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The Three Partners

CHAPTER III
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"I fancy I've heard of the railroad, although I prefer to go to Heavy Tree this way.

But I never heard of a watering-place there before." "Why, it's the biggest boom of the year.

Folks that are tired of the fogs of 'Frisco and the heat of Sacramento all go there.

It's four thousand feet up, with a hotel like Saratoga, dancing, and a band plays every night.

And it all sprang out of the Divide Railroad and a crank named George Barker, who bought up some old Ditch property and ran a branch line along its levels, and made a junction with the Divide.


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