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Excerpt from Across the San Juan Mountains On a superb morning in September, that month of many colors, four of us started on a ride among the mining districts of the San Juan, in southwestern Colorado. The starting point was Ouray, the picturesque little town named after the old chief, an Indian of renown, the friend of the white men who first explored the mountain fastnesses of the Uncompahgre. From Ouray we rode across the ranges to Telluride, Silverton, Lake City, Gunnison, and thence to Crested Butte and back, following a course which, on the map, looks like a figure 8, with Ouray at the base of the lower loop and Crested Butte at the top. See map. The distance was slightly over 400 miles; the country traversed is beautiful to the traveler and interesting to the mining engineer, so that the experience was sufficiently rich in incidents and information to warrant the account which it is my purpose to present. We left Ouray early on the 5th of September, with the intention of visiting two mines in the vicinity - the American Nettie and the Bachelor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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