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... Valley was located in 1869 , at an altitude of 12,530 feet , and from the first was a bonanza . Hall built one of the first smelters in the state to treat the ore from this mine , which was silver - bearing barite and extremely ...
... Valley was located in 1869 , at an altitude of 12,530 feet , and from the first was a bonanza . Hall built one of the first smelters in the state to treat the ore from this mine , which was silver - bearing barite and extremely ...
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... Valley . At first lone ranchers staked off homesteads near the sites of Ula and Dora , but it was Carl Wulsten and his Ger- man colony that first settled this fertile valley between two watersheds the Wet Mountain and the Sangre de ...
... Valley . At first lone ranchers staked off homesteads near the sites of Ula and Dora , but it was Carl Wulsten and his Ger- man colony that first settled this fertile valley between two watersheds the Wet Mountain and the Sangre de ...
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... Valley Montrose County Just as Manhattan is close to the Wyoming line in northern Colorado , the Paradox Valley mines almost touch the Utah line near the western bound- ary of the state . Paradox Valley is long and wide and flat and ...
... Valley Montrose County Just as Manhattan is close to the Wyoming line in northern Colorado , the Paradox Valley mines almost touch the Utah line near the western bound- ary of the state . Paradox Valley is long and wide and flat and ...
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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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