Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 115
elous achievements of man than anyother section of this country. From the RockyMountains on the east to the Sierra NevadaMountains on the west, this strip, six hundredmiles wide, is crossed and recrossed by perplex-ing mountain-ranges that have made the buildingof railroads of almost unparalleled… … Twenty miles up that rocky, winding gash in themountains are the Utah copper-mines; and, al-though three thousand men are daily taking outmore ore and waste than is taken from any othermine in the country, or probably in the world, ithas neither shaft nor tunnel. No man worksunderground. It is an…
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