[Death Valley in ’49 by William Lewis Manly]@TWC D-Link bookDeath Valley in ’49 CHAPTER XVII 5/28
But the feeling never died out.
The Doctor's friends deserted him, and no one seemed to like to converse with him.
At the saloon he would sit like a perfect stranger, no one noticing him, and he soon left for new fields. The first tunnel run at Moore's Flat was called the Paradise, and had to be started low on the side of the mountain in order to drain the ground, and had to be blasted through the bed rock for about 200 feet. Four of us secured ground enough by purchase so we could afford to undertake this expensive job and we worked on it day and night.
Jerry Clark and Len Redfield worked the day shifts, and Sam King and Wm.
Quirk the night shift.
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