Word: gulches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when silver was discovered in Leadville, the barren ravines leading to California Gulch swarmed with feverish thousands. In the gambling halls and Sallie Purple's fancy parlors, the bonanza kings strutted and roistered. "Haw" Tabor brought in the rich Little Pittsburgh, then the $10 million Matchless. Silver was everywhere a man might throw his pick, and the picks were thrown everywhere. The picks were sold by Charles Boettcher who, in the end, found a slower but surer bonanza...
...trick was a more intensive method of mining the ore. Last week Kelley was busy spending $20,000,000 to turn the trick. At the head of Butte's "Dublin Gulch," workers hoisted a sign that read "Kelley's Shaft." They started to sink a rectangular shaft big enough (38 ft. by 9 ft.) to accommodate the machinery needed for the Kelley plan. It will be driven down to 3,400 ft., cutting straight through the old galleries where the best of the rich ore has been mined. To get out the low-grade ore, miners will work...
...Over the Gulch. The ancient Hawaiians had long grown sugar cane on the islands, but it was New England missionaries like Baldwin's grandfather Dwight (he came in 1831) who brought Yankee traders to commercialize it. It was Dwight's son, bushy-bearded, one-armed Henry Baldwin (he lost the other arm in a cane-mangler) who built the Baldwin dynasty. He went partners with Sam Alexander, son of another missionary. At a cost of $80,000 and harrowing effort, Henry built the 17-mile-long Hamakua Ditch to bring irrigation to the cane fields. With son Frank...
...Oops another sarter," said the svelte Smith coed as she heard a suspicious snap beneath her ski pants at the Darmouth winter carnival after negotiating Dead Man's Leap and landing in an undignified posture in Horror Gulch...
Stowe is the most popular resort for College students. Most of the trails have been widened. The Stowe Standard, Gulch, Tyro, and North open slope runs have been smoothed and are now serviced by longer T-bar and rope tows...