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... feet elevation , and according to the maps Quartzville was eleven thousand five hundred feet . It was necessary to stop and breathe every fifty or hundred feet , balancing ourselves on the slanting earth which rose at about a forty ...
... feet elevation , and according to the maps Quartzville was eleven thousand five hundred feet . It was necessary to stop and breathe every fifty or hundred feet , balancing ourselves on the slanting earth which rose at about a forty ...
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... feet from the last blazed tree you will see three tall trees standing in a triangle . These trees have their tops broken off about thirty feet up . This is about 300 feet from timberline , and the vein runs about north and south from ...
... feet from the last blazed tree you will see three tall trees standing in a triangle . These trees have their tops broken off about thirty feet up . This is about 300 feet from timberline , and the vein runs about north and south from ...
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... feet deep and struck water . Finding it hard to keep ahead of the water with their crude windlass and buckets , they abandoned one shaft , and moving sixty feet away , sank another fifty - foot shaft in the same vein of ore . When they ...
... feet deep and struck water . Finding it hard to keep ahead of the water with their crude windlass and buckets , they abandoned one shaft , and moving sixty feet away , sank another fifty - foot shaft in the same vein of ore . When they ...
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Gold in the Hills | 1 |
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Central City Starts a Hobby | 10 |
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