Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 484
lous Comstock mines were exposedby a series of astounding mishaps, chances, and trifling accidents. Ophir, the maker of million-aires, was discovered by two parched, despairingexplorers, shoveling out a small well in the frantichope of finding water. Mercur, one of the greatsilver bonanzas in Utah,… … HIS KNIFE UNCOVERED A SMALL NUGGET OF GOLD. (sEE NEXT PAGE.) escaped convict, grubbing for some edible roots.At another point on that island continent thefrantic rush to Meroo Creek was caused by anative black, employed as a sheep-herder. Hewas practising throwing his hatchet at a tree,struck a…
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