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Page 251
Above the cabins , above timberline , on the mountain tops are the mines and
shaft houses . I trudged on . The grove of trees was behind me now and the
country more open , with great slabs of grey rock everywhere and small , stunted
...
Above the cabins , above timberline , on the mountain tops are the mines and
shaft houses . I trudged on . The grove of trees was behind me now and the
country more open , with great slabs of grey rock everywhere and small , stunted
...
Page 272
The story of the Twin Shafts as told by Mrs . Cairns is illuminating . A contract was
given by an eastern company to two men to sink a hundredfoot shaft in their mine
to determine the quality of ore at that depth . The men dug a shaft fifty feet deep ...
The story of the Twin Shafts as told by Mrs . Cairns is illuminating . A contract was
given by an eastern company to two men to sink a hundredfoot shaft in their mine
to determine the quality of ore at that depth . The men dug a shaft fifty feet deep ...
Page 468
The entertainment really began in the shaft house of the Coin where the reading
room was gracefully tendered to the men by Warren Woods , president of the
company and accepted on behalf of the miners . Over the engine room in the
shaft ...
The entertainment really began in the shaft house of the Coin where the reading
room was gracefully tendered to the men by Warren Woods , president of the
company and accepted on behalf of the miners . Over the engine room in the
shaft ...
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Contents
Gold in the Hills | 1 |
Falsefront Silver Plume | 5 |
Central City Starts a Hobby | 10 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Stampede to Timberline: The Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Colorado |
| Author | Muriel Sibell Wolle |
| Illustrated by | Muriel Sibell Wolle |
| Edition | 2, revised |
| Publisher | Sage Books, 1974 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 18 Jan 2008 |
| ISBN | 0804006725, 9780804006729 |
| Length | 583 pages |
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