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... summer resort or a stock - raising center . During the years its popu- lation fluctuated with the booms , until today it may be a " dark town " as a present resident of Silver Plume told me only last summer , because its houses are ...
... summer resort or a stock - raising center . During the years its popu- lation fluctuated with the booms , until today it may be a " dark town " as a present resident of Silver Plume told me only last summer , because its houses are ...
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... summer afternoon in 1935 as Boyd and I left the little hidden camp we talked of Rollinsville which lay ahead and of Perigo , Gold Dirt and Gilpin - camps which had lain quiet for some time , and I saw no more of Baltimore for eight ...
... summer afternoon in 1935 as Boyd and I left the little hidden camp we talked of Rollinsville which lay ahead and of Perigo , Gold Dirt and Gilpin - camps which had lain quiet for some time , and I saw no more of Baltimore for eight ...
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... summer of the same year . " Mr. M. A. Deering of Gunnison told me about the first rich strike . Silver was found by accident by two old prospectors . They had worked con- stantly for nearly two years and found nothing . By the second summer ...
... summer of the same year . " Mr. M. A. Deering of Gunnison told me about the first rich strike . Silver was found by accident by two old prospectors . They had worked con- stantly for nearly two years and found nothing . By the second summer ...
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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