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The Whale mine at the head of Hall 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 ...
The Whale mine at the head of Hall 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 ...
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At any rate, as the sun sank behind the Sangre de Cristo Range, we left the quiet
grove and drove on down the valley road to West- cliffe, the county seat of Custer
county. Westcliffe The county-seat has moved about considerably since it was ...
At any rate, as the sun sank behind the Sangre de Cristo Range, we left the quiet
grove and drove on down the valley road to West- cliffe, the county seat of Custer
county. Westcliffe The county-seat has moved about considerably since it was ...
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The mill and the cabins were dismantled by ranchers in the valley and if anything
remains it is only a foundation. Two miles west of the roadhouse at Rustic I spied
a marker, "Site of Old Poudre City," and scrambling under a fence and across a ...
The mill and the cabins were dismantled by ranchers in the valley and if anything
remains it is only a foundation. Two miles west of the roadhouse at Rustic I spied
a marker, "Site of Old Poudre City," and scrambling under a fence and across a ...
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Contents
Gold in the Hills | 1 |
Victor its dumps and the Ajax mine frontispiece | 3 |
Central City Starts a Hobby | 10 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Stampede to Timberline: The Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Colorado |
| Illustrated by | Muriel S. Wolle |
| Edition | 2, revised |
| Publisher | Swallow Press, 1974 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 18 Jan 2008 |
| ISBN | 0804006725, 9780804006729 |
| Length | 583 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) Travel / Special Interest / General |
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