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... Summit County , and includes whole lodes and claims upon the choicest silver veins in those districts . Also , Gold Mining Property In Gilpin and Clear Creek Counties , all of which can be well repe resented by maps taken by actual ...
... Summit County , and includes whole lodes and claims upon the choicest silver veins in those districts . Also , Gold Mining Property In Gilpin and Clear Creek Counties , all of which can be well repe resented by maps taken by actual ...
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... Summit County - Middle Park - Upper Blue River - Ten - mile District - Result of Assays - Work doing - The Snakes- Peru and Montezuma Districts - Lodes and Companies and Improvements Going On - Gulch Mining , Union District , Gold Run ...
... Summit County - Middle Park - Upper Blue River - Ten - mile District - Result of Assays - Work doing - The Snakes- Peru and Montezuma Districts - Lodes and Companies and Improvements Going On - Gulch Mining , Union District , Gold Run ...
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... summit of the grand peak , which was entirely bare of vegetation and covered with snow , appeared at a distance of fifteen or sixteen miles from us , and as high again as we had ascended . " Pike measured the altitude of his peak by ...
... summit of the grand peak , which was entirely bare of vegetation and covered with snow , appeared at a distance of fifteen or sixteen miles from us , and as high again as we had ascended . " Pike measured the altitude of his peak by ...
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... summit of Pike's Peak . He also measured its altitude by triangula- tion , and counting a point twenty - five miles below the springs on the Fountain , as it is now called , 3000 feet above sea level , made it 11,507.5 feet . His ...
... summit of Pike's Peak . He also measured its altitude by triangula- tion , and counting a point twenty - five miles below the springs on the Fountain , as it is now called , 3000 feet above sea level , made it 11,507.5 feet . His ...
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... summit of the ridge which is very nar- row . * Immediately below us was a valley through which ran a stream ( Platte , ) and a short distance opposite rose snowy mountains ( Lincoln , ) whose summits were formed into peaks of naked rock ...
... summit of the ridge which is very nar- row . * Immediately below us was a valley through which ran a stream ( Platte , ) and a short distance opposite rose snowy mountains ( Lincoln , ) whose summits were formed into peaks of naked rock ...
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