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[[Margin:Cobalt [caret:new] Mining camp beginnings & boom]]
everywhere. and between them lined up irregularly any kind of [[strikethrough]]wooden [[/strikethrough]] hastily constructed flimsy wooden shanties, some of them covered with galvanized iron. [[strikethrough]]lo [[/strikethrough]] some tents and log cabins all lined up without regular order. Few of any painted [[strikethrough]]ne [[/strikethrough]] all in the raw.
[[strikethrough]]Few [[/strikethrough]] Here and there a newly unpainted wooden structures indicating the location of an entrance to a shaft or a concentrator.
Everything in the first stages of a mining camp. Assayer office - mining engineers - or general store - [[strikethrough]]land agents [[/strikethrough]] real estate and mining agents
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prospectors everywhere but whitall a very orderly crowd. - Sale of
liquors strictly forbidden. What a difference with the usual
[[strikethrough]]min [[/strikethrough]] rough element of the average mining camp. Streets and sidewalks just as nature made them. Iron pipes everywhere hastily put together over the surface furnishing water. Sanitary conditions and sewerage absolutely absent. Big boom seems to have no time for anything of the kind
Pented Coniagos (Co. Ni Ag. bes)  and La Rue mine. The latter was the first discovered by black smith working on R.R. who found in a fissure of the rock in the woods or streak of soft
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