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... streams to scramble up the mountainsides looking for float or exposed ore . This ore was also profitable , but by 1862 or '63 most of the easily obtained gold in the stream beds or at the grass roots had been found and shipped out by ...
... streams to scramble up the mountainsides looking for float or exposed ore . This ore was also profitable , but by 1862 or '63 most of the easily obtained gold in the stream beds or at the grass roots had been found and shipped out by ...
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... stream we picked up the trail and went merrily along until it ended in a thicket of bushes and trees on the brink of the same little stream . This we jumped , only to find we were on an island with the main stream still in front of us ...
... stream we picked up the trail and went merrily along until it ended in a thicket of bushes and trees on the brink of the same little stream . This we jumped , only to find we were on an island with the main stream still in front of us ...
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... stream and obtained about a pound of gold a day . The claims at Tarryall were one hundred and fifty feet each along the stream , and it was this fact that so exasperated the latecomers to the dig gings , who felt that the claims should ...
... stream and obtained about a pound of gold a day . The claims at Tarryall were one hundred and fifty feet each along the stream , and it was this fact that so exasperated the latecomers to the dig gings , who felt that the claims should ...
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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