barbed wire fence , and climbed to the top of a hill from which I could ...
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... dumps were broken down and roofless with splintered window frames and gaping doorways . Vestiges of what had been streets led off at angles among the trees . One group of dumps supported a crumbling shafthouse . " That reminds me , I ...
... dumps were broken down and roofless with splintered window frames and gaping doorways . Vestiges of what had been streets led off at angles among the trees . One group of dumps supported a crumbling shafthouse . " That reminds me , I ...
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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