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... never failed to mush over the trail , even with the heaviest packs . My father remembers how he once carried a five - gallon can of coal oil and a fifty - pound sack of flour besides the regular mail . One miner ordered a pair of hip ...
... never failed to mush over the trail , even with the heaviest packs . My father remembers how he once carried a five - gallon can of coal oil and a fifty - pound sack of flour besides the regular mail . One miner ordered a pair of hip ...
Page 377
... never on the grand scale that Walsh established . On my first visit to the mine I sketched the complex group of mills , sheds and tunnels and I noticed the unusual and picturesque architecture of the office and of the manager's home ...
... never on the grand scale that Walsh established . On my first visit to the mine I sketched the complex group of mills , sheds and tunnels and I noticed the unusual and picturesque architecture of the office and of the manager's home ...
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... never traveled over the Million Dollar Highway , but it is a road of which he would have approved and , but for his vision of a shelf along this vertical canyon , it might never have been built . Save for him the steeply towering ...
... never traveled over the Million Dollar Highway , but it is a road of which he would have approved and , but for his vision of a shelf along this vertical canyon , it might never have been built . Save for him the steeply towering ...
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Gold in the Hills | 1 |
Victor its dumps and the Ajax mine frontispiece | 3 |
Central City Starts a Hobby | 10 |
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