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The Golden Twin Cities and their Fine Narrow Gauge (PH 4-14) (9 pages)

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As great water pressures sent mountains tumbling down _ The monitored water with a steady course am Washed away the earth with a gigantic force Each stream became full of the miners debris The tailings were washing right out to sea The fine Narrow Gauge would supply their needs As they ardently searched, Mother-Nature’s “Blue Lead” This vast channel of gravel with its twists and its coils Bore like a snake, beneath nature’s rare spoils As the hydraulic-giants were silenced, the quartz load ran strong Prosperity kept ringing like a Gay-Cornish-Song As each vein ran dry, another would appear And the zealous miners worked year after year